KPTZ is excited to announce Kozmopolis, a local folk music group, performing live at Trinity United Methodist Church on Thursday, November 16 at 7pm. Kozmopolis brings the joyful sounds of Eastern European Folk Music to the Candlelight Concert Stage. Featuring locals Mark “Kozmo” Schlenz on violin, Jane Freeburg on accordion, and Dan Harrison on bass, prepare yourself for rousing beats, lyrical waltzes, and evocative melodies from Ukraine, Romania, and medieval Spain.
(Airdate: November 8, 2023) Fossil Weekend is coming up in Port Townsend. Listen to Nan Evans talk with paleontologist Liz Nesbitt and natural history writer David Williams about fossils of Washington State, especially the Olympic Peninsula and the Puget Sound area. Liz and David will share stories and explore many of the tales of ancient critters, big and small, that are discussed in their new book Spirit Whales and Sloth Tales.
United Good Neighbors! For more than 50 years, when your neighbors have needed critical social services, United Good Neighbors of Jefferson County has been there for our community. The “Give Jefferson Campaign” is underway through December 31 In this month’s edition of Community Tides, KPTZ’s Chris Bricker and co-host Siobhan Canty, President & CEO of Jefferson Community Foundation, join Sarah McNulty, Vice-President of JUMP (Jefferson Universal Movement Playground), Jeff Jones, Interim Executive Director of Jefferson Teen Center, and Martha Trolin, Board Member and Co-Founder of Skillmation, for a celebratory and inspiring discussion.
The following is a recording of the presentation during the Public Health briefings at this week’s Board of County Commissioners meeting made by Jefferson and Clallam County Public Health Officer Dr. Allison Berry. Also Willie Bence, Director of Emergency Management, gave a report. The following is a summary by Lynn Sorensen.
Dr Berry’s health briefing stressed that Covid, while still active in Jefferson and Clallam counties, may be on the downtrend similar to other parts of the USA. Dr Berry reported there had been recent hospitalizations in both counties and there had been two deaths in Jefferson county the past month. All had multiple underlying medical conditions and were all also not up to date on their Covid vaccinations. She encouraged all who have not yet received the most recent Covid booster to do so. RSV vaccinations are available and RSV cases were expected to show up locally in the next month. Cases of Flu have not yet been detected, but will, the incidence of flu will increase as winter progresses. All three of these respiratory infections are mitigated by the wearing a close fitting mask, especially in crowded indoor settings.
Willie Bence spoke to the use of tsunami sirens in response to a listener’s question asking if these sirens could have different tones for different emergencies.
The KPTZ Team have been working hard to put together two days of quality programming and we hope that by bringing you the best of what we have to offer, we can do the work of a full fundraising week in just two days – Friday, November 3 and Saturday, November 4. Tune in to hear your favorite shows and to show us your support. If you’d like to be ahead of the game, you can make a donation now… just click on the blue Donate Now button at the top of this screen.
(November 2, 2023) Fear of Faxing – 1990s Technology Gets Ray in Trouble.
Taylor Clark and John Mauro were joined by Tyler Johnson who is part of the city’s Engineering team to talk about some projects that are going on right now. We focused on the almost complete effort on 24th between San Juan and Discovery road. We talked about funding sources and upcoming plans for 2023 and 2024. More information can be found at Cityofpt.us… Departments… Public works… Capital Projects… Here’s a shortcut to maps.
