Local News for 8/17/23
Local News for 8/16/23
August 16-31 KPTZ Programming Highlights
For a compendium of upcoming featured programs, check KPTZ Spotlight for August 16-31. Many of our program hosts provide specifics about what’s planned for this half month. If you’re not already a Spotlight subscriber, you’re invited to join our Mailing List. See KPTZ’s current Weekly On-Air Schedule and Daily Program Schedule.
Local News for 8/15/23
Robbie Rocket Robinson Surgery
KPTZ presents a special edition of Rocket Surgery on Wednesday, August 16, an extended tribute to the recently departed Robbie Robertson. DJ Charlie Bermant will play tunes play tunes ranging from early Bob Dylan collaborations (through) his ephemeral solo work. This, along with a healthy dose of live Band cuts, injects these timeless songs with ragged energy. The show will end with the best-ever version of “The Weight.” KPTZ listeners have heard a lot of Robertson songs over the past week, this program won’t overlap. Mostly. Tune in here from 8-10pm Wednesday.
Booklovers’ Cafe – Tim McNulty, Old Growth
(Airdate: August 15, 2023) Cris Wilson talks to Olympic Peninsula poet and friend of Poet Mike O’Connor, Tim McNulty about the recently published poetry collection, Old Growth. Mike was the author of twelve books of poetry, stories and translations from the Chinese. The poems celebrate living simply, holding friends close, and honoring the earth. These lyric poems are of a special place we know and the place we don’t know.
THING!
(Airdate: August 14, 2023) Jim Burke brings on a co-host this week, County Commissioner Kate Dean, and they discuss all things THING with local artist, chef and singer Grace Love and Sarah Strasbaugh, Associate Director of Community Programs at STG (Seattle Theater Group) the producers of THING.
#632 Pigeon Guillemot Survey, part 2
(Airdate: August 16, 2023) Brenda Johnson is the leader of the East Jefferson Pigeon Guillemot Breeding Survey which is part of the Salish Sea Guillemot Network. The network is a community science project that monitors breeding colonies across our region to understand their role in healthy coastal ecosystems. Join Jackie Canterbury as she discusses the project with Dr. Brenda Johnson and volunteer Karin Ertl, who both make this project happen in the field. Both guests provide a portrait of the Pigeon Guillemot, a fascinating seabird that shares both our land and water ecosystems.
Jack McMahon & John Bunzow
Please join KPTZ and Rainshadow Recording in welcoming Portland-based singer-songwriters Jack McMahon and John Bunzow. Their performance will take place at the Palindrome in Port Townsend on Saturday, August 12 at 7:30pm. Both McMahon and Bunzow have decades of experience writing and performing music. For their upcoming performance, they will each perform a solo set, and finish the show up with a final set performed together.
Our Working Waterfront ~ 8/11/23
Each year the Jefferson County Chamber of Commerce presents Leadership Awards in four categories: Business Leader, Citizen, Rising Entrepreneur, Young Professional, and Future Business Leader from our County’s youth. Pete and Kathy Langley are the 2023 recipients of the Business Leaders of the Year Award. They’ve been married and in business together at Port Townsend Foundry for over 40 years. Together, Pete and Kathy share a life commitment to the phrase, “A Rising Tide lifts all boats.” Both of them freely admit that it takes the two of them together to run their business! KPTZ’s Chris Bricker joins co-hosts Port of Port Townsend’s Director Eron Berg and Port Commissioner Pam Petranek for a Port update, and then a conversation with Pete and Kathy about what it means to create a “circular economy” here in this region, about their leadership and mentorship roles, and their longstanding involvement in our beloved community.
