(Airdate: April 11, 2022) Danielle McClelland, the new Executive Director of the Port Townsend Film Festival, shares her excitement about the upcoming Women & Film Festival (April 22- May 1 – a virtual online festival). She also looks ahead to the Fall Film Festival, which will be a hybrid – mostly in person, with an additional virtual component. Host and Producer – Larry Stein.
This month on Our Working Waterfront, KPTZ’s Chris Bricker and co-host Port Commissioner Pam Petranek visit with 3rd generation Quilcene resident Joel Kawahara. We meet by the stern of his 42-foot troller Karolee, now hauled out for maintenance near Dave Thompson’s shop at the north end of the Boatyard. He’s a career commercial fisherman who is widely known as an advocate for sustainable fisheries and habitat restoration. He’s involved with the Wild Salmon Coalition and the North Olympic Salmon Coalition and their efforts at preserving this important resource.
Joel is a guy who has never quite fit in the corporate world, but has combined his credentials, talents, and caring nature as a catalyst for bringing disparate interests to the table in order to affect significant change.
(Reprise airdate: April 6, 2022) Bob Jepperson joins Mary Robson for exploration of the birds in the woods on Fidalgo Island. (First airdate: 1/13/21)
(First airdate: April 5, 2022) On this episode of Everybody Can, we explore the world of recycling Styrofoam. Difficult and expensive to recycle, Styrofoam is not accepted in much of Washington’s residential recycling programs. The PT Styro Recyclers are working to mitigate this gap in our community. Polly Lyle and Judith Minzel discuss with host Missy Nielsen the process, the partners, and the potential for this organization to impact our growing environmental waste stream on the Olympic Peninsula.
KPTZ and the Jefferson County Farmers Markets announce the 30th season opening of the Port Townsend Farmers Market on Saturday, April 2 from 9am to 2pm on Tyler Street in Uptown Port Townsend. This event includes a 9am red ribbon cutting with Mayor David Faber and the Jefferson County Chamber of Commerce and group photo. Following the opening ceremony, there will be a goat parade with Ground Control Goats. Live Music throughout the day by Unexpected Brass Band, Kristin and Otto Smith, and Harmonica Pocket. Don’t miss story time with the Port Townsend Library at 10:30am, held on the Community Center grass, plus over 75 farm, food, and art vendors.
To celebrate KPTZ’s first 10 years, local videographer Dennis Daneau created a video to document our first decade. We Are KPTZ features interviews with many of KPTZ’s volunteers and staff, telling the station’s story in clips that illustrate all of the hours and work that have gone into making 91.9 FM your community radio station. This 30-minute production centers around the first steps toward our move to the new station in Fort Worden Building 305. The video reflects Dennis’s dedication to our community, and KPTZ is honored that he chose the station as the topic of his massive project.
Anniversaries can be very exciting events, and it’s no surprise that — as KPTZ moves into its second decade — we’re excited about not only where we’ve been, but where we’re going. We Are KPTZ — now available for streaming right here — tells our story, from the very beginning until now. We invite you to view We Are KPTZ (part one), and we thank Dennis for making our radio story into this film.
