Tossed Salad for 5/15/20

Once again, Phil Andrus offers us a Tossed Salad of tastefully arranged ingredients for your Friday afternoon enjoyment:
1:00 – Through Science to Health, with Kathleen Keenan
1:30Dante Faulk, cellist and twice a school graduate
1:45Kristin and Otto, from November 11, 2011
2:40Catherine Stone, Victoria, BC
3:00Daniel Macke and Che Rogers
3:45Jeanie Murphy, “Banjo Tunes, Tunings, and Lore” from March 11, 2016
4:30Deborah Kate Hammond, reading

Tossed Salad for 5/08/20

Can we continue to stand the isolation? Or shall we go for a walk? More options await us if we all behave with care. And we can always listen to Phil Andrus bring us a Tossed Salad filled with delicious tidbits from the past as well as today:
1:00 – Through Science to Health: Lynn Sorensen, RN, BSN
1:30Chris Stuart and Janet Beasley
2:30Scott Wilson, Scott and Phil
3:00 – Reports from near or far
3:15Diana Talley, a tribute to her late husband Rick Petrykowski
3:30Tom Jay, on the word “dirt”
4:00Micaela and Rory, Kingslight and Kingslight
4:30Don White reads “The Fish”

Tossed Salad for 5/01/2020

Now is the Month of Maying, and Phil Andrus brings us a Tossed Salad of great variety:
1:00 – Through Science to Health: Kathleen Keenan
1:20 – Jonathan Doyle and Jake Sanders, from the archives
2:00 – Lee Greeley and Myer’s Chuck from Alaska
2:20 – Rob Story, Chimacum Corner Farmstand, on grocery shopping in a pandemic
2:30 – Katelyn Bosley, WDFW Crustacean Program Manager
3:00 – Choro folks from Centrum
4:00 – Al Bergstein and Ross Anderson, Rainshadow Journal
4:25 – Catherine McNabb reading from “Talking Leaves”, an anthology of Native American stories

Tossed Salad for 4/24/20

A little Spring rain helps bring those May flowers. Enjoy this week’s Tossed Salad as Phil Andrus brings us:
1:00 – Through Science to Health: Lynn Sorensen
1:20Amanda Milholland, Port Townsend Farmers Market
1:30Tigran Arakalyan, Port Townsend Symphony Orchestra (by telephone)
2:30Tom Jay, on the word “fact”
2:45Al Bergstein “Olympic Peninsula Environmental News” (by telephone)
3:00Sam Kreiger, farmer from Bassett NE
3:30Aba Kiser (recorded 3/02/12), followed by telephone interview
4:30Don White reading “Rubenstein’s Piano” (recorded 1/03/14)

Tossed Salad for 4/17/2020

Looking forward to Earth Day on April 22, Phil Andrus brings us a Tossed Salad to celebrate the world around us:
1:00 – Through Science to Health:  Kathleen Keenan
1:30 – David Michael and Joe Breskin
2:15 – Dennis and Chris Shields, from Laredo, MX
2:30 – Ellen Bonjorno, NYC and Sing it Sister
3:00 – Sarah Spaeth, Jefferson Land Trust
3:15 – Jeanie Murphy, “Banjo Tunes, Tunings, and Lore”
4:15 – Historical Society clips
4:30 – Catherine McNabb reads “Faith and Hope Go Shopping” by Joanne Harris

Phil’s interview with Sing It, Sister! host Ellen Bonjorno, from the COVID-19 epicenter, NYC

Tossed Salad for 4/10/20

After another week of social separation, let’s enjoy an afternoon of Tossed Salad with Phil Andrus bringing us a selection of entertainments to tickle any fancy:

1:00 – Through Science to Health: Lynn Sorensen, RN, BSN on Covid-19 in our area
1:30Scott Wilson, telephone interview
2:00Linda Allen and Tom Rawson, from May 31, 2019, beginning with a phone call with Linda
3:00Jill Silver, Quillayute Valley
3:15 – Other reports from the hinterlands – Bernard Afterbuffalo, Hoh Nation
3:30David Michael and Joe Breskin, two guitars & one harp, from December 30, 2019
4:15 – listener calls
4:40Don White reading “The Lady, or the Tiger” by Frank Stockton

Tossed Salad for 4/03/2020

We give thanks today for Alexander Graham Bell who was born one month ago on March 3 in 1847. Because of his invention, Phil Andrus is able to communicate with all of his Tossed Salad guests today. Sit back and enjoy!
1:00 – Through Science to Health, with Kate Keenan, retired San Diego Public Health Communicable Disease Investigator
1:30 – Phil plays something from the archives
2:00Amanda Milholland, Port Townsend Farmers Market
2:15Bob Rosen, Quilcene reports from near and far;
2:30Jean Ball, distilling our own hand sanitizer
2:45Shelly Leavens, Director of the Jefferson County Historical Society
3:00 – Phil plays the DJ
3:15Pam Petranek, Port Commissioner, Port of Port Townsend update
3:30Judith-Kate Friedman, Songs from the Sound
4:30Heather Dudley Nollette with the Dudley/Nollette family report and a short reading

Volunteering at KPTZ

Thank you for considering becoming a volunteer at KPTZ. The COVID-19 pandemic has created some challenges for us in on-boarding new volunteers and has limited our ability to take on as many new volunteers as we would like. For this reason, we may not be able to connect with you right away to explore your volunteer interests. We appreciate your patience and look forward to seeing how you can join the KPTZ family as soon as restrictions ease.


Volunteers are the heart of KPTZ.  We rely on our dynamic community of over 100 volunteers to keep the station running every day.  Our volunteers handle everything from advanced technical radio engineering to answering phones, and everything in between.  There’s a place for you in our positive, supportive, creative and fun organization! 

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Through Science to Health co-hosts Chris Bricker and Lynn Sorensen
Volunteers Celebrate KPTZ’s 10th Anniversary

JCF’s Emergency Response Fund ~ 4/28

In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, Jefferson Community Foundation President and CEO Siobhan Canty is a regular guest of Chris Bricker on Morning on the Salish, at 10:30am Tuesdays. Each week Siobhan shares updates on JCF’s work to strengthen the landscape of services available to people and the COVID-19 Emergency Response Fund, which has raised more than $319,326 to date, and dispersed $244,810. If you belong to a nonprofit working to help those in need as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, grant applications will be accepted on a weekly rolling basis for emergency funding. Go to JCFgives.org to learn more. 

JCF’s Emergency Response Fund ~ 4/07

In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, Jefferson Community Foundation President and CEO Siobhan Canty is a regular guest of Chris Bricker on Morning on the Salish, at 10:30am Tuesdays. Each week Siobhan shares updates on JCF’s work to strengthen the landscape of services available to people and the COVID-19 Emergency Response Fund, which has raised more than $190,000 to date. If you belong to a nonprofit working to help those in need as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, grant applications will be accepted on a weekly rolling basis for emergency funding. Go to JCFgives.org to learn more. 

Nature Now #408
Reviving Pinto Abalone Population

(First airdate: April 17, 2019) Nan Evans talks with Port Townsend Marine Science Center aquarist Ali Redman and “abalone mom” Dana Africa about efforts to bring health to our decimated population of Pinto Abalone through helping to rear baby abalone for eventual release back into the wild waters of the Salish Sea.