Local News for 12/02
Nature Now #491
Prairie Restoration, part 1
(Airdate: December 2, 2020) Host Debaran Kelso joins ecologist Fred Sharpe on a field trip to the ancient Chimacum prairie, to speak about prairie restoration with the Chimacum Schools’ Garden Coordinator Corey Chin and members of the Community Wellness Project Board. Part 2 of this show will air the last week of December.
Critical Conversations #2
(Airdate: November 30, 2020) In this second chapter of Critical Conversations, co-hosts Robert Ambrose and Dahr Jamail discuss the existential crisis of climate change and its linkages to the current pandemic and dysfunctional government, and they look for hope in the strength of our local community.
Local News for 12/01
#165 – Chris James
(First airdate: December 1, 2020) CHRIS JAMES: AN ADOPTION STORY. Our Town Host Maryanne McNellis interviews Chris James, Alaskan adventurer & contractor. Chris was born in England and moved to the USA with his family as a child. He vaguely knew that he was adopted but didn’t much care. He was a restless youth who dropped out of high school, driving to Alaska mid-winter with no clear plans – and no money. He hustled his way through jobs, starting in a crab cannery and eventually on board almost any sort of vessel in the Alaskan fishing fleet. When his first child was born he began to think about a more stable existence. Eventually, he founded a construction company in Port Angeles. The impending birth of his first grandchild prompted him to seek out his biological mother. To his profound shock, he found her. Although his Irish mother was dead he suddenly had five Irish siblings, aunts, uncles and a huge number of cousins. They have embraced him into a family he never knew or even dreamed of!
Pandemic Reflections
(First airdate: 12/01/20) Hi, this is Dick “the Rooster“ Keenan, the host of Vinyl Dialogues here on KPTZ, and a retired clinical social worker. I have been thinking about the effects of the pandemic and want to share some of my thoughts with you.
Pandemic fatigue is mental and physical tiredness that is the result of navigating constant change and uncertainty. The long months of social distancing and quarantining contribute to feelings of isolation and loneliness. It is normal to be experiencing these feelings.
Compass for 11/28/20
On this week’s Compass we have a conversation with KPTZ News Director Steve Evans, who’s wearing another hat this time – as Vice-Chair of COAST, the Community Outreach Association Shelter Team, to talk about the history and the odyssey of Port Townsend’s shelter for the homeless. In partership with Olympic Community Action Programs (OLYCAP), together they offer services and support to community members and to those who can’t fend for themselves. And it’s all done with respect and kindness.
Later we have a frank and inspiring conversation with Kathy Morgan, Housing and Community Development Director at OlyCAP, and she gives us an honest prognosis for the homeless and disadvantaged in our community, and how we can be solutions for shelter and advocacy in each of or own ways.
Through Science to Health ~ 11/27/20
In this special edition of Through Science to Health, Lynn and Chris speak with two graduates of Port Townsend High School who are now working as medical professionals in the thick of the COVID-19 pandemic in Wisconsin.
Jesse Maupin, Hospitalist at the University of Wisconsin Medical Hospital, and Will Bringgold, who is doing his pulmonary and critical care medicine fellowship at University of Wisconsin in Madison, offer their perspective from the front lines.
They candidly and compassionately speak of the long hours, increasing staffing needs, and the sincere need for community support and empathy to help them with the day-after-day challenges in patient care during these times.
Jesse has written a letter to the Leader, which will be published in its December 2 edition. The title: “Empathy in the Time of COVID.”
Nature Now #490
Laurel Anne Moulton
(First airdate: November 25, 2020) Naturalist Laurel Anne Moulton shares her experiences with Mary Robson in identifying and appreciating spiders.
Local News for 11/25
