(Airdate: October 29, 2020) In this premier episode of KPTZ’s Critical Conversations, co-hosts Robert Ambrose and Dahr Jamail explore three major challenges to life as we know it, and they discuss how community resilience will be key to a future of adaptation. The next airing of this half-hour program will be on 91.9FM Monday, November 9 at 6:30pm, immediately following Climate One.
Early in the morning on Thursday, November 5, Nordland General Store owners Tom and Sue Rose were awakened by an alarm ringing in the neighboring nearly 100-year old building that serves as a kind of unofficial community center for Marrowstone Island. This week on the Compass we visit with the Rose family at the beloved store in the aftermath of a mysterious fire that gutted the community institution as they contemplate the devastation and the store’s uncertain future.
The Jefferson County Historical Society presents An Evening with Grace Love on Friday, November 6 from 7 to 8pm, broadcast live on KPTZ and video live streamed via The Production Alliance on YouTube. This event culminates the Jefferson County Historical Society’s 2020 First Friday Lecture Series. Grace Love will discuss her forthcoming solo album, and perform songs old, new, and of the moment. Miss Love has spent the last decade bringing soul music back to the forefront of the northwest music scene, and is beloved and respected for her powerful live shows and unmistakable voice. This event is co-presented by KPTZ Radio, Salish Sound, and The Production Alliance.
This week on Community Tides, Chris and Siobhan have a conversation with serial entrepreneur and problem-solver Ben Bauermeister, who was instrumental in starting one of the largest undertakings of his non-profit career – The Connected Student Initiative. The project’s goal is to ensure that students from low-income families find ways to connect to the internet. It’s a big challenge in rural regions with larger low-income populations. The times we live in have created the urgency to connect these students and their homes. The Initiative weaves the search for technological solutions with the resources of the community at large, with project volunteers, and with our school administrators.
Today, Tim Quackenbush and Port Townsend City Manager John Mauro were joined by Eron Berg, Port of Port Townsend Executive Director, and Philip Morley, Jefferson County Administrator, to discuss the Intergovernmental Collaborative Group’s recovery and resiliency planning efforts.
(Airdate: November 4, 2020) Imagine the deep ocean with Nan Evans and her guest, oceanographer and deep sea ecologist, Dr. Christopher Kelley. What is life like in the deep ocean and how do scientists even explore those vast regions?
Reflections about our own experience with COVID-19:
KPTZ DJ host Dick Keenan and his wife, Kate, a public health retiree, share their experience after Dick was diagnosed in August with COVID-19. They recount their surprise at the diagnosis, and why it’s important to know the symptoms of COVID-19 and seek medical advice. In addition, they worked with the Jefferson County Public Health nurses to inform their few contacts, and used technology to trace their whereabouts during the period when Dick may have been the most likely to spread the infection. Dick experienced a very mild infection and Kate tested negative, as did all their contacts.
While it takes a particular constellation of circumstances to become infected, we’re reminded that continued adherence to public health practices to keep us all safer through the winter, is worth the effort.
On Monday November 16, at 5:40pm, tune in to learn more about the Coronavirus pandemic, in this informative rebroadcast of reflections about this personal experience with COVID-19.
