(Airdate: October 14, 2020) Host Debaran Kelso searches for migrating waterbirds with ecologist Geoff Hammerson as our guide (Part 1 of a 2 part program)
(First airdate: October 13, 2020) Olympic Neighbors serves people with intellectual developmental disabilities and their families. Claudia Coppola and Bob Wheeler discuss with Missy Nielsen of Everybody Can their efforts and challenges as they work to provide housing and life skills support to those with IDD. Everybody Can airs on alternating Tuesdays and Thursdays at 12:40 pm.
This month on Our Working Waterfront, the Port’s Executive Director, Eron Berg, and Port Commissioner Pam Petranek summarize a flurry of activity around our Port. We get a glimpse into what it means to be in the middle of budget season, and we discuss grant and funding options for the Port, current and planned projects throughout our Port properties, significant airport improvements, and a very busy boatyard.
We talk about sea life on the current jetty pilings and its disruption during renovation, the Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe’s proposal for an upwelling system in the Point Hudson marina for oyster spat, and the tribe’s idea for a potential retail seafood outlet and restaurant there.
Eron recounts his walkabout with State Representative Steve Tharinger, and Pam highlights two of our local maritime workers, and she also acknowledges recent Leadership Awards and their recipients.
At today’s Public Health Briefings for the Jefferson County Commissioners, Public Health Officer Dr. Tom Locke discussed:
Willie Bence discussed:
Submit your Public Health questions to Dr. Tom Locke by emailing [email protected].
After working pretty much without a break since February, when COVID-19 went pandemic, Jefferson County Public Health Officer Dr. Tom Locke decided to finally take a few days off at the beginning of October to go camping and cycling. While he was away, the White House became the hottest COVID hot spot in the nation and the President himself was hospitalized for several days with the disease. In this week’s Compass we talk with Dr. Locke immediately upon his return from his rest-break about the dangerous messaging coming from the top level of government as case numbers rise nation-wide, pointing towards a much-feared surge that could once again overwhelm our health care systems as we enter the cold months of the year.
The Compass airs Saturdays at noon and repeats on Mondays at noon and five pm.
Explore new developments, new paradigms, and the new normal facing Jefferson County, with KPTZ’s Chris Bricker and Siobhan Canty, President & CEO of the Jefferson Community Foundation.
This week on Community Tides, Chris and Siobhan speak with Sarah Rubenstein, Communications and Outreach Director for Port Townsend Schools. She’s also an integral part of the Maritime Schools Initiative.
We feel different today than we did six months ago. Parents, students, administrators, teachers and schools have faced a thousand choices and myriad changes. Sarah discusses the planning and developments that have taken place over this time, the social and emotional aspects of it all, and the programs in place that support in the school system and its students throughout Jefferson County.
Siobhan talks about the Foundation’s involvement in this process, and she asks Sarah about how the general community can become engaged, including those in their own risk category and not able to become directly involved in helping our students.
Good news from the Foundation! Due to a substantial anonymous donation, there will be a new round of funding from the COVID Response Fund. Any non-profit or public-serving entity is welcome to submit funding proposals to the Foundation.
Port Townsend City Manager John Mauro is on KPTZ with a web-based format, in a weekly time slot Thursdays, from 12:10 to 12:40pm.
This week, special guest Nora Mitchell, City of Port Townsend Finance and Administrative Services Director discussed the City’s budget process.
Stay tuned for the weekly chance to learn more about developments for the City of Port Townsend. John will take questions and encourage productive dialogue (and exemplary virtual meeting etiquette) to steer through a range of topics.
