On Thursday, April 2, Port Townsend City Manager John Mauro conducted his weekly coffee meeting with the public on KPTZ’s Discovery Road, with host Tim Quackenbush. Mauro shared information about local plans being enacted for the days ahead. The half-hour conversation can be streamed and downloaded here.
(First airdate: April 1, 2020) Kira’s novel Hollow Kingdom leads us into a post-apocalyptic Seattle. Our guide is a domesticated crow names S.T. who says “Life isn’t the same once you learn how deeply a tree feels.” It’s funny and irreverent, yet such a powerful warning for us all.
(Reprise airdate: April 1, 2020 ) Debaran Kelso hosts an encore presentation on the topic of bird migration with guest Dr. Geoff Hammerson, with the help of Fred Sharpe. This is the concluding segment of a two-part show first re-broadcast earlier in March.
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
2:00 – Amanda Milholland, Port Townsend Farmers Market
2:15 – Bob Rosen, Quilcene reports from near and far;
2:30 – Jean Ball, distilling our own hand sanitizer
2:45 – Shelly Leavens, Director of the Jefferson County Historical Society
3:00 – Phil plays the DJ
3:15 – Pam Petranek, Port Commissioner, Port of Port Townsend update
3:30 – Judith-Kate Friedman, Songs from the Sound
4:30 – Heather Dudley Nollette with the Dudley/Nollette family report and a short reading
(First airdate: March 31, 2020) Sheila interviews Los Angeles novelist Robin Page via phone to discuss her novel Small Silent Things, the story of a woman of color transplanted from the Midwest to Los Angeles and her friendship with Simon, a survivor of Rwandan genocide.
(First airdate: March 31, 2020) Olympic Angels are volunteers who walk alongside the children and their caretakers in the foster care system. On this episode of Everybody Can, Missy Nielsen checks in with Jefferson County Branch board members Ian Hanna and Beau Ohlgren about the “angels” and their efforts to support those working in foster care.
On Monday, March 30 at 9:45am, Dr. Tom Locke, Jefferson County Public Health Officer and Willie Bence, Director of Emergency Management provided public updates during the County Commissioners’ weekly meeting about COVID-19 and our county’s preparedness.
KPTZ broadcast via 91.9FM and streamed at KPTZ.org this timely COVID-19 information, which was also videostreamed live and recorded for online viewing any time thereafter at the Jefferson County website.
This week on the Compass, Steve Evans talks with the highly-acclaimed journalist Dahr Jamail about the relationship between the COVID 19 pandemic and the climate crisis. Then he talks with OlyCAP’s new Executive Director Cherish Chronmiller about how the Olympic Peninsula’s primary social services agency is coping with increasing demands as the virus spreads and the economy shrinks.
On Thursday, March 26, Port Townsend City Manager John Mauro conducted his weekly coffee meeting with the public on KPTZ’s Discovery Road, with host Tim Quackenbush. Mayor Michelle Sandoval joined as well. Both City officials shared information about local plans being enacted for the days ahead. The half-hour conversation can be streamed and downloaded here.
