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Silver Linings

What’s your silver lining? That’s what we’re asking our KPTZ community. In this time of hardship, people are cultivating fresh perspectives and positive practices that are a direct outcome of the pandemic and its restrictions. KPTZ will share your thoughts throughout the coming weeks with our Silver Linings series.

If you’d like to share your Silver Lining please call 360-912-8123 and leave a 1-minute or less message. The prompt is: “What is your Silver Lining?” Please start by first introducing yourself. Stay tuned! And stay well.

PPE Supplies Arrive in Jefferson County

April 9, 2020

April 9, 1010 – Local News: Aldrich’s to close; Covid 19 cases stabilized.

KPTZ Coffee with the City Manager ~ 4/09

On Thursday, April 9, 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.

Make a note for next Thursday: John Mauro will be taking questions via live phone calls from 10-10:30am on KPTZ’s Discovery Road with host Timothy Quackenbush. Call 360-215-7270 to ask your question. And, enjoy the ride!

Nature Now #457
European Green Crabs, Part 2

(First airdate: April 8, 2020) Host Nan Evans talks with Emily Grason about the threats from the invasive European Green Crab, one of the world’s worst invasive species, and the efforts in the Salish Sea to document sightings of green crab and track the species’ impacts on Salish Sea ecosystems. This is part 2 of a March 2020 show.

Local News for 4/08

April 8, 2020 – Local News: Blood banks need donors; locals make field shields. (TRANSCRIPT)

Bring Your Records – Anna Quinn and Teresa Verraes

(Airdate: April 8, 2020) KPTZ’s Bring Your Records host Larry Stein interviewed four Port Townsend notables about their lives and work in this pandemic period.
Guests included:

Anna Quinn: Author, Founder of Writers’ Workshoppe, and former co-owner of Imprint Books

Teresa Verraes: Executive Director of PT School of the Arts

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

Through Science to Health ~ 4/07/20

On Tuesday mornings at 10, Morning on the Salish DJ host Chris Bricker offers an edition of KPTZ’s Through Science to Health, in addition to the Tossed Salad segment Fridays from 1 to 1:30pm. Both time slots provide live updates featuring Lynn Sorensen, RN, BSN, retired after 36 years and Kate Keenan, San Diego Public Health Communicable Disease Investigator, retired after 20 years. Members of KPTZ’s Virus Watch Team, they take turns sharing information on how to strengthen ourselves individually and collectively as we all work to mitigate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic here in Jefferson County.

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.

April 7, 2020

April 7, 2020 – Local News: Increase in county cases; Rhody and THING Festivals cancelled.

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