(First airdate: January 21, 2020) Missy Nielsen of Everybody Can speaks with Dale Nienow, Giving Circle member, and Alecia Kleiner, Manager of Engagement for Jefferson Community Foundation about Giving Circles. Learn about this unique and impactful funding approach that supports charitable causes and fosters community building as members develop awareness of needs. Check out this intimate look into hands-on charitable giving.
(First airdate: January 21, 2020) Sheila talks with Port Angeles poet Tess Gallagher about her career in poetry and her poems, her early days learning from famous poets, and the ways she collaborates with and encourages other artists. Her newest book Is, Is Not received a 2020 Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award.
In early December the Washington Department of Natural Resources released a long-awaited management plan for State Trust forests that has at its heart a concern for sustainable harvests and a court-ordered conservation plan for the marbled murrelet, a tiny threatened seabird that relies upon large tracts of old growth forest for successful breeding. Considering the DNR’s concurrent and seemingly contradictory missions to conserve the forests for the likes of the murrelet and to maximize timber sale revenues to support schools and other tax districts, it is perhaps not surprising that lawsuits challenging the legality of the plan have this month been filed on both sides of the issue, with state trust lands revenue beneficiaries on the one hand arguing that the plan breaches the DNR’s fiduciary responsibility to them by “dramatically” reducing revenues, while a consortium of environmental groups has filed a complaint that the plan does not go far enough to protect the public’s interest in conserving the forest.
In this week’s Compass, we first reprise a story we did a little more than six years ago, when the marbled murrelet was at the center of another lawsuit against the DNR, and then we catch up with the fortunes of the murrelet in a follow-up phone interview with Maria Mudd Ruth, the author of a book about the bird who was one of those consulted in devising the controversial management plan.
(First airdate: January 15, 2020) Hydrologist Ann Soule discusses with host Mary Robson the relationships of water use history and water sources in the Dungeness Valley.
Ready to warm things up this cold, cold week? Phil Andrus brings us heart-warming entertainment all Friday afternoon. Snuggle close and listen to:
1:00 – Marcia Reidel & Jim Scarantino, for COAST
1:15 – Jessica Randall & Wendi Wrinkle on Hive Mind
1:45 – Simon Lynge, songwriter and singer
2:30 – Scott Wilson (of “A Short Step Back in Time”) interviews KPTZ’s own Donn Tretheway
3:00 – Bill Tennent, guest DJ
4:00 – TBD
4:30 – Don White reading “The Moor”, by Russell Banks
(First airdate: January 14, 2020) MOST TEENAGERS ARE NOT DEADBEATS. Our Town Host Maryanne McNellis interviews Carrie Ehrhardt, the long-time principal of Port Townsend High School. Carrie is a passionate advocate for teenagers. According to her, the high school attempts to address all of a student’s needs. There are high school students today who are homeless or face substance abuse (both individually or with family members). She makes weekly runs to the Food Bank to help feed hungry students. Carrie and her team care about the mental and physical needs of the students – as well as providing an academically challenging program. High school is perhaps quite a lot different from when you were a student!
We ask the vice president of a prominent local insurance business a question you should probably be asking yourself — if a catastrophic earthquake strikes here in Puget Sound, would insurance cover you for the loss of your home and everything you own?
(First airdate: January 8, 2020) Many of us are familiar with the story of dwindling Orca populations in the Salish Sea. But what about the larger whales? Nan Evans talks with John Calambokidis of Cascadia Research about long-term trends in populations, movements, and underwater behavior of blue, humpback, and gray whales in the Salish Sea and the North Pacific Ocean.
Getting the new year moving along, Phil Andrus brings us a Tossed Salad full of good things we know you will enjoy:
1:00 – Morgan Hanna, Olympic Angels
1:15 – Kate Riley, Master Gardeners Yard and Garden Tour
1:30 – Howly Slim and Finn Wilcox, poets in song and in speech
2:30 – Linda Robertson, poet
2:45 – Doug Ross, PT School Board
3:10 – Nan Toby, poet
3:20 – Lanny Turay, jazz from the old days
4:30 – Heather Dudley Nollette reading a selection from Studs Terkel’s book “Working”
(First airdate: January 7, 2019) Sheila speaks in studio with Virginia Thompson about her long-term book series Family Math, its inception, and its success.
