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#149 Carrie Ehrhardt, High School Principal

(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!

Compass for the Week of 1/13/2020

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?

Nature Now #444
Large Whales of the Salish Sea

(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.

Tossed Salad for 1/10/20

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”

Virginia Thompson

(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.

Autism Service Dogs

(First airdate: January 7, 2020) Part 2 Isolation and Autism. Marta Krissovich of Autism Service Dogs of America shares with Everybody Can host Missy Nielsen the transformation of adorable puppies into service dogs and how they significantly impact the lives of children with autism and their families.

Compass for the Week of 1/06/20

While for most people the holidays are a season of love, joy, and celebration of friends and family, for others it can be a time of crippling depression and even thoughts of suicide. It is for this reason that this week on the Compass we are bringing you the story from 2017 of a woman who actually committed suicide, but miraculously survived not only to tell the tale, but to bring hope and help to others considering doing the same.

Tossed Salad for 1/03/2020

What better way to start the new year than with a fresh Tossed Salad. Host Chris Bricker brings us a varied program for the first Friday of this new decade:
1:00 – Bill Evans, with Claire Porter & Don Halquist
1:30 – Sway Wild, via phone, to talk about their upcoming PT concert
2:00 – Al Bergstein – Peninsula Environmental Report
2:25 – Laura Tucker and the Climate on Tap Project
2:45 – Justine Gonzales Berg on the Housing Solutions Network
3:05 – Skeeter Pilarski about the Farm Film Fest
3:30 – Band Che Apalache tour and border activism
4:00 – Artis the Spoonman and special guest
4:30 – Don White reading O. Henry’s Transients in Arcadia

Nature Now #443
Tracking Trumpeter Swans

(Reprise airdate: January 1, 2020) Debaran Kelso hosts the first program of the new year. The topic “Tracking Trumpeter Swans” is an encore presentation of an interview recorded by Mary Robson with guest Bob Boekelheide in December 2016.

Booklovers’ Cafe ~ Tamara Meredith

(First airdate: January 1, 2020) Cris Wilson talks to Tamara Meredith, Director of Jefferson County Library, about her life in libraries, what is special about Jefferson County Library, and what we can discover there.

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