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Tossed Salad for 10/25/2019

Phil Andrus is back with a Tossed Salad that brings you a touch of Halloween. So sit back and shiver with:
1:00 – Haunted Histories, with Shelly Leavens and Mari Mullen
1:30 – David Schroeder, mixed musics
2:30 – Amanda Milholland, PT Farmers Market
2:45 – Tom Jay “A Word and a Poem”
3:00 – Tigran Arakelyan, Port Townsend Symphony Orchestra
3:30 – Paul deBarros and Lanny Turay
4:30 – Heather Dudley Nollette, reading

#144 Jim Roberts, Expedition Club head

(First airdate: October 22, 2019) ROBBIE ROBERTS: THAILAND TEMPTS PT TEENS. Our Town host Maryanne McNellis interviews Jim “Robbie” Roberts, head of the Expedition Club, which has sent over 300 local teens to Thailand for the past 16 years. Roberts was a fixture at Port Townsend high school for decades. He taught and, as Coach Roberts, supervised the athletic department though decades of wins and losses.. His crowning inspiration was to take teens to Thailand – to open their eyes to another culture and way of living. For most, it changes their lives profoundly.

LWV Forum #3
PT City Council Position 6

(Airdate: October 21, 2019) KPTZ broadcasts the candidate forums sponsored by the League of Women Voters and the American Society of University Women-Port Townsend, the second of which was held Thursday October 10 at the Port Townsend Community Center. The second of the three candidate forums features candidates Bernie Arthur and Amy Howard, facing off in the race for Port Townsend City Council Position 6. 

Local Election Advance Coverage on KPTZ

Be informed when you exercise your right to vote. To find out more about the candidates running for Port Townsend City Council and for the Port Commission, KPTZ has aired several interview discussions for broadcast ~ now available to hear, here on our website. Also online for streaming, we’ve got the League of Women Voters forums featuring Q&A with the candidates. All these recordings are available by clicking here.

Compass for the Week of 10/21/2019

This week on the Compass, we give you a taste of our live broadcast from the Great Shakeout, a worldwide event designed to help you understand how to cope with a massive catastrophe that is almost definitely going to happen someday.

Nature Now #433
Lucas Hart, Part 2

(First airdate: October 16, 2019) Host Debaran Kelso talks with Lucas Hart, Director of the NW Straits Commission, on their current projects. This is Part 2 of a two-part program;  Part 1 aired last month.

Tossed Salad for 10/18/2019

Halloween is getting closer, the days are getting shorter, but Tossed Salad just keeps on getting better and better. Host Chris Bricker brings us a superb salad of:
1:00Johnsmith, Northwind Concert Series Artist
1:30Jeanie Murphy “Banjo Tunes, Tuning, and Lore” 
2:10Kate Dwyer & PTeRider—Taxi Stories
2:30Libby Palmer, Jefferson County Immigrant Rights Advocates
3:00Zach Parker, Songsmith
3:30 – Sea Stories: Crossing the Northwest Passage, by Olivier Huin
4:00 – Sea Stories: The Live-Aboard Life, by Peter Bailey & Heidi Snyder    
4:30Catherine McNabb, Poets & Letters

AARP Tax Aid Program

(First airdate: October 15, 2019) Yvonne Starkey of the AARP Tax-Aide Program dispels the misperceptions of becoming a volunteer tax aide volunteer. Filing a tax return can be daunting to many of us and these folks are here to help. This organization offers an extensive IRS course in December and January to those interested in becoming a certified a tax aide volunteer. Tune in to Everybody Can to learn more.

Molly Tinsley

(First airdate: October 15, 2019) Host Sheila Bender visits via phone with Oregon author Molly Tinsley to learn about her new novel Things Too Big to Name, and to gain insight into her long writing career.

LWV Forum #2
PT City Council Position 3

(Airdate: October 14, 2019) KPTZ broadcasts the candidate forums sponsored by the League of Women Voters and the American Society of University Women – Port Townsend, the second of which was held Thursday October 10 at the Port Townsend Community Center. The second of the three candidate forums features challenger Monica MickHager who seeks to unseat incumbent Deborah Stinson in the race for Port Townsend City Council Position 3. In full disclosure, KPTZ wishes to make known that candidate Monica MickHager is a current member of KPTZ Radio Port Townsend’s Board of Directors.