(First airdate: September 17, 2019) Everybody Can‘s Missy Nielsen talks with Washington State Health Advocate Carrie Andrews. She spends much of her time helping to bring peace of mind to her clients, empowering and educating them as they navigate the tough subject of dying. Join us for this compelling conversation and learn how Carrie makes this tough topic approachable.
(First airdate: September 17, 2019) Sheila Bender interviews Port Townsend journalist and reporter Kirk Boxleitner about his life in journalism and coming to Port Townsend for a position at The Leader, our weekly community newspaper.
(First airdate: September 16, 2019) When September rolls around in Port Townsend, it’s a special time of year for film fans. This year marks the 20th Anniversary of the Port Townsend Film Festival, with filmmakers gathering from all over the globe. KPTZ honors the art of film each year with pre-festival interviews. KPTZ radio host Buzzy Donahue speaks with Brett Fallentine, Director of the feature documentary Fire on the Hill, and Chris Bricker speaks with Caleb Burdeau, Director of the narrative feature, Nasumice (Adrift).
Until Tuesday morning Sept. 16 at 8:30am, you can enter a drawing for a 6-pack of Port Townsend Film Festival passes. The drawing will be held on Chris Bricker‘s Tuesday show, Morning on the Salish. Any listener who donates to become a KPTZ member between now and Tuesday morning will be entered into the drawing to win one of the 6-packs good for any 6 admissions to Festival films. Simply click Donate Now at the top of this page, or stop into the station during office hours and make your pledge.
On Friday, September 20th from 5 to 7pm KPTZ will air a 2-hour special broadcast on 91.9FM, live from the Festival’s opening ceremonies.
(First airdate: September 18, 2019) Host Debaran Kelso speaks with Lucas Hart, Director of the NW Straits Commission, about their current projects. Part 1 of the two part program airs this week, and focuses on forage fish.
We talk with a doctor about hearing loss, a problem that’s likely to affect every one of us sooner or later…and if you don’t address it sooner, you almost certainly will be worse off later.
While Phil Andrus is away, we have Al Bergstein taking the first two hours of this week’s Tossed Salad, following by Tim Quackenbush for the rest of the time. On the scheduled so far are:
1:00 – John Greyhound Maxwell and Bethany Smith for the Skunk Island Blues Festival
2:00 – Al Bergstein, Olympic Peninsula Environmental News
2:15 – Bob Rosen, South County Report
3:00 – Janna Marit and friends, Northwind Song
4:30 – Catherine McNabb, reading …
Plus, filling in some of the gaps will be:
Jeff Selby, Peninsula Trails Coalition
Birch Pereira & the Gin Joints
(Reprise airdate: September 11, 2019) Nan Evans visits with Janine Boire, Executive Director of the Port Townsend Marine Science Center to talk about plastic pollution in the oceans.
(First airdate: September 10, 2019) PIPER DUNLOP: NOT SO SCARY NEEDLES. Our Town Host Maryanne McNellis interviews Piper Dunlap, acupuncturist. Piper once thought he’d become a doctor but ended up spending years as a captain of tall ships, research vessels and almost every other kind of sea-worthy ship. But the sailing life left him with crippling lower back pain. An almost chance encounter with an acupuncturist showed him a side of medicine he had never considered. So he went back to school and earned a Master’s Degree in Chinese Medicine. Piper believes the divides between Western medicine and other genres, such as Chinese medicine, are blurring. More Western doctors are beginning to recognize the benefits of practices such as acupuncture. He explains why.
Could it be that many of the world’s most dreaded diseases, from Alzheimer’s to cancer and heart disease, can be prevented or even cured by a simple change in diet? This week, in a program that first aired in March of 2016, we talk to a doctor who tells us it could.
