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Tossed Salad for 9/06/2019

Boats everywhere you look! It’s Port Townsend’s annual Wooden Boat Festival! Join Phil Andrus as he broadcasts Tossed Salad from the midst of all these boats. Featured will be:
12:00Carla Main, vocals, with Paul Rogers on keyboard, Dirk Anderson on bass, and Kurt Festinger on sax and clarinet
12:45Carol Hasse, Port Townsend Sails
1:00Micaela Kingslight, guitar and vocals
1:45Douglas Brooks, Japanese boat builder
2:00Tania Opland and Mike Freeman, music of the British Isles
2:45Teresa and Ben Eriksen Carey, Morse Alpha Expeditions
3:00Jack Dwyer and friend(s)
3:45Lynx Guimond, SailCargo
4:00 – Combo Choro
4:45Barb Trailer, Director of the Wooden Boat Festival

Algae Fuel

(First airdate: September 5, 2019) Jet airplanes flying on fuel from algae? Scott Edmonson from The Pacific Northwest National Marina Laboratory in Sequim, Washington discusses with Coastal Café this and possible new applications for fuel stock from micro algae.

Rachel Muller

(First airdate: September 4, 2019) Rachel Muller is a storyteller and children’s author from Ladysmith on Vancouver Island.  She spins us a tale on this edition of Booklovers’ Cafe. 

Nature Now #427
Bats and Carnivores

(First airdate: September 4, 2019) Mary Robson talks with wildlife experts Lorna and Darrell Smith about identifying bats and teaching about carnivores.

Artful Growth at PT School for the Arts

(First airdate: September 3, 2019) Teresa Verraes, PTSA-Social Entrepreneur and Executive Director of the PT School of the Arts updates Missy Neilsen of Everybody Can on all of the offerings and opportunities to engage your artistic self. Volunteer opportunities abound at this organization from downtown to Fort Worden. Listen in to learn more!

Ed Harkness

(First airdate: September 3, 2019) Host Sheila Bender interviews Seattle poet Ed Harkness about his latest volume of poetry, The Law of the Unforeseen, as well as about his new work and his start in poetry.

Compass for the Week of 9/02/2019

This week on Compass, humble sailor Olivier Huin tells us his story about building a 51-foot wooden sailboat and of his first attempt in 2017 at navigating the Northwest Passage from Newfoundland to Breskell’s new home in Port Townsend. In that conversation earlier this summer, he spoke of his current preparations, as he and his five-person crew prepared to make a second attempt to cross. Since then, Olivier has been reporting in each week by SatPhone. We’ll include his latest report, along with the crew’s observations about the impact of a rapidly changing Arctic climate.

PT City Council Candidates

(Airdate: August 29, 2019) KPTZ’s Charlie Bermant interviews Port Townsend City Council candidates Deborah Stinson and Monica Mick Hager.

KPTZ Deep Squeeze ~ All Labor Day Weekend!

The 4th Annual Deep Squeeze is a benefit for KPTZ! Awesome! 

Enjoy three days of Accordion Fun in the Sun, produced by Paul Rogers and Maggie Martin ~ all featuring 8 performing acts, for 15 shows.

Your KPTZ station that’s moving into its permanent home in 2020 can use – and greatly appreciates – everyone’s support!

Tossed Salad for 8/30/2019

Getting ready for the KPTZ Deep Squeeze this weekend, Phil Andrus brings some of the entertainers to this week’s Tossed Salad. Enjoy!
1:00 – Deep Squeeze live, with Paul Rogers, his accordion friends, and Eric Reeter of MeadWorks at Wilderbee Farm
2:00Eva Abram, storyteller
2:45Jake Beattie, Northwest Maritime Center, with Scott Wilson, publisher emeritus of the Port Townsend Leader
3:15Tom Jay, A Word and a Poem
3:30Colin and Chris Gilbert, brothers in song
4:30 – Poetry read by poet Linda Robertson