(First airdate: August 6, 2019) Missy Nielsen of Everybody Can talks with the “Gleaners” from the Quimper Community Harvest Gleaning Crew about the bountiful produce that is collected and distributed to others in need. Gleaners harvest and distribute local fruits and vegetables to the community and schools. Seth Roland and Doug Van Allen discuss the process and opportunities to get involved, learn a bit about fruit handling and make some new friends.
(First airdate: August 6, 2019) Host Sheila Bender turns the microphone around to interview KPTZ sound engineer/editor Charlie Fleishman about his own writing, his work with authors, and his accomplished editing for “In Conversation.”
In this edition of Compass, KPTZ reporter Chris Bricker speaks with Mary-Wynne Ashford, M.D., author and activist, who has been a leader in the international peace and disarmament movement for several decades. She’ll be one of the keynote speakers this week during events at the Cotton Building. From our civilization’s naive exploration of Nuclear Energy in the 1940s and 1950s to coping in subsequent decades with the Genie that’s out of the bottle, it is important for us to remember two profound days in history that changed the world. On August 6th and 9th the community of Port Townsend will reflect on the meaning, tragedy and lessons of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, with music, poetry, movies, speakers, ceremony and prayer.
(Airdate: August 15, 2019) KPTZ’s Charlie Bermant interviews Port Townsend City Council Position 6 candidates Amy Howard and Bernie Arthur.
Right after KPTZ’s broadcase of the Centrum Free Friday Acoustic Blues Feastival at noon, Phil Andrus brings us sizzling summer programs on Tossed Salad this week. Pour yourself a cool lemonade, sit back, and listen:
1:20 – Daniel Macke, guitar and mandocello
2:00 – Patricia Jones and Brian Cullin, South County Report
2:30 – Judith-Kate Friedman, Songs from the Sound
3:30 – Jessica Randall and Al Latham, aerial application of herbicide on forestlands
4:00 – Tom Jay, A Word and a Poem
4:30 – Don White reading “In Another Country” by Ernest Hemingway
(Airdate: August 1, 2019) Unopposed Port Townsend City Council candidate Owen Rowe discusses the issues with his predecessor, two-term council member Bob Gray.
(Reprise airdate: July 31, 2019) Dr. Virginia Armbrust, Director of the University of Washington School of Oceonography, joins host Nan Evans to talk about the weird world of microscopic organisms that populate the world’s oceans, and why we should know about them and even care.
(First airdate: July 30, 2019) It doesn’t matter if you’re paranoid, it matters if you’re paranoid enough.
(First airdate: July 30, 2019) Our Town Host Maryanne McNellis interviews Steve Heigel, the owner of PT Paddlesports. Steve rents everything from kayaks to standup paddle boards from his location near the Marine Science Center at Fort Worden. The thrills of being out on the water include regular sightings of eagles, otters and sometimes even dolphins. He’s a stickler for safety and all of his clients must wear safety gear. Steve watches the weather and tides like a hawk and makes sure everyone’s enjoying the full maritime experience. When he’s not running tours and supervising trips, Steve’s racing kayaks. Steve and his wife, Amy, successfully completed the recent Race to Alaska…well, they completed the 70/48. That race is from Tacoma to Port Townsend. Participants must row or paddle 70 miles in under 48 hours.
This week on the Compass, we talk with Mike Schleckser, better known to KPTZ listeners as DJ Max, a Port Townsend man whose father passed away and, as a tribute to his dad, Mike decided to go for a long walk from Mexico to Canada all by himself – 2,650 miles. It took four months, and today he tells us all about the pain and the joy.
