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KPTZ is excited to announce that one of our volunteer DJs has jump started our new Capital Campaign – called KPTZ 2.0 – by donating $100,000 towards our planned move to Fort Worden. Last November, KPTZ received a $500,000 challenge grant from the Sage Foundation. In addition, this grant provides a double match for dollars raised during our capital campaign. It was that generosity that spurred this anonymous gift. And we just have to brag, because we are blown away by all this generosity!

Our donor DJ says, “I had already planned to make a significant donation to the campaign eventually, but the opportunity to turn a $100,000 contribution into a total gift of $300,000 was too spectacular to let get away. I urge anyone who can make a donation to do so while Sage Foundation’s generous double match offer is still on the table.” KPTZ is grateful for this pace-setting gift.

The funds will be used to construct state-of-the-art studios and secure a permanent transmitter site, allowing us to leave our cramped Mountain View portable classroom and become part of the new Makers Square arts campus at Fort Worden.

If you are similarly inspired to triple your contribution while the Sage match is available, we invite you to make your check out to the “KPTZ Capital Campaign” and either mail it to KPTZ, PO Box 2091, Port Townsend 98368, or bring it in to the station so we can also thank you in person.

For our pre-Valentines Day enjoyment, Chris Bricker brings us a Tossed Salad array that’s full of heart. We’re sure you’ll enjoy this afternoon’s variety:

1:00 – Four Tunes for the Heart from Chris’s music library
1:15 – Storyborne’s Heart Stories: Bonnie Obremski with Aki and Amy Sousa
2:00 – Melody Eisler, Director of the Port Townsend Library,  announcing the 2019 Community Read
2:30 – One Time Players Director David Hillman and cast members from The Cripple of Inishmaan, on the process of developing a character
3:00 – Bertram Levy on concertina and bandoneon
3:30 – Blue Heron Presents Students from the Writing Program, with Brett Navin
4:00 – Phil Andrus from Manzanilla! (musical interlude)
4:30 – Don White reading Girlfriend Repair Shop by Simon Rich

Can you believe it’s February already? Well, Phil Andrus will warm us up at 12:40pm with Can’t Wait for Salad, featuring David Hillman and cast members of One Time Players’ The Cripple of Inishmaan. Thereafter, our warm Tossed Salad gives us:

1:00 – Kristin and Otto, tunes from shoreside
1:45 – Finn Wilcox, Clem Starck, and Red Pine, poets on the loose
2:30 – Jeanie Murphy “Banjo Tunes, Tunings, and Lore”
3:15 – Al Bergstein “Olympic Peninsula Environmental News”
3:45 – Richard and Suzanne Friedrichs, music of West Asia
4:30 – Deborah Kate Hammond reading