This week on the Compass, we talk with a matchmaker (YMCA’s Building Futures Program Coordinator Dana Nixon) who brings selected local school-kids together with the adult mentors who can change the direction of their lives.
(First airdate: January 6, 2018) K.J. Dell’Antonia, former editor of the New York Times Motherlode Blog and contributor to the New York Times Well: Family section talks to Cris Wilson about her positive and encouraging book How to be a Happier Parent: Raising a Family, Having a Life, and Loving (Almost) Every Minute.
On the January 4, 2019 Tossed Salad show, Phil Andrus talked with Jessica Randall about the humanitarian caravan to Mexican border.
2018 has been a momentous year for KPTZ, marked by growth in leaps and bounds. Because of you, our listenership, our inspiration to be the soundtrack for life on the Olympic Peninsula brings out the best in us ~ and we hope, in you.
Since our broadcast debut in May, 2011, it has been our end-of-year tradition to mail a status report to our membership along with a fresh KPTZ bumper sticker and other mementos. This year, in part because we ~ and Port Townsend ~ tragically lost our trusted printer, combined with undue delays beyond our control, our letters only arrived at the post office for mailing late last week.
It’s ironic, because our message is the most compelling and informative of any year to date. So in case you wish to read it before it gets delivered in the mail, the 2018 letter can be viewed and downloaded here.
At this annual time when it is customary for people to share their bounty with needful causes, we ask that you make a donation to our continued efforts to bring music, news and interviews of importance and relevance to your daily quality of life.
While waiting for our printed letter, if you care to contribute online, the link is at the top of all our web pages as well as just below. If you prefer to mail in your own envelope, our address is KPTZ, P.O. Box 2091, Port Townsend WA 98368.
Another way to donate is to stop by the KPTZ studios at Mountain View Commons during our normal business hours (from 10am to 5pm weekdays, other than holidays). We always enjoy hearing from and meeting listeners, and we very much appreciate your valued contributions.
Wishing you the very best for 2019, we look forward to our continued partnership.
In appreciation,
All at KPTZ
(Reprise airdate: January 2, 2019) Debaran Kelso hosts Part 1 of an encore presentation of a show originally recorded in December 2017 with guests Frances Wood and Govinda Rosling, speaking about the Pigeon Guillemot Research Group based out of Whidbey Island. Closing music is “Fleet” by Guillemot.
New Year’s resolutions are an inspiration to us all. And Phil Andrus brings us a Tossed Salad show this week that helps sustain our resolution to make 2019 a better year. You’ll find something here for everyone:
1:00 – Sue Thompson, Bobbi Nikles, and Jere Canote
1:45 – Al Bergstein, Olympic Peninsula Environmental News
2:15 – Jeanie Murphy, Banjo Tunes, Tunings and Lore
3:15 – Anna Bachmann, surface water quality report
3:45 – Jessica Randall, humanitarian caravan to Mexican border
4:00 – Ezra Goetzen, psychotherapist
4:30 – Deborah Kate Hammond, reading
This week on the Compass we join a gathering of farmers around a bonfire built not only on hopes for rich and productive soil, but also on the dream of helping to reverse the climate crisis. With Orchardist Cameron Denning, Farmer Brian Bakker, Experimental Gardener Norm Baker, Olympic Biochar Founder Francesco Tortorici, and Forage Executive Director Kai Hoffman-Krull.
It was a good run! And KPTZ is bittersweet to lose “West Coast Live,” the long-running radio program that retired from the airwaves, ending with its final broadcast of 2018 on December 29. The dynamic variety show began in 1993, and aired on KPTZ Saturday mornings for over 3 years, broadcasting on occasion from the Port Townsend Film Festival.
All of us at KPTZ send thanks and best wishes to West Coast Live host Sedge Thomson and crew. And we’re promised reprise podcasts from the show’s archives at wcl.org.
Stay tuned to KPTZ for a new program in the Saturday 11am – 12n time slot over the coming weeks, with thanks to host Charlie Bermant for stepping up to fill in until the new program is in place.
On the December 28, 2018 Tossed Salad show, Phil Andrus talked with Lily Haight of The Leader, Robert d’Arcy of the Schooner Martha, Carol Hasse of PT Sails, Michelle Sandoval of the PT City Council, and Eric Toews, Port of PT Deputy Manager about preserving Point Hudson.
Phil Andrus gets things rolling into the new year with Peter Newland on Can’t Wait for Salad at 12:40pm. Thereafter we have:
1:00 – Laurie Riley, harpist
1:45 – Preserving Point Hudson (with Lily Haight of PT Leader; Robert d’Arcy of Schooner Martha; Carol Hasse of PT Sails; Michelle Sandoval of PT City Council; & Eric Toews, Port of PT Deputy Manager)
2:30 – Forest Beutel, lumberjack banjo
3:00 – Judith-Kate Friedman, “Songs from the Sound”
3:45 – Vickie Daignault of Key City’s one woman show “The Year of Magical Thinking”
4:00 – Mossy Raven
4:30 – Don White reading “Yma Dream” by Thomas Meehan
