
This week on the Compass we take you inside the only infant nursery in Jefferson County. If you’re a young parent who has babies … or a senior citizen who likes holding them … you’ll want to join us!

This week on the Compass we take you inside the only infant nursery in Jefferson County. If you’re a young parent who has babies … or a senior citizen who likes holding them … you’ll want to join us!
Phil Andrus, along with many other volunteers from KPTZ, will host Tossed Salad Holiday Extravanza on Friday, December 14 at the Jefferson County Museum at City Hall.
Click here for more information about this special program.
Featured acts will be:
12:10 – Shelly Leavens, Executive Director of the Jefferson County Historical Society
12:30 – Carla Main, with Dirk Anderson on bass and Kurt Festinger on sax and clarinet
1:15 – Norm Stevens – Historian
1:45 – Chuck Easton and George Radebaugh, dueling chromatics
2:15 – Denise Winter, Key City Public Theatre
2:30 – Max Grover, Artist
2:45 – Caribe Steel Band
3:30 – 4H Lizards + Kids
4:00 – PT Youth Chorus, directed by Leslie Lewis
4:30 – The Whiteout Drama troupe reading “The Greatest Gift” by Philip Van Doren Stern
(First airdate: December 12, 2018) Part 2 of host Debaran Kelso’s talk with Scott Gremel, wildlife biologist for Olympic National Park, on the importance of non-forest habitats to wildlife on the Olympic Peninsula. Ending song: “The Only Boy Awake” by the Swedish singer-songwriter “Meadows”.
(First airdate: December 11, 2018) Sheila Bender talks via phone with California poet, novelist and Emeritus Professor Mary Mackey about her writing and her career efforts to advance environmental awareness and women’s opportunities to publish their writing.
(First airdate: December 11, 2018) Missy Nielsen of Everybody Can invites you to explore our city along with trail-blazing volunteers Lys Burden and Celeste May. Working to develop a walking and bike trail system along the historic path of Chief Chetzemoka’s life, one will discover signage informing the recreational user of a time long past. Learn how you can walk or bike through history in our town or simply contribute to this new project.

This week’s Compass centers on creativity, focusing on a new web page that helps people explore their vulnerabilities through storytelling. Interviewer Charlie Bermant will be joined by Port Townsend resident Bonnie Obremski, whose Storyborne website is meant as an outlet for writers both local and far away; exploring the long and the short along with the serious and the frivolous. Also participating is author and teacher Samantha Ladwig.
Although we are all waiting patiently for Santa, Phil Andrus Can’t Wait for Salad, so he will talk at 12:40 with Danny Milholland about the Chimacum Arts and Crafts Festival. Thereafter, Tossed Salad proper bring us:
1:00 – Shelly Leavens and Angie Bartlett, Jefferson County Historical Society
1:15 – Dennis Flannigan, seasonal notables
2:15 – Al Bergstein, “Olympic Peninsula Environmental News”
2:45 – Marla Streator, Quimper Grange
3:00 – Jeanie Murphy, “Banjo Tunes, Tunings and Lore”
3:45 – Heather Lovetree’s Sunfield middle school students in “Little Women”
4:15 – Tamera Vanover (Committee Chair) and Abra Debris (Administrator), for Sunfield’s Woodland Fair
4:30 – Deborah Kate Hammond, reading poetry to grace the airwaves
Coming Friday, December 14, noon to 5pm: Tossed Salad presents an extravaganza at City Hall, at the Museum of Art and History. More details here.
(First airdate: December 5, 2018) Nan Evans talks with cinematographer Florian Graner about the Port Townsend Marine Science Center’s Octopus Learning Project. The project features one of the aquarium’s newest residents, Eleanora, the Giant Pacific Octopus.
(First airdate: December 4, 2018) LIVING THE AMERICAN DREAM. Our Town Host Maryanne McNellis interviews Mauricio Cisneros, the owner of the San Juan Taqueria. Mauricio first came to the USA from Mexico as a teenage migrant worker. He started his culinary career as a bus boy in Sequim’s first Mexican restaurant. He slowly worked his way up the ladder and along the way became an American citizen. Many people know Mauricio as the owner of El Serape and Nifty Fifties in downtown Port Townsend. But he’s now the owner of the San Juan Taqueria near Kala Point. Despite the constant scramble for good staff, Mauricio loves the restaurant biz – he’s a people person who loves catering to his customers.