This week on the Compass, we catch up with a Port Ludlow couple who left home five months ago to hike from Mexico to Canada on the Pacific Crest Trail; they’re finally back home, and they have a story to tell.
Thor Hanson
(First airdate: September 2, 2018) The 2018 Huntingford Humanities Lecture is being given by author and conservation biologist Thor Hanson. Booklovers’ Cafe host Cris Wilson talks to Thor about his latest book Buzz: the Nature and Necessity of Bees.
Party on the Pier Is Almost Here!
Come visit KPTZ on Friday, August 31 from 4-8pm on Union Wharf (end of Taylor Street in Port Townsend). It’s our second annual KPTZ Party on the Pier concert and fundraiser! Dance music by Seattle-based, horn-driven band High Pulp, plus DJ Silace Amaro with all-vinyl funk music. All ages welcome! Beer, wine and cider available, 21 and over. Admission: $10 suggested donation.
Tossed Salad for 8/31/2018
Phil Andrus brings us another Tossed Salad for the end of a busy summer. This week’s tossings include:
1:00 – Checking in with Muriel Powers and her autoharp
1:30 – Terry Robb, blues guitar
2:15 – Joe D’Amico, Security Services Northwest, with Scott Wilson
3:15 – THAG Jazz: Trevor Hanson and Andy Geiger, guitar and saxophone
4:00 – Alex Dugdale and High Pulp, party time on the pier
4:30 – Catherine McNabb, reading two stories from the anthology of contemporary Native American stories “Talking Leaves”
#118 Kim Rafferty, Jeffco Public Health Nurse
(First airdate: August 28, 2018) KIM RAFFERTY: FROM HIPPIE TO PUBLIC HEALTH NURSE. Our Town host Maryanne McNellis interviews Kim Rafferty, a nurse with Jefferson County Public Health. Once upon a time Kim lived in the proverbial hippie commune in California. But reason prevailed. She ended up becoming a nurse. She’s run group homes for mentally challenged seniors and run clinics on Orcas Island. Today she’s the public health nurse who provides foot care to seniors and disabled all around the county.
Compass for the Week of 8/27/2018
This week on the Compass, the man who talks to the animals talks to you. And the Women in Black, who usually refuse to say anything, also talk. And we hear the story of a train leading to a horseracing track that few people know existed in Port Townsend over 100 years ago.
In Conversation – Michael Buschmohle
(first aired August 21, 2018). Sheila Bender talks in studio with Marrowstone Island author Michael Buschmohle about writing tips and his career in helping writers create and edit effective email, speeches, blogs and more.
Nature Now #375
Tides and Time (encore)
(first aired August 22, 2018). Nan Evans interviews Jonathan White, author of Tides: The Science and Spirit of the Ocean, in the encore of a May 24, 2017 broadcast where the author discusses how the tides can tell time, change our concept of time, and affect living creatures. Closing music is “The Moon and the Tide,” performed by Derek Gust.
Tossed Salad for 8/24/2018
Phil Andrus is back with another full bowl of Tossed Salad, including Can’t Wait for Salad: Amanda Milholland of the Farmers Market to talk about the Tomato Taste-Off.
Thereafter, we have:
1:00 – Daring Greatly, family band from BC
1:45 – Tom Jay, “A Word and a Poem”
2:00 – Ellen Falconer, Forest Bathing
2:30 – Dan Weber, Northwind Songwriter Showcase
3:15 – Corinne Adams, Shamisen
4:00 – Tessa Lark and Michael Thurber, Olympic Music Festival’s “Bach to Bluegrass”
4:30 – Don White, reading
The Food Co-op, Community Commitment to Sharing
(First airdate: Auust 21, 2018) Andrea Stafford, Marketing Manager at The Food Co-op, spills the beans on the various ways the Food Co-Op gives back to community. Food for thought abounds as Everybody Can host Missy Nielsen discusses with Andrea their efforts in the school district and how the Co-op commits to the four pillars of health and wellness through their outreach programs.
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