(first airdate: March 1, 2016) WOULD YOU LIKE FRIES WITH THAT, DEARIE? Our Town host Maryanne McNellis interviews Sam (Sandra) Johnson, a long-time waitress at Don’s Pharmacy’s Soda Fountain. Sam spills the beans about the regulars lingering on “their” particular stools and dishes up dirt about the alternative “city council meetings” held at Don’s every Saturday morning.
Get Connected is the local online way to find volunteer opportunities in Jefferson County. Join Emily Henry, the UGN/Get Connected Volunteer Initiatives Coordinator, and Amy Howard of the Boiler Room talk about how easy – and efficient – it is to Get Connected in Jefferson County.
This week on the Compass we talk with the organizers of this year’s Community Read, Naomi Klein’s This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs the Climate. Then we talk with a retired NASA engineer who has built a tractor that indirectly runs on sunlight and water.
(first airdate: February 11, 2016) Hear the discussions from the Jefferson County Republican Party Caucus (Feb. 20) and Jefferson County Democratic Party Caucus (March 26). Guests:
Steve Crosby, Chair, Jefferson County Republican Party
Bruce Cowan, Chair, Jefferson County Democratic Party
Host: Larry Stein
(first airdate: February 23, 2016) Ta-kwt (To Shine a Light on Something) For February, the Northwinds Arts Center features Mary Ann Lambert, a local historian of the S’Klallam people of Dungeness and Port Gamble. Exhibits include information about Lambert and her documentation of life of the S’Klallam people in the Olympic Peninsula, as well as art from S’Klallam artists expressing their heritage. A new book Dungeness by Karen Polinsky, is an historical novel of a character much like Mary Ann Lambert.
Interviews in this report: Cara Thompson, curator; Karen Polinsky, author; Catherine MacGregor, S’Klallam fiber artist; Michael D’Allesandro, Exec. Director, Northwind Arts Center.
Republicans in Jefferson County hold their caucus, and the GOP Chairman thinks the Presidential race could come down to a dead heat between Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders. And, tax season is also scam season, so we reprise a show from a year ago about a couple of scams that took aim at KPTZ’s own news director.
We take you on a guided tour through the mists of Port Townsend’s past on a visit to some of its most rarely seen hidden corners. (This is a reprise of the 3-24-14 show featuring the Historical Walking Tour of downtown PT as part of the 2014 Victorian Festival, including a walk through the long-empty upper stories of the Hastings Building with Hastings descendant Heather Dudley-Nollette.)
This week on the Compass we listen in as the Jefferson County Planning Commission deliberates its response to a ten-year planning process for a Brinnon Master Plan Resort, and we chat with one of the founders of the brand-new Peninsula Homecare Collaborative.
Host Debaran Kelso interviews Dr. Jerry Freilich in the second part of a discussion about diversity. Closing music is “Stayin’ Alive,” performed by the Bee Gees.
(Reprise airdate: February 22, 2016) In Memoriam – Marcia Perlstein’s interview with artist, poet and musician Sandy Diamond, who passed away recently in Port Townsend. This Pleasures and Treasures interview was originally recorded in 2011. The reprise of the interview is introduced by Gabriel Diamond, Sandy’s son.
