(Airdate: January 3, 2025) Jim Burke and co-host Commissioner Heidi Eisenhour welcome Jen Kingfisher from Jefferson Community Foundation to talk about the Give Jefferson campaign and an after-action on 2024 as well as about non-profits in our community.
KPTZ is excited to welcome Quimper’s Watch, a local maritime musical group, to the Trinity United Methodist Church on Thursday, January 23 at 7pm. This is the next installment of our Candlelight Concert series. Hailing from Port Townsend, its five members bring together decades of knowledge and experience in maritime music, transforming it to a rich, dynamic musical experience. Whether it’s ‘a cappella’ shanty working songs or instrumented sea ballads, their strong voices and multi-part harmonies combine to capture the heritage and soul of these songs that once echoed across Port Townsend’s Victorian waterfront during the golden age of sail. The group’s name honors Spanish naval officer Manuel Quimper Benítez del Pino (1757-1844). In 1790, as captain of the sloop Princessa Real, Quimper is credited as being the first person of European descent to explore and chart both coasts of the Strait of Juan de Fuca where he named the peninsula on which Port Townsend sits. Among his many accomplishments, he was a gifted maritime cartographer, author, and poet, making him a fitting namesake for the group. Brought to you by KPTZ, this concert will also be simulcast on 91.9 FM KPTZ
(Airdate: nJanuary 2, 2025 – Sleeping with the Nuns)
(Airdate: January 2, 2025) KPTZ’s Taylor Clark and co-host Port Townsend City Manager John Mauro were joined by Assistant City Engineer Jeff Kostechka and we talked about an upcoming workshop-style open house focused on improving walking, biking, and connectivity in our neighborhoods. This is part of the effort to update the Active Transportation Plan which is in turn part of the Comprehensive Plan update. The plan was originally created in 1997 and was last updated in 2010. The open house will be Wednesday, Jan 15 from 5:30 to 7:30pm at the Community Senior Center at Tyler and Lawrence in uptown Port Townsend.
For a compendium of upcoming featured programs, check KPTZ Spotlight for January 1-15. Many of our program hosts provide specifics about what’s planned for this half month. If you’re not already a Spotlight subscriber, you’re invited to join our Mailing List. See KPTZ’s current Weekly On-Air Schedule and Daily Program Schedule.
(Airdate: December 31, 2024) We’re in Gansu Province in the town of Wuwei. When it was first laid out over two thousand years ago, Wuwei was the first garrison established by the Chinese along the Silk Road. Back then, it was called Liangzhou. Since then, it has continued to play an important role in the region, and it’s all laid out after a fashion at the Wuwei Museum. One of the museum’s most important pieces is a steely that was unearthed 200 years ago.
(Airdate: December 30, 2024) This week on Attention Please!, host Jim Burke talks with Kellen Lynch, Outreach and Development Coordinator for Olympic Housing Trust about the Dundee Hill Project; and Richard Tucker, Executive Director of Jefferson Land Trust about the Chimacum Ridge Community Forest. He also talks with both of them about the cooperation between JLT and OHT to develop housing on the Chimacum Commons, 16 acres of land owned and protected by Jefferson Land Trust.
