(Airdate: January 31, 2022) Coming to Attention Please this week are two presenters in the Jefferson County Historical Society’s program, Chinese American Voices: graphic artist Tessa Hulls and filmmaker Valerie Soe, with support from Tara McCauley of the Historical Society staff.
(Airdate: January 3, 2022) Phil Andrus interviews Suzanne Eggleston and Candice Gohn of the Master Gardeners Foundation, who have organized this year’s virtual Yard and Garden Lecture Series for the Foundation.
(Airdate: January 24, 2022) KPTZ host Steve Evans talks with electric vehicle advocates Tony Billera and Cyndy Bratz about the important role they believe EV’s quick widespread adoption must play in addressing the rapidly unfolding climate crisis.
(Airdate: January 17, 2022) Attention Please! this weeks focuses on Kellen Lynch, campaign manager for Housing Solutions Network. Kellen narrates a panel discussion on housing issues affecting us in Jefferson County. Joining him in the panel are City Councilor Aislinn Diamanti and Brett Black, Fire Chief of East Jefferson Fire and Rescue.
Raised in Port Townsend, Kellen Lynch is committed to sustaining the community that supported him. As a small business owner and community volunteer, he has built connections across Jefferson County while witnessing the rapid disappearance of available and affordable housing. Kellen’s professional work extends to his energy analysis consultancy, New Story Studio, and as an occasional instructor at the Institute for Energy Studies at his alma mater, Western Washington University.
(Airdate: January 10, 2022) Larry Stein talks with Gary Larson and Will Barrett, two board members of Friends of Fort Worden, a volunteer organization that helps maintain and improve the Fort for all of us. Gary is Communications coordinator, and Will is the head of Trail Team projects, which take on specific maintenance and upgrades for the Fort’s network of trails. Also featured are the two AmeriCorps Service members who work with the Park Rangers, and the Friends of Fort Worden. They plan to be leading some interpretative Nature Walks in the Spring and Summer, in addition to their maintenance work on trails.
(Airdate: December 27, 2021) This week on Attention Please! host Steve Evans sits by the gas stove in their boathouse and talks with Nordland General Store owners Tom and Sue Rose about building back from the fire that destroyed the iconic business a little more than a year ago and, most importantly, about plans (or the lack thereof) for the traditional Polar Plunge that happens each New Year’s day off of their Mystery Bay dock opposite the store.
(Airdate: December 20, 2021) Attention, Please! for the week of the Winter Solstice and Christmas presents the good work being done by Center Valley Animal Rescue, as produced by KPTZ’s Chris Bricker for Community Tides. Closing the show is a story by Jean Ritchie, “The Christmas Tree” and John McCutcheon’s Christmas in the Tenches, his song about the Christmas truce during World War 1.
(Airdate: December 13, 2021) Maria Coryell-Martin, artist, and Katie Morrison, science educator, created the exhibition Witnessing Climate Change at the Jefferson County Historical Museum. Their field work, on the North Slope of Alaska, brings the long-term research of ornithologist George Divoky to us in multiple dimensions – with artifacts, data, and on-location art. Also, PT High School Media Lab student Zoe Cook presents a report on the school’s annual Dia De Los Muertos celebration.
(Airdate: December 6, 2021) Attention Please! features holiday celebrations west and east. Historical Society Executive Director and Summer Band Brass Quintet member Robert Nathan discuss the upcoming Holiday Extravaganza and Rose and Doug Isler describe the the Aeneas Valley Country Store and the Community Foundation which they have founded. Phil Andrus hosts.
(Airdate: November 29, 2021) In the first part of the November 29 Attention Please!, Lily Haight interviews Erin Reading, a local leader of the group that is working to build a community around the use of natural psychedelic plants and fungi. In the second part, Phil Andrus interviews P. J. Harris, a board member of the Sequim Good Governance League, which successfully worked to elect and re-elect politically-moderate members to the Sequim City Council.
