(Airdate: November 22, 2021) In this week’s special holiday kick-off edition of Attention Please! host Steve Evans talks first with longtime Port Townsend Food Bank director Shirley Moss about what is on offer for Thanksgiving (and much more), and then chats with three of Port Townsend’s foremost Holiday spirits (Main Street Program Director Mari Mullen, Library Director Melody Sky Weaver, and Leader Publisher Donna Etchey) about all the plans for upcoming festivities around the holiday season.
(Airdate: November 15, 2021) We talk with Sharla Erich and Peggy Welker, the president and vice president of Port Ludlow Performing Arts, as they host their first indoor live concert since the beginning of the pandemic.
(Airdate: November 8, 2021) Attention Please! host Larry Stein talks with Teresa Verraes, Exec. Director of Northwind Art, about Michael D’Allesandro’s departure as Exhibitions Director, and the new Director, Kathleen Garrett. Larry then takes us on a Story Walk at Kah Tai Lagoon, a new installation of Children’s books by the Port Townsend Public Library, that can be read as you walk the Nature Trail. Library Director, Melody Sky Weaver tells us about the project.
(Airdate: November 1, 2021) Attention Please! for November 1, All Souls Day, tells of neighbors building caskets for their friends and family members who have recently passed. This short documentary, produced in the early 1980s by Phil Andrus, was based on interviews of women and men who lived on an island north of Port Townsend, a location they preferred not to identify.
(Airdate: October 25, 2021) KPTZ host Steve Evans talks with 2021 Eleanor Stopps Environmental Leadership Award winner Connie Gallant, who was a key organizer of a grassroots fight to prevent the clear-cutting of Mt. Walker years ago and has been part of virtually every fight to preserve wilderness on the Olympic Peninsula since.
(Airdate: October 18, 2021) The Jefferson County Community Wellness Project will be hosting their annual Harvest Dinner Fundraiser at the Wheel Inn Motor Movie on October 28, 2021. In this segment of Attention Please! we interview Shelby Smith, the Wellness Project Coordinator, and Stacey Larsen, Director of Food Services for the Port Townsend School District, to learn more about their Farm to School programs and how they are teaching and feeding students in the time of COVID. Host: Karen Anderson.
(Airdate: October 11, 2021) Janine Boire, Executive Director of the PT Marine Science Center, recently announced that she will step down as Director, and that the organization will look for a new leader for the next phase of the Center’s move to their new headquarters on Water Street in PT. Janine and Diane Baxter, the Board Chair of the PTMSC, discuss the leadership change, and the search for a new Executive Director. Host is Larry Stein.
(Airdate: October 4, 2021) This Attention Please! brings two guests with two topics. To begin, Skip Cadorette announces the 2021 WAVE Food Drive, explaining how we can help grow food security in our community. In the second half of the show, Cindy Jayne, Chair of the Jefferson County/City of Port Townsend Climate Action Committee, describes strategies for the reduction of carbon emissions in Jefferson County.
(Airdate: September 27, 2021) On a blustery day, KPTZ host Steve Evans talks with Recyclery Board Member David Thielk and Executive Director Liz Revord beneath a torn canvas shelter amidst bike parts and pieces about the past, present, and future of the zealous nonprofit which promotes the many benefits of bicycles in our community.
(Airdate: September 20, 2021) Mike Carroll, local pianist and music teacher, will be performing in the Candlelight Concert series on Thursday Sept 23, 2021 at 7pm. He will perform music by Bach, Mozart, Chopin and Scarlatti. Larry Stein spoke to Mike Carroll for Attention Please! about his career in music, and the concert he will be performing. It can be heard on KPTZ, or streamed from Trinity United Methodist Church’s website.
