(Airdate: September 13, 2021) Larry Stein speaks with Julio Elizalde, Artistic Director of the Olympic Music Festival. Their festival is all virtual this year, with 6 Chamber Music concerts. The concerts are available on their website, free of charge.
(Airdate: September 6, 2021) In this pair of short interviews, we first welcome Anderson Mackenzie of Foggy Hog Farm, a farming operation that offers CSAs for pork and beef through direct sales and at the Port Townsend Farmers Market. In the second part, Velda Thomas reads from her soon to be released book Blended, an account of belonging in today’s world, and discusses it with Attention Please! host Phil Andrus.
(Airdate: August 30, 2021) Officer Bill Corrigan of the Port Townsend Police Department discusses with Attention Please! host Phil Andrus strategies for more safe cycling and walking about in our community.
(Airdate: August 23, 2021) Siobhan Canty & Chris Bricker speak with Port Townsend School District’s new Superintendent, Linda Rosenbury. We’ll learn about her background, her leadership style, and discuss what we should be looking for in order to make our schools successful. We discuss the cultural and socio-economic make-up of our students, and we talk about how to keep them safe in these uncertain times.
(Airdate: August 16, 2021) In anticipation of their August 27 Candlelight Concert, pianist Sheila Harwood and cellist Pamela Roberts discuss their lives in music and the pieces they will play, including a Fantasy by Schumann recorded for Attention Please!. Beth Kissinger, of Trinity United Methodist Church, presents the concert, giving details for attending, which will be both livestreamed and broadcast on KPTZ.
(Airdate: August 9, 2021) Larry Stein speaks with Janine Boire, Exec. Director of the PT Marine Science Center, about their recently announced purchase of the Flagship Landing building on Water Street. Over the next 4-5 years, the Marine Science Center will move its offices, exhibition space, and most activities to this 130-year-old building on Water Street. The current Fort Worden location will remain part of PTMSC, focusing on field work and education programs.
(Airdate: August 2, 2021) Attention Please! for this day comes in two parts. The first brings Beulah Kingsolver, Executive Director of Dove House and Barbara Berthiaume, of Bluebills, with the subject being the golf tournament hosted by the Bluebills to benefit Dove House. You’ll hear a few words about Dove House, a few words about the Bluebills, and background on the golf tournament scheduled for the Port Ludlow Golf Course on August 27.
The second part of this Attention Please! brings producer Carla Powell, director Consuelo Bremen and cast members Peter Sanok and Tenzin O’Neill to tell of the movie in which they are involved, the production of Shakespeare’s Timon of Athens, a project of Olympic Peninsula Home Connection.
(Airdate: July 26, 2021) Attention Please! was on hand at the ground-breaking ceremony for Seventh Haven, the first new publicly-supported affordable housing project to come to Port Townsend in many years. KPTZ’s Steve Evans talked with Olympic Community Action Program Executive Director Cherish Cronmiller about how the project came about, and who it will benefit.
(Airdate: July 19, 2021) The July 19 Attention Please! opens with an interview of Ian Weedman about the July 21 memorial for famed rigger Brian Toss. In the second part, Shelly Leavens and Maria Coryell-Martin join host Phil Andrus to talk about current Jefferson County Historical Society projects, with particular emphasis on Ms. Coryell-Martin’s exhibit titled “Witnessing Climate Change”.
(Airdate: July 15, 2021) Larry Stein talks with two members of the team that produces Strait Up, a magazine by and for people of the Northeast Olympic Peninsula. Justine Gonzalez-Berg is Editor-in-Chief, Arendt Speser is a member of the Editorial Collective. Strait Up covers Arts, Social Issues, Poetry, Interviews, Photography, and more. Issue 5 / Summer 2021 is on sale now in various places in the region where local journals, books, newspapers, publications are available.
