(Airdate: July 5, 2021) The first Attention Please! of July began with a brief overview of the series “Friday Night Jazz at the Castle”, illustrated with a song by organizer Jean Lenke. For the second part of the show, Peter Gariss and Candice Gohn describe Port Townsend’s largest flower garden, Gariss Gardens, and the accompanying Farmstand which is now open to the public. Along the way, Peter Gariss tells the history of Gariss Gardens, an historic working farm in the middle of Port Townsend.
(Airdate: June 28, 2021) KPTZ News Director Steve Evans talks with Eric Peterson, who came to Port Townsend with visions of farming for a living, but who realized that fulfilling his dream would necessitate total involvement with the local economy.
(Airdate: June 21, 2021) This month Chris Bricker, with co-hosts Port Commissioner Pam Petranek and Port Director Eron Berg, speaks with Deputy Port Director Eric Toews and Jeannie McMacken, organizer for the Quilcene Citizens Listening Tour set to launch on June 26. We talk about all things Port for the Quilcene community and the Herb Beck Marina Project. Jeannie tells us that the listening has already begun, and it all made for an interesting and informative conversation for this month’s show.
Note: Our Working Waterfront will be moving to a new Friday time slot in July. Look for us at noon on July 16!
(Airdate: June 14, 2021) Larry Stein interviews Daniel Ferland, Music Director of PT HIgh School, about another local music venture he is establishing. YEA Music is a series of 5-day summer camps at the end of June, July, and August. Camps will offer music instruction for students entering 5th to 12th grades. No previous music experience is necessary. Camps will be held at Fort Worden. These camps are inspired by the very successful El Sistema program that started in Venezuela, and has spread around the world.
(Airdate: June 7, 2021) On this Attention Please! we hear perspectives on foster parenting through the words of foster parents Ari and B.G. Patterson and Olympic Angels caseworker Morgan Hanna. Ari Patterson has witnessed foster parenting from the perspective of a foster child and a foster parent and is now a passionate advocate for foster children and foster parents.
(Airdate: May 31, 2021) On this Memorial Day, three retired USAF Colonels – John Fabian, Nancy McDaniel, and Glenn Davis – talk of their service in the Air Force, the emotional impact of the loss of family and colleagues, the meaning of Memorial Day to them, and the patriotism of masking and vaccinating.
(Airdate: May 24, 2021) In the latest of Trinity United Methodist Church’s Candlelight Concert series, this time benefiting the nonprofit Bayside Housing, Port Townsend vocalist Val James will be singing her favorite Gershwin tunes to the accompaniment of an illustrious group of local musicians in a virtual performance on Thursday, May 27, 2021. Steve Evans this week talks with James about her upbringing in a show biz family in Burbank, California, and about the people and causes she supports through her music.
(Airdate: May 17, 2021) For our special Birthday episode of Our Working Waterfront, we check in with Co-Host Eron Berg, Port of Port Townsend’s Port Director, for his regular recap for the month, with a special emphasis on developments in the formulation of a Citizens’ planning process for the Port properties there. Then Chris Bricker and Co-Host, Port Commissioner Pam Petranek take a walk through the boatyard to encounter some of our Women of the Waterfront. They speak with shipwrights Esther Whitmore of Haven Boatworks and Angi Lungu of the Shipwrights’ Co-Op. Then they visit Port Townsend sailing legend, Carol Hasse and her wooden boat Lorraine in the marina, and finally a delightful conversation with Erika and Alyson of Port Townsend Sails, locally known as the Sail Loft, in Point Hudson.
(Airdate: May 10, 2021) Larry Stein speaks with Melody Sky Eisler, Director of the Port Townsend Public Library, and Tamara Meredith, Director of the Jefferson County Public Libraries. Both libraries have new services and public hours as we move through the worst of the pandemic. With summer approaching, both libraries have plans for youth and adult patrons.
(Airdate: May 3, 2021) This week’s Attention Please! first draws your attention to the Master Gardeners Foundation Annual Plant Sale, presented by Candice Gohn. Then Eric Reeter of Wilderbee Farm announces the Mothers Day weekend reopening of the Meadery on Wilderbee Farm, an event sweetened by two performances by Stringology. Eric Bogart, Terianne Stratton and Tracy Grisman comprise Stringology in their celebration of the music of Django Reinhardt.
