(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.
(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.
