(Airdate: February 22, 2021) KPTZ News Director Steve Evans talks with Heather McRae-Woolf, Program Manager and Lead Instructor for the Benji Project, the youth mental health organization founded six years ago after the suicide death of then fifteen-year-old Benji Kenworthy to help young people deal with the psychological threats presented by an increasingly challenging world through teaching techniques of mindfulness and building self-compassion. Learn more at https://www.thebenjiproject.org.

(Airdate: February 8, 2021) Janine Boire, Executive Director of the Port Townsend Marine Science Center, talks with KPTZ host Larry Stein. Our beloved learning, research and activity center on the beach at Fort Worden is buzzing with activity, even though the Science Center itself must be closed for in-person visits. Nonetheless, you can participate in a Virtual Beach-Walk or Clean-up – Track the growth of Tiny the octopus or baby abalone in the Aquarium – attend the annual Benefit Auction for the MSC. Check in at their website.

(Airdate: February 1, 2021) Wooden Boat Festival Director Barb Trailer presents the Wooden Boat Festival’s “Ask an Expert” Online Winter Series of workshops and ponders options for the 2021 Wooden Boat Festival.

(Airdate: February 1, 2021) County Commissioner Kate Dean came to Attention Please! to explain the steps being taken by the State of Washington to consolidate public health programs into regional districts, which would result in the loss of all local control by counties and the resignation of Dr. Tom Locke. Some elements of this consolidation already has been implemented but the totality requires legislation, currently under debate in the State Legislature.