Attention Please!

(Airdate: September 16, 2024) This will be the 25^th anniversary film festival, held on Sept 19-22, 2024, with the Virtual Festival running the following week. Attention Please! host Larry Stein spoke with Christy Spencer, the Program Manager for the Festival. Christy shares her enthusiasm for film and our very popular festival with KPTZ listeners. We hear about special guest Catherine Hardwicke, who will attend the screening of one of her breakout films, Thirteen (she was also director of the first Twilight film). Many facets of PTFF are highlighted – free outdoor movies, Festival Forums on the film world, Highlights of the full program of Documentaries, Narrative, and Short films.

(Reprise airdates: September 2 and 9, 2024) After the business of the Wooden Boat Festival, KPTZ presents an encore of this special Attention Please! (original air date 10/30/2023). KPTZ’s Taylor Clark and Jim Burke head to the Boat Haven to meet with Adventuress cook George Clark to get a crew’s eye view of what goes on in the galley to keep everyone aboard well fed. Adventuress is a 133′ gaff-rigged schooner built in 1913 that is operated by the non-profit organization Sound Experience, providing environmental education in the Salish Sea.

(Airdate: August 26, 2024) News producer/host Jim Burke spoke with Sophie DeGroot, Noxious Weeds Coordinator of Jefferson County, about her work with the Noxious Weed Control Board. What is the legal designation of NOXIOUS WEEDS and how are they different from OBnoxious Weeds? There is a list of noxious weeds in the county on the County website, and a way to find out if you have one on your patch right here. Contact: Sophie DeGroot Coordinator,  [email protected] Phone: 360-316-9332. You can text a photo of your noxious weed to Sophie and, if she can’t identify it, she will pass you along to the Master Gardeners. Have you seen a noxious weed? REPORT IT HERE.
Noxious Weed Control Program physical address: 121 Oak Bay Rd, Port Hadlock WA 98339

(Airdate: August 19, 2024) Taylor Clark talks with Connor Zaft, director of the Saltfire Theater production of The Sneeze. Also we hear a short scene from the production with Genevieve Barlow and Judd Farris. The final weekend for this production is August 23-25 at Fort Worden on Littlefield Green. More info is available at https://saltfiretheatre.org.

(Airdate: August 12, 2024) Darcie Chace Benefit Exhibition, at the Grover Gallery, through August 2024. Darcie Chace was a self-taught artist, who spent much time in Port Townsend  with her mother, Linda Landkammer and sister, Daniella Chace. Darcie was born with Down’s Syndrome, but was determined to live as “Normal” as possible.  She discovered her passion for drawing and poetry, and worked every day to express herself through art. KPTZ Producers Anna Marie Brown and Larry Stein explored Darcie’s story and artwork with her mother and sister, and Julie Read, the exhibit’s curator, a painter, and one of the partners in the Grover Gallery. All sales of Darcie Chace’s artwork will benefit Olympic Neighbors, an organization working to build and support home and community for people with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (IDD).

(Airdate: August 5, 2024) Host Jim Burke talks with two actors (Emily Huntingford and Mike Lion ) and a Director (Leo Lion) from Dacha Theatre Company out of Seattle who are in Chetzemoka Park Friday through Sunday August 16-18 performing Midsummer “Dice” Dream, Shakespeare’s comedy with a twist. Also, a little reportage to start with about the Fiber Internet outage and Jefferson County Airport Day.

(Airdate: July 29, 2024) This week host Jim Burke is joined by Chief Public Health Officer for Jefferson and Clallam Counties Dr. Allison Berry. They discuss this summers Covid-19 surge, avian influenza, shellfish poisoning, potential smoke issues, and more,

This week, co-hosts Jim Burke and Christine Rogers interview virtuoso guitarist and vocalist Joel Martin, a one-man band who, aided by effects and loops, plays very full versions of Grateful Dead songs. Joel played a 2-1/2 hour non-stop set at the Keg & I on Saturday 7/20/24. Assisting the interview was friend of Joel and former KPTZ news reporter Casey Dolan. See their group photo below. You can view Joel’s YouTube channel here.

(Airdate: July 15, 2024) This week on Attention Please! we have a special show. Jim Burke is joined by co-host, DJ Christine and they interview NY Times bes-selling author Jonathan Evison, who talks about his banned book Lawn Boy and the Centrum Writers Workshops at Fort Worden, where he is teaching this week; and his rescue of a bear cub.

(Airdate: July 8, 2024) Host Phil Andrus interviews Al Latham of Olympic Neighbors & Chimacum Grange. Plus: David Grisman and Tracy Grisman talk about a new album and acoustic disc.