(Airdate: October 10, 2024) KPTZ’s Taylor Clark visits the 2024 Port Townsend Wooden Boat show and talks with Max Wiecek from the Washington State Department of Health about water quality and with Klaus Brauer about his cedar dugout proa.
(Airdate: September 30, 2024) On this week’s Attention Please! Jim Burke interviews Michael Bittman and John Lizwacko about the 40th Great Port Townsend Bay Kinetic Skulpture Race KOOK OFF, which takes place Oktober 5 and 6, 2024. Michael is the Kourse Kommissioner and John Is the Top Kop and President of the board! They discuss history, the course, and all the events leading up to the race events inkluding the Volunteers meeting at 7pm at the Legion Hall Thursday Night Oktober 3. Go to ptkineticrace.org for details.
(Airdate: September 23, 2024) Eden Blooms and Gabe Van Lelyveld talk about their projects presenting the human cost of being unhoused – Eden’s Photo Voice and Gabe’s feature documetary. Then, Tracy Grisman and Tracy Grisman on their shared projects including A.I.R.E. (Artist In Residence Educational program at the transfer station.)
(Airdate: September 16, 2024) This will be the 25th 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,
