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Community Tides ~ 12/02/25

KPTZ’s Chris Bricker and Co-Host Siobhan Canty, President and CEO of Jefferson Community Foundation, meet with Port Townsend School Superintendent Linda Rosenbury, along with Emilia Ramsey, a 2023 Alumna of OCEAN K-12 Alternative School, its Founding ASB President, as well as a Student Representative on the Port Townsend School Board, and Sienna Vasquez Wind, an 18 year old Senior at Port Townsend High School, who is completing her senior project through the Facility Advisory Committee. We discuss recent special honors for the District, facilities needs, and exciting yet nostalgic news about the campus’s Lincoln Building.

Booklovers’ Cafe – Tessa Hulls, Feeding Ghosts

(Airdate: December 2, 2025) Cris welcomes Tessa Hulls to talk about Feeding Ghosts: A Graphic Memoir. It is a critically acclaimed book that explores intergenerational trauma, love, and identity through three generations of Chinese women in her family, focusing on her grandmother’s experiences with political turmoil and her mother’s mental illness. The graphic memoir uses powerful visual metaphors, like ghosts representing historical events, to connect personal history with larger Chinese history, and it won the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for Memoir or Autobiography!

Silk

(Airdate: December 12, 2025) When China first exerted its influence In the 2nd Century BC, Hami was just beyond their reach. In those days, Hami was known as Yiwu. In subsequent dynasties, Chinese authority in this area waxed and waned. Not only did the northern branch of the Silk Road pass through Hami, another branch veered east at Hami and continued on through Mongolia to Peking. This was the shortcut to northern China…

Jon Ketzer – WOMEX

(Airdate: December 1, 2025) KPTZ’s Taylor Clark sat down with Jon Kertzer, host of Roots and Branches (Sunday 3-5pm) to talk about his recent visit to WOMEX (Worldwide Music Expo) in Finland. He has been going since 1995 and since 2010 has been recording artists in the studio while he is there.

County Public Health Report ~ 12/01/25

This month. The BOCC Public Health Report includes Public Health Officer Dr. Allison Berry and Director of Emergency Management (DEM) Willie Bence.
– Dr. Berry spoke about flu (both Influenza and avian Influenza) and homelessness, the VAERS website (https://vaers.hhs.gov/), misinformation from the CDC, and others.
– Willie spoke of the First three things to do during, and after an earthquake. (Stop, Drop, And Hold) is step one), Listen below for more. To volunteer to help the DEM fulfill its mission, write to [email protected].
– There is a public information session at the Jefferson County Library on Tuesday, December 2 called “Preparedness as Presents” – information on how you can gift things to friends and relations that help them be more prepared in the event of an emergency.

County Connections

(Airdate: November 28, 2025) County Commissioner Heidi Eisenhour and Jim Burke talked about food insecurity and the impact cuts to government funding and grants to local food outreach organizations plus alternatives to Black Friday including Giving Tuesday. Their guests were:
– Oceana Sawyer ([email protected]), Nourishing Beloved Community (NBC) https://www.nourishingbelovedcommunity.com/. Nourishing Beloved Community emerged from a growing commitment to practice interdependence and develop resilience among People of the Global Majority on the Olympic Peninsula in the state of Washington.
– Roland Faragher-Horwell, President of the Board of Jefferson County Food Banks https://www.jcfba.org/
– Siobhan Canty, Director of The Jefferson Community Foundation, https://www.givejefferson.org/, https://jcfgives.org/

#751 Nurse Logs

(Airdate: November 26, 2025) Nurse logs, a common site in the forests of the Pacific Northwest, blur the distinction between life and death as they support not only the next generation of trees, but also a host of other plant and animal species. Learn more about nurse logs and what the Jefferson Land Trust is doing to give a hand to these incredibly significant ecological systems. Join Nan Evans this week to talk to Carrie Clendaniel, Preserve Manager for the Land Trust, about nurse logs and fascilitating the fascilitators.

#275 Aaran Stark, Cooking Up the Best

(Airdate: November 25, 2025) Maryanne interviews Aaran Stark, Chef at Jefferson Healthcare. After five years of being closed to the public the café is finally open again. It closed for the pandemic and then construction of the new wing delayed reopening the café. Back pre-pandemic, the café was a favorite lunch haunt for locals who actually had no official business at the hospital. They came for the food! Stark is an immensely creative chef who both trained and taught at the Cordon Bleu. Patients and staff always had food during those five years. A new kitchen was constructed at the Fairgrounds and six trucks a day rushed meals the 2.7 miles to the hospital. That’s creative cooking!

Silk

(Airdate: November 25, 2025) We’re in Xinjiang Province, in the town of Hami, and we’ve already visited the tombs of the Uyghur kings, who ruled Hami over 90 years ago. When the last ruler died in1930, Chinese bureaucrats moved in to fill the vacuum and precipitated a rebellion that spread across the entire Province….

Holiday Arts and Crafts meet Ebenzer Scrooge

(Airdate: November 24, 2025) his week’s Attention Please! comes in two festive parts.  Flavia Heinemann and Elizabeth Rowen open the doors to the 38th Annual Chimacum Arts and Crafts Fair.  Then, Denise Winter and Brendan Chambers roll up the curtain on Key City Public Theatre’s “Ebenezer Scrooge’s Big Christmas Show”.  Hosted by Phil Andrus.

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