(Airdate: September 18, 2024) Please join Nature Now host Debaran Kelso as we speak with Scott Brinton, co-founder and executive director of the CedarRoot School, about tracking and its importance to wildlife conservation. This is part 1 of a two-part program.
(Airdate: September 17, 2024) Maryanne interviews Karyn Stillwater, a veteran yoga instructor who is now leading groups who are routinely jumping in the Salish Sea. It’s called “cold plunging” and Karyn is a proponent of the medical benefits of regularly dipping into icy water. There’s no set temperature for your submersion but it has to be cold enough to be downright “uncomfortable.” Her group meets down in the water off Fort Worden three times a week. Karyn’s training is with Dutch master Wim Hof. She’s about to do additional training in Poland with Wim Hof and will soon be offering more foreign-based workshops. She’s already offering some foreign wellness workshops (website: karynstillwell.com).
(Airdate: September 17, 2024) We’re in Gansu Province and we’re visiting the Bingling Caves, 70 kilometers southwest of Lanzhou. After a two hour bus ride to the Liujiaxia Dam and Hydroelectric Station, we still had another three hour boat ride to the end of the Liujiaxia reservoir, filled by the Yellow River….
(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.
(Airdate: September 13, 2024) Co-hosts Commissioner Greg Brotherton and Jim Burke speak with the Healthier Together Task Force member Jim Scarantino about the upcoming joint meeting of PT City Council and the County Commission at City Hall Monday evening September 16 at 6pm. The Task Force will present their findings at the meeting to outline new and exciting options for a county aquatic center – a new pool that will cost far less, and could potentially be more efficiently built and run than previously discussed options.
KPTZ’s Taylor Clark and Port Townsend City Manager John Mauro welcomed Dr. Gabbie Caudill and Danielle Vasenda from Believe In Recovery (https://believeinrecoveryllc.com/) and Gateway to Freedom. We learned about services they provide to people who are in crisis. This was both fascinating and poignant.
(Reprise airdate: September 11, 2024) Tamanowas Rock-What is it? Nan Evans explores significant rocky out-croppings in Eastern Jefferson County – Tamanowas Rock and Peregrine Rock just west of Chimacum – with geologists Michael Machette and Jeff Tepper. In Part 1, we learn how Tamanowas Rock was formed, what it can tell about the ancient landscape of our region, why it is important to indigenous peoples, and what is being done to protect it.
(Airdate: September 10, 2024) Booklovers’ Cafe host Cris Wilson is pleased to introduce you to Lola Milholland, author of Group Living and Other Recipes. Wait, you already know Lola or members of her creative activist family in Port Townsend from Danny at The Production Alliance, to Amanda at the Farmer’s Market, and Doug and Nancy at Rosewind Cohousing. You will find a new friend and catch up with others while reading this book that serves a feast for mind, body and soul. This book will open your mind to new ways of thinking about family, home, and connections in your life. Cake creator and photo credit: Jaclyn Delorey.
In 1935 William Fife III, aged 78, designed one of the sailing world’s most admired ocean racing yachts, Latifa. She was one of his all-time favorites. Today, we’re standing next to this legendary 70 foot yawl. launched in 1936, and in the loving care of past and current owners ever since. Now she’s in the boat yard at Pete Stein’s Co-op for maintenance. Unlike many large yachts of her era, she’s been in commission since her launching. Port Director and xo-host Eron Berg gives his monthly report, and then KPTZ’s Chris Bricker and Port Commissioner Pam Petranek meet up with shipwright Robert D’Arcy, the project’s lead, along with Jasper, the yacht’s young Captain for a conversation about this storied vessel.
(Airdate: September 10, 2024) Lanzhou is the only city in China where foreigners are required to purchase travel insurance before they’re allowed to board a bus leaving town, but it’s a hassle running around trying to find the office that issues the necessary certificate…
