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Adventuress Cooking

(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.

County Connections

(Airdate: August 30, 2024) This week on County Connections Jim Burke and co-host Commissioner Kate Dean spoke with Erin Reading of the Port Townsend Psychedelic Society and Kristin Barnes ND who is a Navy Vet and a physician who works with veterans who suffer from PTSD. They discuss the decriminalization of entheogens in Jefferson County and the possible uses of natural substances, such as psilocybin mushrooms, in a therapeutic setting as opposed to recreational way.

Brewocracy Now ~ 8/29/24

KPTZ’s Taylor Clark and co-host City Manager John Mauro welcomed Port Townsend’s newest City Councilor, Neil Nelson, who helped us understand why one would willingly take on this difficult job.

Just Soup

(Airdate: August 29, 2024) Just Soup is a weekly free lunch program that has been serving the community for more than a decade and is housed at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Port Townsend. Volunteer cooks create a delicious meal and serve nearly 100 lunches each week. Join us as we discuss with Leslie Watkins this fabulous gathering time filled with laughter, music and most of all, soup.

#686 Dungeness River Nature Center, part 1

(Reprise airdate: August 28, 2024) Please join host Debaran Kelso as we meet at the remarkable Dungeness River Nature Center with our special guests and founding members Annette Hanson and Clare Manis Hatler, telling the story of how the dream of a world class nature center came to life! Part 1 of a two part program.

Silk

(Airdate: August 28, 2024) Tianshui is truly a strange town! We’re waiting for the early morning express, and there isn’t a noodle stand in site, but several old ladies have set up basins on the station steps, and they’re waiting for us with towels and thermoses full of hot water. Well, the express heading west finally arrived and rescued us from the
enigma of Tianshui. Or perhaps “rescued” isn’t the right word….

Sophie DeGroot

(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

County Connections

(Airdate: August 23, 2024) Co-hosts Jim Burke and Commissioner Greg Brotherton spoke with Chief Tim Manly of the Brinnon Fire Department about progress fighting The 2620 Road/ Mt. Jupiter wild fire. They also spoke with Michelle Matheson, proprietor of the Halfway House Restaurant in Brinnon, who mobilized resources and people to feed as many as 350 people breakfast lunch and dinner for several days to support the firefighting effort.

Brewocracy Now ~ 8/22/24

Taylor Clark was joined by a surprise guest /co-host Steve King, Director of Public Works for the City of Port Townsend. Taylor and Steve kind of geeked out over some of the details of the city’s “Gravity Water System” and the recent leak near Snow Creek. That conversation lead to the topic of water conservation, particularly with irrigation. And then we talked about the need to mow tinder-dry parking strips. Steve mentioned that there are some residents who are fiscally or physically unable to do this, so if you can help out a neighbor, please do. Or e-mail [email protected] if you would like to extend your services to assist.

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