(Airdate: October 25, 2024) This week County Commissioner Kate Dean and her co-host Jim Burke have a conversation with Tami Pokorny, Natural Resources Program Coordinator with Jefferson County Environmental Public Health about shorelines and waterways in Jefferson County and the ways that they could be and are becoming more resilient to extreme weather events. among other things.
KPTZ’s Taylor Clark and Port Townsend City Manager John Mauro welcomed Tanya Barnett, Program Executive for Social Responsibility at the Olympic Peninsula YMCA and we learned about the new Children’s Advocacy Center (CAC) that will be using the former KPTZ studios at the CIty’s Mountain View Commons.
(Airdate: October 28, 2024) KPTZ’s Taylor Clark went along on a public sail aboard the Port Townsend based Schooner Adventuress during the Wooden Boat Festival. Listen in for an audio snapshot. (Stay to the end… there are cookies.) My thanks to Sound Experience, the non-profit that runs and maintains Adventuress and provides marine and maritime education around the Salish Sea. For more information go to soundexp.org.
(Airdate: October 23, 2024) Community forestry? What is that? Find out as Nan Evans meets up with Jefferson Land Trust staff and advisors on Chimacum Ridge to explore what is happening there now that the Land Trust owns the property.
(Airdate: October 22, 2024) We’re in Gansu Province at the Tibetan Buddhist Center of Labrang, a seven hour bus ride south the Linxia. Most of the people who visit Labrang are Tibetan pilgrims, but Chinese and an occasional Western tourist or two also make the trek.
(Airdate: October 21, 2024) Jim Burke gets a quick update from DJ Christine, AKA Christine Walsh-Rogers, treasurer of the board of KPTZ, about the fundraiser “Fall in Love” with KPTZ. Then Jim talks with Laura Newman, Producer and Publicity Manager for the Palindrome at Eaglemount Winery and Cidery. Laura is also a singer/songwriter and leader of the happening called ABRACADABRA TRIP a band and event that performs on top of a bus. She and some local musicians are performing at the Palindrome on October 31.
(Airdate: October 18, 2024) County Commissioner Greg Brotherton and his co-host Jim Burke keep the fundraising going for “Fall In Love with KPTZ.” Greg says he will stop playing folk songs for a donation to the station of $500, to no avail, so he sings parodies of famous folk songs like “This Land is Your Land”, “A Hard Rain’s Gonna Fall” and the “Swimming Song.”
KPTZ’s Taylor Clark sat down with Port Townsend City Manager John Mauro and Mayor David Faber for our quarterly get together, this week during the KPTZ fund drive. We talked about the importance of community radio, and David fielded an interesting question about housing.
(Airdate: October 17, 2024) Is you is, or is you ain’t my “ism”?
(Airdate: October 14, 2024) KPTZ Board President Jon Pinnow talks with KPTZ General Manager Taylor Clark about our wonderful community radio station and why it is worthy of your support. This is an NPR quality episode, so listen in to hear how good your local radio station can sound.
