Community Tides

Hosts Chris Bricker and Siobhan Canty, President & CEO of Jefferson Community Foundation, visit with Dick Schneider, who lovingly tends to orphan orchids at Raincoast Farms, a magical place tucked away among fir, hemlock and old growth cedars, just minutes from Port Townsend. In two greenhouses, Dick has a collection of unique species of tropical plants and selected hybrid orchids. Once he rehabilitates donated orchids to flower and health, he re-homes them to Jefferson Healthcare. In Part Two of this week’s segment, Chris visits with Dylan Quarles, a young Port Townsend Writer who caught the eye of the team of Industry film folk who have chosen our town as the birthplace of the Port Townsend Film Studio. Dylan tells us about his young writer’s journey and his present project—a screenplay adaptation of one of his stories.

Hosts Chris Bricker and Siobhan Canty, President & CEO of Jefferson Community Foundation, join Port Townsend Education Foundation board member Rebekah Minarchek, Salish Coast Fourth Grade teacher Christine Keiley, and Blue Heron School eighth grade student Eliot Minarchek, to discuss how the Foundation enables teachers who are looking to fund more interactive and diverse projects during the school year, and about some interesting projects that the students have already enjoyed.

United Good Neighbors! For more than 50 years, when your neighbors have needed critical  social services, United Good Neighbors of Jefferson County has been there for our community. The “Give Jefferson Campaign” is underway through December 31 In this month’s  edition of Community Tides, KPTZ’s Chris Bricker and co-host Siobhan Canty, President & CEO of Jefferson Community Foundation, join Sarah McNulty, Vice-President of JUMP (Jefferson Universal Movement Playground), Jeff Jones, Interim Executive Director of Jefferson Teen Center, and Martha Trolin, Board Member and Co-Founder of Skillmation, for a celebratory and inspiring discussion.

(Airdate: October 31, 2023) The real possibility of an actual film studio here in Port Townsend is becoming more of a reality as the weeks pass. In September, we interviewed the team responsible for this project. This is a reprise of that interview. In early December we’ll report on the most recent developments,  And today we’ve also added an interview with young local filmmaker/writer, Dylan Quarles, soon to be a beneficiary of the project’s outreach.

On alternate weeks, Tuesdays at 5:30 and then Sundays at noon, KPTZ’s Chris Bricker joins co-host Siobhan Canty, President & CEO of Jefferson Community Foundation, to explore new developments and paradigms with our vibrant community of creative and innovative citizens who do good work. Consideration for the health, resiliency, and wellbeing of students and families in Jefferson County has become paramount for Shelby Smith and her colleagues at the Community Wellness Project. Shelby is our special guest today to tell us all about it.

Welcome to another edition of Community Tides. On alternate weeks, Sundays at Noon and Tuesdays at 5:30, KPTZ’S Chris Bricker joins Co-Host Siobhan Canty, President and CEO of Jefferson Community Foundation, to explore our vibrant community of creative and innovative citizens who continue to do good work. And speaking of “creative and innovative,” we have something special for you today.  The Flying Karamazov Brothers, the New Old Time Chautauqua, and the original Chautauqua movement all have history here. What is a “Chautauqua” you might ask? Singer/songwriter Jim Page interviewed  Karamazovs and New Old Time Chautauqua co-founder Paul Magid not long ago, and we thought it would be fun bring that interview to you today, thanks to Jim and his radio show on KBCS in Bellevue.

This is National Recovery Month, and National Sober Day is September 14, encouraging us to celebrate Sober Life and bring awareness to addiction. On Community Tides this month, hosts Chris Bricker and Siobhan Canty, President & CEO of Jefferson Community Foundation, welcome Brian Richardson, Program Manager for Port Townsend’s Recovery Cafe. He’s here to tell us about the history of the Recovery Cafe project and more about what it is. We talk about what recovery means on so many levels, and what goes on within those warm and welcoming walls.

September is just around the corner, when both Port Townsend and Chimacum School Districts launch into the 2023-24 school year. Siobhan Canty and Chris Bricker are honored to have two special guests for a conversation about all things educational, including lessons learned over the last few landmark years, and the exciting plans afoot for the upcoming school year, from synchronized District Calendars to post-pandemic curriculum adjustments. Both Dr. Scott Mauk joined the Chimacum school community, and Dr. Linda Rosenbury joined Port Townsend School District as Superintendents in 2021. Collaboratively, they continue to cultivate meaningful changes in our local academic and non-academic learning environments.

The village of Queets is located on the northwest corner of our Olympic Peninsula, just off Highway 10 on the Quinault Reservation near the mouth of the Queets River. The Queets people have lived in the Queets River watershed since time immemorial, and traveled up and down the river and coast until the imposition of the allotment system confined the Queets population to the current village location. Tribal Elder Jean Ramos has been following this year’s Tribal Canoe Journey in real time and place, along the Journey’s coastal route. She  calls us from the road to tell us all about this year’s event, which started with just a few Quinault and coastal tribal canoes in 1989 to a blossoming tribal participation from Oregon, Washington, Alaska, British Columbia’s and Canada’s First Nations, and even from our East Coast. Jean calls the final arrival of over 100 canoes to this year’s hosts, the Muckleshoot Tribe, “Epic!” The canoes will land with the tide at Fort Worden on July 25 for celebration and rest at the County Fairgrounds, before departing on July 26 as they head to their next tribal visit. Arrival to Muckleshoot is July 30, with Protocol from July 31 through August 5.

Our special guests today are two out of three childhood friends who grew up here in Port Townsend and have co-founded a tiny game company called 3 Much Fun. Their first project is in true Port Townsend fashion. They have allowed their creative imaginations and talents to flourish unabashedly. Dakota, Henry, and Daniel also represent Port Townsend’s youth who, instead of fleeing their home town for other parts, have returned here with gusto, to their roots, to become contributors to the craftsman and maker culture that makes Port Townsend  what it is. Co-hosts Chris Bricker and Siobhan Canty, President & CEO of Jefferson Community Foundation, speak with Dakota Sandoval-Gay and Henry Nolan. With collaborator Daniel McCurdy and illustrator Conor Nolan, they have created a world-building activity book that comes to life with the roll of a dye. It’s called Roll For Your Life.