(Airdate: February 20, 2023) KPTZ host Larry Stein interviews Morgan Hanna, Founder and Executive Director, and Ian Hanna, Founding Board Chair of Olympic Angels, our community foster family support program. Also included is Ari Patterson, Program Manager, and experienced foster parent.

(Airdate: February 13, 2023) Jim Burke interviews Chief Bret Black of East Jefferson Fire Rescue about the special election on February 14 – the “Tax Levy Lid Lift” and discusses strategic planning for the fire department going forward.

(Airdate: February 6, 2023) Each year, as winter begins to yield to spring, the Jefferson County Master Gardeners Foundation offers their Yard and Garden Lecture Series. In this edition of Attention Please!, Lecture Series Chair Suzanne Eggleston summarizes the series and three of the Series presenters – Muriel Nesbitt, Del Brummet, and Candice Gohn – give thumbnail sketches of their topics. Hosted by Phil Andrus.

(Airdate: January 30, 2023) Jim Burke interviews three-quarters of the cast of The People Downstairs By Natalie Symons, directed by Brendan Chambers, at Key City Public Theatre, in previews February 1, and running through February 26. The cast read a scene in the studio during our interview and KCPT calls it, “A dark but sweet comedy about loneliness & loss, laughter & love, & the need to be seen – with kindness.

(Airdate: January 23, 2023) Host Steve Evans talks with Jamie Maciejewski, Executive Director of Habitat for Humanity of East Jefferson County – and perhaps the person most closely acquainted with the steadily escalating housing crisis in our community – about the nonprofit’s ambitious plans for growth and its concomitant need for all sorts of volunteers.

(Airdate: January 16, 2023) In this reprise of a show from June 20, Jim Burke introduces a Ken Jones interview from our sister station KBOO with our own Buzzy Donahue about her life in radio, and also discusses her father, “Big Daddy” Tom Donahue, who started “free form” radio in San Francisco in the 1960s.

(Airdate: January 9, 2023) Bee Redfield, the new Exececutive Director of the Port Townsend Marine Science Center, talks about her previous experience at Purdue University, and in field work in various locations – mostly in Island Ecosystems.  She is excited about leading the center into its new phase of growth, and establishment of its new presence on Water St.  KPTZ host:  Larry Stein. (This is a repeat episode, originally broadcast in October of 2022, updated with new information.)

(Airdate: January 2, 2023) Jim Burke interviews Carrie Hite, Director of Parks and Recreation Strategy about the stakeholder process (so far) for the Port Townsend Municipal Golf Course and the Mountain View Commons, with a public open house event coming up on 1/11th at Ft. Worden and 1/12 online. Then, Jim speaks with Congressman for the 6th District Derek Kilmer about the recently passed budget, what it means for Jefferson and Clallam Counties and the January 6th Commitee’s work.

(Airdate: December 26, 2022) This week on Attention Please! we dig into the KPTZ archives to bring you two more presentations from the 2017 Economics of Happiness Conference held late that year at Port Townsend’s Fort Worden. It was a weekend-long event that brought together some of the world’s most prominent thinkers, writers, and activists in the sustainability and localization movements to “discuss, discover, and devise better systems for now and the future,” as the event’s website put it. This week we hear from Community Sourced Capital co-founder Rachel Maxwell, and organic farming and urban agriculture pioneer Michael Ableman, who were both on hand to lead workshops at the conference.

(Airdate: December 29, 2022) Rachel Dunn and Kellen Lynch share some of the highlights of their travels through Western Europe, a tour they undertook by bicycle and train in search of sustainable practices in agriculture, housing and community. Hosted by Phil Andrus.