(Airdate: January 10, 2022) Larry Stein talks with Gary Larson and Will Barrett, two board members of Friends of Fort Worden, a volunteer organization that helps maintain and improve the Fort for all of us. Gary is Communications coordinator, and Will is the head of Trail Team projects, which take on specific maintenance and upgrades for the Fort’s network of trails. Also featured are the two AmeriCorps Service members who work with the Park Rangers, and the Friends of Fort Worden. They plan to be leading some interpretative Nature Walks in the Spring and Summer, in addition to their maintenance  work on trails.  

(Airdate: December 27, 2021) This week on Attention Please! host Steve Evans sits by the gas stove in their boathouse and talks with Nordland General Store owners Tom and Sue Rose about building back from the fire that destroyed the iconic business a little more than a year ago and, most importantly, about plans (or the lack thereof) for the traditional Polar Plunge that happens each New Year’s day off of their Mystery Bay dock opposite the store.

(Airdate: December 20, 2021) Attention, Please! for the week of the Winter Solstice and Christmas presents the good work being done by Center Valley Animal Rescue, as produced by KPTZ’s Chris Bricker for Community Tides. Closing the show is a story by Jean Ritchie, “The Christmas Tree” and John McCutcheon’s Christmas in the Tenches, his song about the Christmas truce during World War 1.

(Airdate: December 13, 2021) Maria Coryell-Martin, artist, and Katie Morrison, science educator, created the exhibition Witnessing Climate Change at the Jefferson County Historical Museum.  Their field work, on the North Slope of Alaska, brings the long-term research of  ornithologist George Divoky to us in multiple dimensions – with artifacts, data, and on-location art.  Also, PT High School Media Lab student Zoe Cook presents a report on the school’s annual Dia De Los Muertos celebration.

(Airdate: December 6, 2021) Attention Please! features holiday celebrations west and east. Historical Society Executive Director and Summer Band Brass Quintet member Robert Nathan discuss the upcoming Holiday Extravaganza and Rose and Doug Isler describe the the Aeneas Valley Country Store and the Community Foundation which they have founded. Phil Andrus hosts.

(Airdate: November 29, 2021) In the first part of the November 29 Attention Please!, Lily Haight interviews Erin Reading, a local leader of the group that is working to build a community around the use of natural psychedelic plants and fungi. In the second part, Phil Andrus interviews P. J. Harris, a board member of the Sequim Good Governance League, which successfully worked to elect and re-elect politically-moderate members to the Sequim City Council.

(Airdate: November 22, 2021) In this week’s special holiday kick-off edition of Attention Please! host Steve Evans talks first with longtime Port Townsend Food Bank director Shirley Moss about what is on offer for Thanksgiving (and much more), and then chats with three of Port Townsend’s foremost Holiday spirits (Main Street Program Director Mari Mullen, Library Director Melody Sky Weaver, and Leader Publisher Donna Etchey) about all the plans for upcoming festivities around the holiday season.

(Airdate: November 15, 2021) We talk with Sharla Erich and Peggy Welker, the president and vice president of Port Ludlow Performing Arts, as they host their first indoor live concert since the beginning of the pandemic.

(Airdate: November 8, 2021) Attention Please! host Larry Stein talks with Teresa Verraes, Exec. Director of Northwind Art, about Michael D’Allesandro’s departure as Exhibitions Director, and the new Director, Kathleen Garrett. Larry then takes us on a Story Walk at Kah Tai Lagoon, a new installation of Children’s books by the Port Townsend Public Library, that can be read as you walk the Nature Trail.  Library Director, Melody Sky Weaver tells us about the project. 

(Airdate: November 1, 2021) Attention Please! for November 1, All Souls Day, tells of neighbors building caskets for their friends and family members who have recently passed. This short documentary, produced in the early 1980s by Phil Andrus, was based on interviews of women and men who lived on an island north of Port Townsend, a location they preferred not to identify.