(Airdate: October 25, 2021) KPTZ host Steve Evans talks with 2021 Eleanor Stopps Environmental Leadership Award winner Connie Gallant, who was a key organizer of a grassroots fight to prevent the clear-cutting of Mt. Walker years ago and has been part of virtually every fight to preserve wilderness on the Olympic Peninsula since.
(Airdate: October 18, 2021) The Jefferson County Community Wellness Project will be hosting their annual Harvest Dinner Fundraiser at the Wheel Inn Motor Movie on October 28, 2021. In this segment of Attention Please! we interview Shelby Smith, the Wellness Project Coordinator, and Stacey Larsen, Director of Food Services for the Port Townsend School District, to learn more about their Farm to School programs and how they are teaching and feeding students in the time of COVID. Host: Karen Anderson.
(Airdate: October 11, 2021) Janine Boire, Executive Director of the PT Marine Science Center, recently announced that she will step down as Director, and that the organization will look for a new leader for the next phase of the Center’s move to their new headquarters on Water Street in PT. Janine and Diane Baxter, the Board Chair of the PTMSC, discuss the leadership change, and the search for a new Executive Director. Host is Larry Stein.
(Airdate: October 4, 2021) This Attention Please! brings two guests with two topics. To begin, Skip Cadorette announces the 2021 WAVE Food Drive, explaining how we can help grow food security in our community. In the second half of the show, Cindy Jayne, Chair of the Jefferson County/City of Port Townsend Climate Action Committee, describes strategies for the reduction of carbon emissions in Jefferson County.
(Airdate: September 27, 2021) On a blustery day, KPTZ host Steve Evans talks with Recyclery Board Member David Thielk and Executive Director Liz Revord beneath a torn canvas shelter amidst bike parts and pieces about the past, present, and future of the zealous nonprofit which promotes the many benefits of bicycles in our community.
(Airdate: September 20, 2021) Mike Carroll, local pianist and music teacher, will be performing in the Candlelight Concert series on Thursday Sept 23, 2021 at 7pm. He will perform music by Bach, Mozart, Chopin and Scarlatti. Larry Stein spoke to Mike Carroll for Attention Please! about his career in music, and the concert he will be performing. It can be heard on KPTZ, or streamed from Trinity United Methodist Church’s website.
(Airdate: September 13, 2021) Larry Stein speaks with Julio Elizalde, Artistic Director of the Olympic Music Festival. Their festival is all virtual this year, with 6 Chamber Music concerts. The concerts are available on their website, free of charge.
(Airdate: September 6, 2021) In this pair of short interviews, we first welcome Anderson Mackenzie of Foggy Hog Farm, a farming operation that offers CSAs for pork and beef through direct sales and at the Port Townsend Farmers Market. In the second part, Velda Thomas reads from her soon to be released book Blended, an account of belonging in today’s world, and discusses it with Attention Please! host Phil Andrus.
(Airdate: August 30, 2021) Officer Bill Corrigan of the Port Townsend Police Department discusses with Attention Please! host Phil Andrus strategies for more safe cycling and walking about in our community.
(Airdate: August 23, 2021) Siobhan Canty & Chris Bricker speak with Port Townsend School District’s new Superintendent, Linda Rosenbury. We’ll learn about her background, her leadership style, and discuss what we should be looking for in order to make our schools successful. We discuss the cultural and socio-economic make-up of our students, and we talk about how to keep them safe in these uncertain times.
