(Airdate: December 23, 2024) Larry Stein went out to get an update on Olympic Angels, our regional service and support group for Foster Parents and families in Jefferson and Clallam counties.  Attention Please! originally featured them in February of 2023.  Now , at the end of 2024, there has been a lot of growth, and some changes in the statewide approach to the Foster Care system. 

(Airdate: December 16, 2024) Host Jim Burke talks with Leila Block, filmmaker, ceramicist, and Education and Gallery Assistant with Northwind Art, about her art as well as the great things to see at the galleries this holiday season.

(Airdate: December 9, 2024) Attention Please! celebrates the Holiday season from Chimacum to Port Townsend with Flavia Heineman for the Chimacum Arts and Crafts Fair; Tara McCauley, Executive Director of the Jefferson County Historical Society, for our Holiday Extravaganza; Mari Mullen, Executive Director of Port Townsend Main Street, on festive activities Uptown and Downtown; and Nicole Witham, General Manager of the Chimacum Corner Farmstand, on Chimacum countryside celebrations.  Hosted by Phil Andrus.

(Airdate: December 2, 2024) This week on Attention Please!, host Charlie Bermant interviews Julia Cochrane, who is the Executive Director of the Winter Welcoming Center. They discuss resources for the unhoused during the colder months.
Closing music is an excerpt from “Guitar Peace” from the album, Home by Billy Strings. Produced and edited by Jim Burke.

(Airdate: November 25, 2024) Mark Musick, one of the founders of the organization originally known as Tilth – now known as Tilth Alliance – tells of the founding of Tilth, the influence of author Wendell Berry, and the growth of Tilth to become Tilth Alliance. Hosted by Phil Andrus.

(Airdate: November 18, 2024) This week on Attention Please! Charlie Bermant sat down with local mountain dulcimer musician Robert Force and discussed his new books American Minstrel: Prelude and American Minstrel Aria, which are described like this:  “a wonderful, authentic, on-the-dirt-travels of a poet’s search for the meaning of life in the eccentric guise of a mountain dulcimer revolutionary who came of age in the tumultuous American 1960s.” They discuss the book and Robert plays dulcimer.

(Airdate: November 11, 2024) This week on Attention Please! the co-directors, Maude Eisele and Genevieve Barlow talk about Saltfire Theatre’s Production Of An Empty Plate at the Café Du Garnd Bœuf with cast members Scott Bahlmann (who plays Claude) and Kait Tapia (who Plays Antoine.) The Play is presented at Vintage, on Water Street In Port Townsend at 7:30pm on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday and runs from November 8 though November 24, 2024. More info at saltfiretheatre.org.

(Airdate: November 9, 2024) Election Day Questions, Part 2. Four days after the November 5 election, former County Commissioner Kathleen Kler and former Clerk of the Superior Court Ruth Gordon joined host Phil Andrus for a conversation about the results of local, state and national elections.

(Airdate: November 4, 2024) Scott Wilson, former publisher of the Port Townsend Leader and retired County Commissioner Kathleen Kler join host Phil Andrus on this day before Election Day. Questions: When and why did Jefferson County, especially Port Townsend, come to so strongly support Democratic Party candidates. What might the retirement of Derek Kilmer mean to Jefferson County?  What effect might come from the change in our district’s delegation to the State Legislature?