This week on the Compass we meet Tessa Hulls, a recent Port Townsend transplant who writes biographies for the Atlas Obscura Kick-Ass Women Series and who is, in fact, herself a fairly kick-ass woman. And then we take a look at the roll-out of a world-class bicycle repair teaching institution right here in Port Townsend.

This week on the Compass we go to the hospital to attend a cooking class taught by Jefferson Healthcare’s celebrated executive chef Arran Stark.

Honoring Marcia Perlstein: A rerun of our coverage of Donald Trump’s Inaugural Women’s Protest in Port Townsend. On the evening of Sunday, February 25, much to the surprise of those who knew her tremendous life energy, KPTZ radio personality Marcia Perlstein passed from this plane to somewhere just beyond our reach. In her honor, KPTZ Compass is this week re-running the program she and Steve Evans co-produced at the Port Townsend Women’s March upon the inauguration of President Donald Trump, first aired on January 23, 2017.

This week on the Compass we revisit a 2016 report on the Navy’s plan to stage mock midnight military raids on regional beaches and Marinas as a deadline for pubic comment on the plan approaches. And then we talk with a public health nurse about this year’s deadly flu epidemic.

This week on the Compass we pay a return visit to the Ecumenical Christian Helping Hands Organization (ECHHO) to learn about both the services they offer and their current volunteer needs. And then we are treated to the ponderings of some of the town’s youngest philosophers at the Swan School.

This week on the Compass we pay a visit to the Olympic Area Agency on Aging and find out whom Case Aide Heaven Gregg is able to help with what.  You might be surprised to find out that you are one of them.

Each year in early February hundreds of school kids and their adult mentors descend upon a former farm in the Tarboo Valley armed with digging implements and rubber boots to take part in one of the most ambitious stream restoration and reforestation projects in the state. KPTZ Compass covered the Tarboo Plant-a-thon back in 2015, and because this year’s plant-a-thon is scheduled for this Saturday, the 3rd of February, we thought this would be a good time to reprise that show.

This week the Compass takes to the streets, along with a sizable portion of the local population, as we cover a rally of support for immigrants that took place on Martin Luther King Day, and then attend the PT Womxn’s March, which may well have been the largest demonstration in the town’s history.

This week on the Compass, KPTZ reporter Chris Bricker takes us to a vigil outside the gates of Indian Island Naval Weapons Magazine in recognition of Holy Innocents Day, and then we celebrate the life of Martin Luther King, Jr. by revisiting some of his most powerful speeches.

This week on the Compass we talk with a Mennonite minister and her husband about the dangers to humanity they believe to be posed by the development of artificial intelligence and the rapidly accelerating technological revolution that presents the very real possibility of replacing people in pretty much every field, from child care to making life and death decisions on the battlefield.