(First airdate: November 14, 2018) Host Paul Ruben is joined by musician Bill Brennan (“Billy B.”) to discuss his career as an Environmental educator and recent work. Topics range from water quality, climate change, and endangered species.
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Nature Now #386
Local 20/20 Beyond Waste and Health & Wellness Action Group
(First airdate: November 13, 2018) Everybody Can host Missy Nielsen picks up the conversation with Local 20/20, an all-volunteer organization that works toward local sustainability and resilience. Al Bergstein of the Health and Wellness Action Group along with Lisa Crosby of Beyond Waste, shares how their groups effort to educate and inform our community on these topics.
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Margie Butcher
(First airdate: November 13, 2018) In Conversation host Sheila Bender talks with Vashon Island elementary school teacher Margie Butcher about the way she facilitates her young students in writing grant proposals for environmental awareness projects in their school and community.
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Compass for the Week of 11/12/2018
We take you inside a Port Ludlow event to honor Vietnam veterans, and we hear their personal – and sometimes painful – stories.
Nature Now #385
The Northwest Coastal Explorer
(First airdate: November 7, 2018) Port Townsend’s Renaissance man and naturalist Ken Wilson talks with Olympic Peninsula educator and author Bob Steelquist about his new book The Northwest Coastal Explorer. Their conversation should inspire listeners to go outside, listen and look, and marvel at the wonders of the world around us. Bob Steelquist is also giving the second lecture in the Port Townsend Marine Science Center’s “Future of the Oceans” lecture series on Sunday, November 11.
Compass for the Week of 11/05/2018
You may recall the Compass interview a few months ago with the cartoonist, writer and adventurer Tessa Hulls about her work for the Atlas Obscura Kick-Ass Women’s Series. This week the tables are turned, with Tessa in the interviewer’s seat as she talks with the intrepid Mary Ann Thomas, who has cycled across two continents and who was in Port Townsend recently to give readings from her recent chapbook about one of those journeys, Asking for Elephants.
#123 Kelly Barlow, Massage Therapist
(First airdate: November 6, 2018) KELLY BARLOW: SOOTHING SPIRITS AS WELL AS SORE BACKS. Our Town Host Maryanne McNellis interviews Kelly Barlow, one of Port Townsend’s talented massage therapists. She’s a local girl – once upon a time she was even a cheerleader for the football team at Port Townsend High School. Over the years she built a thriving practice while raising her sons as a single mom. Like all great massage therapists, she listens to her clients. Stories get told behind the closed door of her tranquil salon. It’s as confidential as a confessional. She often ends up soothing spirits as well as tense muscles.
Jason Colby, Orca
(First airdate: October 31, 2018) In November on Booklover’s Cafe Cris Wilson talks to University of Victoria Professor Jason Colby about his 2018 book Orca: How We Came to Know and Love the Ocean’s Greatest Predator. From Namu to Lolita and the fate of our Southern Resident Pods this show is full of timely information.
RSVP Seniors Caring and Sharing their Time and Talent
(First airdate: October 30, 2018) Join our program as Retired Seniors Volunteer Program (RSVP) Program Manager Jane Covella and Kim Redmond of the Olycap Senior Nutrition Program share with us the powerful impact of this 50-year-plus organization. Learn more about the contributions our retired seniors make in the Olympic Peninsula and its nearly $900,00 of financial impact to our region. Opportunities to connect and change lives abound under the umbrella of this valued organization.
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Susan Landgraf
(First airdate: October 30, 2018) In Conversation host Sheila Bender talkes with Seattle poet Susan Landgraf about her career in poetry.
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