(First airdate: February 13, 2018) SHERIFF STANKO: ALIGNING COMMUNITY & COPS. Our Town Host Maryanne McNellis interviews Sheriff Dave Stanko, who explains his mission to improve and humanize the police force in Jefferson County. During his first term, Stanko – who ran and won without the support of either major political party – has ambitiously revamped the sheriff’s office. He set up a Citizen’s Advisory Panel; sent officers into the schools; arranged for “coffee with a cop” meetings, and even put his entire force through extensive training sessions.
Podcasts
Compass for the Week of February 12, 2018
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.
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In Conversation – Pranesh Cadman
(first aired February 6, 2018). Host Sheila Bender interviews via phone Seattle Zen practitioner Pranesh Cadman (formerly Edward Cadman) about his practice of writing incense poems.
Nature Now #348
The World of the Unseen Life in the Oceans – Part 1
(first aired February 7, 2018). Dr. Virginia Armbrust, Director of the University of Washington School of Oceonography, joins host Nan Evans to talk about the weird world of microscopic organisms that populate the world’s oceans, and why we should know about them and even care. Closing music is “Under The Ocean,” performed by The Boat People.
Jim Tolpin
(First airdate: February 7, 2018) Cris Wilson talks woodworking, tools, cabinets, and teaching with Jim Tolpin, author and a founder of the Port Townsend School of Woodworking, as well as about Da Vinci’s “Vitruvian Man”.
Compass for the Week of February 5, 2018
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.
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Nature Now #347 The History of the Pacific Oyster
(first aired January 31, 2018). Paul Ruben hosts environmental filmmaker Shelly Solomon in the KPTZ studio, and discusses the history of the pacific oyster and related topics. Closing music is “Oysters and Pearls,” sung by Jimmy Buffett.
Heart of Learning: Math Education
(First airdate: February 1, 2018) Heather McRae-Woolf hosts discussions about education in our region. On this episode she talks with Lisa Cartwright of the Port Townsend School District about Math Education.
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Compass for the Week of January 29, 2018
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.
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In Conversation – Sarah Zale
(first aired January 23, 2018). Sheila Bender speaks in studio with Port Townsend Poet and activist Sarah Zale about her writing and the creation of a local community arts project.
