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In Conversation – Rex Rice

(first aired August 22, 2017). Host Sheila Bender welcomes musician Rex Rice to the KPTZ studio and discusses his writing habit and need to use humor to figure out what he can’t understand.

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Nature Now #325 Impacts of the Solar Eclipse on the Tides

(first aired August 23, 2017). Host Nan Evans hosts a timely interview with frequent guest Jonathan White, author of Tides: The Science and Spirit of the Ocean, and discusses the effect of the solar eclipse on the tides in our area.

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Compass for the Week of August 21, 2017

This week on the Compass, local activists rise to meet the threat of a seven-fold increase in oil tanker traffic on the Salish Sea; KPTZ reporter Jack Pokorny covers a Port Townsend protest of President Trump’s threats to the Dreamers Act; and then we revisit a program from late last year about the Ecumenical Helping Hands Organization, or ECHHO, which provides everything from wheelchairs to free chauffer services for the handicapped in Jefferson County.

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Nature Now #324 Lichen Looking

(first aired August 16, 2017). Host Mary Robson interviews lichen expert Craig Weir and discusses those odd bits you see everywhere. Closing music is “Eclipse,” performed by Pink Floyd.

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Myra Platt

(First airdate: August 9, 2017) Cris Wilson interviews Myra Platt, cofounder and artistic director of Seattle’s Book-It Repertory Theater Company. They discuss the upcoming season and their educational outreach to communities like ours.

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#93 Steve Bergstrom of Bergstrom’s Sewing Machines

(First airdate: August 15, 2017) THE SECRETS OF SEWING FROM STEVE BERGSTROM. Our Town Host Maryanne McNellis interviews Steve Bergstrom, the owner of Bergstrom’s Sewing Machines. It’s a traditional business that has helped several generations of Jeffersonians. Steve includes a lesson with every sewing machine and he’s always there if you need a little consultation about your quilt, or your tutu for that matter.

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Compass for the Week of August 14, 2017

KPTZ reporter Chris Bricker visits a prairie buffalo herd that’s been brought back from the brink of extinction and chats with Blackfeet Tribal Business Council Secretary Tyson Running Wolf in the second installment of his series of reports on the New Old Time Chautauqua’s working visit to the Native American Blackfoot Confederacy. Then KPTZ reporter Jack Pokorny takes us on board the Committee Boat for the Thunderbird World Series.

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In Conversation – Linda Robertson

(first aired August 8, 2017). Host Sheila Bender interviews Port Townsend poet and Methow Valley transplant Linda Robertson about coming to poetry in an isolated location and her current writing and dedication.

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Nature Now #323 Bees & Biodiversity – Part 2 (repeat)

(first aired August 9, 2017). Host Debaran Kelso revisits bees and biodiversity with this re-broadcast of a February, 2016 interview with Dr. Jerry Freilich, former Research Coordinator of the Olympic National Park. Closing music is “Hair,” performed by the Cowsills.

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Compass for the Week of August 7, 2017

Earlier this summer, Port Townsend’s New Old Time Chautauqua took their show on the road deep into Indian Country, visiting the Blackfeet Nation in Browning Montana and beyond. Intrepid KPTZ reporter Chris Bricker was along for the ride, and this week on the Compass we bring you the first of several reports he made on the journey.

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