This week on the Compass we see the birth of a grassroots wildfire, and we learn how transportation can be seen as the circulatory system of community.
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Nature Now #303 Understanding The Tides – Part 2
(first aired March 15, 2017). Nan Evans hosts a return visit from Jonathan White, active marine conservationist, sailor and surfer, and author of the new book “Tides: The Science and Spirit of the Ocean,” and learns about resonance in the second part of a discussion of tides. Closing music is “Riptide,” performed by Laura Veirs.
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Compass for the Week of March 13, 2017
This week on the Compass, we talk with a local singer who just released her first CD, and it comes after a life-changing, three-year journey that took her from Port Townsend to France and back, and included brushes with love, death, terrorism and a lot of growing up.
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In Conversation – Alice Derry
(first aired March 7, 2017). Host Sheila Bender speaks via phone with Port Angeles poet Alice Derry about her years of teaching and writing poetry.
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Nature Now #302 Wildlife Habitat Enhancement – Part 2
(first aired March 8, 2017). Host Debaran Kelso expands her conversation with Ron Sikes about assisting wildlife, with a particular focus on nest boxes. Closing music is “Wild Life,” performed by Wings.
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Arts Funding: Karen Hanan & Rob Birman
(First airdate: March 8, 2017) Larry Stein talks with Karen Hanan, Executive Director of the Washington State Arts Commission, and Rob Birman, Executive Director of Centrum about the state of National, State and Local funding for the arts.
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Jeff Healthcare and J.H. Hospice Foundation
(First airdate: March 7, 2017) Sheila Ramsey tells us about a variety of ways you can volunteer at Jefferson Healthcare & Jefferson Healthcare Hospice Foundation. Elizabeth Clapp and Kris Lawson Talk about the many ways to have an impact on the staff and patients at the hospital and with the Jefferson Healthcare Hospice a Foundation. Hospice Training is provided.
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Compass for the Week of March 6, 2017
This week on the Compass we learn why a group of supporters from Port Townsend turned back from their mission of going to help the water protectors of the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation in their last-ditch effort to stop the Dakota Access Pipeline, and we ask the publisher why Port Townsend needs a third local newspaper.
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Nature Now #301 Scuba Diving in the Salish Sea
(first aired March 1, 2017). Host Nan Evans talks in studio with Dana Africa, retired Seaman, fanatic scuba diver, lover of the underwater world, fighter for the protection of the oceans, and the maker of wonderful underwater photographs and lovely flute music. Closing music is “Dive In,” sung by Built for the Sea.
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Yvonne Wakefield
(First airdate: March 1, 2017) Cris Wilson talks with author, artist, adventurer Yvonne Wakefield, introducing her newest book Babe in the Woods. They talk about learning to build a log cabin, the hard way, and remote rural living.
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