
Local News for 10/25/24



KPTZ’s Taylor Clark and Port Townsend City Manager John Mauro welcomed Tanya Barnett, Program Executive for Social Responsibility at the Olympic Peninsula YMCA and we learned about the new Children’s Advocacy Center (CAC) that will be using the former KPTZ studios at the CIty’s Mountain View Commons.

(Airdate: October 28, 2024) KPTZ’s Taylor Clark went along on a public sail aboard the Port Townsend based Schooner Adventuress during the Wooden Boat Festival. Listen in for an audio snapshot. (Stay to the end… there are cookies.) My thanks to Sound Experience, the non-profit that runs and maintains Adventuress and provides marine and maritime education around the Salish Sea. For more information go to soundexp.org.


(Airdate: October 22, 2024) We’re in Gansu Province at the Tibetan Buddhist Center of Labrang, a seven hour bus ride south the Linxia. Most of the people who visit Labrang are Tibetan pilgrims, but Chinese and an occasional Western tourist or two also make the trek.


(Airdate: October 21, 2024) Jim Burke gets a quick update from DJ Christine, AKA Christine Walsh-Rogers, treasurer of the board of KPTZ, about the fundraiser “Fall in Love” with KPTZ. Then Jim talks with Laura Newman, Producer and Publicity Manager for the Palindrome at Eaglemount Winery and Cidery. Laura is also a singer/songwriter and leader of the happening called ABRACADABRA TRIP a band and event that performs on top of a bus. She and some local musicians are performing at the Palindrome on October 31.

Kevin Ayesh sitting at his piano.
KPTZ is excited to welcome classical pianist Kevin Ayesh to the Trinity United Methodist Church on Thursday, October 24 at 7pm. Kevin’s Candlelight Concert program will feature Beethoven’s Sonata in B-flat Major, Opus 22, perhaps the most “classical” in structure of all of Beethoven’s sonatas. Brahms’ beautiful Intermezzo in A Major, Opus 118 will follow, and the program will conclude with Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue, in celebration of that work’s 100th anniversary.This concert is featured as a part of our Candlelight Concert series and will be simulcast on 91.9 FM KPTZ.