Local News for 2/11
Nature Now #501
Celebration of Nature
(Airdate: February 10, 2021) Nature Now offers clips from favorite shows to honor our 500th offering last week!
Local News for 2/10
#170 Carolyn Salmon
(First airdate: February 9, 2021) CAROLYN SALMON: A VISION FOR SENIORS TO SHARE. Our Town host Maryanne McNellis interviews Carolyn Salmon, president of the owners association at Quimper Village. This senior co-housing development speaks to the emerging consensus among many seniors that assisted living isn’t for them. But they realize they might also need some assistance. It’s a network of friends purchasing townhouses in a new development. They intend to take care of each other as much as they can. Currently, communal dinners and the like are on hold due to COVID-19. So far the COVID-free group has kept to outdoor activities. But they are anxious to return to group events. Quimper Village is perhaps an idealized view of small town interconnectedness. But the group seems determined to make it work.
Marine Science Center
(Airdate: February 8, 2021) Janine Boire, Executive Director of the Port Townsend Marine Science Center, talks with KPTZ host Larry Stein. Our beloved learning, research and activity center on the beach at Fort Worden is buzzing with activity, even though the Science Center itself must be closed for in-person visits. Nonetheless, you can participate in a Virtual Beach-Walk or Clean-up – Track the growth of Tiny the octopus or baby abalone in the Aquarium – attend the annual Benefit Auction for the MSC. Check in at their website.
Local News for 2/09
Wooden Boat Festival Director Barb Trailer
(Airdate: February 1, 2021) Wooden Boat Festival Director Barb Trailer presents the Wooden Boat Festival’s “Ask an Expert” Online Winter Series of workshops and ponders options for the 2021 Wooden Boat Festival.
County Commissioner Kate Dean
(Airdate: February 1, 2021) County Commissioner Kate Dean came to Attention Please! to explain the steps being taken by the State of Washington to consolidate public health programs into regional districts, which would result in the loss of all local control by counties and the resignation of Dr. Tom Locke. Some elements of this consolidation already has been implemented but the totality requires legislation, currently under debate in the State Legislature.
Critical Conversations #4
(Airdate: February 8, 2021) Eclipsed recently by the raging pandemic that will soon have killed half a million Americans, and a near-toppling of Congress by white supremacist insurgents encouraged by the ex-president, climate change continues to accelerate relentlessly and nearing exponential increase. Are the social disruptions caused by the pandemic along with the anxiety induced by political warfare just a mere foretaste of things to come? If so, how do we as a community prepare to meet a daunting future? Hosts Dahr Jamail and Robert Ambrose examine these difficult-to-discuss aspects of our new normal that pose an urgent challenge to all of us and our communities.
County Public Health Report ~ 2/08
The following is a summary of the presentation made by Dr. Locke, our local Health Officer, during the Public Health briefings at this week’s Board of County Commissioner’s meeting:
Click here to read the complete message
Submit your Public Health questions to Dr. Tom Locke by emailing [email protected]. Note: The weekly deadline for these to be submitted is on Fridays at noon, to be answered at the following Monday’s BOCC meeting.
