
Local News for 6/11



(Airdate: June 10, 2020) Curious about those cute marine mammals that float on their backs, wrapped up in kelp, often with a stone on their chests to crack a tasty sea urchin or crab? Join Nan Evans as she talks with marine mammal scientist, Jim Bodkin, about the biology of sea otters. (This is an encore interview of a program that first aired in May 2016.)


In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, Jefferson Community Foundation President and CEO Siobhan Canty is a regular guest of Chris Bricker on Morning on the Salish, at 10:30am Tuesdays. Each week Siobhan shares updates on JCF’s work to strengthen the landscape of services available to people and the COVID-19 Emergency Response Fund, which has raised more than $521,634 to date. If you belong to a nonprofit working to help those in need as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, grant applications will be accepted on a weekly rolling basis for emergency funding. Go to JCFgives.org to learn more.
(First airdate: June 9, 2020) Sheila Bender connects via phone with Portland poet Peg Edera about love as a spiritual path and her collection, Love Is Deeper Than Distance: Poems of Love, Death, a Little Sex, ALS, Dementia and the Widow’s Life Thereafter.

(First airdate: June 9, 2020) During this time of Covid Chaos and social distancing, folks have found creative ways to support and respond to the needs of others. Continuing our “Stepping Up” series Missy Nielsen of Everybody Can speaks to a couple of folks who stepped up. Fred Hammerquist, an avid outdoorsman and national park advocate for the Washington National Park Fund, managed to shake his cabin fever while serving his community. Joy Winfrey leans into her quilting skills, launching a mask-making challenge. Please join us to discover the micro-moments that are the building blocks of caring communities such as ours.

(Airdate: June 5, 2020) Sean Vinson, Black Lives Matter of Jefferson County, offers local focus on this worldwide movement:
(Airdate: June 5, 2020: Brian Kuh, EDC Team Jefferson, on the impact of COVID-19 on the local economy:

Dr. Tom Locke addressed the concerns related to the recent protest rallies, as well as the County’s observance of Phase 2 of the governor’s Safe Start Recovery Plan. Key topics included the ordinance in effect that requires face coverings when in public, and the increase in testing capacity both locally and at the statewide level.
KPTZ broadcast via 91.9FM and streamed at KPTZ.org this timely COVID-19 information, which was also videostreamed live and recorded for online viewing any time thereafter at the Jefferson County website.