(First airdate: May 28, 2019) Host Sheila Bender talks via phone with San Luis Obispo, CA writer Amy Hewes about writing opinion columns for her local alternative newspaper.
Discovery Lab – Inspiration Bears Fruit
(First airdate: May 28, 2019) NW Discovery Lab Stem Executive Director Aric Mackey and Tanya Barnett, 4H Coordinator for the WSU Extension describe to Missy Nielsen of Everybody Can how a seedling of an idea can blossom into a non-profit focused on STEM education resources. Learn more about the annual 4H Fundraiser that supports the wide ranging opportunities for our youth in Jefferson and Clallam Counties.
Compass for the Week of 5/27/2019
In this, the second of two reports from Compass on the Global Earth Repair Conference #globalearthrepair , Chris Bricker visits the issue of breaching four lower Snake River Dams. We hear from filmmaker Michael Peterson, and Jim Waddell, retired Army Corps of Engineers. We’ll also hear conference keynote remarks from writer and speaker, Charles Eisenstein, along with some childhood memories of the lower Snake river from Carrie Nightwalker Schuster, Matriarch of the Lower Snake River Palouse.
Sage Foundation Match is DONE!
The campaign to Build a New Home for KPTZ achieved a major milestone this past week. We have met the Sage Foundation Match challenge to receive a $500,000 grant, resulting in $750,000 to build our new home at Fort Worden!
This awesome challenge inspired generous donations from over 250 station supporters like you, including an extraordinary gift to jump-start the campaign from a valued KPTZ personality.
Achieving this staggering $250,000 goal came together in less than 6 months, a true success story that will energize KPTZ’s entire capital campaign. Our determined, much-needed plan is to move into state-of-the-art studios at Fort Worden and to develop a dedicated Emergency Broadcast studio in order to serve our widespread community. Certainly it’s ambitious, as was accepting the grant challenge from Sage Foundation.
We are on track to coordinate with Fort Worden’s Makers Square construction plans. And now with the Sage Match momentum, all systems are GO!
KPTZ continues to welcome donations to help us raise the additional $150,000 needed to fully fund the KPTZ 2.0 budget. Simply click on the MAKE A DONATION button below, come by the station, or mail your contribution to KPTZ, PO Box 2091, Port Townsend WA 98368. If you would like meet with us to learn more about our project, please send an email to [email protected].
With your support, we can and will achieve this ambitious goal! KPTZ ~ Radio Reimagined
Thank you from everyone at KPTZ!
Nature Now #413
Eat Like a Bird
(First airdate: May 22, 2019) Mary Robson and Christie Lassen of the Wild Birds Unlimited in Gardiner chat about how birds cache food and how they find it.
Tossed Salad for 5/24/2019
Leading into Memorial Day Weekend, Phil Andrus brings us a memorable Tossed Salad featuring:
1:00 – Hiroya Tsakamoto, solo guitar improvisations
1:45 – Amanda Milholland, PT Farmers Market
2:00 – Al Bergstein, Olympic Peninsula Environmental News
2:30 – Jeanie Murphy, Banjo Tunes, Tunings and Lore
3:30 – Tigran Arakaylan, Port Townsend Symphony Orchestra, with concertina soloist Otto Smith
4:00 – New Victorian, songs newer than older
4:30 – Don White, reading
Compass for the Week of 5/20/2019
This week on the Compass, we talk with a Port Townsend husband-and-wife team, trained in the fields of science and investigation, who will be sharing what they know about some very mysterious and mystical subjects.
The Fishy Art of Ray Troll
(First airdate: May 16, 2019) Coastal Café introduces us to Ray Troll, an Alaskan artist whose work revolves around the ocean and all things marine. Troll creates fishy images that swim into museums, books and magazines, and onto T-shirts worn around the world, introducing new fans to the topics of ichthyology and paleontology, his two greatest passions.
Tossed Salad for 5/17/2019
Chris Bricker fills in for Phil Andrus on a Tossed Salad designed to get you through the Rhody Festival weekend. Listen and enjoy!
1:00 – Northwind Song: Singer/Songwriter Scott Cook
1:45 – Owen Rowe, Board President, and Kenna Eaton, General Manager, of the Port Townsend Food Co-op join us to talk about the upcoming Annual Meeting on May 26 and the expansion, along with its new Mission & Values statements.
2:00 – Bob Rosen stops in to tell us about upcoming events in South County, and Katie Morgan from OLYCAP-HOUSING will tell us about a new giant low-income housing project.
2:30 – Danny Milholland stops by to tell us about this year’s Rhody Weekend Cake Picnic
3:00 – Musicians Jonathan Doyle and Jake Sanders join us to shake the rafters a bit and talk about their histories & upcoming engagements on the Peninsula, Seattle & B.C.
3:45 – Judith-Kate Friedman, Songs from the Sound
4:30 – Deborah Kate Hammond, reading treasures
Erica Bauermeister
(First airdate: May 15, 2019) Nationally known author and local favorite Erica Bauermeister talks to Cris Wilson about her new novel The Scent Keeper. In this intriguing and emotional story of family secrets and strengths, we follow a young woman growing up on an isolated island off the coast of British Columbia.
