A diverse group of about 500 people spontaneously gathered at Haller Fountain Plaza Tuesday evening to hold vigil and to share their feelings about the tragic shootings at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, FL last weekend, and KPTZ’s producer Marcia Perlstein and News Director Steve Evans were there. A KPTZ Community Radio News special.

(first airdate: April 23, 2016) Created by Al Bergstein for Earth Day 2016, this one-hour radio documentary describes the life of a most extraordinary modern outdoorsman, who died in January at age 104. A pioneering mountain climber, mountain rescue founder, ceramics engineer, kayak pioneer, coastal geologist, and environmentalist, this program features interviews with people who knew him: Jim and Lou Whittaker (mentored by Wolf), George Yount (who flew and kayaked with Wolf), and Jim Johannessen (who worked with Wolf on his pioneering shoreline restorations).

(first airdate: October 1, 2015) Interview with Wayne Horvitz, composer/musician, and Bob Francis, Centrum presentation organizer about Horvitz’s musical settings of poems by noted NW Poet and teacher Richard Hugo. Sponsored by Centrum, Copper Canyon Press, with the cooperation of the Richard Hugo House, and Northwind Arts Center.  A recording of the music is released on CD entitled Some Places Are Forever Afternoon (Songlines – 2015).