(First airdate: February 12, 2020) Host Nan Evans explores the popular E-Bird tool with Monica Fletcher, a local master of birdwatching. Discover a new world of birding. Learn how to get and use this phone app and learn how to participate in important citizen science projects.
(First airdate: February 11, 2020) THE AMERICAN LEGION’S ROLE IN P.T. Our Town host Maryanne McNellis interviews Bob Saring, general manager of the American Legion Post in downtown Port Townsend. The Legion is a veterans’ club with a bar, pool table and a lot of games. But it’s much more than that. The Legion also provides a home for a winter homeless shelter which it runs together with several church groups. It awards scholarships and provides an honor guard – complete with a bugler playing taps – when a local vet dies. Our post is one of the oldest in the state and just celebrated its 100th anniversary. Bob talks about recent upgrades to the hall itself, which houses local events ranging from the Kinetic Sculpture Race to R2AK (Race to Alaska). He outlines ambitious plans for the next 100 years.
After four years of mulling it over, the U.S. Navy has decided a controversial proposal to greatly expand its secretive dark-of-the-night training for Navy SEALs in Washington state parks and public marinas will have no significant environmental impact which, barring a public outcry, will probably clear the way for implementation of the plan. This week on the Compass, we talk with the executive director of the Navy watchdog group Sound Defense Alliance about the plan.
For this Valentine’s Day, tune into KPTZ 91.9FM. We’re rolling out 24 hours of special programming, and sharing the love. It’s KPTZ’s LOVE FEST! A radio event and fundraiser. The on-air party kicks off on Thursday, February 13th at 7pm and continues until Friday, February 14 at 7pm. You’ll hear live performances by Samara Jade, Ray Troll & The Ratfish Wranglers, Love Doll Swingers, Judith-Kate Friedman, and more. Also stay tuned for literary readings, interviews, love-themed DJ sets and your dedications. Call the 360-912-8123 Love Line now to have your dedication included! Leave a 30 second or less message of love, to be aired during the Love Fest. The Love Line is open through Monday, February 10.
In tandem with the radio event, KPTZ will have a booth set up in front of Quimper Mercantile in beautiful downtown Port Townsend. Stop by and say hello, pick up a magnet and meet some of KPTZ’s volunteers & DJs. We’ll be at the booth from 1-3pm on Friday, February 14. See you on the air and on the town!
Call KPTZ’s LOVE LINE now! In anticipation of KPTZ’s 24-hour Valentine’s Day programming special & fundraiser on Feb. 13-14, we are asking our listeners to call and leave a message of love on KPTZ’s LOVE LINE. Call and record a dedication, an anecdote, a wish, a poem, a love note…or even a serenade in the night. Call (360) 912-8123, to leave your message. We kindly request that your message be 30 seconds or less.
We will play your dedications on the air during KPTZ’s 24-hour Valentine’s Day Love Fest! The on-air Love Fest kicks off on Thursday, February 13 at 7pm and runs through Friday, February 14 at 7pm. We’ll feature special live musical performances, themed DJ sets, literary readings, and your heartfelt messages! KPTZ’s
LOVE LINE will accept messages until Monday, February 10.
Call now and share the love!
My, how fast January became history! Now it’s February and we have Taylor Clark taking a turn as host for Tossed Salad. He’s got a stellar program lined up for us to snuggle into:
1:00 – Tracy Spring, Guitar & vocals; poetry and music
2:00 – Kim Pratt, Olympic Peninsula Wearable Art
2:20 – Bonnie Obremski,Heart Stories
2:40 – Jeannie McMacken & Greg Brotherton, 2020 Census
3:00 – Douglas Francisco, Shakey Barber
4:00 – Susan Brittain, Sound Experience/Adventuress
4:30 – Heather Dudley Nollette reading
(First airdate: February 5, 2020) Nature Now Host Nan Evans and Jamestown S’Klallam environmental biologist Neil Harrington talk about harmful phytoplankton in the Salish Sea, recent research findings, and the public health efforts to protect us all.
(First airdate: February 4, 2020) Sheila welcomes Port Townsend actor and playwright Susan Solley to the studio to talk about creating and writing her KPTZ soap opera, The Port Ludlow Project.
(First airdate: February 3, 2020) Brian Richardson of the Dove House Recovery Cafe and Americorps’ Recovery Coach Ben Casserd share the progress being made at the Olympic Peninsula’s first Recovery Café with host Missy Nielsen of Everybody Can. Learn how you can support the launch of this unique membership-based support system for folks along the road to recovery .
This week on the Compass we take you inside the cheese production facility at Mount Townsend Creamery on its last day of operation, and we talk with the employees and Creamery co-founder Ryan Trail about the sad end of an institution that was until very recently considered perhaps the brightest light of the local food economy.
