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County Public Health Report ~ 2/06/23

The following is a summary of the presentation during the Public Health briefings at this week’s Board of County Commissioners meeting. The summary below was provided by Jim Burke, producer of KPTZ’s Tuesday’s Local News.

Dr. Allison Berry began: “By and large, the news on the viral front is good.” She continued to explain, while answering questions, that the sudden uptick in reporting of COVID-19 deaths in Clallam County was due to a 6-month backlog of autopsy and toxicology results, computer server hacks, and other things that made it SEEM like there was a sudden uptick in COVID-19 deaths in Clallam County recently. The currently added numbers were added from the past six months. No new deaths were reported in Jefferson County over the past two weeks.

2023 Yard and Garden Lecture Series

(Airdate: February 6, 2023) Each year, as winter begins to yield to spring, the Jefferson County Master Gardeners Foundation offers their Yard and Garden Lecture Series. In this edition of Attention Please!, Lecture Series Chair Suzanne Eggleston summarizes the series and three of the Series presenters – Muriel Nesbitt, Del Brummet, and Candice Gohn – give thumbnail sketches of their topics. Hosted by Phil Andrus.

Community Tides ~ 2/03/23

(Airdate: February 2, 2023) In this edition of Community Tides, KPTZ’s Chris Bricker, and co-host Siobhan Canty, President & CEO of Jefferson Community Foundation, join Jacob Perritt-Cravey, Founder of Tree Ring Consulting, to talk about his relationship with the Economic Development Council as he works to develop its Creative Entrepreneurship Network on our Peninsula. With creative outreach, he’s working with rural and indigenous communities to explore unique opportunities that can resource community effort and build a resilient, interconnected network,  Led by creative entrepreneurs, or “makers,” our communities can articulate an emerging, robust, and visible Jefferson County economic identity.

Brewocracy Now ~ 2/02/23

Taylor Clark‘s Brewocracy Now co-host was Port Townsend Library Director Melody Sky Weaver and our guest was Port Townsend Police Chief Thomas Olson. We discussed community policing efforts including a proposed citizen’s advisory group, upcoming bicycle police, and some outreach programs with our police at the library.

Nature Now #604 Invasive Dune Grasses

(Airdate: February 1, 2023) Beach grasses, once widely planted to keep sand dunes from human plans for such things as roads and residences, have become invaders, pushing out native species. Listen as Nan Evans explores dune ecosystems and the role of dune grasses with Dr. Rebecca Mostow. What’s more, learn about Dr. Mostow’s work characterizing a strange new hybrid species of dune grass that raises unanswered questions about ecological beach and dune systems.

Dylan Quarles, Here There Be Monsters

(Airdate: January 31, 2023) Dylan Quarles, author of the adventure science fiction book, Here There Be Monsters, visits with Cris Wilson on Booklovers’ Cafe. It is indeed a time-travelling, explosive, gut-wrenching ride set in 1520 and 1985. Quarles is known for his previous sci-fi trilogy The Ruins of Mars. In this work, he turns to his personal interest in World Mythologies. The descriptions are vivid and ominous, yet the horror is lightened with humorous dialogue and likable characters. Quarles has also written several volumes of A Secret History of Port Townsend!

The People Downstairs

(Airdate: January 30, 2023) Jim Burke interviews three-quarters of the cast of The People Downstairs By Natalie Symons, directed by Brendan Chambers, at Key City Public Theatre, in previews February 1, and running through February 26. The cast read a scene in the studio during our interview and KCPT calls it, “A dark but sweet comedy about loneliness & loss, laughter & love, & the need to be seen – with kindness.

Brewocracy Now ~ 1/26/23

Today’s Brewocracy Now featured guest hosts Jim Burke (in for Taylor Clark) and Steve King (in for John Mauro). Steve King is the Director of Public Works for the City of Port Townsend, and is acting City Manager while John Mauro is on vacation until the first week of March. Today, Jim and Steve had as their guest speaker, Aislinn Diamanti, City Council Position #2, who is on the Council Infrastructure and Development Committee. They spoke about paving streets which will take place this year, Evans Vista, the underpinnings of Lawrence Street, and the need to create proper drainage next to streets BEFORE repaving.

Nature Now #603
Woodpeckers of Winter

(Airdate: January 25, 2023) Mary Robson and Gary Bullock discuss the most common woodpeckers seen locally,  using results from the Christmas bird count of 2022.

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