(Airdate: August 2, 2023) Dr. Brenda Johnson is the leader of the East Jefferson Pigeon Guillemot Breeding Survey which is part of the Salish Sea Guillemot Network. This network is a community science project that monitors breeding colonies of Pigeon Guillemots, an endemic seabird. Join Jackie Canterbury as she discusses the project with Dr. Brenda Johnson who will share reflections about this seabird and what we can learn about the birds’ role in a healthy coastal ecosystem.
(Reprise airdate: August 1, 2023) Host Cris Wilson talks to C. Nielson Taylor, author of Being Human, a young adult novel of a child raised by animals in the forest.
(Airdate: July 31, 2023 – Life’s Little Victories) Celebrate before the rain turns into a deluge, and the deluge becomes a flood, and the flood becomes cataclysm and the cataclysm becomes a catastrophe.
KPTZ’s Taylor Clark and co-host John Mauro welcomed Director of Parks & Recreation Strategy Carrie Hite to discuss the two golf course proposals and the ‘third way’ alternative proposed two weeks ago at City Council. There’s been a lot of heat and light around this issue and Taylor wanted to see if John could talk him down. See if you think that happened.
(Airdate: July 25, 2023) Buzzy Donahue talks with Aba Kiser of the PT Film Festival about volunteering for the Film Festival and about the exciting future for the PT Film Festival.
(Airdate: July 24, 2023 – Marijuana is Back) In the weeds with my mother.
(Airdate: July 24, 2023) In this encore airing, Jim Burke interviewed David Seglau about the AARP Foundation’s efforts to recruit volunteers to be “Tax Aide Volunteers” to help people of any age file their taxes. Jim also spoke with Eva Bennett, the Jefferson County Coordinator for S.H.I.B.A. (The State Health Insurance Benefits Advisors) who is recruiting volunteers to help people understand their options with Medicare.
The village of Queets is located on the northwest corner of our Olympic Peninsula, just off Highway 10 on the Quinault Reservation near the mouth of the Queets River. The Queets people have lived in the Queets River watershed since time immemorial, and traveled up and down the river and coast until the imposition of the allotment system confined the Queets population to the current village location. Tribal Elder Jean Ramos has been following this year’s Tribal Canoe Journey in real time and place, along the Journey’s coastal route. She calls us from the road to tell us all about this year’s event, which started with just a few Quinault and coastal tribal canoes in 1989 to a blossoming tribal participation from Oregon, Washington, Alaska, British Columbia’s and Canada’s First Nations, and even from our East Coast. Jean calls the final arrival of over 100 canoes to this year’s hosts, the Muckleshoot Tribe, “Epic!” The canoes will land with the tide at Fort Worden on July 25 for celebration and rest at the County Fairgrounds, before departing on July 26 as they head to their next tribal visit. Arrival to Muckleshoot is July 30, with Protocol from July 31 through August 5.
(Airdate: July 21, 2023) Jim Burke and co-host Jefferson County Commissioner Greg Brotherton spoke with Nicole Gauthier, General Manager of Jefferson Transit, and Debbie Jahnke of the Transit Advisory Group (TAG) about busses and transit in Jefferson County.
Hosts Taylor Clark and Port Townsend City Manager John Mauro talked with Port Townsend Mayor David Faber, Planning Director Emma Bolin, and Amos Calendar from Thomas Architecture Studios about the Evans Vista project.
