| COVID-19 Update – Mon, May 17th and Thurs, May 20th *Updated* *Online* The Weekly COVID-19 update with Jefferson County Public Health Officer, Dr. Thomas Locke. To watch live or recorded videos of the entire 9 a.m. Board of County Commissioners (BOCC) meeting, including the 9:45 a.m. COVID-19 update, go to the website for videos of meetings. You can choose “Streaming Live” or, if viewing later, “Recorded.” You can also listen live to Dr. Locke on KPTZ or later in the KPTZ archives. For more information, you can go here. This week, in addition to the regular meeting, a special meeting will be held at 12:00 PM, including the Washington State Association of Counties in further discussion of COVID-19 and other topics. To watch or listen, follow the same instructions as written above. Additionally, the Board of Health will meet on Thursday, May 20th at 2:30 PM for further discussion of COVID-19, including masking policy and vaccination plans. You can find agendas for these meetings by clicking on them where they appear in the first link above. Local 20/20 Council Meeting – Wed, May 19th *Online* The monthly Local 20/20 Steering Council meeting is open to all and welcomes those interested in active involvement in Local 20/20 leadership. Newcomers are always welcome. If you’d like a virtual orientation, please email Marlow. For online meeting information, contact Cindy. Time: 4:00 – 6:00 PM | Location: Zoom meeting KPTZ Radio Day Port Townsend – thru Wed, May 19th Friday May 14th, 2021 is officially KPTZ Radio Day in the City of Port Townsend. KPTZ 91.9FM is celebrating 10 years of community radio serving the Northeast Olympic Peninsula and beyond. The station is also planning an on-air celebration May 13th through May 19th when they’ll be looking back on a decade of achievements and talking about what’s next for the station. KPTZ makes its move to their new studios at Fort Worden’s Makers Square this fall. More info here. Quimper Geology Society Presents Wildfires, Climate, and Erosion – Sat, May 22nd *Online* Dr. Jennifer Pierce of the Dept. of Geology at Boise State University will present a zoom lecture on “Wildfires, Climate and Erosion in the past, present and future”. Jennifer has been working on these topics since graduate school and will integrate these three subjects with reference to forests of the Northern Rocky Mountains. More info here. Time: 4:00 PM | Location: Zoom meeting Port Townsend Farmer’s Market – Sat, May 22nd Check out the market’s new Facebook page. The Farmers Market welcomes all people to come and enjoy the bounty, textures, and colors of locally grown and produced foods and arts. If you’ve never been to the market before, stop by the ‘Market Info booth’ by the entrance, to get any questions answered and learn more about our Food Access programs. They accept cash, credit cards, SNAP/EBT funds, as well as Senior Farmers Market and WIC Vouchers. They are happy to show you around. Time: 9:00 AM – 2:00 PM | Location: Lawrence and Tyler St, Uptown Port Townsend Come Sew Bring-Your-Mending Night – Wed, May 26th *New* Ever thought about mending and repairing your clothes yourself? Not only will it keep you in the “reduce” and “reuse” portion of the environmental three R’s, you may actually have fun doing it. To help you get started and to provide a fun, social atmosphere, the Come Sew studio is offering a free bring-your-mending night from 6:30 to 8:30 the last Wednesday of every month. Questions? Call (360) 344-2079 or visit the Come Sew website. Time: 6:30 – 8:30 PM | Location: 810 Water Street #2, Port Townsend Climate on Tap – “Taming Bigfoot—and beyond!” – Mon, Jun 7th *New**Online* Find out what our local Taming Bigfoot teams learned in our recent carbon footprint reduction competition. We’ll compare our COVID-era competition with the one held in 2016. Fascinating results! We’ll take a look beyond what we can do as individuals and see how we can make a difference on a local, state, national, and global level. Each Climate on Tap is held on the first Monday of the month. It is co-sponsored by Local 20/20 Climate Action, Jefferson County Public Health, and FinnRiver Cidery. This is not a lecture series, but a book club/discussion format. For further information email Laura Tucker or call 360-379-4491. Time: 7:00 – 8:30 PM | Location: Zoom (link) Meeting ID: 990 7467 9728 | Passcode: 258957 **for security’s sake, please don’t share this link on public web sites. Thank you! This is a subset of the full announcements. Read the full version,including the Community Notices, and Resiliency Readings. Announcements edited by Orion Armstrong. |
