Seattle Now: A phone for your grief
In a quiet corner of Priest Point Park in Olympia, there is a telephone hanging on a tree that has no dial tone.
It cannot make calls, but it is there for anybody who needs it.
Many of us are still struggling from this past year.
The isolation and loneliness of the shutdown hasn’t gone away.
Some have lost loved ones, and haven’t been able to properly grieve.
Corey Dembeck, a travel writer based in Olympia, created a place where people can unload some of that grief.
Producer Matt Martin reports.
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Paige Browning
Newscaster
Paige hosts midday newscasts and monitors news of significance to the Puget Sound region. She hopped over Washington’s mountains to join KUOW, after hosting news and reporting at Spokane Public Radio since 2011. She began her start in radio while a journalism student at University of Montana, by sharing stories with KUFM. Paige was raised in the mountains and rivers around Spokane. In her spare time she cheers on the Mariners in the summer, and hopes for snow in the winter.
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Matt Martin
Podcast Producer
Matt Martin is a podcast producer who has worked on many different show for KUOW. He helped get KUOW's listener based podcast SoundQs off the ground before then heading on to pitch and create THE WILD with Chris Morgan, a sound rich and experiential podcast about ecology and conservation.
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