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SEASIDE — The Seaside
Museum and Historical
Society will host its 26th
annual Gingerbread Tea at
Butterfield Cottage on the
Saturdays between Thanks-
giving and Christmas.
The event has become a
holiday tradition for many
residents as well as visi-
tors returning from far and
wide to share a relaxing and
quaint experience. Attendees
get into the holiday spirit as
they relax and take a break
from holiday stress enjoying
homemade gingerbread with
teas, hot cocoa and spiced
cider while being entertained
by live holiday music.
Musicians this year
include the Northcoast Uku-
lele Strummers — perform-
ing from 1 to 2:30 p.m. Dec.
3 — and Linda Nielsen, a
perennially popular perform-
er at the museum’s Fourth of
July Old Fashioned Social.
The Butterfield Cottage
will be decorated in a Victo-
rian holiday style and open
for Gingerbread Tea from 1
to 4 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 26,
Dec. 3, 10 and 17.
No reservation is neces-
sary; tickets are available at
the door: $3 for children aged
12 and under; $5 for all others.
The ticket includes admission
to the museum’s exhibits in the
Helen Gaston Building during
the same day. The museum
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The Butterfield Cottage is decorated in the Victorian holiday
style and open for tea Saturdays before Christmas.
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and cottage are located at 570
Necanicum Drive.
In addition, raffle tickets,
at $1 each or eight for $5,
will be available for pur-
chase. Prizes include many
items contributed by local
merchants, and one winner
will receive a Gingerbread
House created by Three
Little Birds Bakery. The
drawing will be held at the
end of the last Gingerbread
Tea, at 4 p.m. Dec. 17. You
do not need to be present to
win. Safeway also contrib-
utes to the event.
Horace Seely Butterfield,
a prominent Portland jeweler,
built the Butterfield Cottage
in 1893. The original location
was at 21 N. Columbia St. In
1984 the cottage was given
to the Seaside Museum and
Historical Society and moved
to its present location. It has
been interpretively restored
to be used as a museum
depicting a beach cottage and
rooming house of 1912.
Gingerbread Tea is the
major annual fundraiser for
the Seaside Museum and
Historical Society.
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ASTORIA — Just in time for
the cold nights ahead, the
North Coast Food Web will
offer a Fall Soup Series of
cooking classes.
Class will be held from10
a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Saturday,
Dec. 3, 10 and 17 at the
North Coast Food Web of-
fice, located at 577 18th St.
In each class, students
will make two seasonal
varieties of soup, enjoy a
meal and have fun all while
learning.
On Dec. 3, students
will be making and tasting
feijoada, a Brazilian black
bean soup with an array of
accouterments. The class
will also make a fall pear
and pumpkin soup.
On Dec. 10, students
will make and taste winter
vegetable soup and a hearty
beef barley stew — perfect
for chilly winter nights.
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Learn to cook six seasonal soups in this series.
Finally, on Dec. 17,
students will make and taste
smoked salmon chowder
and a quick and satisfying
vegetarian lentil soup.
This is a hands-on class,
were everyone gets in-
volved in the food prepara-
tion, cooking and cleaning,
and then all enjoy soup
together with plenty of
leftovers for the busy weeks
ahead.
This three-week class
costs $90 per student.
Register online at north-
coastfoodweb.org/events/
fall-soup-series
Celebrate the season with festival of lights
Scandinavian
tradition of Santa
Lucia continues
ASTORIA — In Scandinavia,
Santa Lucia is celebrated in
December, but in Astoria
this winter festival of lights
is celebrated the day after
Thanksgiving to tie in with
the opening of the holiday
season. This event will be
held Friday, Nov. 25 at the
Astoria High School auditori-
um and commons area.
Holiday musical entertain-
ment will start at 6:30 p.m.,
and the Santa Lucia Festival
of Lights program will begin
at 7 p.m.
Featured entertainment
includes the North Coast
Chorale, the Nordic and
Viking Dancers, and Astor
Street Opry Company’s
ChrisLynn Taylor and the cast
of “Scrooged in Astoria.”
The United Finnish
Kaleva Brothers and Sisters
Astoria Lodge No. 2 will
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Kaitlyn Landwehr will be the
2016 Lucia Bride.
serve refreshments after the
ceremony, and there will also
be Scandinavian music by
Jorgen and Steve Phillips and
public dancing.
In Sweden the preferred
spelling is “Sankta Lucia” for
the title of the young woman
chosen to lead the procession
of attendants in white robes
and young men called “Star
Boys.” Kaitlyn Landwehr,
who was Miss Denmark for
the 2016 Astoria Scandina-
vian Midsummer Festival
court, will be the Santa Lucia
Bride and wear a crown of
candles on her head. Other
members of the court will be
Lucia attendants.
The new Scandinavian
Midsummer Festival Court
for 2017 will also be intro-
duced at the ceremony.
You do not have to be
Scandinavian to participate
and enjoy this fun evening.
Everyone is invited to leave
the Thanksgiving leftovers and
shopping and come listen to
music, sing some carols, min-
gle with friends and dance.
Admission is $1 per
person or $5 per family with
all admission funds going
to the Astoria Scandinavian
Midsummer Festival Scholar-
ship Fund administered by the
Astoria High School Scholar-
ships, Inc. For more informa-
tion visit Astoriascanfest.com
or contact Loran Mathews at
503-325-6136.