DailyAstorian.com // MONDAY, DECEMBER 5, 2016
144TH YEAR, NO. 112
ONE DOLLAR
SEASIDE BOYS START
SEASON WITH A WIN
SPORTS • 10A
Festival of Trees brings ‘magic’
and community together
Gillnet
fi shers
catch a
break
The Daily Astorian
SALEM — The Oregon Fish and Wild-
life Commission on Friday voted to extend
by one year a reform policy that would ban
gillnetting on the main stem of the Colum-
bia River.
The extension of the transition period
runs through 2017, giving commissioners
some breathing room to refi ne the policy,
which was meant to help endangered salmon
and steelhead.
“The extension will allow for more con-
sideration by commission members and
consultation with management partners,”
according to a release from commission
staff.
The Fish and Wildlife Commission has
been reviewing whether to rebalance the
Columbia River reform policy and allow lim-
ited use of gillnets on the river’s main stem
rather than phase the practice out entirely.
See REPRIEVE, Page 7A
Edward Stratton/The Daily Astorian
Auctioneer Mark Schenfeld pleaded with and sometimes goaded donors for higher bids on the 19 Christmas tree gift packages
and artwork for sale at Providence Seaside Hospital’s Festival of Trees Saturday at the Seaside Civic and Convention Center.
Nineteen trees
are auctioned for
hospital foundation
By R.J. MARX
The Daily Astorian
Clatsop County
prosecutor moves east
S
EASIDE — The weather outside was frightful, but
inside, so delightful.
Nineteen trees bedecked in Christmas fi nery high-
lighted one of the North Coast’s premier holiday events,
Providence Seaside’s Festival of Trees gala and dinner auc-
tion at the Seaside Civic and Convention Center.
“People look forward to this event every year ; it really
kicks off the holiday season,” Executive Director Kimberly
Ward of the Providence Seaside Hospital Foundation said.
“It brings magic and it brings the community together,”
During the past 18 years, the Festival of Trees has raised
more than $1.3 million to benefi t community health services
and programs provided by the hospital.
The event was on its way to new records Saturday night
as donors reached deep to help fund three-dimensional
tomosynthesis imaging equipment, a state-of-the art mam-
mography technology that enhances early cancer detection
and reduces false positive readings.
By ERICK BENGEL
The Daily Astorian
First responders
First responders were well represented, with two separate
trees for charitable auction.
Katie Bulletset and Jamie Daniels, sponsored by Clatsop
County fi re departments and emergency responders, teamed
to design “Where There’s Smoke, There’s Fire,” a lighted,
ruby red tree decorated with a fi re and rescue theme. The
See FESTIVAL, Page 7A
Goldthorpe
appointed
Malheur
County DA
Edward Stratton/The Daily Astorian
Miika Veenhuis, left, and Oakley Giles posed for a photo with Grace,
a Brittany spaniel, and Angel, a Cavalier King Charles spaniel, during
Provide Seaside Hospital Foundation’s Festival of Trees fundraiser Sat-
urday. Grace and Angel are new therapy dogs at the hospital, owned by
David and Cherilyn Frei. The couple sponsored the tree behind the dogs,
which included a trip to the Kennel Club of Beverly Hills Dog Show.
Clatsop County Deputy District Attorney
David Goldthorpe will become the new dis-
trict attorney in Malheur County in January.
“I’m looking forward to the new chal-
lenge,” he said. “It’s a step in my career,
in the right direction,
and I’ve been excited
for this possibility for
some time.”
Goldthorpe,
appointed Friday by
Gov. Kate Brown, will
replace Dan Norris,
who resigned for a post
in the state Department
of Justice.
David
Goldthorpe, 35, has
Goldthorpe
served as a prosecu-
tor in Clatsop County
for about seven years. He ran unsuccess-
fully for Circuit Court judge earlier this year,
See GOLDTHORPE, Page 7A
‘Art is not here to make friends’
Display, inspired
by Trump’s
election win,
spurs concerns
By LYRA FONTAINE
The Daily Astorian
SEASIDE — The paint-
ing in the window of T. Anjuli
Salon and Gallery features
a nude woman with her legs
open.
Artist Billy Lutz’s “Rape of
Mother Earth” portrays the sun,
mountains, trees and waters,
along with indigenous peo-
ple and “force rings” that rep-
resent “all that exists which is
unseen.”
The display, inspired by
Republican businessman Don-
ald Trump’s election as pres-
ident, has drawn complaints
from some because of the
graphic images.
Allegorical fi gures —
women pregnant or breastfeed-
ing — depict the earth’s fertil-
ity. A graph pattern representing
the rationality of capitalism is
encroaching upon the wild-
life and “capturing nature.” On
the graph, Lutz painted fi gures
wielding weapons and a cross, a
criticism of what he called “cor-
porate Christianity.”
Lutz’s accompanying nar-
rative describes “the assault on
women, immigrants, indige-
nous, people of color, LGBTQ,
poor, creatures of the Earth,
concept of soul, sanctity of
our children’s faith in us, love,
peace.”
The painting has raised eye-
brows along the close-knit Gil-
bert Street d istrict.
Seaside P olice met with
Lutz at the Holladay Drive gal-
lery Wednesday before deter-
mining that the painting “was
not a police issue.”
Carl Yates, of Seaside,
expressed his concerns in a letter
to the Seaside Signal, describ-
ing the painting as “shocking”
and “in poor judgment.”
Lyra Fontaine/The Daily Astorian
See PAINTING, Page 7A
Artist Billy Lutz with one of his paintings at T. Anjuli Gal-
lery and Salon in Seaside.