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An event where the trees are the stars Money to go to new emergency room Cannon Beach Gazette On Saturday, Dec. 1, 365 guests fi lled the Sea- side Civic and Conven- tion Center and raised a record-breaking $230,000 for Providence Seaside Hos- pital Foundation. The 21st annual event supported the founda- tion’s “Beyond 911” cam- paign to expand emergency care at Providence Seaside Hospital. This year’s theme “Won- der,” represented a spin from the concept of the advent calendar, and encapsulates the expectation and excite- ment of Christmas. Event-goers rang in the holidays at this festive gala and purchased 17 decked- out Christmas trees and a signature piece of art from Dan Chen. The top grossing tree “Ireland County Christmas” sold twice, included a trip to Ireland and brought in a total of $11,500. This year’s festival S Getting into the spirit, without Yorkshire pudding ome friends were over the other night. We picked up A&B Pizza in Seaside. We sat on high stools at our bar. When we moved to the beach, I said farewell to my dining room table as this house has no dining room. After the pizza, women moved to the living room. We talked about Christ- mas preparations, past and present. My friend has a thing where she only does Christmas every other year. This year is her year off. She’s going to Hawaii. S VIEW FROM THE PORCH The Food Network Yorkshire pudding — favorite over the holidays. EVE MARX Bidders at the Providence Safeway Festival of Trees. Funds raised will go to a new emergency room at Providence Seaside Hospital. helped the foundation meet their $1.5 million goal for the capital campaign. During the past year, the foundation has been working to raise $1.5 million toward an approximately $6.7 mil- lion plan to create facilities that support emergency care. The union health district will contribute another $1 million and the rest of the money will come from Prov- idence Health and Services. The current emergency facilities were constructed about 50 years ago and last updated in the early 1990s. They are small, outdated and poorly confi gured to provide patients and families with security and privacy, accord- ing to the foundation. While the goal may have been met, the fundraising campaign continues. Con- struction is due to begin in early 2019. The project will be com- pleted in about 18 months, but the process will take place in stages so the emer- gency department can remain open. Government under the infl uence? pecial Counsel Robert Mueller’s investiga- tion of Russian efforts to infl uence, attack or sab- otage the 2016 presidential election as well as involve- ment in this effort by offi - cials from President Donald Trump’s campaign seems to have reached a fever pitch in the past month. This seems especially the case with recent plea agreements, indictments and sentencing recom- mendations for Michael Flynn, Paul Manafort and Michael Cohen—all actors with close relationships to Trump, his campaign organization and lot of Russians. Media coverage of Mueller’s ongoing investi- gation, which began in May 2017, has offered an unre- lenting drumbeat. Those really interested in Muel- ler’s progress and fi ndings need a scorecard to keep all the players straight. Fortunately, several experienced investiga- tive reporters recently have published books that offer just such guidance, two of them currently available at the Cannon Beach Library. Having lost track of the big picture of this investiga- tion, I checked out “Rus- sian Roulette: The Inside Story of Putin’s War on America and the Elec- tion of Donald Trump” (2018) by Michael Isikoff and David Corn and “Fear: Trump in the White House” (2018) by Bob Woodward. Presently the chief investigative correspondent for Yahoo News, Isikoff has been an investigative jour- nalist for the Washington Post, Newsweek and NBC News. He was on a News- week team that received the Ed Cunningham Memo- rial Award from the Over- seas Press Club in 2001 for coverage of the war on ter- ror, and the Book of the Month Club named his book “Uncovering Clinton” the Best Non-Fiction Book of 1999. Corn, chief of the Wash- ington bureau for Mother Jones and Washington editor for The Nation, received the 2012 George Polk Award for Politi- cal Reporting for his cov- erage of the “47 percent story” that revealed Mitt Romney’s comments about Obama supporters pay- ing no income taxes at a $50,000-a-plate fundraiser, comments that hardly advanced Romney’s 2012 election chances. “Russian Roulette,” the second book Corn and Isikoff have co-authiored, Friday, December 14, 2018 | Cannon Beach Gazette | CannonBeachGazette.com • A7 AT THE LIBRARY JOSEPH BERNT concentrates on a period beginning in 2013 when Trump desperately sought support of Vladimir Puten and oligarchs close to him to develop a Moscow Trump Tower, particularly before and during Trump’s Miss Universe Pageant in Moscow. Corn and Isikoff conclude with a summary of the Mueller investigation in late 2017 and early 2018 as “Russian Roulette” went to press. The strength of “Rus- sian Roulette” as a guide to understanding events sur- rounding the 2016 elec- tion is it’s unrolling of facts, names and linkages between Trump’s world and Putin’s supportive oligarchs and cyber warriors. Equally important is their analysis of how media ignored the big story — criminal Rus- sian hacking of the Dem- ocratic National Commit- tee site and John Podesta’s email — but focused on the content of stolen emails, strategically released to damage the Clinton cam- paign just before the elec- tion. As Trump’s “Access Hollywood” tape, once expected to end his cam- paign, quickly vanished from the headlines, media continued to remind vot- ers of Clinton’s use of her private server for govern- ment communications. Hil- lary Clinton couldn’t catch a break as election day neared. Woodward has worked for the Washington Post since 1971 as a reporter and now as an associate editor. Most famous for his report- ing with Carl Bernstein on the Nixon Watergate coverup and co-author- ship of “All the President’s Men” and the “Final Days” about life in the Nixon White House, Woodward has published 19 nonfi ction bestsellers, has shared in two Pulitzer Prizes for his reporting and has received numerous other journal- ism honors and awards. He has earned a reputation for trustworthy investiga- tive reporting solidly based on personal interviews and supported by multi- ple sources, documents and public records. “Fear: Trump in the White House” — relies on traditional report- ing methods Woodward has employed in his many insider accounts of the White House years of the last four presidents—meth- ods that push narratives for- ward through factual state- ments and quotations with little editorial commentary. Unlike “Russian Rou- lette,” “Fear” concen- trates on the fi rst 15 months of the Trump presidency with little attention to the Trump’s interests in Russia or the campaign prior to his inauguration. References to the campaign, Trump inter- ests and activities in Rus- sia and Russian interfer- ence in the presidential election allude to investiga- tions by Congress, intelli- gence agencies and Muel- ler after Trump assumes the presidency. Isikoff’s and Corn’s account of the Trump cam- paign and fi rst year in offi ce leaves little doubt but that members of his cam- paign staff and family did coordinate with the Rus- sian effort to disrupt the 2016 election. By concen- trating on policymaking arguments of Trump and his administration, Wood- ward remained seemingly disinterested in the collu- sion question and painted the Trump White House as far less disorderly than have Isikoff and Corn and numerous other journal- ists. The fi nal paragraph of “Fear” — after John Dowd, the President’s defense attorney, resigns when Trump insists on testify- ing—suggests that not only Dowd but also Woodward suspects Mueller never had a solid collusion or obstruc- tion case: “But in the man and his presidency Dowd had seen the tragic fl aw. In the political back-and-forth, the evasions, the denials, the tweeting, the obscur- ing, crying ‘Fake News,’ the indignation, Trump had one overriding problem that Dowd knew but could not bring himself to say to the president: ‘You’re a f---ing liar.’” In addition to “Russian Roulette” and “Fear,” both available at the library, ded- icated readers might use the library’s interlibrary loan service to obtain a copy of Michael Wolff’s “Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House” (2018) or two books by David Cay Johnston, a meticulous investigative and fi nan- cial reporter, who has fol- lowed Trump’s career since the mid-1990s: “The Mak- ing of Donald Trump” and “It’s Even Worse than You Think: What the Trump Administration Is Doing to America” (2018). “For years our tradition never changed,” I said. “Christmas Eve we had a festive meal at home of oys- ters Rockefeller and smoked salmon and deviled eggs. We opened a cou- ple of presents. Christmas morning, after coffee, I made pancakes and then we opened more presents. Then I’d start fussing with the Christmas din- ner, which took all day to make. I did prime rib with Yorkshire pudding; we had string beans dressed in sautéed shal- lots and roasted chestnuts and Brus- sels sprouts. I’d make an apple pie. As a snack in the middle of the day I put out a bowl of my mother-in-law’s famous shrimp dip.” My Christmas gift list used to be long. There were lots of gifts to give. There were gifts for my son’s teacher and his bus driver and gifts for my son to give his friends. I gifted my hair- dresser, our babysitter, the UPS driver and the guy who plowed our driveway. My husband gave gift cards to everyone in his offi ce; at the barn where my pony lived, I gifted all the grooms. My girl- friends always wanted to get together for a holiday drink or meal and that always involved exchanging presents. Then there were the presents that had to go out early by mail to my in-laws and my stepsister. By the time Christ- mas rolled around I felt pretty broke and in the hole, but it seemed there was no choice. Christmas these days is a far more modest affair although there are still gifts to give. The list has shrunk con- siderably, which is good but a little sad. I’ve realized over the years that wrap- ping all those presents (and truth be told I am a terrible gift wrapper) put me in the holiday spirit. everyone’s YORKSHIRE PUDDING If you would like to try it, here’s the recipe. Stir into a bowl 7/8 cup fl our and ½ tea- spoon salt. Make a well in the center and pour in ½ cup milk and ½ cup water. Stir and then beat until fl uff y and add 2 eggs. Continue to beat until large bubbles rise to the surface. Let stand covered and refrigerated for 1 hour and then beat again. Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Have ready a hot, ovenproof 9x13” dish con- taining about ¼ cup hot beef drippings. Pour in the batter and bake 20 minutes. Reduce heat to 350 degrees and bake 10 or 15 minutes longer. Serve at once. We used to put up a Christmas tree and a wreath and festoon the house with greens. For a joke, one year instead of a tree, inside the house I had one of those outdoor white painted metal lighted reindeer. My holiday decorations these days is condensed to strings of white fairy lights. I leave them on 24-7 because this time of year, it gets dark early and they cast a soft, friendly light. I have them in the living room and our bedroom and even the bathroom where they make the perfect nightlight. I hope my son and daughter-in-law won’t feel shortchanged by our smaller, simpler Christmas. There will still be pancakes Christmas morning, and there will be roast beef, if not prime rib. 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