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
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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.
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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They are small, outdated and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,
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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. A
great gift my friend gave me the other
night after we’d demolished the pizza
was emotional support and permission
to skip the Yorkshire pudding.
“It’s so bad for you and makes such a
mess,” she said.
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