December 8, 2017 • Seaside Signal • seasidesignal.com • 7A
Hospital foundation gala supports EMS
Festival from Page 1A
Providence Seaside Hos
pital Foundation Chairman
Gregg Freedman described it
as “the most successful gala
ever.”
A visit with Santa
JEFF TER HAR/FOR SEASIDE SIGNAL
The Parade of Lights signaled the launch of the holiday
season in Seaside.
Holiday season sparked
by parade of lights
Seaside Signal
Yuletide In Seaside cele
brates the season at the beach
with holiday gift fairs, parade
of lights and visits by Santa.
On Friday night, the Pa
rade of Lights formed at
Necanicum Boulevard and
traveled across the First Av
enue Bridge as the public
gathered at Downing for the
lighting of the tree.
Chamber ambassadors
handed out free hot cider,
cocoa and cookies in front
of Finn’s Fish House.
Caroling, parade winners
and visits with Santa fol
lowed the parade.
COURTESY SEPRD
The Sunset Empire Park and Recreation Department pool
reopens Dec. 11.
Sunset Pool to reopen on Monday
Seaside Signal
Sunset Empire Park and
Recreation Department an
nounced the pool opening
would be delayed from its
anticipated Dec. 4 opening
and will reopen Monday,
Dec. 11, at 5:45 a.m. The
pool has been closed since
late October.
The delay comes as a re
sult of longer than expected
maintenance repairs, ac
cording to Darren Gooch, IT
and marketing manager for
the district. Repairs include
plaster of the main lap pool,
replacing the metalhalide
lighting with energy-efficient
fixtures and reconfiguration
of the men’s locker room.
The resurfacing, which
hasn’t been done since the
pool’s opening in 1976, is
budgeted at $80,000. The
other repairs are about
$35,000.
The district will also re
place the fiberglass pools
sand filter tank, which be
gan showing signs of stress
months and needs replace
ment, according to district
Executive Director Skyler
Archibald.
Saturday ranged from
Christmas stocking caps to
black tie.
For the more than 1,000
visitors to Candy Cane Lane
at the convention center, the
event offered not only an op
portunity to support the re
gion’s medical services, but
a chance to dally awhile with
Santa and peruse 30 donated
Christmas trees and displays
decorated by local businesses,
designers, florists and North
Coast residents.
A line of children waited on
the mezzanine level for their
audience with Santa.
Warrenton’s Adalyn Say
songdeth, 8, had no doubt what
she would ask for — a Hatch
able, an egg with birds inside,
she explained.
Adalyn’s brother Brody, 5,
and friend Dominic Dow each
had their eyes on Nintendo
Switches.
A wine tree from the Sea
side Chamber of Commerce
presented 60 bottles alongside
the tree.
An entry from the Cannon
Beach Chamber of Commerce
honored founder Tom Drum
heller, chief executive officer of
Escape Lodging and coowner
of Tom’s Fish & Chips, who
died earlier this year.
COLIN MURPHEY/EO MEDIA GROUP
People line up to meet with Santa at the annual Seaside Festival of Trees on Saturday.
The tree memorialized one
of Drumheller’s favorite slo
gans. “He used to always say,
‘It’ll be fun,’” Drumheller’s
longtime friend and business
partner Patrick Nofield said.
“That was one of his hall
marks.”
Cannon Beach resident
David Frei, just back in town
from the National Dog Show,
was accompanied by Angel, a
Cavalier King Charles span
iel, and Grace, a Brittany, to
publicize the therapy dog pro
gram at the hospital.
The program, initiated by
Frei and his wife, Cherilyn,
now has 10 teams visiting the
hospital.
“Dogs help patients man
age whatever challenge they
may be having,” he said. “It
gets them to smile, to talk. It
brings them back to home a
little bit.”
With auction of the tree
came a trip to Beverly Hills
and a meeting with Frei and
show host John O’Hurley.
Premier event
The soldout gala hosted
330 guests from as far as San
Francisco, with 16 live auc
tion items. It was a night to
see and be seen, all for a good
cause.
“This is the premier social
event of the year,” convention
center General Manager Russ
Vandenberg said. “The com
munity supports all the things
the hospital does for us.”
Freedman said that means
moving into the 21st century
of medicine — proactive as
opposed to reactive.
“Right now, medicine is re
active in responding to some
one in an emergency, whatev
er that might be,” Freedman
said. “We need it to be more
preventative so that people
don’t need those services. The
ultimate goal of the founda
tion and Providence Seaside
is to improve our community
and make it a healthier place
to live for all of us.”
Creatives of all ages celebrate the holiday season
Fair from Page 1A
Through this, Konrad and
Roarke had taken their prod
uct to places like the Astoria
Sunday Market and learned
skills like counting money
and book keeping.
And according to the St
ruves, the business is going
well.
“Counting the money is
definitely the hardest part,”
Roarke said.
“We’ve made hundreds of
dollars,” Konrad said.
But it’s not all about the
money.
“I like it when they buy
it,” Konrad said. “I also like
talking to the people, meeting
new people. Making the sale.”
And for Roarke, the cre
ativity it takes to set up the
booth display is half the fun
in itself.
Kurt Struve, the father of
the two entrepreneurs, said
watching his kids participate
in the program has been re
warding. As the owner of an
independent design firm him
self, he sees it as an opportu
nity to pass along some of the
small business lessons he’s
learned himself to his sons.
“It’s good for them to talk
to all different kinds of peo
ple,” Kurt said. “I didn’t get to
have this kind of experience
as a kid, so it’s exciting to be
able to give that to them.”
COLIN MURPHEY/EO MEDIA GROUP
Roarke and Konrad Struve
mold playdough into shapes
during a demonstration of
their product at the Seaside
Artisan Gift Fair.
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