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Port Ludlow Book Club
The Port Ludlow Book Club celebrates the holiday season
on Tuesday, December 8, at 6:00 p.m., at the Bay Club
with a discussion of a gentle and beautifully written novel
of love, forgiveness and the nature of evil. Norwegian
novelist Per Petterson delivers a story of unequaled
elegance in his award winning story, Out Stealing Horses.
The tale unfolds as Trond, a 67-year-old widower, recalls
the formative summer of his youth. These recollections
center on an afternoon when he and his best friend set
out to “borrow” some horses from a nearby farm for an
exhilarating adventure that ends suddenly and tragically
in an act of unexpected cruelty. The language is spare but
has deliberate force with interplay of past and present,
and youthful perceptions juxtaposed against the brooding
consciousness of the older man. The author lets us live in
a mystery we don’t know needs solving until the solution
is presented.
This masculine and spare narrative delivers an unforgettable
portrait of a man trying to come to terms with his
past. The story will resonate with you long after the last
page, giving pause to one’s own accounting of what his
life will yield.
To celebrate the holiday season please bring hors
d’oeuvres and a beverage to share.
The book selection for January 2010 is Hotel on the Corner
of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford. All are welcome.
For questions call Martha Dawson at 437-4167.
December Lunch with the CEA
Everyone is invited to join the
Community Enrichment Alliance
(CEA) Out to Lunch Bunch at The
Resort At Port Ludlow. The date
is Tuesday, December 29, and the
time is 11:30 a.m. We will order off
a special menu to include a choice
of the Marina Chopped Salad, Beef
Stroganoff or Chicken Marsala. The price including tax
and tip is $19.30. Separate checks will be provided.
Please sign up at the CEA promotional table in the Bay
Club any Wednesday between 11:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m.
Reservations must be made by Wednesday, December 23.
Please contact Sharon Commander at 437-2486 if you have
any questions.
Dine and Discover:
Port Angeles and Lighthouses
On Monday, December 7, at the Beach Club, Port
Angeles’ Don Perry will reveal some of the dark
secrets of that city’s past, including the formation of its
underground. Don, a 25-year resident of Port Angeles
and founder of Heritage Tours, has spent many years
researching the city’s history and has many interesting
stories to tell. Please sign up at the Beach Club to bring a
potluck dish to serve at least 10 people.
In the New Year on Monday, January 4, at the Bay Club,
Steve Reed, Vice President of the New Dungeness Light
Station Association, will thrill us with facts and stories
about the lighthouses of the Olympic Peninsula. His wife
Jean, editor of the Association’s newsletter The Foghorn,
will join him. Learn what it takes to maintain a lighthouse
and many other interesting facts. Please sign up at the
Bay Club to bring a potluck dish to share with at least 10
persons.
For both events bring your own complete table setting
and beverage. A fee of $2 per person will be collected at
the door. Doors open at 5:30 p.m. If you can’t make it,
please notify the appropriate Club so those on a waiting
list may be accommodated. For questions contact Hilda
and Michael Cahn at 437-8223 or Soozie and Dan Darrow
at 437-9208.
Christmas Cookie Stamping!
Well, it would be more correct to announce that the
Stamp and Paper Arts Group will be sharing and enjoying
holiday cookies and cards at an exchange on Wednesday,
December 16, from 10:00 a.m. to noon at the Bay Club.
We plan to make both the cookie and card exchange easy;
bring a cookie, take a cookie. Bring 12 cookies, take 12
cookies—and the same goes for cards; bring 3, take 3, etc.
Do bring some extra cookies for all to sample with tea or
coffee. We’ll make a party of it! No meeting, just fun.
If you’d like to bring extra, help decorate, or have
questions (about this month only) contact Pat Nesbitt at
437-0323, pat@olypen.com or Maureen Poole at
437-2165, shipout@aol.com. Past members, current
members, you are all invited!
And don’t forget—boxes are at the Bay and Beach Clubs
to collect the fronts of used cards. Remove all personal
writing and/or signatures and donate such card fronts
for the troops. If you don’t see the box, please ask; this
is something we can all do for a very good cause. You
recycle, and we create gorgeous new holiday cards to
send to our deserving guys and gals in the military.