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Caterpillars invade Tillamook The season of salmon NORTH COAST • 3A COAST WEEKEND 142nd YEAR, No. 257 THURSDAY, JUNE 25, 2015 ONE DOLLAR College selects interim leader Apprentices play Mozart’s ‘Magic Flute’ Gerald Hamilton brings experience, starts Aug. 1 By EDWARD STRATTON The Daily Astorian KATHERINE LACAZE — EO Media Group Performers conduct a dress rehearsal of Mozart’s “The Magic Flute” as part of the Astoria Music Festival, Wednesday evening. The show will be performed Thursday and Friday nights at Clatsop Community College’s Performing Arts Center. Tonight’s show features vocal, instrumental and costume apprentices By KATHERINE LACAZE EO Media Group See HAMILTON, Page 10A T he Astoria Music Festival brings Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s “The Magic Flute” to the Oregon Coast in more ways than one with a batch of talented vocal and instrumental apprentice artists from across the country. The festival’s Vocal Appren- tice Program’s production, which opens at 7:30 p.m., sets the action of the comedic opera “The Magic )OXWH´ RU ³'LH =DXEHUÀ|WH´ LQ Astoria. A second performance is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. Friday, and both performances take place at Clatsop Community College’s Center of Performing Arts, 588 16th St. The Vocal Apprentice Program began June 12 and goes until Fri- day after the closing performance. The program is a traditional part of the festival, which is in its 13th season. Each June, the festival pro- duces a 17-day season of operatic, symphonic and chamber music concerts and classical programs. The apprentice program provides training to amateur singers and in- strumentalists. It also incorporates local young dancers. Brian Staufenbiel, the creative director and stage director for Opera Parallèle in San Francisco, is the stage director of “The Mag- ic Flute.” Music Director Olivia Tsui is a conductor and violinist who was the first female music director in the 84-year history of the Glendale, Calif., Symphony Orchestra. Costume apprentices A new addition to this year’s program is a costume apprentice- The Clatsop Community College Board of Directors unanimously vot- ed to appoint Gerald Hamil- ton as the col- lege’s interim president for the next year. Hamilton will replace President Law- rence Galizio, whose last day Gerald at the college Hamilton is July 8. In mid-July, Gal- izio heads to Sacramento, Calif., to be president and CEO of the Community College League of California. Alleged burglar wielding a sword arrested KATHERINE LACAZE — EO Media Group The opera has been set on the Oregon Coast for this production. Costume apprentices from Seaside High School’s Sewing Club assisted Costume Manager Cynthia Harber, a teacher from Astoria Middle School, in making costumes for the production. ship, which is under the direction of Astoria Middle School teacher Cynthia Harber. When Managing Director Car- ol Shepherd heard about Seaside High School’s Sewing Club, she saw an opportunity to develop young people through the appren- tice program. Three students from the sewing club — Brooke Laws, Max McNeill and Chastity Cozzi- torto — participated in the costume apprenticeship, and the program EHQH¿WHG IURP WKHLU SDUWLFLSDWLRQ Harber said. The pro- duction has a coastal flavor. KATHERINE LACAZE EO Media Group See SHOW, Page 10A Chinook Indian Nation elects new leader Tony Johnson to carry on in the late Ray Gardner’s footsteps By KATIE WILSON EO Media Group PACIFIC COUNTY, Wash. — As the Chinook Indian Nation continues to push for federal recognition, it does so with a new leader in place. On June 18, tribal members pres- ent at an annual meeting elected Tony Johnson as chairman of the 10-member tribal council. Johnson ran unopposed and will take over the leadership role formerly held by Ray Gardner, who died in February after a long struggle with lung disease. “There’s a long chain of chairmen for the Chinook Indian Nation and it’s an absolute honor to be now one of the links of that chain,” Johnson said in a phone interview June 22. “I can’t say enough how privileged I feel to be trusted with that role and the significance of it doesn’t escape me.” The Chinook Indian Nation rep- resents a range of people who tradi- tionally resided in the Lower Columbia region, including the Cathlamet, Clat- sop, Lower Chinook, Wahkiakum and Willapa. Vice Chairman Sam Robinson’s name was also down for nomination as chairman, but Robinson, who had taken on the role of acting chairman as Gardner’s health declined, said he felt it was time to hand off that position to DAMIAN MULINIX — EO Media Group someone else, preferably someone in Tony Johnson tells the Chinook 3DFL¿F&RXQW\ legend of Coyote and the first salm- See JOHNSON, Page 10A on Friday. Incident was one day after suspect released from jail By KYLE SPURR The Daily Astorian A convicted felon is back in jail after allegedly burglarizing a War- renton home with a katana sword. Albert J. Burkleo, 34, is accused of breaking into a small trav- el trailer on the 100 block of Northwest Birch Avenue Albert J. last week and Burkleo attempting to stab a man with the sword. The man told Warrenton Police he received a cut on his left hand as a defensive wound when Burkleo was attempting to stab him. “During the incident (the victim) was dodging the sword blade and at one SRLQW XVHG KLV OHIW KDQG WR GHÀHFW WKH stabs and suffered a laceration on his left hand,” police wrote in their report. Burkleo, who entered the trail- er unannounced and uninvited, also allegedly damaged the trailer during the incident. He reportedly stabbed the man’s stereo speaker, door di- vider, security camera screen and two lawn solar lights. The damaged items are valued at more than $600. When he left the trailer, Burkleo told the man if he called the police he would kill him, according to the police report. %XUNOHR LV FKDUJHG ZLWK ¿UVWGH- gree burglary, second-degree assault, unlawful use of a weapon against another person, menacing and sec- ond-degree criminal mischief. See BURKLEO, Page 10A