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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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gree burglary, second-degree assault,
unlawful use of a weapon against
another person, menacing and sec-
ond-degree criminal mischief.
See BURKLEO, Page 10A