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7A THE DAILY ASTORIAN • THURSDAY, MARCH 2, 2017 Fulio: Roscoe isn’t finished impacting community Continued from Page 1A restaurants and bars, for four years owning Astoria’s Port- way Tavern. But it was with Fulio’s, where he’s worked since 2003 shortly after its opening, that he found a long- term home. Discussions with Roscoe became more serious about six months ago. Despite prom- ising never to own another restaurant or bar, LaPlante said, he couldn’t walk away from what Fulio’s had estab- lished over the past 14 years. “I feel like I’m carrying on a torch for Fulio’s,” he said. Helping him carry the torch for the next month or two is Roscoe, who is advising during the takeover and cater- ing some events. Life after Fulio’s “I do a lot of planning, but I also try to pay attention to signs from the universe, so to speak,” Roscoe said. Now 70, Roscoe learned last year he had prostate can- cer. The disease was caught early and he had surgery in October. With Fulio’s, he said, he’s always wanted to have the same sort of lineage as North Coast stalwarts Pig ’n Pancake and Dooger’s Seafood. “Turn- ing it over to Allan is part of that. I’m proud of Fulio’s posi- tion in the community, and I think Allan and Sean are the perfect team to continue that.” Roscoe said he’s set for a semi-comfortable retirement, along with catching up on a lot of honey do’s owed to his wife, Pat. But the former Astoria city councilor and film industry veteran isn’t done impacting the community. “By the end of the summer, I hope to have secured a grant for my next project,” Roscoe said, hesitant to show his cards too much. “I hope to be doing a proj- ect with Travel Oregon about moviemaking, the history of moviemaking in Oregon.” Edward Stratton/The Daily Astorian Fulio’s founder Peter Roscoe, left, has sold the restaurant to longtime manager Allan LaPlante. Roscoe says he’s set for retirment and catching up on a honey-do list. Music: ‘It’s a multimedia kind of extravaganza’ Continued from Page 1A honest and transparent, import- ant to the community, working hard, and giving everything we hold dear to the classical music life of the Astoria community,” Morehead added. Coming attractions The festival will open the 2017 season with a memo- rial tribute to Michael Fos- ter, an Astoria teacher, art col- lector and longtime festival board member who died in December. That tribute: a performance of Beethoven’s Ninth Sym- phony, Foster’s favorite piece of music. American composer Philip Glass will be represented for the second straight year. His piece to be performed is inspired by theoretical physi- cist Brian Greene’s children’s book “Icarus at the Edge of Time,” in which the titular character, rather than fly too close to the sun on wax wings and fall into the sea, ven- tures out to explore the uni- verse, gets sucked into a black hole and becomes part of the cosmos. “The music is just stun- ning,” said Clark, the festi- val conductor. The perfor- mance will be accompanied by a film that illustrates the piece. “It’s a multimedia kind of extravaganza.” Last year, Clark conducted a performance of Glass’ sym- phony based on David Bow- ie’s album “Heroes.” The year’s most ambi- tious undertaking will be the final concert: the first-ever Oregon performance of Wag- ner’s monumental opera “Das Rheingold,” the first of his four-opera “The Ring of the Michael Mathers/For The Daily Astorian Astoria Music Festival Artistic Director Keith Clark will conduct the Astoria Music Festival Orchestra at the gala open- ing on June 10, which features a tribute to the late Michael Foster, a longtime festival board member. stage a full opera, Nibelung” cycle. the production will To be held at the include semi-stag- Liberty Theater, ing; filmmakers are the piece requires working on visual an unusually large effects to suggest orchestra — includ- the action. ing six harps — and Some festival 14 solo singers. regulars will be “It’s big and returning, including challenging stuff … renowned soprano It’s one of the most Angela Meade Angela Meade and glorious orchestra Russian-born cel- scores ever,” Clark list Sergey Antonov, who is said. Though the festival also a rising conductor. “I’d be run out of town doesn’t have the resources to ICE: A 1987 state law established Oregon as a ‘sanctuary’ state Continued from Page 1A are concerned about coming to courthouses. They can’t go to simple criminal or civil or family law hearings because they’re afraid they’re going to get picked up,” Brown said. “He said that is not their target, that is not their focus, that the media is distorting all of this.” A 1987 state law estab- lished Oregon as what is now called a “sanctuary” state. That law bans local and state law enforcement from using immigration status as the sole reason to investigate or arrest someone. After President Donald Trump said his administration would crack down on illegal immigration, Brown signed an executive order on Feb. 2 that reaffirmed the 1987 Ore- gon law and expanded it to other state agencies. Salem on Monday became the latest Oregon community to adopt a “sanctuary” resolu- tion. The City Council voted unanimously to ban use of city resources to enforce fed- eral immigration law. After the Trump admin- istration threatened to with- hold federal funding, some communities withdrew their “sanctuary” designations. Brown said Kelly did not indi- cate Oregon would lose fed- eral dollars. “I will continue to fight if Sergey Antonov wasn’t involved in a lot of things,” Clark said, laughing. ‘The community’s thing’ The festival is always seeking volunteers, whether to join the board or offer housing to festival musicians. “So you could have a Metro- politan Opera tenor sleeping on your couch,” Clark said. In general, Riker said, “Astoria has become a very active arts center on the coast. It is becoming more diffi- cult to find enough volun- teer members who can com- mit lots of time and energy because they are involved in more than one organization.” Part of the reason the fes- tival can operate at a much smaller budget than other festivals, is the donations. Some hotels donate a room or two, and many musicians stay in local residents’ spare rooms. “It’s very much the community’s thing,” Clark said. The scale of the festi- val offerings has expanded, but the original goal remains intact: to provide a metropol- itan concert experience in a rural region for a fraction of the cost. Clark knows the value of these experiences. He grew up in a small commu- nity that just happened to have a lot of great music. He has lived in major world cities, hubs of high culture where grand concert experi- ences are taken for granted. “That’s one of the reasons you live in those big cities,” he said. “But people (who) live in Astoria shouldn’t be cheated out of that,” he said. “This great music, with these great artists, shouldn’t be limited to people that live in L.A., New York, Vienna and London; it belongs to everybody — everybody should have access to it. “And that’s one of the things we’ve been trying to do, is bring big-city music to a small town. 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