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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.”
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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.
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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
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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. And it seems to
be working.”
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Pulitzer Prize Winning
Journalist
Nigel Jaquiss
A Columbia Forum Presentation
Nigel Jaquiss is an American Journalist who
won the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for investigative
reporting for his work exposing former Oregon
Governor Neil Goldschmidt’s sexual abuse of a
14-year-old-girl while he was mayor of Portland.
His story was published in Willamette Week in
May 2004. He continues to write for Willamette
Week.
AP Photo/Cliff Owen
Democratic Governors Association Vice Chairman Jay
Inslee, left, Chairman Dannel Malloy, center, and Oregon
Gov. Kate Brown share a laugh during a DGA news confer-
ence at the National Governors Association winter meet-
ing in Washington on Saturday.
back and protect Oregon. I
want us to remain an inclusive
and welcoming state to our
immigrant and refugee popu-
lations,” she said.
Brown told Kelly that the
federal immigration roundups
created distrust among immi-
grants, making them afraid to
go to courthouses, state agen-
cies or jobs for fear of being
targeted. As a result, the immi-
gration enforcement also will
harm the Oregon economy,
because immigrants are the
backbone of the agriculture,
forestry and other industries.
On other topics, Brown
said:
• As the Trump admin-
istration looks to repeal
and replace the Afford-
able Care Act, Health
and Human Services Sec-
retary Tom Price prom-
ised that no one would lose
health care coverage. Ore-
gon has added 400,000 resi-
dents to state health insurance
through the act, also known
as Obamacare.
• Scott Pruitt, the head
of the Environmental Pro-
tection Agency,
agreed
with Brown that the Super-
fund cleanup of the Portland
harbor needed to proceed
faster.
Jaquiss graduated from Dartmouth College in
1984; he spent 11 years as a Wall Street and Singapore-based crude oil
trader, working for Cargill, Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs. After
some concerns about business practices, he sought a career change,
eventually enrolling at Columbia University Graduate School of Jour-
nalism and got his master’s degree in 1987. He began his journalism
career in Portland in January 1998, working for Willamette Week.
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