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Emma Chart is Mary Poppins and Quinn Barron (inset, with Chart) is Bert in the Capitol Theatre youth production which opened last night. Frankie Defeo photos
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BILL METCALFE Nelson Star erformers in the Capitol Theatre’s annual summer youth production may be young (ages 12 to 18), but the direction, sets, lighting, and sound are of adult professional calibre. That’s what makes the project so unique: young people are supported on all sides by very high production standards. That really motivates them, according to Adriana Bogaard, 29, who designed the sets for this year’s production of Mary Poppins. The Nelson native, who is entering her final year of the set and costume design program at the National Theatre School in Montreal, performed in several Capitol
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summer productions in the 1990s. “As soon as the set is installed,” she says, “the performers step up their performance level because they have a higher standard to live up to.” For 27 years the Capitol’s summer youth production has been a training ground for young actors, singers, and dancers, many of whom return year after year.
Emma Chart is Mary Poppins Emma Chart, 17, is playing Mary Poppins. She says the part isn’t as simple as one might think. “Mary is very proper and so smiley. She is like the perfect person.
But then when you try to play her, what is she thinking underneath all that? How is she always so smiley, and how does she always know what is coming next? You really have to think about her motives. There is a lot more stuff underneath that she has to figure out.” This is Chart’s third Capitol youth production, having also appeared in Sweeney Todd and The Secret Garden in past summers. What has the experience meant for her? “I’ve gained a lot of confidence,” she says. “It shows you what you can do. It is pretty amazing that a bunch of kids who don’t know each other can come together and do this.” Continued on page 12
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BILL METCALFE Nelson Star Nelson Hydro spent between $800,000 and $900,000 on repairs after the recent windstorm in Nelson. About $500,000 to $600,000 of that was for immediate emergency response during and immediately after the storm, and the rest is still being spent on more long-term matters, says Hydro’s Alex Love. He said although there were some equipment costs, “the lion’s share is labour costs.” “It was definitely all hands on deck in the line department,” he said, “and we brought in several contractor crews, so we were definitely a bolstered work force, and some other staff were reallocated to assist in damage patrols.” These expenses apply to Nelson Hydro only, and do not include costs incurred by public works crews cleaning up streets and parks. The city’s chief financial officer, Colin McClure, says those numbers are not yet finalized. Love said Hydro is reviewing whether the costs will be covered by insurance, and he is looking into whether provincial emergency disaster funding might cover it. He says the non-emergency work still being done (and included in the above-described costs) mostly involves replacing damaged poles or cross-arms, or dealing with leaning trees that would be brought down onto power lines by the next wind. Love said the trees that were pruned last year, sometimes controversially, caused “minimal concerns and no damage” in the storm, reaffirming, that pruning was the right thing to do. He said the extra costs this year are a concern and means they will be able to put less than usual into Hydro’s capital reserve. “We have several million in our capital reserve and usually transfer about $2 million into it, but this year it will be less. “It was a costly outage. I would be concerned if this happened yearly, but in the seven years I have been here this is the first time. The utility is financially healthy enough that we can weather it on an occasional basis.”
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