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Skaters board the bus Sherpas Cinema films commercial in Nelson for BC Transit
TAMARA HYND Nelson Star herpas Cinema has a crew filming a commercial in Nelson this week for BC Transit with the help of two young skateboarders. Nelsonite Drew Summerside and Skylar Kehr of Vancouver are thrilled to be skateboarding for the ad. Both agreed it was good to be getting paid for something they already do. Director of photography Leo Hoorn and director Eric Crosland were two of the six person crew
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on scene filming Summerside and Kehr skating up to a bus stop beside the Lakeside gazebo just as the Uphill bus arrives. They have been filming other segments in the Uphill neighbourhood on Stanley St. as well. Summerside wasn’t the only local on scene. Crosland, director of Sherpas Cinema, lives in Nelson with his wife and children. Production manger Elizabeth Leilani said the segment was a tribute to Canadian freeskier J.P. Auclair, who died in an avalanche while filming in Chile last fall. He
was in the film All.I.Can., which was filmed in Nelson and started this series of BC Transit spots. This commercial is the third in the series featuring mountain biking, climbing and now skateboarding as a way to remind active outdoors people that they can reach their destination by transit too. Sherpas Cinema focuses on aerial cinematography and mountain sports savvy, with everything from commercials, to environmental topics, to sports features. Their latest feature is Into the Mind.
BILL METCALFE Nelson Star The province is running an online survey asking citizens how they think the government should approach climate change. The survey breaks the subject down into four categories: The way we live (buildings, community design, waste), the way we travel (movement of people and goods), the way we work (business, industry, products and services), and what we value (how we consider the cost of climate change when we make decisions). There are two sections of questions for each category and you have to make choices and express preferences. The survey was launched in July and runs until Monday. The government says it’s part of its development of a climate action plan. A draft will be released in the fall, and the public will be asked to comment on it. The survey can be found at engage.gov.bc.ca/ climateleadership. The Star asked four prominent West Kootenay residents to take the survey and tell us what they thought of it.
Deb Kozak is the mayor of Nelson, the city’s representative on the Regional District of Central Kootenay board, and chair of the Association of Kootenay Boundary Local Governments. “I thought the survey raised some broad issues around climate change, and defined them into sectors for you to think about,” she said. “For a regular citizen taking the survey, I am not sure it would be very useful for them. You would have to understand a lot already. They might find the questions overwhelming. You were asked to provide a short answer to some very complex issues. “There is no doubt in my mind that climate change is happening and we need to shift to a low carbon culture and government needs to take a strong leadership. “I think the survey will provide some direction for the government if they are looking for
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