Emily's Hectic Career Leaves Little Time to Visit Her Home and Family
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Forever Emily Emily’s hectic career leaves little time to visit her home and family Emily VanCamp moved away from her Port Perry circle of friends and acquaintances in the sixth grade of French Emersion at R.H. Cornish Public School, but now at age 20 she likes noth- ing more than popping home to visit her mom and dad, Cindy and Robert, sisters Katie, Molly and Alison, and extended family and friends whenever she can squeeze the time from her hectic schedule. “I just love to come home to touch base with my family,” she said in an interview with Focus On Scugog during her visit home. “They’re this constant in my life. If I got a big head, they’d burst my bubble pretty quickly.” At the age of 12, Emily moved to Montreal to pursue her ballet training and then on to Vancouver to work in a short-lived WB Network series called ‘Glory Days’ (2002). By that time she already had credits for playing the young Jackie Bouvier in the TV movie, ‘Jackie Bouvier Kennedy Onassis’ (CBS, 2000) and episodes here and there for ‘Are You Afraid Of The Dark’, ‘Radio Active’, ‘All Souls’ and ‘Dice’ (2000). Around ‘Glory Days’, Emily also made the telepic, ‘The Redeemer’ (USA, 2002) with Matthew Modine and ‘The House On Turk Street’ (WB, 2002) with Samuel L. Jackson and Milla Jovovich. “Glory Days was a wonderful experience,” Emily explains. “Although it didn’t last long, it spun my career into four years with ‘Everwood’, also a WB project.” As Amy Abbott, Emily acquired a devoted following. The extent of her fan base can be found in the dozens of websites which have been developed on the internet, devoted to Emily and the cast of ‘Everwood’. A simple ‘Google’ of her name brings up dozens of sites. Emily completed her high school education in French through the North Vancouver Distance Education School while in Utah. “What a blessing not to have been thrown into the L.A. scene, but have a chance to get my feet wet in the acting business in a smaller city,” she explains. The ‘Everwood’ cast became her family away from home and she is still close to the friends she made. With struggle came opportunity. Emily’s career has blossomed into feature films. She worked in ‘A Different Loyalty’ (2004) with Jen Tyler, ‘The Ring’ and ‘The Ring Two’ (2005) with Naomi Watts and ‘Black Irish’ (2006). This past fall, she filmed ‘Carriers’ in New Mexico. This post-apoca- lyptic thriller also featured young actors Piper Perabo, Lou Taylor Pucci and Chris Pine. It should be released in the spring of 2007. Emily is also proud of a recent guest appearance on Law & Order: SVU, which is scheduled to air late in February, 2007. Emily has had the opportunity to work in Malta and then travel with her family through Malta and Italy for a month. She was pleased to visit friend and fellow actor, Tamara in Paris to see her perform in the musical, Chicago. “I want to do more travelling in the future and leave for London in early Janu- ary,” she says. Emily has auditions and other career opportunities to keep her occupied during the winter months. Future plans include continuing her education. Emily laughs as she rules out the performing arts and definitely anything that requires math! She says she’d enjoy exploring new territory such as women’s studies, political science or foreign af- fairs. “For now I’m having a lot of fun and want to focus my attention on what works,” she says and then hurries to pack her bags once again. She was off to spend New Year’s Eve with friends in Montreal before plunging back into the work ahead. 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We can’t Terms to run Box 1049, 231 Water Street, from March 2007 thank them enough for their generosity to the community. Port Perry, Ontario L9L 1A8 until December 2010 Thumbs Down to the “Scrooges” whose decision it was to increase the cost of public family skating at the Scugog arena by a reported 300 percent over the pre- vious year. Unless rolled back, the cost for the annual family skating pass will have skyrocketed from $90 last year - to a whopping $270 this year. Looks like taxpayers, through user fees, are going to have to dig deeper into their pockets to pick up the $400,000+ cost of the arena mould repairs, despite promises to the contrary. Thumbs Down to those critical of our local newspapers for running a story about a young woman who was featured recently in Playboy magazine. Newspapers, by their very nature, cover all types of news and it’s inevitable everyone won’t like all stories. But that doesn’t mean they should be ignored. 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Neil was not born in Scugog. He is a Scar- borough lad, although his mother and her family were early settlers in Greenbank. He served with the Canadian Army in WW 2 and recalls “I celebrated my 21st birthday in Germany during the final push to defeat the Nazis.” When asked about his experiences on the front lines he chooses to speak only of the good times. “I went through some pretty horrible experiences but I put them at the back of my mind right after they had happened, otherwise, it’s too easy to get de- pressed by those memories,” he said. Immediately after the end of hostilities Neil returned home to Scarborough to his father’s farm on Brimley Road, and re- mained there for 5 years. Meanwhile, he joined the old Toronto Police Force and helped out with the farm when needed. Photo by J. Peter Hvidsten When Neil and his wife Jean heard that Howard McMillan was selling his farm on concession 12, they jumped at the opportu- cation was looking for ground on which to council, he regrets that council didn’t push nity. They moved to the farm in 1954 and build a new elementary school, the Town- hard enough for a complete bypass for Port five years later bought the neighbouring ship considered selling the fairground Perry. He feels the Shirley Road would farm from Armour McMillan. property and acquiring new grounds for have been an excellent route, but acknowl- “Armour McMillan got me into a lot of the Fair Board. edges there could be others options. trouble,” he said with a chuckle. “It was his The resulting debates at the Fair Board Despite council having more complex prompting that got me into local affairs, first caused a number of members to leave. In problems today, than in his day, Neil ques- on the School Board, then on the Hospital the end, the Fair Board elected to keep the tions the need for so many ‘studies. board and finally he talked me into running existing grounds. “What we need is common sense, not for council.” “I think that the outcome was regrettable.