{"id":84010,"date":"2022-02-28T15:58:51","date_gmt":"2022-02-28T20:58:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=84010"},"modified":"2022-02-28T17:36:47","modified_gmt":"2022-02-28T22:36:47","slug":"pontiac-community-players-announce-official-non-profit-status","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/pontiac-community-players-announce-official-non-profit-status\/","title":{"rendered":"Pontiac Community Players announce official non-profit status"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Local theatre troupe the Pontiac Community Players (PCP) announced on Saturday that they recently attained non-profit status for their organization. The new designation will allow them to conduct a much wider range of activities, according to long-time member Greg Graham.<\/p>\n<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-84010-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Clip-Greg-Graham-non-profit.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Clip-Greg-Graham-non-profit.mp3\">https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Clip-Greg-Graham-non-profit.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>Craig Young, another long-time member, explained that they had recently completed the first steps of becoming a non-profit, registering with the government and creating a bank account. He said that they still have a lot of work to do, from coming up with an inventory of costumes to creating committees to oversee certain tasks.<\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-84010-2\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Clip-Craig-Young-next-steps.mp3?_=2\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Clip-Craig-Young-next-steps.mp3\">https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Clip-Craig-Young-next-steps.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>As part of the announcement, the cast of the Community Players\u2019 upcoming production \u201cSteel Magnolias\u201d performed a brief scene for the assembled media and elected officials. The play is a comedy-drama by Robert Harling about the friendships of a group of women in Louisiana.<\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-84010-3\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Clip-PCP-Steel-Magnolias.mp3?_=3\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Clip-PCP-Steel-Magnolias.mp3\">https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Clip-PCP-Steel-Magnolias.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>Val Twolan-Graham, a relative newcomer to the PCP with more than 30 years experience as a drama teacher, explained that she had been trying to put the show together since 2019, but COVID-19 had seriously complicated their plans.<\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-84010-4\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Clip-Val-Twolan-Graham-timeline.mp3?_=4\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Clip-Val-Twolan-Graham-timeline.mp3\">https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Clip-Val-Twolan-Graham-timeline.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>The play will be performed at the Pontiac High School auditorium on March 9, 10 and 11 at 7 p.m. as well as March 12 at 12:30 p.m. Tickets are $20 and can be purchased at Hursty\u2019s Restaurant in downtown Shawville.<\/p>\n<p>Pontiac MNA Andr\u00e9 Fortin was in attendance and announced that his office would be donating $1,000 to the players to get their bank account up and running.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The full interview with Graham is available below:<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Local theatre troupe the Pontiac Community Players (PCP) announced on Saturday that they recently attained non-profit status for their organization. The new designation will allow them to conduct a much wider range of activities, according to long-time member Greg Graham. Craig Young, another long-time member, explained that they had recently completed the first steps of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":104,"featured_media":84025,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[57,219],"tags":[9437,12833,9168,12834],"radio":[239],"origine":[274,258,260],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84010"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/104"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84010\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84010"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=84010"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=84010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}