Smart Money Story: MARTHA MacISAAC, - December 11, 1997

Copyright 1997, The Toronto Star

Martha MacIsaac, 13, plays Emily Byrd Starr, a free-spirited 11-year-old, in a new television series Emily of New Moon, based on another of Lucy Maud Montgomery's classics. The show debuts on CBC in January.

On stage, MacIsaac has appeared in A Christmas Carol, Blue Castle and Anne of Green Gables, all at the Confederation Centre in Charlottetown. Like Montgomery's heroines, MacIsaac lives with her family in P.E.I.

WISEST FINANCIAL DECISION

Spending. It's fun.

WORST FINANCIAL DECISION

I bought a gigo pet and the batteries died the first day.

CHRISTMAS WISH

A mini-refrigerator for my bedroom.

NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTION

To buy a whole bunch of clothes when I go on a trip to Edmonton.

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