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Archive Home > 2006 > April > 24 > Turning trash into treasure

Turning trash into treasure

Artists join in Trashformations, an annual Earth Month event

By Christine Metz / The Bulletin
April 24, 2006

Early Sunday morning, Ken Sweetman picked up a potato ricer lying among the piles of what a less-trained eye would call junk at Pakit Liquidators, and inspiration struck.

By midafternoon, Sweetman's vision of a pelican was coming to life, one recycled item at a time.

The belly was two bike....

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