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From a distance you can't quite tell what you're looking at. Only when you get close to these copper panels, which began going up at Pioneer Square on Wednesday, can you absorb the intricacies of the depicted images. There's the face of David Collins and other mining trailblazers. Nearby is the Bomber logo, a musician at a piano and the North Main and South Main head frames. Overhead there's an HBED plane; down below a pile of words and terms _ extension, 777 and snowshoe among them _ that help define us as Flin Flonners. This one-of-a-kind piece _ covering 60 square feet of intricately hammered copper _ is the work of gifted Flin F l o n a r t i s t Do u g Dmytriw. Dmytriw was commissioned to tell Flin Flon's story in a way it had never been told before. He certainly succeeded. Anyone who has to wonder why copper was chosen as the medium is... well, not a Flin Flonner. Our community wouldn't be here without all of the copper and zinc in the ground beneath us. O n We d n e s d a y Dmytriw and his helpers began installing several c o p p e r p an e l s th a t together form this metal mural. The location is the south wall of the park, beside Subway, just a few feet above the existing fountain enclosure. Being installed on both sides of the mural are waterways, made appropriately enough of zinc, down which water will continuously flow into the fountain. With the likes of Collins, CV Whitney and Tom Creighton featured, this installation goes a long way toward emphasizing the 'pioneer' in Pioneer Square. Jonathon Naylor Editor
