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NORTH Van craft artist Leslie Kobus’ “memory mir-
rors” are a collage of recycled objects including bro-
ken china and costume jewelry.

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North Shore
Recycling
issues awards

Layne Christensen

News Reporter
layne@nsnews.com

CRAFT artists Leslie
Kobus and Tookie
Mussato share this
year’s Green Christmas
award.

North Shore Reevcling
ereated the award last year to
draw attention to che exces-
sive amounts of waste trom
commercial gift wrap) and
excess packaging generated
by Christmas gift giving and
decorating.

Christmas Cite oes
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Winners were selected by

“people's choice” ballot at
last oo month’s — Delbrook
Christmas craft fair where the
14 contest entries were dis-
plaved.

Kobus’s “memory mir-
rors” and Mussato’s tin-can
model planes and helicopters
were judged best to promote
the 3Rs: reduce, reuse and
recycle. Their prize is a free
sales table at next year’s
Delbrook craft fair.

‘Serviced ~

Kobus is a self-described
“trash artist” who, in’ addi-
Hon to decorating mirrors
with antique jewelry and bits
of broken china, refurbishes
old furniture and painis floor
cloths.

She’s pursued coliage art
as a hobby for cight years and
is not averse to. sifting
through the trash or accept-
ing “worthless” junk from
friends to gather the raw
materials for her creations.

scards turned to art

Mussato began his hobby
following retirement from a
management position with
RC Rail five vears ago.

His biplanes, triplanes,
seaplanes, helicopters, golf
carts and “top wings” are
constructed from) recycled
beer cans and pop cans, with
struts and undercarriage
molded from metal coat
hangers.

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