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y "- w -y 4 _ SANOV (Or*.) POST Thur» Auflu»» 13. ” 97 (S*t H More People Reap Benefits From H&R Block Tax Course The course is ideal for those interested in tax preparation as a career or for those who want to learn about taxes for their own per sonal use The course is challenging and, for those who are highly motivated, can prove to be profitable as well No prerequisites are required for enrollment. Thousands of successful tax preparers started their careers with the H&R Block Income Tax Course H&R Block has been teaching income taxes for 30 years and this year is offering a basic income tax course starting September 14th with morning, afternoon and evening classes available. Sculptor Robert W. Cooke, right, discusses work with Maiden Bronze Foundry employee Mark Chlmlen- tl. Sculpture at left, entitled The Prospector, is being shipped to a shopping mall In Canada. Sandy foundry workers east sculpture for Canadian mall by CHRISTINE BIERMAN lor The Post When a bronze statue is erected this week at a huge shopping m all in Canada, some of Sandy's c ra ft smanship also w ill go on display The sculpture rolled out of the Maiden Bronze Foundry, 16600 S E 362nd Drive, on Saturday to start a 1,000-mile trip to the Edmonton, Alberta, mall. Workers at the Sandy bronze foundry spent the last eight weeks fran tically completing “ The Pro spector" sculpture in time for the m a il’s grand opening in mid- August, foundry spokesman Bob Walker said. The sculpture, by Robert W Cooke of Issaquah, Wash., w ill be displayed on the firs t floor of the seven -sto ry E aton C entre in downtown Edmonton, the provin cia l capital. The piece depicts a Klondike-era m iner with his donkey who, upon returning to civilization to trade his gold fpr. supplies, " . . walks into the store and gets blown away,” said Cooke as he observed his sculpture undergoing its fin al coating Friday. The m iner's wide-eyed, open- mouthed expression seems to say, “ Well, it shore ain 't the town it use ta be," Cooke said. The larger-than-life m iner is sup posedly shocked by the size and glamour of the m all, w ith its pink m arble floors and seven-story atrium surrounded by four levels of stores and theaters. The three up permost levels are a hotel. A century earlier, Edmonton was a crossroads for miners traveling by land to the Klondike gold rush in Alaska, said Cooke, an Edmonton native. Cooke is being paid $35,000 to $45,000 for the piece by the Gherme- zian fam ily, which developed both the Eaton Centre and the larger West Edmonton Mall nearby. Given just five months to do the job, Cooke said he and the foundry worked at a record pace Maiden Bronze converted Cooke's original into bronze in half the usual time, Walker said. Cooke relies on Maiden Bronze's expertise, professionalism and speed after doing business with the foundry for four years, he said. “ They do a lot of monument stu ff." said Cooke, who does not. He sp e c ia liz e s in lim ite d - e d itio n w ildlife bronzes, and this project is his most sizeable bronze so far In choosing the Sandy firm for the job, Cooke said, “I might have been pickier than a lot of people because I do my own casting. I understand the processes." Without time to have Cooke's original enlarged firs t, Maiden Bronze employees transformed the wood and clay study directly into the bronze work. Walker said Once the master arrived at the foundry, workers there put in long hours on the molding, the assembly of 100 bronze pieces, and the finishing work, or patina "T h a t’s damn fast,” Cooke said of the timeline. " I ’m not doing that again." Cooke trucked his 550-pound work to Edmonton, where he was super vising its installation near the m ail's ground-level main entrance. The artist purposely left off a base, reasoning that it w ill appear as if, "H e ithe miner» has come in just like everyone else has come in ." Cooke described his subjects as "a friendly sort of guy and a lovable sort of donkey. My intention is to have people really relate to it. I hope there are people climbing all over it." It is the first, and perhaps only, artwork in the mall. The bronze mountain man could have walked out of a history book, with one exception. "H e has made an effort to dress up," Cooke noted, “ and the only thing he's got is his top hat." In his effort to recreate a miner of the 1890s, Cooke did heavy research on the Klondike days before spending 24 months on the prototype His study included inter views with high-country packers. As a result of his research, the knots in the sculpture are actual diamond hitches. Racing a tight deadline, Cooke said he used the “ assemblage" technique for some of the miner's gear strapped on the donkey. Assemblage means that the pack, water jug and shovel are actual to o ls in c o rp o ra te d in to the sculpture. Both the pack and water jug are antiques that traveled across the Canadian Rockies with the Cana dian Railroad; the shovel has a hand-carved handle. Once the original arrived in San dy, molds were made, followed by the casting of almost 100 pieces in four days. Those pieces were joined using chains, binders, hydraulic jacks and pneumatic presses, and then welded. 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