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' « I INTELLIGENCER PHOTO BY JEREMY ASHLEY Local artist Henk Frijters began painting a metre-high Fiberglas tulip earlier this month. Frijters is one of 150 artists from across Canada commissioned by the City of Ottawa to paint a tulip to mark the city's 150th anniversary. Like the others, his creation will be on a special display at this spring's annual tulip festival in the nation's capital. ftPM