To celebrate the millennium, the City of Burnaby introduced the Community Clay Sculpture Project as a lasting legacy. Keith Rice-Jones, with the assistance of his wife, Celia Rice-Jones—both accomplished local ceramic artists—supervised the construction of three structural poles representing Burnaby’s past, present, and future. Built of raw clay flue liners with low relief sculptural rendering on each of four sides, the images on the three 14 foot high poles were created by Burnaby residents, young and old, novice and experienced, with their personal creative interpretations of the theme of persistence.