Waving flags: Sudbury's Bridge of Nations gets new additions

Seven new flags will be raised along Sudbury's Bridge of Nations today, representing the heritage of people in the Nickel City fromBarbados, Burundi, Egypt, Indonesia, Tunisia and Nepal and Palestine.

FahmiAzzeh ofPalestine has lived in Sudbury since 1969, and said though his home is a nation and not asovereign country, he's proud of its flag.

"It was my honour to see it. I was ... very, very proud," he said. "I see the Israeli flag on one side [of the bridge], and our flag on one side hopefully, you know, they join together and become peaceful."

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Francois Nzotungwanimanais one of 50 Burundians living in Sudbury. The engineer has lived here fro the last six years.

He said the raising of his country's flag is a "point of pride."

"If you were born even here, and grew up here, it's part of your identity."

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Keen-eyed observers will also note a flag of an unusual configuration flying on the bridge into downtown Sudbury: the Nepaliflag is theonly one in the world that istwo triangles rather than a rectangle.

"I think what it represents is we have a lot of mountains in Nepal," explainedPradyumnaRegmi, who was born and raised in Nepal, but now works in Sudbury.

Listen to the complete interview withPradyumnaRegmi on CBC radio'sMorning Northhere.