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CANOGA PARK'S HUNTER TAKES NEW AIM ARTIST REPLACES MISSING MASCOT IN FUTURISTIC STYLE.(News)

Byline: DANA BARTHOLOMEW

Staff Writer

CANOGA PARK -- Artist Bill Walton returned to Canoga Park High School for the first time in 50 years last year to discover an unsettling enigma.

The school's proud Hunter mascot, the concrete Davy Crockett statue he'd carved for his alma mater, was gone.

"The first thing I asked was, 'Where's my Hunter?" said Walton, 71, who graduated in 1955 and attended a 50th reunion held last year. "Nobody knew what happened to it. Did somebody steal it? Did somebody break it? It was a mystery."

A mystery that would move him to fashion a new Canoga Park High Hunter -- a 7 1/2-foot coonskin-cap-clad sentry carved out of a half-ton ...

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