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CANOGA PARK'S HUNTER TAKES NEW AIM ARTIST REPLACES MISSING MASCOT IN FUTURISTIC STYLE.(News)
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Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
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September 28, 2007
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Copyright informationCOPYRIGHT 2007 Daily News. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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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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