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New whale sculpture making splash at Naperville school

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Artist Victoria Fuller incorporated several fish and underwater-themed tiles, made by students, into her whale sculpture outside Naperville's Highlands Elementary School.

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A concrete whale sculpture at Naperville's Highlands Elementary School is expected to have a much longer life than the previous sculpture made mostly from wood.

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Several former Highlands Elementary students will return to the school Thursday to participate in the dedication ceremony for a blew whale sculpture.

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Naperville's Century Walk Corporation and Highlands Elementary School will unveil the 39th Century Walk piece, a large concrete whale, Thursday afternoon outside Highlands Elementary School. The dedication comes 14 years after sculptor Joe LaMantia's 1997 unveiling of the original, mostly wooden whale at the school. Principal Susan Stuckey said the whale became a prominent figure in the school in 1983 when a student won a contest.

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