The Los Angeles Times from Los Angeles, California • 194

VCV Thursday, March 24, llou Anflcleo Qlimoo Palm Desert Sculpture School to Cast Bronze Copy of Junipero Serra Statue preserving the original statue. The California Sculpture Center, which is part of the state community college system, submitted the lowest of four bids, which ran as high as $110,000 for the job. Hums said the restoration committee has so far raised about to pay for the bronze casting but hopes to raise another $30,000 to $50,000 to repay the city and cover the costs of By JESSE KATZ, Times Stall Writer Li WE'RE A NEW STORE EVERY WEEK! Shttp thetitleentun'-just rent it tv in tttitlitiuV tlisctirerttritjinttl, titttilitij inerthtintliscjimti Scttrs -till til much Itnret; Outlet Sttnv iritvs! WhaU'ver iiitt tit't'tl it's pntbtiblt just (tune on in, taki'ti Itmk, ijitu tititttjiitil Itmvr prices tint) where! traffic island in front of City Hall. And the concrete figure of Serra that stands there now will probably be donated to the county Historical Society Museum or the San Buenaventura Mission, which the Spanish missionary founded in 1782. Built by John Palo-Kangas, a Finnish-born sculptor from Mei-ners Oaks, the statue's sand-and-gravel aggregate has been affected by impurities from Ventura's sea air, causing it to crack on the outside and crumble from within.

Under the leadership of then-Councilman Russ Burns, the City Council voted in late 1986 to lend $15,000 toward the replacement effort until a fund-raising campaign could generate enough money to support the project. A $17,000 bid from a Palm Desert sculpture school to cast a bronze replica of Ventura's crumbling statue of Father Junipero Serra has been accepted by the Ventura City Council. Students from the California Sculpture Center estimated that it will take them about eight months to complete the 9-foot, 4-inch bronze statue, whose dimensions will be taken from a wooden replica that a team of volunteers has been carving in a downtown Ventura studio for more than a year. The wooden version, which is expected to be completed next month, will later be displayed in the new City Hall atrium. The bronze statue will be mounted on a black granite base on the small vmn rmm fai urn wr orr tw Twtm Jjgm 10-9 Saturday 10-6 Sunday 10-6 2730 E.

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