VAGUE, VEXING MYSTERY LINGERS ON HILLSIDE ABOVE SCHOOL.Byline: Patricia Farrell Aidem Daily News Staff Writer The morning light has to be just so to discern the huge, yet faint, letter V on a mountainside abutting Valencia High School Valencia High School may refer to:
But as mysteriously as the work began more than two years ago, it stopped. ``We have no idea who did it. They worked on it when no one was around, plastic sheets covered it for a while, but the wind just took them away. Nobody ever claimed it,'' said Lex See yacc. 1. (tool) Lex - A lexical analyser generator for Unix and its input language. There is a GNU version called flex and a version written in, and outputting, SML/NJ called ML-lex. Luxmore, vice principal of the 4-year-old high school at the foot of the Sierra Pelona Mountains The Sierra Pelona Mountains, also known as, Sierra Pelona Range, are a rocky transverse range in Southern California. The mountains extend from Interstate 5 at Gorman, to the Antelope Valley Freeway at Vincent. . The work on the arid south-facing slope began during the site's second term, the 1995-96 school year, Luxmore said. The artists climbed the steep hillside and cleared the sparse vegetation from the slope to form the V. The letter is visible in the morning light of these summer days, but fades away as the sun shines on the hillside. ``I'm surprised anyone can even see it anymore,'' Luxmore said. The mountainside itself belongs to the Newhall Land and Farming Company The Newhall Land and Farming Company is a land management company based in Valencia, California, United States. The company is responsible for the master community planning of Valencia, as well as the management of farm land elsewhere in the state. . ``We don't know Don't know (DK, DKed) "Don't know the trade." A Street expression used whenever one party lacks knowledge of a trade or receives conflicting instructions from the other party. anything about it,'' Newhall Land spokeswoman Marlee Lauffer said. ``Maybe some kids did it?'' Luxmore figures some spirited Valencia High fans started the work, laboring on weekends when nobody was around, but never finishing the painstaking chore. ``We never saw anyone up there,'' he said. ``It was just there one day.'' CAPTION(S): Photo PHOTO (Color in Verb 1. color in - add color to; "The child colored the drawings"; "Fall colored the trees"; "colorize black and white film" color, colorise, colorize, colour in, colourise, colourize, colour SAC Edition only) Time has faded a large letter V carved into the hillside above Valencia High School a few years ago. The symbol's origin remains a mystery. Hans Gutknecht/Daily News |
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