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Heart finds home in Wahoo

By Lisa Brichacek
Oct 10, 2017
Oct 10, 2017 Updated Jul 1, 2020
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HEART DELIVERY: Fiberglass Animal and Objects Deliverymen Vincent Bye and Landon Keough carefully take the 6 foot heart off the trailer in preparation for its move inside the Wahoo Performance-Learning Center. (Staff Photo by Lisa Brichacek)

WELCOME HEART: Tom and Sandy Massie, Terri Elliott and Debra and Mike Mowrey stand next to the mosaic heart created by former Wahoo High School Teacher and Coach Lynn Wilson. The heart was purchased in Lincoln at auction Oct. 8 and will live in the Wahoo Performance-Learning Center. (Staff Photo by Lisa Brichacek)

METICULOUS ARTWORK: Lynn Wilson sits in her Lincoln home, its walls decorated with her mosaic art. Wilson, who taught art at Wahoo High School for 30 years, began mosaic artwork after being diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease in 1993. (Staff Photos by Alyssa Sobotka)

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By Lisa Brichacek

WAHOO – The heart is home.

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