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he saw the “pruning” job that
had been carried out on the

‘trees along: the. full fength of ;

‘the boulevard 7

BC. Tel agrees: to make amends .
"By! CHRIS LLOYD “mess,- I -was ,told I’ would -
Q _-have to see each and every.

_résident Charles Birch. could .
“hardly believe his‘eyes when. :~

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About tait ‘way up a every’
tree, where. ‘the telephone -

line passed‘ by; he found a:
chunk of branches ‘had been ”
hacked right back to the’

trunks, leaving a gap of
about five feeton every tree.

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“It’s complete rape,”
Birch stormed when he
began making phone calls
complaining about the
“butchery”. ;

_.“Paul Bunion could have
done it better,” he famed;
“It’s just a bloody great gash
the full length, like on a
hydro line.”

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He says residents used to
look out onto an attractive
mixture of evergreens which
lined the road. “Now you’ye
got trees with thick branches
at the top and bottom and
nothing in the middle.” -

What especially annoys
him, is that in the case of
B.C. Tel there seems to be
absolutely nothing to
prevent them from creating
this kind of eyesore.

“At one time i wanted to
clean out some trees on the
boulevard which were a

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happening.” the boulevard at Pemberton Heights. B.C. Tel has agreed to o send the contractofs

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one of the neighbors to get
their approval.’ .

Birch ‘felt the least the =

would be to go back and trim -
the trees so the missing .

exaggerated. -

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Graeme Stewart of public
relations explained that a
new line -is scheduled to be
put up there and the cutting
had to be carried out quickly
to make way for it.

But as a result of being
notified of. Birch’s feelings
about the job, he ‘said the
pruning contractors will be

trees and shape them back
into Proportion.

“The plan was to trim
them back anyway,” he said,
“but we're also going to be
talking to the people on the
street to tell them what's

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“IT’S RAPE,” says Charles Birch pictured, pointing to the unsightly pruning job on.

; back to do the job again. (Terry Peters photo) —
Stewart said: “I know. — a
some people have great’
reverence for trees so we
have to bear this in mind.”

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