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Pemberton. “Heig hts.
resident Charles. Birch eould.

hardly. believe his eyes when. .

“he saw th pruning” job ‘that -
‘had been carried: out on the: .
‘trees along the full length 0 of,
“the boulevard.” Bo! “

“About half way: up. every.

‘tree, where: ‘the telephone
line passed’ by; che -found’a
chunk-of branches. had been
hacked. ‘right. -back* to’ the’
trunks, leaving a gap of

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

-.“Paul Bunion could have

done it better,” he fumed?
“It’s just.a bloody great gash
the - full length, - like on .a
hydro line.”

tens

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 middie.” — «

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

pide I “was told I would
~ have. to. see, each and every

“new line is scheduled to be

to make way for it.

one of the. neighbors to get
their, approval.” me

* Biren felt” the. least the y

cutting: contractors could do
would be.to go back and trim»
othe “treesso. the. missing ”

“chunk . did not appear _so

exaggerated.
ACTION RESPONSE

> And following a call from
_ the News to B.C. Tel that’s.

%,

"Gracie Stewart of f public
relations explained that a

put up there and the cutting
had to be carried out quickly

‘But as a result of being
notified of: Birch’s . feelings —

about the’ job, he said the’
pruning contractors will be .
sent:back there to tidy up the
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
happening.” ,
Stewart. said: “Y now:
some people have ‘great’:
reverence for trees so we
have to bear this in mind.”

He added: “The fact that
you called us underscored
the fact -that some work
needed to be done.”

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“about five feet.on. every tree. se ol

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

the boulevard at Pemberton Heights. B

hackt to ydo the job eeein. (Terry Peters photo) _

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