Editor:
I live in North Burnaby near Boundary and Cambridge. On my way home from work, I noticed that for two blocks north of Cambridge on Boundary all of the beautiful ornamental cherry trees on the Burnaby side of Boundary have been cut down.
I phoned Burnaby Mayor Mike Hurley and Burnaby director of parks and recreation Dave Ellenwood about this and both expressed sympathy and regret, and advised that the trees had to be cut down to make way for a new sewer line.
Ellenwood said he looked for another solution, but that there was nowhere else to put the sewer line as there are a lot of pipes already under the Boundary Road right of way.
He also said he signed the removal permits for the trees with great reluctance as he wanted to preserve as many trees as possible.
I have accepted this explanation and have a high opinion of both Hurley and Ellenwood, but still feel the loss of the trees personally.
Also, it is hard to believe that some other solution couldn’t have been found that would have allowed the sewer line to be installed without destroying those beautiful old trees.
Garth Evans, Burnaby
