PORT ANGELES — Ten speakers lamented the felling of the Lions Park sequoia this week in the first City Council meeting since the tree was cut. They decried Tuesday the controversial decision to cut the 42-year-old redwood on the morning of Jan. 3, a day not announced beforehand.
Council member Lindsey Schromen-Wawrin said the city failed the “don’t-make-little-kids-cry test for good government,” referring to two girls, 5 and 3 years old, who live near the park and cried when a city crew cut the 110-foot conifer before 8 a.m.
