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The family of homeowner Rachel Wier band together to cut up and clear a large ponderosa pine that landed and blocked the road at 4100 N. Hawthorne Street, Wed. Nov. 18, 2015. (Colin Mulvany / Spokesman-Review)
By D.F. Oliveria daveo@spokesman.com(509) 319-0354
The family of homeowner Rachel Wier band together to cut up and clear a large ponderosa pine that landed and blocked the road at 4100 N. Hawthorne Street, Wed. Nov. 18, 2015. (Colin Mulvany / Spokesman-Review)
The family of homeowner Rachel Wier band together to cut up and clear a large ponderosa pine that landed and blocked the road at 4100 N. Hawthorne Street, Wed. Nov. 18, 2015. (Colin Mulvany / Spokesman-Review)

I think that I shall never see
a stump as lovely as a tree,
and if more windstorms come to call
perhaps I’ll see no trees at all.

The Bard of Sherman Avenue
(with apologies to Joyce Kilmer and Ogden Nash)

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