Absent ash stumps homeowner

Colleen Schmidt, CTV Calgary Published Friday, February 14, 2014 4:41PM MST Last Updated Friday, February 14, 2014 6:44PM MST

A Calgary woman put in a request to have the tree in front of her home pruned and was surprised to come home and see nothing but a stump and pile of saw dust.

Last summer, Mandy Wong emailed the city to have a large green ash tree on the edge of her property pruned because the branches were dying.

Wong says the mature trees are one of the reasons she settled in the community of Killarney in the first place.

We live in this area because its a mature neighbourhood all the big trees here, said Wong.

Wong says the city never responded to her email, the pruning was never done and instead the whole tree was removed sometime this week.

I came home from work looked outside all I see is debris and dirt. Where is my tree? They took down my tree without telling me, said Wong. This is outrageous at first I thought who would do such a thing? I'm like is it the city, we were trying to put the pieces together.

On Tuesday, construction crews that were working next door saw a tree removal company stop by.

"They brought their big truck here and then they put up this thing with their chainsaws and started cutting everything down, said Paul Basra.

The city says contractors were sent out to do the job.

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