City harvests a holiday tree for Honolulu City Lights
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CRAIG T. KOJIMA / CKOJIMA@STARADVERTISER.COM
City & County workers tie up tree for transportation. Mayor Blangiardi and city crews will coordinate the effort to harvest and transport a 55-foot Cook Pine tree, to serve as the centerpiece for the Honolulu City Lights holiday celebration returning to the grounds of Honolulu Hale this December.CRAIG T. KOJIMA / CKOJIMA@STARADVERTISER.COM
Mayor Blangiardi and city crews will coordinate the effort to harvest and transport a 55-foot Cook Pine tree, to serve as the centerpiece for the Honolulu City Lights holiday celebration returning to the grounds of Honolulu Hale this December.CRAIG T. KOJIMA / CKOJIMA@STARADVERTISER.COM
Mayor Blangiardi and city crews will coordinate the effort to harvest and transport a 55-foot Cook Pine tree, to serve as the centerpiece for the Honolulu City Lights holiday celebration returning to the grounds of Honolulu Hale this December.CRAIG T. KOJIMA / CKOJIMA@STARADVERTISER.COM
Cameraman Bob Kramer, Kailua resident, Patti Fukada, and tv reporter, Dallis Ontiveros took a selfie before tree was cut.CRAIG T. KOJIMA / CKOJIMA@STARADVERTISER.COM
City & County worker, Vernon Gutina cuts of bottom limbs of tree.CRAIG T. KOJIMA / CKOJIMA@STARADVERTISER.COM
City & County worker, Vernon Gutina, finishes up cutting of tree.CRAIG T. KOJIMA / CKOJIMA@STARADVERTISER.COM
Top of tree is gently lifted to ground.CRAIG T. KOJIMA / CKOJIMA@STARADVERTISER.COM
City and County worker, Vernon Gutina, starts cutting down tree.CRAIG T. KOJIMA / CKOJIMA@STARADVERTISER.COM
Charlie Fukada, left, Susan Peterson, Kainoa Peterson, Caitlyn Luff, and Alika Peterson had a front row seat to the tree cutting.CRAIG T. KOJIMA / CKOJIMA@STARADVERTISER.COM
Mayor Blangiardi and city crews will coordinate the effort to harvest and transport a 55-foot Cook Pine tree, to serve as the centerpiece for the Honolulu City Lights holiday celebration returning to the grounds of Honolulu Hale this December.