Why was ‘incredible’ giant cedar cut down, despite B.C.’s big-tree protection law?

Stan Shillington, a police reporter turned police spokesman, liked to play the numbers.As a young man, he was pressed into service as a scorekeeper for box lacrosse, a rough-and-tumble indoor game also known as boxla. On the West Coast, he became the sport’s official statistician and unofficial historian, logging numbers as well as lore.