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FRIDAY, MAY 23, 2014
Vol. CXXIII, No. 100
OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF THE CITY OF TACOMA Devoted to the Courts, Real Estate, Finance, Industrial Activities, and Publication of Legal Notices
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Sun King Rising
Moving Tacoma's massive Sun King involved more than heavy lifting Article and Photos By Todd Matthews, Editor Dan Cederlund was at the City of Tacoma's Fleet Operations Headquarters on Wednesday afternoon describing how Tacoma's Sun King—a three-ton, 15-foot-tall, 22-foot-wide bronze-andsteel sculpture—was recently restored when he paused. A contractor perched atop a ladder was reaching his arm inside a 2,300-pound section of the sculpture and grabbing for heavy-duty straps that would be fed through and around the piece. Meanwhile, another contractor was rolling out wrestling mats and laying down wooden planks to help cushion and lift the massive piece. Finally, a driver behind the wheel of a forklift was prepared to hoist the section onto one of three flatbed trailers waiting to carry their cargo on a roughly four-mile drive to a public park near Thea Foss Waterway. It was a precarious scene that caught Cederlund's attention. "If something goes wrong with this project, it's going to reflect on me," he said. "I'll have egg on my face." Cederlund is an experienced engineer. He worked in the construction industry for 20 years before landing a job at an engineering firm that designed a dry dock facility in Aberdeen, Wash., where the Washington State Department of Transportation is building pontoons as part of a project to replace a section CONTINUED of State Route 520 that ON PAGE 2 crosses Lake Washington in Seattle.
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