SEQUIM — Eight years ago, Judith Winthrop received one of the best gifts she could get — a $300 likeness of her deceased dog painted on the mural of Lehman’s Mark & Pak.
“It seemed like such a fantastic thing,” Winthrop said, to preserve the memory of her white, mixed terrier Harry O on the walls of the historical downtown grocery store.
But earlier this month, Winthrop and close to 900 people who funded the mural learned that the building’s new owner plans to remove the 155-foot landmark, despite a contract guaranteeing its existence for 20 years.
“It’s a mess, to say the least,” said Paula Schwab, who was a member of the former Sequim 2000 Committee that raised money for two years to commission the Washington Street mural.
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