The City of Mountlake Terrace this week installed a new sign at Lake Balllinger informing the lake-goers that public access to the lake’s Edmount Island isn’t allowed. The sign installation came after firefighters were called to the island Aug. 4 to put out a vegetation fire, believed to have been started by a campfire. The island has been closed to the public since an illegal barbecue sparked a stubborn and smoky peat bog fire on the island in July 2009, with hundreds of thousands of gallons of lake water used to fight the fire.
Thank you to the City of Mountlake Terrace.
Sad necessity. As a kid, many many decades ago, my friends and I would swim to the Island from Nile beach and explore. Real Huck Finn stuff. Another era lost to today’s youth.