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About 50 people, including 15 children, celebrated Arbor Day by planting cedar trees, picking up litter and removing invasive plants and bramble around Lake Ballinger in Mountlake Terrace on a warm, sunny Saturday morning.
Although the City of Mountlake Terrace has been hosting its annual spring cleanup for decades to celebrate Earth Day and Arbor Day. Park Supervisor Celina Williams said this is the second year that the City called the event Arbor Day in Action.
Councilmember William Paige, Jr. said he didn’t know there was a pond by the southern pier until he and other volunteers cleared out the blackberry bushes. “I’m out here doing this because of my community, and it’s great seeing people from all over the City,” he said. “The kids have so much fun doing this with their parents.”
He also said he is helping to support his wife Ellen Lavoie, who is a member of the Recreation and Park Advisory Commission. “This is like my fourth year doing this,” he said. “And every day, every time I come out here, I meet new people that came out here for the first time. I met one woman today who said, ‘I’ve been trying to get out here eight years, and finally doing this, and you know, it was great.’”
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