Flashback Monday: On Thin Ice

In the wake of this morning's near-apocalyptic storm, let's set the controls of the Earth-Toned Wayback Machine to a slightly more snowy day on Lake Anne, where a well-organized militia of youth are using push brooms to clear off a perfectly square portion of Lake Anne in anticipation of... what exactly? An impromptu bocce court in the only place it's allowed? A designated smoking area more than 50 feet from an RA facility? Speaking of which, was this activity condoned? Let's take a closer look:

Hey, nice sign! No truth to the rumor that these rulebreaking lads would later be named Most Likely To Have Their Cars Clamped By Some Futuristic Device In A Fake Downtown Parking Garage That Doesn't Exist Yet in a South Lakes High School yearbook sometime in the eighties, the end.