Helping Hands: S. Fox Island

The Fox Island Lighthouse Association (FILA) is a non-profit that has transformed one of the oldest and most remote light stations on the Great Lakes thanks to hundreds of helping hands after nearly two decades of renovation.

President of the Fox Island Lighthouse Association, Cathy Allchin, presented at the Suttons Bay-Leelanau County Rotary Club last week about the light station and its past and current projects.

“It is truly a little bit of paradise. You don’t have much cell phone service, but there’s nothing else out there except for you and the lake. We have been involved since 2006, actively going out to the island. There’s been a lot of major milestones,” Allchin said.