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Beaver Beacon editorial highlights Beaver Island's winter civic work, 1987

Also Boring Winters Not Hardly · Beaver Island winter organizations editorial

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TypeEvent
Date1987-02
WithinBeaver Island
ErasModern era
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1987-02
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Summary

The February 1987 Beaver Beacon editorial “Boring Winters—Not Hardly!” describes winter meetings and volunteer work across Beaver Island’s civic, school, library, historical, and other organizations.

Evidence limits

This is a community perspective, not a complete organizational directory, attendance record, or governance inventory.

Sources

  1. An editorial argues that winter is when island organizations and committees conduct much of their work and invites more residents to participate. It is a community perspective, not a complete organizational directory, attendance record, or governance inventory. The holding institution's portal restricts automated access; the archive holds a copy of this issue and can provide it on request.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 1987-02_Beaver-Beacon
  2. The held twenty-page February issue PDF is paired with the canonical OCR source and confirms the winter-organizations editorial.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 1987-02_Beaver-Beacon

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Cite this article

Beaver Island Archive, “Beaver Beacon editorial highlights Beaver Island's winter civic work, 1987”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-boring-winters-community-organizations-1987/, accessed [date], citing Jacque LaFreniere, “Boring Winters -- Not Hardly,” Beaver Beacon, February 1987. (and 1 further source listed on the page).

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