- Dates
- 2018-04-23 – 2018-05-20
- Kind
- Fundraiser
- Where
- place/welke-airport
- Participants
- person/caitlin-boyle
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- communityfundraisinghealthcare
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
From February through May 2018, Beaver Island organizers supported Caitlin Boyle and others undergoing cancer treatment through a planned fleece-hat sewing session and a medical fundraiser. The planned May 19 hangar party at Welke Airport was paired with a bank donation route, live and silent auction items, donated desserts, and an Island Airways ticket-donation arrangement for the event weekend.
Evidence limits
The forum establishes the fundraising campaign and its advertised mechanisms. It does not establish attendance, total funds raised, or medical outcomes.
Sources
- The thread announced a May 19 hangar-party fundraiser at Welke Airport, a bank medical-fund donation route, donated desserts, auction items, and Island Airways donations of $10 per one-way or $20 per round-trip ticket for May 18–20. The thread documents organizing and reported support, not total proceeds, attendance, or medical outcomes.forum · www.beaverislandforum.com · 12 · t012993
- The day-of notice listed food, live and silent auctions, and the Welke Airport hangar venue; a participant reported that the event was well attended and that auction items received bids. This is a participant impression, not an attendance or proceeds report.forum · www.beaverislandforum.com · 13 · t013089
- The thread invited islanders to a February 28 sewing session at Peaine Township Hall to make fleece hats for Caitlin and others undergoing chemotherapy or radiation, and requested fleece donations through the Library. The thread documents the planned community effort, not its attendance or completion.forum · www.beaverislandforum.com · 12 · t012780
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Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Beaver Island community organizes Caitlin Boyle medical fundraiser, 2018”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-caitlin-boyle-medical-fundraiser-2018/, accessed [date], citing Angel Welke and participants, “Help Caitlin Boyle Beat Brain Cancer,” Beaver Island Forum, April 23–May 20, 2018. (and 2 further sources listed on the page).
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