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Beaver Island organizers thank volunteers after 2008 carnival

Also Thank You for the Carnival 2008

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TypeEvent
Date2008-07
WithinBeaver Island
ErasModern era
On this page
Event
Date
2008-07
Kind
Celebration
Eras
Modern era
Concepts
communitycelebrationfundraising
Within
Beaver Island

Summary

The August 2008 Beacon published a thank-you after the Fourth of July carnival, recognizing community members who supplied time, labor, materials, food, and organizational support.

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The acknowledgment does not provide a complete volunteer list, attendance count, or financial statement.

Sources

  1. Carnival director Diane McDonough thanks setup, game, food, dunk-tank, face-painting, cleanup, and sponsor contributors and calls the carnival a success. This is a first-party acknowledgment, not an attendance or financial report.
    forum · www.beaverislandforum.com · 01 · t001199
  2. Beaver Beacon, August 2008, "Thank You for the Carnival".
    Thanks the people who donated time, labor, materials, food, and organizational help to the Fourth of July carnival. No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 2008-08_Beaver-Beacon
  3. The held issue scan confirms the acknowledgment.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 2008-08_Beaver-Beacon
  4. Carnival director Diane McDonough names volunteers, sponsors, games and food workers, and says the 2008 carnival was a success; a participant remarks that the ticket line was long. This first-party acknowledgment enriches the newspaper account but provides no attendance or financial total.
    forum · www.beaverislandforum.com · 01 · t001199

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Cite this article

Beaver Island Archive, “Beaver Island organizers thank volunteers after 2008 carnival”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-carnival-thank-you-2008/, accessed [date], citing “Thank You to volunteers at 4th of July carnival,” Beaver Island Forum, July 14–15, 2008. (and 3 further sources listed on the page).

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