- Date
- 2013-09-01
- Kind
- Opening
- Where
- Beaver Island
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- communityfirefundraisingheritagefamily
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
The August 2013 Beaver Beacon announces a September 1 dedication and open house for Carol’s Barn at the Island Treasures Resale Shop. The September issue reports that more than 100 people attended the grand opening, where project leaders spoke and Father Jim blessed the facility. The pole barn honors Carol LaFreniere and was supported by memorial donations and a Grand Traverse Band grant; shop proceeds support the Beaver Island Fire Department and EMS.
Evidence limits
The August and September issues establish the announcement and reported grand opening; they do not provide a complete accounting of construction costs or later operations.
Sources
- Beaver Beacon, August 2013, "Carol's Barn Dedication."Invites the community to the September 1 dedication and open house for a pole barn at Island Treasures, funded by memorial donations and a Grand Traverse Band grant, with resale proceeds supporting the Beaver Island Fire Department and EMS. No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 2013-08_Beaver-Beacon
- The held August issue scan confirms the dedication announcement.data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 2013-08_Beaver-Beacon
- Beaver Beacon, September 2013, "Carol's Barn."Reports that more than 100 people attended Carol's Barn's grand opening, where project leaders spoke and Father Jim blessed the facility. No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 2013-09_Beaver-Beacon
- The held September issue scan confirms the grand-opening report.data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 2013-09_Beaver-Beacon
- Island Treasures announced a Black Friday sale whose proceeds would support the Carol’s Barn building fund, and Beaver Island News on the Net later linked video clips of the event. This documents an earlier fundraising activity for the later barn project; it does not establish proceeds or construction funding totals.forum · www.beaverislandforum.com · 05 · t005772
- A participant thanked the community after the dedication, praised the building and commemorative sign, and invited people who missed the event to tour it. This first-person follow-up corroborates completion and community reception but does not replace the newspaper’s attendance estimate.forum · www.beaverislandforum.com · 06 · t006720
- forum · www.beaverislandforum.com · 06 · t006200
- The shop advertised Carol's Barn as filling with furniture, documenting continued use of the barn for resale inventory after the 2013 dedication. It does not establish inventory value, sales, or a new opening event. The shop announced that construction of Carol’s Barn would soon begin behind the resale shop, while describing the shop’s donation program and support for Fire Department and EMS. This contemporaneous operational notice supplies pre-dedication context but does not establish construction cost, funding totals, or completion.forum · www.beaverislandforum.com · 07 · t007460
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Beaver Island Archive, “Island Treasures announces the dedication of Carol's Barn in 2013”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-carol-lafreniere-barn-dedication-2013/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, August 2013, "Carol's Barn Dedication." (and 7 further sources listed on the page).
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