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Beaver Island Civic Association uses Storytime to recruit members, 1984

Also Storytime with Aloysius · 1984 Civic Association membership appeal

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TypeEvent
Date1984-11-08
WithinBeaver Island
ErasModern era
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Event
Date
1984-11-08
Kind
Announcement
Where
Beaver Island
Carried out by
Beaver Island Civic Association
Eras
Modern era
Concepts
communitycommunicationheritagepublication
Within
Beaver Island

Summary

The November 1984 Beaver Beacon used “Storytime with Aloysius” to urge more participation in the Beaver Island Civic Association and announced its November 8 meeting at Township Hall.

Evidence limits

The piece is a public appeal, not a membership count or independent history of the association’s earlier projects.

Sources

  1. Uses a wood-fire metaphor to argue that the Civic Association needs participating members to sustain the Beacon, visitor information, family games, and fireworks, and announces the November 8 meeting at Township Hall. It is a membership appeal and editorial-style public service, not a membership ledger or organizational history. 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 · 1984-11_Beaver-Beacon
  2. The held nineteen-page November issue PDF is paired with the canonical OCR source and confirms the Civic Association appeal.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 1984-11_Beaver-Beacon

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Beaver Island Archive, “Beaver Island Civic Association uses Storytime to recruit members, 1984”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-civic-association-storytime-1984/, accessed [date], citing Storytime with Aloysius, Beaver Beacon, November 1984. (and 1 further source listed on the page).

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