- Date
- 2010-12-04
- Kind
- Community event
- Where
- Beaver Island
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- communityeconomycelebrationmemorialfundraising
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
Beaver Island businesses organized a December 4, 2010 after-hours holiday shopping event, with extended openings, discounts, Santa pet photographs for Animal Fund donations, and related Community Center activities. The Community Center also announced a remembrance-tree decorating and 6 p.m. lighting during the same holiday program.
Evidence limits
The forum preserves a detailed coordination thread but no attendance, sales, donation total, or separate post-event account. The businesses’ promotional claims are treated as advertised terms, not audited results.
Sources
- Participants credited John Bowie and Larry Forth with donating garlands made by Heidi for Main Street pocket gardens, and the Community Center with coordinating Moravian Christmas Stars and a Remembrance Tree lighting. This is community testimony and a public appreciation notice, not a formal donor ledger or attendance record.forum · www.beaverislandforum.com · 02 · t003011
- The thread coordinated a December 4, 5–7 p.m. after-hours shopping event involving Power’s DoItBest Hardware, multiple businesses, Santa pet photographs benefiting the Animal Fund, and Community Center activities after the Christmas cantata. The forum contains encouragement and planning but no attendance or proceeds report.forum · www.beaverislandforum.com · 02 · t002991
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Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Beaver Island businesses and Community Center organize a holiday evening and remembrance tree, 2010”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-holiday-shopping-and-remembrance-tree-2010/, accessed [date], citing Pam Moxham, Cindy R., the Community Center, and participants, "picket fences," Beaver Island Forum, December 2–4, 2010. (and 1 further source listed on the page).
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