- Date
- 1987-05-08
- Kind
- Occurrence
- Where
- Beaver Island
- Carried out by
- Beaver Island Community School
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- environmenteducationcommunitypublic-servicecommunication
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
The annual Island Clean Up took place May 8, 1987. The June Beaver Beacon reports six trucks, school and community support, and student-led collection routes that removed litter, cans, car parts, and tires.
Evidence limits
The article does not provide a measured weight or complete inventory of the material collected.
Sources
- Reports six trucks, school departure around 8:30 a.m., routes collecting paper, cans, car parts, and tires, township/Civic Association/school-board gas support, and ninth-grade girls planning the cleanup. 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 · 1987-06_Beaver-Beacon
- The held seventeen-page June issue PDF is paired with the canonical OCR source and confirms the cleanup report.data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 1987-06_Beaver-Beacon
Added 4 August 2026. Recent changes
Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Beaver Island students and volunteers complete the 1987 Island Clean Up”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-island-cleanup-1987/, accessed [date], citing “Island Clean Up,” Beaver Beacon, June 1987. (and 1 further source listed on the page).
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