Name: Ken Bruland earns a paramedic license for Beaver Island service, 2006
Start: 2006-10-17
End: 2006-10-17
Location: Beaver Island

Event

Date: 2006-10-17
Kind: Award
Eras: Modern era
Concepts: emergency-managementhealthcareeducationpublic-servicecommunication
Within: Beaver Island

Summary

On October 17, 2006, Ken Bruland received his paramedic license after more than 1,000 hours of training. The Beacon described him as Beaver Island’s second year-round paramedic alongside Joe Moore.

Evidence limits

The newspaper report does not supply the licensing authority, training dates, or a complete account of Bruland’s subsequent service.

Sources

See the sources block above.

Sources

Beaver Island Forum topic 773, "Congratulations, Kayak Ken," October 18, 2006.
Joe Moore, writing as an EMS colleague, announces the October 17 license and attributes approximately 1,200 volunteer hours to Bruland; the thread includes Bruland's first-person thanks and identifies the training path. This is community and participant testimony, while the Beaver Beacon remains the stronger contemporaneous source for the documented license event.
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"Ken earns his Stripe," Beaver Beacon, November 2006.
Reports Ken Bruland receiving his paramedic license on October 17 after more than 1,000 hours of training and notes that he joined Joe Moore as a year-round paramedic. No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.
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Beaver Beacon, November 2006, held issue PDF, source scan.
The held issue scan confirms the license report.
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Beaver Island Archive, “Ken Bruland earns a paramedic license for Beaver Island service, 2006”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-ken-bruland-paramedic-license-2006/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Island Forum topic 773, "Congratulations, Kayak Ken," October 18, 2006. (and 2 further sources listed on the page).

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