Name: The 2006 Beaver Island Ice Classic tower falls and Richie Gillespie wins
Start: 2006-03-29
End: 2006-03-29
Location: Beaver Island

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Event

Date: 2006-03-29
Kind: Observation
Where: Beaver Island
Participants: Richard Lynn "Richie" Gillespie
Eras: Modern era
Concepts: communityfundraisingrecreation
Within: Beaver Island

Summary

The 2006 PABI Ice Classic tower fell at a reported 8:56 p.m. on March 29. The April 2006 Beaver Beacon and a follow-up forum post named Richie Gillespie as the winner, with a 4:45 p.m. guess; the forum directed readers to photographs of the sinking tower and clock.

Evidence limits

The result rests on contemporaneous organizer posts. The held forum material does not include the ticket ledger, prize payment record, or independent timing verification.

Sources

Beaver Beacon, April 2006, "A Winner."
Reports that Rich Gillespie won the first Beaver Island Ice Classic with a 4:45 p.m. guess after the tower sank at 8:56 p.m. on March 29. No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.
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Beaver Beacon, April 2006, held issue PDF, source scan.
The held April issue scan confirms the result report.
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Beaver Island Forum, “Ice Classic Tower is Down!”, March 30–31, 2006.
Forum organizer report gives an official time of 8:56 p.m. on March 29 and a follow-up names Richie Gillespie as the winner with a 4:45 p.m. guess, linking to PABI photos. It is a contemporaneous organizer report, but the held material does not include a ticket ledger or independent timekeeping record.
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Beaver Island Archive, “The 2006 Beaver Island Ice Classic tower falls and Richie Gillespie wins”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-pabi-ice-classic-2006-result/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, April 2006, "A Winner." (and 2 further sources listed on the page).

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