Name: Beaver Island letter asks residents to stop damaging road signs, 1993
Start: 1993-07
End: 1993-07
Location: Beaver Island

Beaver Island letter asks residents to stop damaging road signs, 1993

Also Sheri Timsak Road-Sign Roulette letter

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TypeEvent

Date1993-07

WithinBeaver Island

ErasModern era

Event

Date: 1993-07
Kind: Announcement
Where: Beaver Island
Eras: Modern era
Concepts: infrastructurepublic-servicecommunitycommunication
Within: Beaver Island

Summary

A July 1993 letter to the Beaver Beacon asked Islanders to preserve road signs and stop damaging or removing them, describing missing signs as a public-safety and road-maintenance problem.

Evidence limits

This is a letter and editorial response, not a road-sign inventory, vandalism report, or enforcement record.

Sources

Beaver Beacon, July 1993, “Road-Sign Roulette.”
Publishes Sheri Timsak’s appeal to stop shooting, throwing rocks at, running down, or removing road signs, with an editorial response. The holding institution's portal restricts automated access; the archive holds a copy of this issue and can provide it on request.
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Beaver Beacon, July 1993, held issue PDF, source scan.
The held sixteen-page issue scan confirms the road-sign letter.
data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 1993-07_Beaver-Beacon

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Beaver Island Archive, “Beaver Island letter asks residents to stop damaging road signs, 1993”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-road-sign-safety-letter-1993/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, July 1993, “Road-Sign Roulette.” (and 1 further source listed on the page).

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