- Date
- 1982-02-25
- Kind
- Award
- Where
- The Shamrock
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- economycommunitycommunication
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
Vera Timsak won a reported $10,000 lottery prize on February 25, 1982, after buying a ticket at the Shamrock.
Evidence limits
The Beacon profile preserves the reported win and local context but not an independent lottery or financial record.
Sources
- Reports Vera Timsak winning $10,000 on a lottery ticket purchased at the Shamrock on February 25 and describes her family, island work, and trip to cash the ticket. It is a newspaper profile, not a lottery commission or financial record. 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 · 1982-04_Beaver-Beacon
- The held sixteen-page April issue PDF is paired with the canonical OCR source and confirms the profile.data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 1982-04_Beaver-Beacon
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Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Vera Timsak wins a $10,000 lottery prize at the Shamrock, 1982”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-vera-timsak-lottery-win-1982/, accessed [date], citing Jacqueline LaFreniere, “Beaver Island People,” Beaver Beacon, April 1982. (and 1 further source listed on the page).
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