Summary
Bill Wagner is identified in the April–May 1971 Beaver Beacon as Beaver Island’s fire officer for the issue’s weather reports and as a leader, with “Bud” Mc Donough, of the April 11 fire-equipment demonstration.
Evidence and limits
This is a source-qualified episode and occupational record. The held issue does not establish Wagner’s full legal name, dates, department affiliation, or later career.
See also
Sources
- Beaver Beacon, April–May 1971, “Weather” and “Future Firemen.”Identifies Fire Officer Bill Wagner as the source of March and April weather reports and names him as a leader of the April 11 fire-equipment demonstration; it does not provide a full civil biography or department record.
- Beaver Beacon, March 1973, “Game News.”Names Fire Officer Bill Wagner in the Greenes Lake goose-platform and wood-duck nesting work; the notice does not establish agency appointment, project completion, or a full civil biography.
- Beaver Beacon, February 1974, “Weather,” “Game News,” and “Beaver Island Public Hearing Notice.”Identifies Fire Officer Bill Wagner as the January weather reporter, names him with Dick Burris in about ten acres of browse cutting, and addresses written zoning comments to Bernard Wagner as St. James Township Zoning Board chair. The exact full-name/nickname continuity is compatible with the existing Bill Wagner record but remains source-qualified.
- Beaver Beacon, March 1974, “Weather” and “Game News.”Identifies Bill Wagner as the February weather reporter, names him with Sheldon Parker in aerial salt-block placement, and says he supervised Paul Kenwabikisssee’s D.N.R.-approved harbor-ice test netting; it does not provide a full civil biography or agency record.
- Beaver Beacon, May–June 1974, “Weather.”Identifies Bill Wagner as the reporter of the April and May 1974 weather summaries; the issue supplies daily high, low, precipitation, snowfall, and fog totals but no further civil biography.
- Beaver Beacon, August 1974, “Weather.”Identifies Bill Wagner as the reporter of the July 1974 weather summary; the issue supplies daily high, low, average, and rainfall totals but no further civil biography.
- Beaver Beacon, December 1974, “Weather.”Identifies Fire Officer Bill Wagner as the reporter of the November 1974 weather summary; it supplies daily high, low, average, precipitation, and snowfall totals but no further civil biography.