Name: Kathy Speck receives Beaver Island Chamber Citizen of the Year award
Start: 2012-05
End: 2012-05
Location: Beaver Island

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Event

Date: 2012-05
Kind: Award
Where: Beaver Island
Carried out by: Beaver Island Chamber of Commerce
Eras: Modern era
Concepts: communitymusiceducationpublic-servicecommunication
Within: Beaver Island

Summary

The May 2012 Beaver Beacon reports that Kathy Speck was named the Beaver Island Chamber of Commerce’s 2011 Citizen of the Year for long-running service through music, church, school, sports, civic, and business activities.

Evidence limits

The award year is 2011 although the newspaper feature appears in the May 2012 issue; the record preserves that distinction.

Sources

Beaver Island Chamber of Commerce, “Photo & Short Story - Citizen of the Year,” Beaver Island Forum, April 29, 2012.
The Chamber linked a photo and short story identifying Kathy Speck as Citizen of the Year. It corroborates the award identity; the Beaver Beacon remains the stronger source for the service-based rationale and award context.
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Beaver Beacon, May 2012, "Citizen of the Year."
Reports the Chamber presentation and nominations, including Kathy Speck's decades of musical, church, school, sports, civic, and business-community service. No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.
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Beaver Beacon, May 2012, held issue PDF, source scan.
The held May issue scan confirms the Citizen of the Year feature.
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Beaver Island Archive, “Kathy Speck receives Beaver Island Chamber Citizen of the Year award”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-citizen-of-year-kathy-speck-2012/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Island Chamber of Commerce, “Photo & Short Story - Citizen of the Year,” Beaver Island Forum, April 29, 2012. (and 2 further sources listed on the page).

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