Whitefish dinner raises funds for Beaver Island EMS and rescue boat, 1988

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Event

Date: 1988-06-11
Kind: Fundraising
Where: Beaver Island
Eras: Modern era
Concepts: healthcareemergency-managementpublic-servicecommunitycommunication
Within: Beaver Island

Summary

A June 11, 1988, whitefish dinner at Stoney Acre Grill raised $480 for Beaver Island ambulance and rescue-boat training and equipment. The June Beaver Beacon reports 55–60 diners and says the vehicles were displayed for public inspection.

Evidence limits

The newspaper reports the event and proceeds; it is not an audited fundraising ledger or equipment inventory.

Sources

“A Whitefish Dinner at Stoney Acre Grill,” Beaver Beacon, June 1988.
Reports the June 11 dinner, donated food and money, $480 raised, 55–60 people served, display of the ambulance and rescue boat, and the planned July cookout. 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, June 1988, held issue PDF, source scan.
The held twenty-page June issue PDF is paired with the canonical OCR source.
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Beaver Island Archive, “Whitefish dinner raises funds for Beaver Island EMS and rescue boat, 1988”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-ems-whitefish-dinner-fundraiser-1988/, accessed [date], citing “A Whitefish Dinner at Stoney Acre Grill,” Beaver Beacon, June 1988. (and 1 further source listed on the page).

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