Name: Beaver Island Fire Department selects Skip McDonough for its 2004 celebrity roast
Start: 2004-05
End: 2004-05
Location: Beaver Island

Beaver Island Fire Department selects Skip McDonough for its 2004 celebrity roast

Also The Roast is On · Skip McDonough celebrity roast 2004

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TypeEvent

Date2004-05

WithinBeaver Island

ErasModern era

Event

Date: 2004-05
Kind: Fundraising
Where: Beaver Island
Eras: Modern era
Concepts: celebrationfundraisingcommunity
Within: Beaver Island

Summary

The Beaver Island Fire Department selected Skip McDonough as the target of its fifth annual Celebrity Roast, planned for Memorial Weekend 2004 as a fundraiser.

Evidence limits

The notice records the planned honoree and solicitation of stories, not the event’s eventual program or proceeds.

Sources

Beaver Beacon, March 2004, “The Roast is On”.
Announces Skip McDonough as the target of the fifth annual Celebrity Roast planned for Memorial Weekend and invites Islanders to submit stories. No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.
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Beaver Beacon, March 2004, held issue PDF, source scan.
The held issue scan confirms the event announcement.
data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 2004-03_Beaver-Beacon

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Beaver Island Archive, “Beaver Island Fire Department selects Skip McDonough for its 2004 celebrity roast”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-fire-department-celebrity-roast-skip-mcdonough-2004/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, March 2004, “The Roast is On”. (and 1 further source listed on the page).

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