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Health Center benefit dinner raises more than $6,100, 2008

Also Beaver Island Rural Health Center August 19 benefit dinner 2008

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TypeEvent
Date2008-08-19
WithinBeaver Island
ErasModern era
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Event
Date
2008-08-19
Kind
Fundraising
Eras
Modern era
Concepts
healthcarefundraisingcommunitycommunication
Within
Beaver Island

Summary

The August 19, 2008 Health Center benefit dinner at Nina’s Restaurant drew 152 reservations. The October report says the dinner and associated auction raised more than $6,100, including a $1,100 bid for a Mary Blocksma painting.

Evidence limits

These totals are the newspaper’s report and are not an audited financial statement or complete donor ledger.

Sources

  1. Beaver Beacon, October 2008, "Health Center Benefit Dinner Great Success."
    Reports 152 reservations, more than $3,000 from the Beaver Island Lodge, $2,000 in direct checks, a $1,100 Mary Blocksma painting auction, and more than $6,100 total raised for the Health Center. No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 2008-10_Beaver-Beacon
  2. The held issue scan confirms the benefit outcome report.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 2008-10_Beaver-Beacon

Added 5 August 2026. Recent changes

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Beaver Island Archive, “Health Center benefit dinner raises more than $6,100, 2008”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-health-center-benefit-dinner-outcome-2008/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, October 2008, "Health Center Benefit Dinner Great Success." (and 1 further source listed on the page).

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