Name: Beaver Island Deputy teaches school bicycle and pedestrian safety, 1983
Start: 1983-05-23
End: 1983-06
Location: Beaver Island Community School

Event

Dates: 1983-05-23 – 1983-06
Kind: Education
Where: Beaver Island Community School
Carried out by: Beaver Island Community School
Eras: Modern era
Concepts: educationpublic-servicetransportationcommunication
Within: Beaver Island

Summary

On May 23, 1983, Nancy and Ham Gebert visited Beaver Island Community School classes for pedestrian, bicycle, moped, and motorcycle safety instruction. The column also announced bicycle registration and a planned obstacle course whose successful riders would receive a “Beaver Island Bicycle Driver’s License.”

Evidence limits

The newspaper reports the programme and intended recognition, not the later obstacle-course results or a complete participant list.

Sources

Pedestrian, Bicycle, Moped and Motorcycle Safety Program, Beaver Beacon, June 1983.
Reports Nancy and Ham Gebert visiting the Community School on May 23, teaching pedestrian and bicycle safety to grades 1–6 and bicycle, moped, and motorcycle law and safety to grades 7–12, with bicycle registration afterward. It announces an end-of-school obstacle course in which students demonstrating safe riding and hand signals would receive a “Beaver Island Bicycle Driver's License.” This is a newspaper school-program report, not a roster, curriculum, or license registry. The holding institution's portal restricts automated access; the archive holds a copy of this issue and can provide it on request.
data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 1983-06_Beaver-Beacon
Beaver Beacon, June 1983, held issue PDF, source scan.
The held nine-page June issue PDF is paired with the canonical OCR source and confirms the school safety programme.
data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 1983-06_Beaver-Beacon
Bicycle Safety, Beaver Beacon, August 1983.
Reports that nineteen kindergarten-through-seventh-grade students completed a June 1 bicycle-safety obstacle course at the school and received Beaver Island Bicycle Driver's Licenses after correctly navigating the imaginary streets. It is a newspaper programme report, not a license registry or complete student roster. The holding institution's portal restricts automated access; the archive holds a copy of this issue and can provide it on request.
data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 1983-08_Beaver-Beacon
Beaver Beacon, August 1983, held issue PDF, source scan.
The held eleven-page August issue PDF is paired with the canonical OCR source and confirms the reported obstacle-course outcome.
data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 1983-08_Beaver-Beacon

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Cite this article

Beaver Island Archive, “Beaver Island Deputy teaches school bicycle and pedestrian safety, 1983”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-school-bicycle-safety-program-1983/, accessed [date], citing Pedestrian, Bicycle, Moped and Motorcycle Safety Program, Beaver Beacon, June 1983. (and 3 further sources listed on the page).

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