Name: Beaver Island Deputy joins Charlevoix County Sheriff’s Posse and receives first-aid training, 1983
Start: 1983-02-23
End: 1983-04
Location: Beaver Island

Event

Dates: 1983-02-23 – 1983-04
Kind: Announcement
Eras: Modern era
Concepts: governmentpublic-serviceemergency-managementcommunicationcommunity
Within: Beaver Island

Summary

The April 1983 Deputy’s Office column described the Charlevoix County Sheriff’s Posse and Nancy Gebert’s approved membership, patrol-support duties, and February first-aid training with EMT Karen Bennett.

Evidence limits

This is a newspaper public-service and training account, not a posse roster, certification file, or departmental record.

Sources

From the Deputy’s Office, Beaver Beacon, April 1983.
Explains that the ten-member Charlevoix County Sheriff’s Posse assists regular officers without arrest or citation authority, and reports Nancy Gebert’s approved membership and training, possible mounted patrols, and February 23–24 first-aid classes with EMT Karen Bennett. This is a newspaper public-service and training account, not a posse roster, certification file, or departmental record. 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, April 1983, held issue PDF, source scan.
The held twelve-page April issue PDF is paired with the canonical OCR source and confirms the posse and first-aid report.
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Beaver Island Archive, “Beaver Island Deputy joins Charlevoix County Sheriff’s Posse and receives first-aid training, 1983”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-sheriffs-posse-and-first-aid-training-1983/, accessed [date], citing From the Deputy’s Office, Beaver Beacon, April 1983. (and 1 further source listed on the page).

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