Name: Beaver Island Veterans Day observance is canceled while COA provides veterans meals, 2020
Start: 2020-11-09
End: 2020-11-11

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Event

Dates: 2020-11-09 – 2020-11-11
Kind: Observance and meal service
Where: Beaver Island · Welke Airport
Eras: Modern era
Concepts: veteranspublic-memorycommunityagingpandemic
Within: Beaver Island

Summary

Beaver Island’s formal 2020 Veterans Day observance was canceled because of COVID-related school unavailability, high winds, and limited AMVETS membership on the island. The Veterans Park remained a site of remembrance, while the Commission on Aging provided packaged roast-beef meals for veterans at Welke Airport and later made unclaimed meals available through its office.

Evidence limits

The AMVETS and township notices establish the cancellation and public-memory context; the COA notices establish the announced meal service. Neither source provides attendance, meal counts, or a record of an in-person ceremony.

Sources

Beaver Island COA, “COA Veteran Day announcement” and “COA End of Month update,” Beaver Island Forum, October 22 and 29, 2020.
Advance and follow-up COA notices sought veteran meal reservations, later confirmed packaged hot roast-beef meals with trimmings, and described emergency-meal and food-support logistics. They establish planning and service messaging, not the number of meals served.
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Beaver Island COA, “COA Veteran Day announcement” and “COA End of Month update,” Beaver Island Forum, October 22 and 29, 2020.
Advance and follow-up COA notices sought veteran meal reservations, later confirmed packaged hot roast-beef meals with trimmings, and described emergency-meal and food-support logistics. They establish planning and service messaging, not the number of meals served.
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AMVETS Post 46, “Veterans Day 2020,” and St. James Township acknowledgment, Beaver Island Forum, November 9–11, 2020.
AMVETS Post 46 announced that its formal Veterans Day observance would not be held because members were off-island, high winds were expected, and the school was unavailable because of COVID-19. The post directed people to the Veterans Park bricks and preserved the observance’s public-memory purpose; the township later expressed thanks to veterans and past organizers.
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Beaver Island Commission on Aging, “COA Veterans Day lunch,” Beaver Island Forum, November 10–11, 2020.
The COA announced packaged hot roast-beef meals for Beaver Island veterans at Welke Airport on November 11 and then offered unclaimed refrigerated meals at no charge from the COA office. This establishes the announced distribution and follow-up availability, not the number of veterans served.
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Cite this article

Beaver Island Archive, “Beaver Island Veterans Day observance is canceled while COA provides veterans meals, 2020”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-veterans-day-observance-and-coa-meal-2020/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Island COA, “COA Veteran Day announcement” and “COA End of Month update,” Beaver Island Forum, October 22 and 29, 2020. (and 2 further sources listed on the page).

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