- Date
- 1997-05
- Kind
- Announcement
- Where
- Beaver Island
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- maritimeconservationgovernancecommunicationcommunity
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
The May 1997 Beaver Beacon publishes a three-way clarification of a March Lakeland Boating “Talking Trash” article. St. James Township and Harbormaster Glenallen Felixson say the municipal Yacht Dock accepted boaters’ trash and that Beaver Island had no garbage crisis; author Dave Wallace replies that his column addressed inadequate trash storage on long-range cruising boats and was not alleging a bad island experience.
Evidence limits
This is a newspaper correspondence record, not an independent marina audit, transfer-station tonnage report, or legal finding about waste service.
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Sources
- St. James Township and Harbormaster Glenallen Felixson reject the article’s implication of a Beaver Island marina garbage crisis and describe municipal dock trash access and the transfer station; author Dave Wallace clarifies that his column focused on boat trash storage and did not claim a bad island experience. 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 · 1997-05_Beaver-Beacon
- The held issue scan confirms the three-way correspondence.data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 1997-05_Beaver-Beacon
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Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Beaver Island officials and a boater clarify a 1997 “Talking Trash” marina dispute”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-yacht-dock-talking-trash-response-1997/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, May 1997, letters responding to Lakeland Boating’s “Talking Trash.” (and 1 further source listed on the page).
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