additional relief from their tree-lined background. The few cents per case additional cost for the color topped targets would be carried by an increase in target fees to $1.75 per round.

Twelve new members helped the Club accomplish a record total of 3475 rounds shot, up 11 percent over 1978, and among them were high school teacher Louis Daley; electrician Tony Kelly; former member Doug Wood; and juniors Ronnie Cameron, Shane Carmody, Mark Jewell, and Myles MacDonald.

The Charlottetown Trap and Skeet Club at Mount Albion was alive and, most important, it was growing. Winter shooting, too, had grown from a fad in the mid- seventies, to a well attended and competitive part of the Club's operation. The executive and directors were now meeting regularly and taking their responsibilities very seriously. They realized that they were part of a growth cycle that had the potential to lift clay target shooting in this area to heights of activity yet unknown.

With the early Eighties came a continued effort to sustain the growth pattern that had been established over the preceding few years. It wasa success story, and every success story has an incident, or a series of happenings, that triggers a change in the normal routine. In the case of the Charlottetown Club it was undoubtedly the lead content developing in the soil on the Ings' farm in 1971, necessitating a commitment to move, purchase new property, and provide the organization with the dedication and desire required to become successful.

It did not happen overnight; actually the Club took a full decade to mature. The strength established was evidenced when, in 1982 during a worldwide economic depression that had many monetary systems and financial empires on the verge of collapse, the Charlottetown Trap and Skeet Club registered a record breaking total of 4479 rounds

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