and gain a family satisfaction as a bonus. This is more than evident at the Charlottetown Club where currently fifteen parent/child combinations en joy membership, participation, and travel together relative to the enjoyment of shotgunning...I know, because I benefit from this common bond that hopefully will last a lifetime.

Individual efforts in the early Eighties enforced the Club's position as Atlantic leaders in clay target games development. Bill Morrell, nominated in 1980 as one of Sport P.E.I.'s male athlete finalists, vaulted into Atlantic prominence as one of Eastern Canada's best skeet shooters winning a number of Atlantic titles and championships. He registered 150 straight targets in the Club's 1980 Rose Bowl win at Moncton, and established a new club 12 gauge long run record of 220 straight. Glen MacEachern, shooting Sspasmodically, took two Provincial Skeet Titles, and his smooth shooting style posed a serious threat every time he competed. Ronnie Atkinson, Jr., apart from his Atlantic accomplishments, became involved in International skeet shooting when he was one of three Canadian junior gunners selected to attend two weeks of intensive training at the United States Olympic Training Centre in Colorado Springs, Colorado. A year later, based on team trials at Ft. Benning, Georgia, and Montreal, he represented our Country at the 1982 Benito Juarez Games in Mexico City and came home with one of Canada's two medals, initiating his nomination for one of Sport P.E.I.'s top awards. Louis Daley, veteran gunner Harley Ings, and Dr. Ralph Kennedy were added to the Club's rather exclusive list of those who had achieved a 100 straight score at skeet. Roger Giddings came to prominence capturing two consecutive "Hyndman" Trophy titles as well as a Provincial Trap Championship, and yours truly just went along like old man river, winning an Atlantic title here, blowing an easy competition there, registering a winning 98 x 100 in the first doubles event shot in Canada, all the while continuing to enjoy every minute of it, and speculating what might have been had those seventeen years not been missed.

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