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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