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14 THE PALM BEACH POST WEDNESDAY, MARCH 19, 2008 0 Home on the range CONCERT ''''m'- v-Ji March 22, 2008 Dvorak: Slavonic Dance No. 9 Gounod: Ballet Music from Faust Rimsky-Korsakov: Procession of the Nobles from Mlada Bizet: L'Arlesienne Suites Tchaikovsky: Pas de Deux from The Nutcracker LOREN HOSACK1984 Palm Beach Post file photo Skeet shooters hone their skills at the Palm Beach Trap and north of Lake Worth Road. Then, it moved to south of where The Skeet Club range near Wellington in May 1984. From the mid- Mall at Wellington Green is today. In 2005, the land was sold to 1950s through the mid-1980s, the club was on Jog Road, just a developer.

SNEAK PEEK! 2009 SEASON In celebration of Mendelssohn's and Lincoln's 200th birthdays: JANUARY 10, 2009 Mendelssohn's Piano Concerto FEBRUARY 14, 2009 Copland's A Lincoln Portrait with special guest narrator MARCH 28, 2009 Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto Gun club, military post shared range Concert Location: Boynton Beach Community High School 4975 Park Ridge Boynton Beach From Gateway Blvd, south on High Ridge Rd. (1st light west of 1-95, left, or 4 lights east of Congress, right.) High Ridge dead-ends at the school. Beach County commissioners approved a deal for an 81-acre public outdoor gun range at 20-Mile Bend off State Road 80. The project stalled and goes back to the commission in May. Special thanks to staff researcher Melanie Mena.

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Call 820-3467 or 279-3467. Sorry; no personal replies. neighborhoodpbpost.com Last week we tracked down the gun club for which Gun Club Road is named. Here's more: The Palm Beach Gun Club started on Palm Beach in 1911. At some point it was moved to Old Okeechobee Road.

The club later moved to the location that inspired "Gun Club Road." Cruising the Internet, I found an essay titled "The Art of Shooting: The Life and Times of Arthur C. Jackson." It provides colorful descriptions of the club, circa 1952, and its relationship with nearby Morrison Field, now Palm Beach International Airport. "A good-sized storage to complete. Except for the lack of protection from the winds, there were no problems with the 300-meter range." In the mid-1950s, to make way for Gun Club Estates, the club moved to Jog Road, just north of Lake Worth Road. In the mid-1980s, the club moved to just south of where The Mall at Wellington Green is today.

Joe Fordham took over the club in 1990 and renamed it the Palm Beach Trap Skeet Club. In 2005, the 100 acres were sold to a developer for 200 homes. Fordham now runs a Wellington pro shop. In April 2007, Palm Eliot Kleinberg building was provided by the post engineers and they were able to share range facilities with the West Palm Beach Gun Club. It was a wide-open area and day and night the winds blew After the club gave its blessing, (an Air Force captain) contacted the post engineers with preliminary sketches of a modest four-point wooden structure, a project it took them three long months The Palm Beach Post PALM BEACH COUNTY -Tul; 'IS' CULTURAL COUNCIL.