Markham Skeet and Trap December 2020 Newsletter

Markham Skeet, Trap, and Sporting Clays Volume 11 Issue 12 December 2020

2020 FLORIDA STATE TRAP DOUBLES CHAMPION ANDREW LOITZ

Markham Park Gun Club Youth Program Every Monday 6-9PM ATA Trap Sunday Dec 27th NSSA Skeet Saturday January 2nd BUD WOLFE CLASSIC Sunday, Dec 26th

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

OFFICERS AND BOARD MEMBERS 2020

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OFFICERS

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CLUB NEWS STEVE NORRIS SHOOTING INSTR.

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Shotgun Sports

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PRESIDENT—Vacant

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VICE PRESIDENT—Vacant

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TREASURER—Vacant

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SECRETARY— Joe Loitz

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RECORDING SECRETARY—Vacant

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TRAP & FIELD

DIRECTORS:

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CLAYTARGET NATION

Greg Ritch Sporting Chair

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BUD WOLFE CLASSIC

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SE REGIONAL SPORTING CLAYS

18-19 EVENTS CALENDAR 20-21 CLUB CALENDAR 22-23 SPORTING CLAYS CALENDAR 24-25 SPORTING CLAYS PROGRAM AND RESULTS 26-27 SKEET PROGRAM AND RESULTS 28

FSA SKEET CALENDAR

30-31 TRAP PROGRAM 32-33 TRAP RESULTS 34

YOUTH PROGRAM

Contact info: Markham Skeet, Trap, and Sporting Clays 11873 NW 30th Street Coral Springs, FL 33065 954-857-5278 

www.markhamsportingclays.org

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E-mail: jloit@bellsouth.net

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Newsletter: jloit@bellsouth.net

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Next General Meeting ON REQUEST FROM SECRETARY

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Club News On the cover this month is a picture of Andrew Loitz who won the Florida State Doubles Championship in November. Reanna’s spectacular performance preempted a picture honoring his championship so I thought it only appropriate to give him his due.

Of course then Reanna went and won the Richard Merritt Memorial Shoot by four targets to put an exclamation on here big November!

We had a nice turnout of 59 shooters for the event.

Luis Herrara shot a 90 for RunnerUp followed by Gary Gray with an 87 for high Masters winner.

The Skeet shoot was sparsely attended as have all the skeet shoots in South Florida lately. I think the big problem is larger shoots being held at other clubs due to the relaxing of COVID restrictions. Hopefully attendance will pick up.

The trapshoot was washed out after 50 Singles targets with Rafael Carballido leading the event with a lone 47. Tom Jett and Henry Ovares turned in matching 46’s to tie for the Runners-Up spot. We threw 200 Doubles targets later in the morning after the rain stopped and everyone had gone home. Alex

Riera won the first 100 with a 92 and Dax Demena won the second 100 also with a 92. We may be throwing 200 Doubles targets at our shoots on a regular basis if the membership wants them.

No news on the Palm Beach Club.

Latest rumor is that the Bunker Traps were installed incorrectly and the roofs of the traphouses are too low. Guess they aren’t going to open clay target shooting until they get that fixed.

We are moving forward with Trail and registered trapshooting. The trap machines have been worked on and are almost ready for the shoots. I am in contact with the mechanic and he gives me updates on the completion of the work.

Now just need to set some dates and register with the ATA. We will need help running these shoots. If you are interested contact me.

It is the holiday season and I hope you are all enjoying some time off.

Might want to spend it at the club.

See you there.

Joe Loitz jloit@bellsouth.net 954-857-5278

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STEVE NORRIS SHOTGUN SHOOTING LESSONS

With over 30 years of experience Steve Norris has established his reputation as one of the premier shotgun instructors in South Florida. Whether he is guiding a beginning shooter through their first shots or perfecting an advanced shooter’s game, Steve is the go to coach at Markham Park. He has worked with over 1,000 Youth shooters in

Markham’s Youth Program and has helped guide six of them to national championships. Steve is available for lessons in Trap, Skeet, and Sporting Clays. At $200 for three hours of instruction, targets included, Steve is by far the best shotgun instruction your money can buy!

Call him at: 754-264-9584.

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Magazine Review Shotgun Sports – November 2020 Self-analysis is essential to improving your game and Michael J. Keyes, M.D. provides us with more tools this month to improve our game. Michael, ever the researcher of the mental game, proposes using “chain analysis� to resolve situations where we have negative thoughts about a particular station or post.

All actions are the result of a chain of events.

Any successful action can be broken down into a series of prior actions. Failures are often problematic in their analysis. People are prone to thinking failures are a one-off situation, subject to the whims of fortune.

Not the right way to analyze your game.

Chain analysis scrutinizes the flow of actions bringing about an event, good or bad.

Identifying the individual actions required for success allows you to optimize those steps or actions so you can more easily adjust to changing conditions. Identifying actions that cause failure allows you to recognize and fix them. You must also be aware of your emotional state before and after the aberrant action. Negative emotions can have physical consequences such as tension and loss of visual attention. The key to chain analysis is finding out if there is a pattern to your successes and your failures?

Ask yourself, are there critical steps that determine a successful performance or are they all equal? Go through your checklist for a successful shot and compare your failed shot with it. Where did the misstep occur in the shooting process? Shooting diaries are important ways of spotting patterns in your shooting, either successful or unsuccessful ones. Start with the problem and work backwards to discover any underlying actions that sets up the failure. Once you find the misstep, fix the problem , and monitor the underlying actions to prevent them from causing problems in the future.

After finally developing a fix, repeat it and make it the new behavior, overwriting the old pattern.

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Shotgun Sports – December 2020 Michael J. Keyes, M.D. continues his pursuit of self-analysis in December’s issue.

This time he delves into problem-solving.

How do you improve your problem solving is the thrust of his message. Answers to problems come from an either logical or intuitive approach. Trial and error creates individual experiences allowing patterns to emerge and is one of the foundations of the logical approach. Through logical retrospection you can come to a solution to most problems. With practice and repeti-

tion, especially deliberate practice, you develop an intuitive sense for the game and solutions can come, sometimes in your sleep or out of the blue.

Michael relates a situation where his shooting partner was having troubles with rabbit targets. His friend had dabbled with several methods of attack and couldn’t find a consistently successful one. In the end he decided to stay with one method until it became second nature to him. Not necessarily the best approach according to Michael, yet it seemed to work. Perhaps sticking with one method until it became second nature would have revealed an intuitive insight if it hadn’t worked in the long term.

Michael suggests sticking with practice and repetition to develop your logical problem-solving abilities until your knowledge base evolves into one where your intuition develops. Layered learning is the best approach to building your intuition. Deliberate practice and layered learning go hand in hand. Consolidate the basics and fundamentals until they become second nature then when confronted by a problem, break it down into its components and conquer each component until you can put the solution together as a whole. In the end, improve your ability to learn and you will become better at analyzing your own shooting.

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Magazine Review Shotgun Sports – December 2020 Cont’d Here in Florida we still have time before the full extent of the shooting seasons start.

Mark H. Taylor gives insight on setting yourself up for success over the next season.

First, set goals. Mark suggests setting score goals, something I have issues with. Although his suggestion is a realistic score goal, shooting just above your current average, I don’t agree with score-based goals. Set a goal of perfecting your breaks. Work on hitting each target perfectly and if you have problems one particular target, work on figuring out why you aren’t perfect breaks.

Process based goals like perfecting your shot are better goals for your overall game.

Check your gunfit in the offseason.

Check your backup gun as well and practice with it one weekend a month.

Replace springs in your trigger and replace your firing pins. Examine your ejectors and other parts that may wear.

Schedule an eye exam. Can’t shoot what you can’t see.

Finally, watch videos, read shooting articles you’ve put

off, and visualize shooting targets. As I’ve read so many times from Gil and Vicki Ash, your mind doesn’t know the difference from a visualized target and the real thing.

Interesting recent synchronicity event, a student sent me a story last week of a POW in Vietnam who spent his 6 year interment visualizing his golf game. Every day he would pick out a course and play it in his mind.

He was a 90’s handicapper and on his arrival home he shot a 74 the first time out on the course. Mark also references this story in his article this month. Visualization is free practice and it works.

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Magazine Review TRAP & FIELD – 2020 November For the northern shooters, December is the off-season. For us it’s the start of a new shooting season. Ian Darroch has sugges-

tions for our northern brethren just as Mark Taylor does in his article. Like Mark, Ian suggests replacing springs and firing pins.

Planning out where I was going to shoot in the coming year was always one of my favorite activities when the snow was on the ground and Ian also thinks this is a good idea. Ian does like to practice every week regardless of the weather and sometimes 50 targets once or twice a week may be all you need to stay in the game for next season.

Ian suggests crosstraining in other shooting sports during the off-season. Continue to practice your gun mount to keep your muscles in shape.

Maybe even start a workout routine.

Some people reload in the off-season. I’m afraid this isn’t the popular pastime it once was except among skeet shooters.

Finally, set goals. I prefer the processbased goals and that’s where I’ll leave it.

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of angle targets initially. Slow down and you’ll quickly get the hang of it.

Jim Blevins talks about release triggers this month. He went to one 20 years ago. Still a virgin, I went to one in 1977. I’ve been using one longer than anyone alive. Who else is still alive from before 1977 who used one? They are a simple fix for most people when they run into a flinching problem.

They have become so common in trapshooting it’s hard to find a pull trigger in the game. They are flooding the skeet game at the same pace they did trap. I’m always surprised when I see on in sporting, but they are there is large numbers also.

Anyway, they’re simple to use and learn and in the hands of an experienced shooter, no more dangerous than a pull trigger. There is this. The release trigger is faster than the pull and you will end up shooting in front

Bob Palmer came up against a group of competitors who didn’t or couldn’t understand his zone concept this month, but the truth is, he didn’t understand how to relate his zone to their needs.

He was coaching a group of competitive swimmers whose only concern was faster times. In swimming and running, times determine whether you are an elite athlete or just locally good. A world class athlete in swimming or running is quantifiable. Bob couldn’t see that, but the swimmers are brutally aware of how fast they need to be to compete at the elite level.

Bob could have related how getting in the zone eliminates tension that could be counter productive to their stroke in the pool. This might have won them over.

Get in the zone and shave 3 tenths of a second off your lap time. They would have eaten that up. He missed his opportunity. Stick with John Shima’s mindfulness training and watching the target break.

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Magazine Review CLAYTARGET NATION – November 2020 How do you convert performance anxiety into something useful to the task at hand?

John Shima guides us into turning that anxiety into confidence this month. Anxiety is the product of uncertainty. Worry as to score, how others will view us if we fail, and the lack of perfection which we sorely expected of ourselves all create the anxiety that destroys our ability to shoot freely. We need to convert that anxiety into confidence. How do we do that? John explains it to us using the Mindfulness Acceptance Commitment (MAC). This is a mental approach that intervenes when anxiety appears. MAC enhances focus, poise, mindful attention, and experiential acceptance. Experiential acceptance means accepting what’s happening and converting it into something that’s useful.

which interferes with the shooting process.

Finally, fake it till you make it. Walk the walk and act like your game is perfect just the way it is. Accept that anxiety is part of competition and deal with it by focusing on the process.

In that regard, accept the fact you feel anxious then understand you need to convert it into something positive. Embrace the process and the stillness of mind that this provides. Quiet eye, quiet mind. Give yourself over to the process of shooting. Convert your anxiety into the anticipation of seeing the target emerge then allowing the process to take over. Focus on the process and the strengths it brings with it both mechanical and mental. Watch the target emerge! Stay positive and celebrate the good shots. Don’t let dark thoughts creep into your mind.

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OUTDOOR LIFE – Volume 4. 2020 In trap I’m really not aware of the front of the target. It’s easier to focus on the front of a target in skeet and sporting clays presentations. Joe Genzel is a writer I’m unfamiliar with but as a locus of focus there

is nothing better than the beak of a bird you’re trying to hit and he agrees. No matter how fast a duck or dove is coming at or

past you, picking out his head and or beak will get you a better chance for a kill that trying to shoot the bird’s body.

Mr. Genzel suggests working on your ability to mount to a flushing bird by standing behind a trap house and calling for the target in the low gun position. This means standing on Station 8 of the skeet field or closer. Trying to shoot a trap target from the low gun position at the 16 yard line isn’t going to be as affective as being 8 yards behind the house. The speed of a trap target (44 mph) at 16 yards doesn’t simulate hunting conditions as well as being 8 yards from the house. He also suggests shooting skeet targets from a stool or bucket as you would sitting in a blind. I like these exercises. They make sense and will work to improve your hunting skills.

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Fired less than 50 shells - asking $1,500 (negotiable) Call Gary: 954-240-6967 garylea@bellsouth.net 14

Beretta 682 Golden Skeet 30� barrels excellent condition with choke tubes Stock has a high gloss finish done by Pedro Bernal asking $3,000 Give a call to: Phil Keagy 954-258-0085 15

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10704 Wiles Road, Coral Springs, FL 33076 954-846-2336

Concentration and mental toughness are the margins of victory.

Bill Russell

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Registered Shooting and Events in South Florida Gun Shows WPB South Florida Fairgrounds December 19-20th

Skeet Markham Trail Glades So. Florida Markham

December 5th December 12th December 19th January 2nd

Trap South Florida Gulf Coast Markham Gulf Coast

December 5th December 6th December 27th January 10th

Sporting Clays Vero Beach Quail Creek

December 5th December 6th

South Florida

December 9-13th

OK Corral

December 19th

Concentration is a fine antidote to anxiety.

Markham

December 26th

Jack Nicklaus

Gulf Coast Clays December 13th

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Sun

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1 Skeet Night

2 Trap Night

3 4 Sporting Clays

Sat 5 Skeet Tourney

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7 Youth Night

8 Skeet Night

9 Trap Night

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14 Youth Night

15 Skeet Night

16 Trap Night

17 18 Sporting Clays

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21 Youth Night

22 Skeet Night

23 Trap Night

24 25 26 Sporting CLOSED Sporting Christmas Tourney Clays

27 28 Trap Youth Tourney Night

29 Skeet Night

30 Trap Night

31 Sporting Clays

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JANUARY Sun

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4 Youth Night

5 Skeet Night

6 Trap Night

7 8 Sporting Clays

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12 Skeet Night

13 Trap Night

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16 Sporting Tourney

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19 Trap RANGE Skeet Tourney CLOSED Night

20 Trap Night

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25 Youth Night

27 Trap Night

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2020 Schedule of NSCA Sporting Clay Tournaments Date

Tournament

Saturday - Jan 18

Snow Bird Open

Sunday - Feb 2

Honest Abe's Birthday Bash

Sunday - Mar 15

St. Patrick's Day Open

Saturday - Apr 25

CANCELLED

Sunday - May 17

Memorial Day Open

Saturday - Jun 20

20th Annual Sunshine State Classic

Saturday - Jul 11

Super Sizzle Open

Saturday - Aug 8

Summers End Open

Saturday - Sept. 12 Markham Fall Fest Shoot Sunday—Oct. 11

Pumpkin Blast

Sunday - Nov. 1

Richard Merritt Memorial

Saturday—Dec. 26 Bud Wolfe Classic 23

SPORTING CLAYS PROGRAM

Markham Skeet, Trap & Sporting Clays Club

BUD WOLFE CLASSIC 100 Targets Shot over 14 Stations

SATURDAY DECEMBER 26TH Registration: Opens 8:00 a.m. and will close at 10:00 a.m.

All scorecards must be turned in by 1:00 p.m. in order to be posted.

Entry Fee: $60 N.S.C.A., $60 Hunter, $40.00 SubJunior, Junior No Scorers or Trappers will be provided.

Shooters will be asked to squad themselves into groups of at least 3 and designate a field judge to verify scores for the squad.

Lunch will not be served.

COURSE RULES: All shooters and spectators are required to wear ear and eye protection on the course.

MAXIMUM LOADS PERMITTED: 12GA, 3 DR EQ, 1 1/8 oz. Shot 7 1/2.

For additional information contact: Greg Ritch (561) 271-5319 email: gregsritch@gmail.com

Please Preregister using: scorechaser.com

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SPORTING CLAYS RESULTS CONCURRENTS RICHARD MERRITT MEMORIAL SHOOT HOA 59 ENTRANTS CH REANNA FRAUENS 94 RU LUIS HERRERA 90 M1 GARY GRAY 87 M2 RODRIGO MEHICH 84 M3 ALEX RIERA 81 AA1 CHARLES ALVAREZ 81 AA2 MICHALE STURDIVANT 80 AA3 ANGEL RAMOS 77 A1 JOEL BUENO 81 A2 NATHAN BUSSCHER 79 A3 WAYNE AMRITT 77 B1 DAX DEMENA 79 B2 CHRIS KAUFMAN 76 B3 DAVID ROBERTSON 75 C1 EMILIO NAVARRO 79 C2 DAVID BRENNAN 78 C3 RICHARD THOMPSON 78 D1 EMILIO TEJA 83 D2 JUAN CUETO 80 D3 LEONARD GUTIERREZ 71 E1 ALLEN FURIA 70 E2 IAN BROOK 69 E3 CHARLIE DE ANGELIS 63

JR CH REANNA FRAUENS JR RU ALEXANDER STEWART JR 3RD MEGAN THOMPSON LADY CH REANNA FRAUENS LADY RU CHARLIE DE ANGELIS LADY 3RD MELISSA STURDIVANT VET CH RODRIGO MEHICH VET RU EMILIO TEJA VET 3RD ALEX RIERA S VET CH DAVID BRENNAN S VET RU BARRY KASSEL S VET RU ALLEN FURIA SUPER SR CH VET W T MUIR S SR VET RU DANIEL HRABKO

94 73 59 94 63 59 84 83 81 78 75 70 69 50

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MONTHLY SKEET PROGRAM Price per 50 targets includes $5/100 NSSA/FSA Fee

.410 gauge 28 gauge 20 gauge 12 gauge Doubles

50 Targets 50 Targets 50 Targets 50 Targets 50 Targets

$20.00 $20.00 $20.00 $20.00 $20.00

Shoots usually held the first Saturday of every month.

Gauges may be shot out of sequence with the permission of management. More than one 50 target program may be shot in the same gauge as a preliminary event.

AWARDS Break a 50, 75, or 100 Straight and get one of these guaranteed awards!

50 Straight Kennedy Half Dollar 75 Straight Eisenhower Dollar 100 Straight Morgan Silver Dollar 50 Straight Doubles Liberty Silver Half 26

Skeet Results

The secret of concentration is the secret of selfdiscovery. You reach inside yourself to discover your personal resources, and what it takes to match them to the challenge.

Arnold Palmer

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Trap Program Trap Program: SPECIAL NOTICE

Trap Tournaments are usually the fourth Sunday of the month.

100 target 16 Yd, Hdcp and Doubles events.

First 100 targets. $40.00 (Includes ATA and FTA daily fees)

ATA SHOOT SCHEDULE 2020-2021

Additional 100 target events.

October 25th

$32.00

November 22th December 27th January 17th

See Joe Loitz for details: 954-857-5278

February 28th March 14th April 25th May 23th June 27th July 25th August 22nd

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WEDNESDAY NIGHT SHOOTING IS STILL POPULAR WITH THE SHOOTERS. SIGN UP WITH STEVE NORRIS AND THE REST OF THE REGULARS AND TRY YOUR SKILL AND LUCK AT ALL THE GAMES.

Come out and join the fun!

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TRAP RESULTS

16 Yards

Single event limited to 50 targets due to rain RAFAEL CARBALLIDO THOMAS JETT HENRY OVARES NELSON REGALADO ISAIAS VARGAS ILBIS LORES GARY ROTHSTEIN NICOLA FONTANA PABLO GONZALEZ MARTIN VILLASMIL

47 46 46 44 44 41 40 35 33 31

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Handicap Handicap event was cancelled due to rain.

Doubles

200 Doubles were thrown after the rain ALEX RIERA DAX DEMENA THOMAS JETT

1st 100

2nd 100

92 90 92

91 92 81

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Youth Program

The Youth Program has seen good participation over the last month with 10 or more Youth shooters showing up. Rain was been a factor in November causing two cancellations. We could use some more coaches! If you are interested in learning how to be an instructor or just want to help the program, give me a call: Joe Loitz at 954-857-5278.

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SPONSORS Professional and Industry Vendors

We are going to update this section of the newsletter on a continuing basis as requests come in.

If you would like to sponsor our newsletter: contact me at: jloit@bellsouth.net Joe Loitz at 954-857-5278

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