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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I've been taking my big boys to the De Laveaga
Archery Range in Santa Cruz, as they are showing lots of interest in
archery. The club members there are all really friendly and family
oriented. They range wildly in age and economic brackets, and in interest-
everything from competition shooters to hunters. They are also very
welcoming and inclusive, and in sharing the space we ended up sharing stories
about hobbies and such.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The De Laveaga Archery Range (off the golf and
diskgolf courses) is run by the Santa Cruz Archery Club. They are
open to the public on weekend afternoons. If you pay for a membership, you
get keys to the gates, and pretty much free access. If you can't afford
the membership fees you can sign up for a "working membership" and you do clean
up and improvements on the ranges.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>They need some cleanup, upkeep and construction
done on their walking course. Which is pretty cool. They have a
small practice range outside, and indoor range. There are a few bbq pits
and some picnic tables. (As they used to be a gun range as well, there are
several "slots" outside that are all fenced and razorwired off, which I'm sad no
one has tought to turn into "field archery" ranges... hmmmm...).</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I think there is great potential here for the SCA
to get access to an archery space, and to build community- much as the
Principality "work days" have opened up event space to us, in trade for some
work. But I'm too out of the loop to know who to pass this info
onto.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV>The club folk also said there is a Mormon Church (Temple?) on Old San Jose
Road here in Santa Cruz that has a very large and well groomed property that
they will happily lease out for the day, perfect for field archery events, or
even perhaps a tourney.</DIV>
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<DIV>Anyone know how to run with this info? I'd be happy to do some more
leg work/ dig up contacts, etc.</DIV>
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