The Pompano Beach Historical Society's January meeting will take place on Wednesday, January 19th, 7:00 PM at the Dick & Miriam Hood Center, 217 NE 4th Avenue, Pompano Beach.

The program will be given by Arthur Makenian, who served as the official Lighthouse Keeper of Hillsboro Inlet Lighthouse Station from December 1998 through March 2002. Art contributed to the construction of the present Coast Guard Auxiliary Base in Boca Raton, the Marine Radio Communications tower, the removal of the old Goast Guard Base from Red Reef Park, and the re-engineering and commissioning of the Hillsboro Inlet Lighthouse for the Coast Guard.

His program will concentrate on the work he and his team of seven men accomplished by designing and placing in operation the machinery to make the lighthouse lens shine out to sea once more.

Did you know the Hillsboro Inlet Lighthouse beam of light shines further out to sea than any other lighthouse beam in the world?

Come January 19th and hear more.