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FOOD, glorious food — there’s nothing


?[uite like it at Edis- ord County Primary


School, Clitheroe. That’s the view of the pupils, who turned t h ems el v es i nt o m ath em ati ca l geniuses when th ey ' were told that the school cook for 25 years, Mrs Mary Shears, was to retire.


During lessons they estimated that she had •cooked 863 dinners a week, 34,520 in a year and 863,000 in 25 years. In addition, there had been 347,000 dinners, cooked for other schools.


To help them all go


down, she has made 50 litres of gravy a week which adds up to 50,000


litres a year. In fact the children


came to the conclusion that Mrs Shears has cooked enough dinners for everyone living in Clitheroe, Blackburn, Accrington, Manchester, Preston and Skipton.


They also estimated


she had been at school 5,000 days and, living 0.8 kilometres away in Cor­ poration Street, had walked 8,000 kms there and back in 25 years.


All to ld , she had


worked 35,000 hours — enough to make Mrs Shears feel she had earned her retirement.


At an informal farewell


from the school, children cheered loudly as Mrs Shears was presented with a set of crystal liqueur glasses by the chairman of the mana­ gers, Mrs M. E. Chat- burn, on behalf of pupils, teachers.and parents. Mrs Shears, who was


promoted to supervisor five years after joining the kitchen staff, says she loves cooking and has thoroughly enjoyed being at the school. But she feels the time has now come, to sample a more leisurely life with hus­ band Fred, already retired.


She will, however,


miss her friends in the kitchen and the children who popped in all week with little gifts to show their appreciation..


In some cases, parents,


of the present scholars have also enjoyed din­ ners prepared by Mrs Shears.


At one time, Mrs


Shears and her helpers had to prepare just under 500 meals a day to include children at St James’s School and the former school at Mitton.


Even now, 100 meals are cooked for 10-45 in


the morning to be patched to schools at Har­ row and Pendleton and Bright Street Nursery m


Clitheroe. Over the years, the


meals have not changed too much and children


still prefer chips with everything.


Mrs Shears believes


Government cutbacks have affected the quality, of meals to a certain extent, although they are still attractive and nut­ ritious! At one time m en u s w e r e only repeated every eight weeks.


Pictured with some of


the children at the farewell, from the left: headmaster Mr James Marsh, Mrs Shears, Mrs Chatburn and Mr John Pilkington, assistant edu­ cation officer.


Hospital defends holidays abroad


CALDERSTONES Hospital this week stood solidly behind its policy of sending


severely handicapped residents on foreign holidays.


There have already been


trips to Disneyland in California, Lourdes, Rome and Germany, and more are planned in the coming weeks, including a tour of


' iwas.grected in the national ' •.Press with ,headlines like ,


“Free trips to the sun . . . To Disneyland on a hand-;


out . . . Patients get free trips on health cash.” Mr Tony Stones, divi­


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Co u n . and Mr s ■ Jimmy Fell, who dropped in at the Tourist Information Office in Clitheroe, before attending a meeting with local hoteliers to discuss the Valley's tourism potential. (A full report of the meeting is on page 6).


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They found that the tou r is t o f f ic e in Church Street is not only a mine of infor­ mation about this dis­ trict, but is al so c r a m m e d w i t h brochures and leaflets describing holidays throughout England.


Pictured with the civic leaders are tourist information assistant Mrs Kathleen Law and Carolyn Delarue (18), of Hawthorne Place, Clitheroe.


STAGE CALL FOR ACTORS


I AUDITIONS are being held on February 27th and 28th-for parts in Whalley


I Players’ production of Shakespeare’s “A Midsum-


I mer Night’s Dream” . Both "adults and young


j people are being sought for the various roles and there


| are several non-speaking parts.


i The production is on June 24th — midsummer night — in the grounds of Whalley Abbey.


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sional nursing officer at the hospital, Said he found the criticisms “offensive.


Pension He said the trips were


paid for from the patients weekly mobility allowance — a Government pension paid to disabled people to compensate them for then*


lack of personal mobility. The cash payments of


£12 a week have to be spent on travel. He said that about 90 severely physically handicapped residents at Calderstones received the allowance and 11 of these had so far been on trips abroad, accom­ panied by nursing staff. Said Mr Stones “The


cash belongs to. the indi­ vidual patients to help them travel. Some saved up the money over long periods. No-one tells old people or disabled service­ men how they should spend their pension — so why should criticism be made of the mentally hand­ icapped for the way in which their mobility money has been used?" Mr Stones revealed that


other foreign trips were planned, but the majority o f the 1,300 holidays booked each year by the


canals in Southern France. , This ..week; the scheme: •


hospital were spent in


Britain. He said that there was,


however, a limit; tp the number of times residents could be stimulated' by


trips to Blackpool. N o e x t ra


. On costs, Mr Stones said although each patient was accompanied by a nurse, it did not cost the, health authority any more money than if the holiday had been spent at home. The n urses trav el


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expenses were paid for from the patients mobility allowances and their wages were the same whether on holiday with the patients


at Skegness or C Speaking of the effort


involved in taking severely han d icap p ed p e o p le abroad, Mr Stones said: “The level of dedication of the staff leaves me speech­ less with admiration.” Asked by our reporter


whether the patients obtained greater satisfac


tion from holidays abroad than holidays at home, Mr Stones said with some it was easy to see they had enjoyed the experience.


Pleasure Some could speak with


pleasure about the trip. Others, who could not express themselves, had not shown displeasure — which they did when frus


trated or unhappy. . “The benefits of patients


travelling to America are similar to those that the ordinary person would enjoy,” he said.


.


“ It is distant and is continued on page 2


Progress at the


castlajj keep II


WORK .to r e s t o r e Clitheroe Castle keep is going smoothly, despite the recent bad weather, and the operation should be completed by early spring. Department of the Envi­


ronment workmen are busy repairing the histori­ cal limestone landmark which has been ravaged by the, weather and‘ time.


- .'The improvements are


costing £12,700, although X4',260 is available from,a


A spokesman-for the


Ribble’ 'Valley Councils Technical1 Department said


that ’about' 80 per cent of the work had been done.


This included repairs to the side facing Castle


Street. Scaffolding is now being


rearranged so that work­ men can concentrate on the keep’s corners which face Low Moor, Littlemoor and Waddington Road.


The scheme is due to be


finished by the end of next month.


Refugees soon at work ■


TWO Vietnamese refugees started work in Clitheroe


on Monday. Mr Gia Hung Phan, who


is living in Whipp Avenue, with his family, has found a job as a battery filler at James Thornber’s Holmes Mill, Greenacre Street, only a week after arriving in the town. A member of the first


family to settle, Miss Dong Ai Ngo, of.Henthorn


Road, has begun a new career as a machinist at T r u t e x ’ s H en th o rn factory.


D of 'E grant,, because .the keep is an ancient monu­ ment.


Twelve contest the Mayor’s youth award


IVE boys and seven girls have been nominated ’or the Ribble Valley Boy and Girl of the Year


competition, arranged by the Mayor, Coun. Jimmy Fell.


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p ip e l in e


WORK’ will start on laying a pipeline across the Rib­ ble at Clitheroe next month as part of a £lm ICI plan to boost production at one of its major plants in Cheshire. * It will link up with the


combine’s Trans-Pennine e th y lene pipe which already bypasses West Bradford and Waddington on its route from Wilton, in Cleveland, to Runcorn. It will then feed the gas


back to the ICI works at Pimlico, where it will be boosted at increased capac­ ity down the line to Run­ corn for use in PVC and solvents production. An ICI spokesman at


Clitheroe said-that the pipeline would cross the Ribble about 100 yards upstream from the point where Waddington Brook enters the river. Workmen will start


operations on the banks on March 3rd and will begin digging a trench across the river bed about the middle


of the month. “The pipe should be laid


and the bed reinstated by the end of April,” said the spokesman. “The line will then be taken across the fields and should be at the boundary of our plant by the end of July." He added that work had


already started on the booster station and the plant should be operational in April 1981.


Donors see where money goes^ _


MEMBERS o f the Hodder Valley Charity C om m i t t e e , who raised £50 for the Rib- blc Valley Talking Newspaper, went to see how the issues arc recorded.


Mr John Finder,


chairman of the com­ mittee (extreme right) handed over the che­ que to chairman-elect of the newspaper, Mr Charles Pearce, and then the 15 farmers and parish councillors from Newton, Slaid- burn, Dunsop Bridge and Whitewcll went on a tour1 of the charity’s offices.


The money was


I February. 18th,' offers adult fiction for lOp, non­ fiction for 35p and junior books for 15p.


raised by the commit­ tee at a dance held in Newton Village Hall in


I November.


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and Times that he had been deeply impressed by some of the nominations and was particularly pleased that they came from several,parts .of,the Valley’s 200 square* mile area. •


" Within the next .two


. weeks he will be presiding • oven:a ,; meeting o f the Mayoralty* Sub-Committee


which will make the choice. • “The standard is very


high and selection will be difficult,” he said. “We will be looking for personal ■ achievement, leadership and involvement with the community. Some of the nominees are 17, and some much younger. Age may, therefore, have some influ­ ence.


“ If competition is par­


ticularly close, we may interview our final selec­ tion.”


The boy and girl selected


will each receive a glass [oblet, engraved with the libble Valley coat of arms by Mr Don Elliot, of Slaid-


burn. The form of the presen­


tation has still to be decided. A plan to hold it before a council meeting may be superceded. The ceremony may be held before an invited audience in the council chamber on a Saturday morning. .


Ann’s big moment


SABDEN girl Ann Law­ less saved up for two years to buy the ball used in Saturday’s match at Turf Moor between Burnley and


Fulham. The ball, which cost £55,


is usually sponsored by local firms, but Ann (14), of Wesley Street, decided to save her pocket money to claim the honour. A pupil at Clitheroe’s


Ribblesaale School and a keen Burnley supporter, Ann was thrilled to hand over the ball before the game to the match referee


Sir K. A. Redfern. The.club then broadcast


its thanks over the louds­ p e a k e r s f o r A n n ’ s


generosity. Ann’s interest in football


began when former Burn­ ley 'keeper Gerry Peyton — now with Fulham — lodged with.her family for


three years. The game between


Burnley and Fulham was therefore an appropriate time to make her presenta


,, As a reminder,, of her sporting donation, Ann will be given back the ball after it has been cleaned and autographed by the Burnley- players. ..She'will also re ce iv e : the auto-! graphs of the Fulham team, on her match programme.


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Country fair is


planned


THE Ribble Valley Sports and Recreational Advisory Council wants to take over Clitheroe town centre for a monster country fair


June. It is asking the Ribble


Valley Council’s Public Works and Health Com­ mittee to support an appli­ cation for the fair, due to be considered on Tuesday. •It would mean Moor.


• The provisional date for the'fair; is Sunday, June


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Club puts in plan to Improve ground


CLITHEROE FC is to push ahead with plans to improve facilities at Shaworidge — even though the ground could oe swallowed up in a housing develop­ ment.


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Council’s consultative document suggesting how Clitheroe could develop in the next 10 years,the club’s home is part of a 28-acre site off Pendle Road, ear- marked as a possible site for future housing.


Club chairman Mr Cyril


Whiteside has been in touch with officials from the council’s planning department,but they have been unable to give him. assurances about the ground’s future. So this week the club is submit­ ting to the planning department a scheme for improvements.


“ It is vital that we begin


improvement work to safeguard our status as a Lancashire Combination club,” said Mr Whiteside.


“Planning officials have


been very sympathetic but we just cannot wait around for ever.


‘Our situation is one of


being between the devil and the deep blue sea and we will just have to go ahead and take things as they come,”


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