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Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year


The Editor and staff take this opportunity of thanking all our readers, contributors, advertisers and newsagents for their support during 1980;


Please note that our next issue will be a day later than usual — on Friday, January 2nd.


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Best present Stan’s ever had


A CLITHEROE man who has been totally blind for the past 11 years has just received his best-ever Christmas present — a new pair of “eyes.”


every step is Peter, a giant crossbred labrador- retriever — the first guide dog to be allocated to a blind person in the town. “I think Peter is one of


bustling crowds and traf­ fic-congested roads hold no fears for despatch worker Stanley Snape. For with him to plan


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the best things that ever happened to me,” said Mr Snape, of Highfield Road, Clitheroe. “He has only been here


for a fortnight, but al­ ready h e . is getting to know my fav o u r i te


bachelor, lost his sight through a series of tragic circumstances. When he was three it was disco-.- vered that he was suffer--


used to take me four times as long.” Mr Snape -(42), a '


haunts. The first time we ing from glaucoma, which went out, he took me left him partially sighted through the town centre in half-an-hour. When I used my long cane, it


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in both eyes. When he was 16, a door


flew open in his face and his right eye had to be removed. In 1969 he lost his other


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eye following an accident’ at “Metflex,” Great Har­ wood, where he works packaging gas meter parts.


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tune, he made his way around using a cane or accompanied by a friend. Then, two years ago, a


mobility officer from the Department of Health and Social Security suggested that he might benefit from a guide dog.


.right sort of dog.” After a 20-month wait,


application I had to go through a really stiff ex­ amination,” said Mr Snape. “The doctors wanted to find out how fit and strong I was and just what sort of temperament I had, so that they could match me up with the


“After I submitted my


Mr Snape was summoned to the Guide Dogs for the


After his second misfor­ ; ■


“ . . they saw the youn g chi ld with Mary his mother, and fell down and wor­ shipped him” (Matth­ ew 2 v2.)


■ The story of that ’ first Christmas has been told many times, but it still has a fresh­ ness and sense of wonder when seen through the eyes of youngsters such as these members of C l i th e ro e P a r ish C h u r ch Su n d a y School, pictured in a scen e from the nativity.


Lookout — you’re on TV


closed-circuit TV is -upon-ydu!


CRIB vandals beivare! The.


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Town Council, in coop­ eration with CAM-ERA, the TV firm, has instal­ led the all-seeing eye at the Clitheroe Castle crib '.


In an effort to stave off vandals, Clitheroe


Couh. Brian Braith- ■ umite said: “We want-to


discovered that some hooligan had thrown rotten bananas at the f i ­ gures in the crib. . The figures have now


Blind Association training centre at Bolton. There he was intro­


duced to Peter, who weighs a massive 821b. and stands three-and-a- half feet high at the shoulder. Before' he could take


blind man. could have," said Mr Snape. .“I can reach parts of the town I would neve r have dreamed of visiting with­ out someone else being with me.


the dog home, Mr Snape had to undergo a month’s training course at the centre to familiarise him­ se l f with handling methods. • “He really is a wonder­


ful animal and is the best Christmas present that a


to plan his moves well ahead and I have never bumped into anything yet.” Peter also accompanies


•kennel and run have been provided for him to relax when he is off duty.


“Peter seems to be able' Holiday television


FU L L details of all your Christmas Day and Boxing Day en­ tertainment on televi-


Mr Shape to work at Great Harwood, ‘where a


i sion and radio, plus a guide to- all the pan­ tomimes within easy driving distance, are featured on our two centre pages this week.. 1


stress to any ivould-be vandals that the camera, makes them identifi­ able. ” The TV camera was installed after it was


P o p u la r fo o tb a lle r dies in car crash


A PAINT-SPRAYER at the Milk Marketing Board’s Clitheroe depot, Mr Michael Humphrey, died after a car "accident in the town at the weekend.


played football in the Clitheroe area for a number of years, was driving home to Padiham when his van hit a row of parked cars and then a wall in Woone Lane. The accident happened


Michael (23), who has


Tommy Townsend said Michael was a popular player and would be sadly missed by all at the Shaw- bridge club. “Michael was a real live


at 3 a.m. on Saturday and Michael later died from, multiple injuries in Black­ burn Royal Infirmary. Three of the parked


wire in the dressing room. He would play, wherever we wanted him and always enjoyed his game, giving 100 per cent. “He was everyone’s


cars were damaged. They' were owned by Mr Victor Northover, Mr Jack Hay- d'oek and Mr Kevin Crook, who are neigh­ bours in Woone Lahe. : This week Michael’s-pa­


Clitheroe only three and a half years ago and stayed regularly', at weekends with his sister and her husband, Mr and Mrs Andrew Joyce, at their house in Henthorn Road. Mr Joyce said Michael


been cleaned and a notice has been placed in front of the crib warning the public of the presence of the camera. Said Coun. Braith-


waite: “We decided to in­ stall the camera because it is rather sickening to witness this form of van­ d alism when many people get so much plea­ sure from witnessing the peace and joy that the crib represents.” The illuminated crib


r e n t s , Mr and Mrs; Charles Humphrey — who own a furniture shop in Padiham — and rela­ tives in Clitheroe were mystified by the tragedy. Michael moved from


; shadowed Clitheroe’s win over Nelson on Saturday. After the match, Re­ serves’ team manager Mr


the past two seasons, Clitheroe FC Reserves. News of his death over-


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had left his van . as usual outside their house on Friday evening before going into Clitheroe. “We thought he was


staying the night, because he asked us to waken him early so that he could go back home to help his father deliver some furni­ ture and do some shop-


'P^ ulut he must have


displays the story of Christmas until Twelfth Night.


Santa puts aside his sleigh


We wish you all the long-lasting happiness of an old-fashioned "J. Christmas shared with family and ft friends.


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& IK THE-many children who attended the tinytots’ Christmas disco


: in the Trinity t schoolroom on Saturday ; certainly had a surprise when.FatherChristmas — complete.with a'sack crammed with festive goodies — arrived on a motor cycle.* ;;


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Not that Rudolph the reindeer - and his«pals have joined the ranks of the unemployed, it is just that Santa is such, a busy


1 fellow these11, days;?* he ‘‘ needs i an alternative formof. transport which can help him beat the weekend traffic.


' But the traditional reindeer and sleigh will no doubt be back in n


^usertonighU.a'svSanta'dashes from rooftop*to rooftop in a bid to drop off all his gifts before the youngsters' wake up. <& 7 v, : .


Michael was a year old when his parents moved to Clitheroe. They first lived in Mitchell Street, then ran the Castle Candy Cafe in Parson Lane. : Eventually they moved


come back and decided to go home straightaway,” Re said. Born in Has tings ,


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friend and we, are all deeply shocked and upset by his death.” Mr Townsend and a


number of players from the Reserve team are ex­ pected to attend the fun­ eral this afternoon at Pleasington Crematorium.


SEASON’S GREETINGS


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.been working as a wagon sprayer at the MMB’s depot in Croft Street. Football was his main


ford County Primary and Ribblesdale: Schools. After a short spell with furni­ t u r e ma n u f a c tu r e r s Bowker Brothers, he had


to a house in Garnett Road, where they lived for 18 years until they took over the shop in Padiham. Michael attended Edis-


love and Michael played for the Royal Oak and Victo ria pub teams, Henthom United and, for


Rate cut


ECONOMY-CONSCIOUS parish councillors in Whal- ley have cut the parish rate of next year by lVfep. At their meeting they decided" to . cut spending as much as possible and to ask the Ribble Valley Council for a precept of 2&p, which will bring in £7,700. : - • . -


Book-token


CHA IRMAN of, th e < Clitheroe-r magistrates, . Mr Stanley Westhiead, of • Crossal, . Claremont


, Drive,'! received? a; book- token from; colleagues on'his. last:day on the. Bench .onv.;Thursday. For fa full report,'see page 4. \


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