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YOUNG Billington boy Stephen Helm is over the moon after being told he is to be treated to a holiday in Europe: The holiday of a
lifetime has been offered by a group of young people from Calder- stones Hospital who raise funds to send handicapped people on trips abroad. Stephen (11), has not
and Marina O’Neill on a holiday to Switzerland at Easter. Stephen, of Long-
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worth Road, suffered polio as a baby, and was left with a withered leg. He now has to go
about on crutches but he does not let this hamper him unduly. He loves all outdoor
been told the date of the trip, but it will be this year and probably to Italy or Gel-many. The group, known as
Stephen will be travel ling in a specially equip ped “Jumbulance.” It carries 24 passengers, and has an hydraulic lift, toilet and a fitted kitch en with hot and cold running water. With the help of local
Like the O’Neills,
sports, and is reserve goalkeeper for the foot ball team at Whalley
CE School, where he is a pupil. One of his ambitions is
the Across Appeal team, has a lre ad y raised enough money to send Low Moor couple Tom
to climb Pendle Hill on his crutches. He is also keen on painting and handicrafts. Although Stephen
lived in Cyprus for three years when his father was in the
R.AF, he has never visited Europe. His parents, David and Carol Helm, have two other sons, Tony (15) and Darren (9).
ing activities are in the
pipeline. Among these are ' a
sponsored slim by two Calderstones workers and the dinner-dance at
the Spread Eagle. Events in March in
groups, the Across team, is currently raising funds for Stephen’s trip. The ladies of Granby Garments, Clitheroe, or ganised a bingo evening, and will be handing over a cheque for £225 to the appeal team at a charity dance at the Spread Eagle Hotel, Sawley, to
morrow. Many other, fund-rais
clude a film show of pre vious Across Appeal. Holidays, at the Catholic Club, Clitheroe, on the 1st. On March 7th, the Jumbulance will be open for in sp e c t io n at Clitheroe market and there will also be a coffee morning in the Mayor’s parlour. The following day
there will be a giant antique fair in the bal lroom at Calderstones.
Staff reshuffle will save council £100,000 a year
TWO chief officers are among 15 Ribble Valley Council employees whose jobs are to be swallowed up in a major staff reshuffle, which will save ratepayers in the region of £100,000 a year.
operation comes a warn ing that, as fewer staff will be available, services to the public might be af fected.
But with the pruning
dundancy from June 1st in the shake-up are Chief Legal and Administration Officer Mr Jack Ruffley — second in command — and Borough Engineer Mr Dennis Black, together .with 13 other non-manual
Taking voluntary re
full-time workers of vary ing grades. The result will be a
saving for ratepayers of more than £90,000 in the coming financial year and nearly £110,000 every future financial year, v Salaries, national insur ance and superannuation payments for the council’s non-manual workers in 1981-82 will cost an esti mated £1,022,560.
Details of the reshuffle
were given by Chief Ex ecutive Mr Michael Jack- son and the chairman of the Personnel Committee, Coun. Mrs Sheila Maw.
.and .approval, of the local - branch of Nalgo, will see the reorganisation of de partments at the Church Walk offices.
The changes, carried out with the co-operation
tinue to head the manage ment team, but his de partment is to have addi tional responsibility for indoor recreation.
Mr Jackson will con Pay rise
three departments headed by Borough Treasurer Mr Gordon Onslow — who will become Deputy Chief Executive — Chief En vironmental Health Of ficer Mr Peter Gladwin and Chief Architect and Planning Officer Mr Philip Bailey.
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housing matters will be tran s fe r red from the treasurer’s to the health department, with en gineering and parks to be dealt with by the planning office. All officers who take on
In a switch of duties,
- Jack Ruffley became di rector of a number of companies.
AFTER serving in the Army for seven years, Chief Legal and Ad ministrative Officer Mr
to an import and export and shipping company in North Africa for three years.
From 1958, he moved
. — as a solicitor with Wigan County Borough. Since then, his posts
The holder o f a London University hon ours degree in law, Mr Ruffley (63) then joined a solicitors’ firm in Ashton-under-Lyne. In 1965 he took up his first post in local government
extra responsibility will receive a pay rise of about five per cent and this has been taken into account in the estimated overall savings. Mr Jackson said his
say at this stage whether services will suffer. But in losing the expertise of two chief officer^ our re sources will not be as good, if, for example, we are involved in a thorny legal problem,” he added.
“l am not prepared to Patience
that the reduction in staff would possibly mean the public having to wait a little longer for answers to queries, but she urged people to be patient. “People must make allo
Coun Mrs Maw said
wances and realise what effects these cutbacks will have. However,' the new
continued on page 9 Congratulations!
A TELEGRAM con-: gratuiating Prince Charles on his en gagement ■ to Lady Diana Spencer has been sent to Bucking ham Palace on behalf of the people of the
every happiness for the future ■ and was signed by the Mayor, Coun. Miss Agnes Melting. .
Ribble Valley. It wished them
have included Deputy Town Clerk at Rawten- stall; clerk at Gipping RDC, Suffolk; Deputy Town Clerk and later Deputy Chief Executive at Darwen. He joined the Ribble Valley Council in 1973.
staff would strive to offer, the same level of service to the public.
wife, Yvonne, who live at Bolton, have a son, David, who has just gained an exhibition to Queen’s College, Cam bridge.
Mr Ruffley and his
Mr Ruffley’s main hobby is bridge.
BOROUGH Engineer
Mr Dennis Black has been in local government for nearly 40 years.
chartered engineer, a fellow of the Institute of Municipal Engineers and a fellow of the Institute of Highways Engineers.
government career in Manchester in 1942 Eleven, years later, he was appointed engineer ing assistant to Urmston Urban District Council where he stayed for three years before being appointed senior en gineering assistant with Dearne UDC in the West Riding.
He began his local
■Married with three sons he lives in the Rossen dale Valley.
oted to deputy engineer and took up the same post at Rawtenstall in 1959. From 1963, he spent five years as borough • engineer at Bacup and had a short spell with the : Ministry of Transport before coming to Ribble Valley in 1973 as Chief Techni cal Officer. He became Borough Engineer at the beginning of last year,
There he was pronv Now aged 54, he is a I : ; ' .
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SIX Ribble Valley head masters want parents to be alert1, to, and protest about, 'education cuts being planned by Lanca shire County Council. They voice their fears
WITH the jingle of bells and the tapping of clogs, the Clitheroe Morris Men,on Satur day completed their first local tour of the year. With , gu es ts
“County Fayre” — the Clitheroe ladies group — they danced around the town, stopping at various pubs on the way for refreshments. The groups made
in a letter to the editor on page three. ^According to th e ir
A TALL ORDER!
CLITHEROE Town Hall’s flag flew at half mast over the weekend i .. not because of the death of a renowned public figure, but all be cause of a broken rope.
.than apywhere else in the - country. The head te a ch e rs
spokesman, Mr- John Hindmoor, of St James’s School, Clitheroe, if pre s e n t p ro p o sa ls . go through, Lancashire, al ready near the bottom of the list, will probably be spending less on its pupils
argue,that only relatively small savings are being made on administration. Mr Hindmoor told our
r e p o r te r : “We are genuinely concerned about the way in which the ser vice is being eroded. “For those children now
£44 from a street col lection, half of which will go to the Morris Men’s Day of Dance and half to the ladies’ group for new cos tumes.
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Duncan wins a trip to America
about to pass through the system there will be no chance to catch up on what they miss.” The teachers want pa
CLITHEROE apprentice engineer Duncan Fielding has qualified to represent the UK at
• the 26th International Skill Olympics to be held in America in June.
rents to protest to head teachers, county council lors and MPs about the cuts.
Thefts from cars
THIEVES stole articles worth about £200 from two parked cars in the Clitheroe area on Friday night. A motorist returned to
A golden garage
THE “Midas Touch” has come to Low Moor Filling Station proprietor Mr Brian Dootson. That is the title of the
his vehicle at the Wellspr- ings Inn car park to dis cover that it had been en tered and items worth £178 taken. These included a tool
box, axle stands, an anorak, bomber jacket
and sports bag containing a red track suit. On the same night
roof rack was removed from a vehicle in the North Street car park. Clitheroe CID is inves tigating.
plaque and gold sovereign he has won for high stan dards of business enter prise and customer care in a competition run by Na tional Benzole. Mr Dootson’s garage
Park Avenue, won his ticket to the competition in Atlanta, Georgia, when he was chosen as the country’s number one ap prentice bench fitter in the UK engineering skill championships at Birmin gham, sponsored by Shell UK. He competed in the
Duncan (19), of Peel
, CHEMICAL industry giants ICI have this year donated £200 double.
,their usual annual con tribution — towards the general running costs of Clitheroe Physiotherapy .Centre.
the one on the Castle keep, was hoisted on Thursday to celebrate the 21st birthday of Prince Andrew.
The flag, along with
Castle flag came down without any trouble on Friday morning, the one on the town hall pre sented a few more probr lems. It had been low ered less than half way when the rope broke. I t was not u n til
But although the
Monday afternoon that the flag was lowered by a council workman who reached it with the aid of a long ladder.
was runner-up in his class in the North of England and he received his award on Tuesday from National Benzole’s acting regional manager Mr Leslie Higen- bottam. “Mr Dootson has cre
ated a very smart enter prise here. It is a credit to him,” said Mr Higen- bottam.
Lessons in safety at Edisford
THE gleaming machine of Lancashire County Council motor cycle training officer Norman Dickinson was a big at traction for the youngs ters of Edisford Primary School, Clitheroe, at the launching of an impor tant new road safety scheme. The new county coun
cil scheme is designed to in c re a s e c h i ld re n ’s awareness of the dan gers of the modem road and Edisford has been used to try it out. Entitled RISK, it
bench-fitting section of the 20-hour competition at the BL Longridge plant against six other appren tice engineers from all over the country. . Now he will go on to pit
his skills against contes tants from all parts of the world, including China, Korea, Japan, the United States and Europe. Duncan, who is in the
final year of his appren t ic e sh ip with Lucas Aerospace, Burnley, is a former pupil of Ribbles- dale School. A keen cross country runner and rugby player, he also lists Scout ing among his main lei sure interests. As well as being a
member of Clitheroe Ven ture Scouts, he helps out with the /West Bradford pack. He won the Chief Scout’s Award at the age of 14 and last year, was one of four Clitheroe Ven ture Scouts to receive the Queen’s Scout Certificate, the movement’s top com mendation. Also last year, he won
first prize for fitting in the Engineering Industry Training Board’s annual competition for third-year craft .apprentices in the North of England. Our picture shows Mr
takes its name from the four units into which it is divided — Reaction, In cid en t, Skill and Knowledge — and is the brainchild of the Road Safety ■
County Surveyor’s De partment. At th e E d is fo rd
Section of the
launch, Mr Ken Ward, senior, divisional and: deputy county road
John S. Jennings, a direc tor of Shell UK, examin ing Duncan’s test piece.
Closing
safety organiser, said that the scheme was de signed to fit easily into a school curriculum. It was hoped to intro
duce the .scheme into schools in'all parts of the county over the next th ree years, during which time constant as
■ m a s te r Mr D. W. Thomas and chairman of the school governors Mrs M. -E. Chatburn both spoke highly. of :,the
■ scheme, which has been in operation at the
sessment of the project would be taking place. , Edisford School head--
school for the past five
junior schools interested in taking advantage of the scheme should: con tact.' district road: safety organiser Mr Dennis Revell (Tel. Clitheroe
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