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EDITORIAL.............TEL CLITHEROE 22324 ADVERTISING.......... TEL. CLITHEROE 22323 CLASSIFIED...................TEL. BURNLEY 22331


THURSDAY, MARCH 15th, 1984 ,


No. 5,098 Price 19p


Downham girl’s fire


ordeal AN 18-year-old Downham


girl had a lucky escaiapt from serious injury in the early hours of Sunday when she woke to find her bedroom on fire. When Carolyn Brock-


lehurst, of Clay House Farm, leaped out of bed in the smoke-filled room, her nightdress caught alight;


i As she tried to beat out


the flames her cries were heard by her father, Mr Frank Brocklehurst. who rushed into the room with an extinguisher. He tack­ led the blaze as Clitheroe Fire Brigade headed for the farm.


' Carolyn was taken to


hospital at Blackburn for treatment to slight bums which prevented her from turning up at Lancaster Hosiery, Clitheroe, where she works. There was. damage to


the bed, bedding and a chest of drawers. B e ca u s e o f smoke


damage to the first floor of the farmhouse, Caro­ lyn, her father, mother Florence and brother Frank (8) had to spend Sunday night at the nearby Greendale- guest­ house. Mr Brocklehurst —


farm', manager for Lord Clitheroe — has been sleeping at Clay House, but ,the rest of the family have been spending the nights at the homes of friends^ in. the village, while the bedrooms are put in order. The cause of the fire has not been established.


£3y2m. mast


THE replacement radio installation for the police on Waddington Fell is; ex- pected to cost £3,709,400, the .Ribble Valley Coun­


cil’s Policy and Resources Committee was told. The money has been set aside in Lancashire County Council’s capital program­ me for 1986-87.


dream comes true


A DREAM came true this week for a Polish exile now living in Clitheroe . . . as he played host to the daughter he hasn’t seen for 45 years.


Zigmund Czanerle, who


lives at St Ann’s Court sheltered accommodation, Low Moor, hugged and kissed his daughter, Mrs Danuta Rolewska, in a tearful reunion at Heath­


row Airport. ' For Zigmund, now 81,


always held a'secret hope that one day he would be reunited with his daugher before he died. And with her was the


granddaughter he has never seen, Jolanda, who is 23 and works as-a tele­ phonist.


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Zigmund in uniform 1945


Zigmund and Danuta


were last together in 1939 in Poland when their country was partitioned by Nazi Germany and Russia.


Questioned He was taken 'to . Russia


for questioning and ended up in the-infamous Vorku­ ta labour camp inside the Arctic Circle.


When America entered


the war he was allowed to come to London to join' the Free Polish Army and in 1945 settled in Eng­ land, coming to Clitheroe three years later'.


He worked as an en­


graver at Barrow Print­ works and then became a m e ch a n ic at R ib b le Cement. He never saw his wife,


Maria, again and she died in Poland. In 1976 he married his


present wife, May, whom he' met at the Stanley House former pensioners’


■headquarters in Lower- gate. They moved to St Ann’s Court in 1977. It was his former work­ mate, Paul Novak, who


set the ball rolling for the reunion. Paul, who lives in Croasdale Drive, urged him to write to the Home Office asking for official help. The Polish Embassy


was contacted and after very' detailed forms had been filled in, permission was duly given' for Danuta to come to England.


Zigmund said: “ I always


cherished the wish to see Danuta again.


Hope “The Russians came for


me in the dead of night and I was put on a cattle train and sent East. I was in total despair, but I hoped and prayed.


“During the long years


of the Cold War, while Stalin was alive, I knew I could never go back to Poland to see her, but I always kept alive some hope in the corner of my heart — and now she is here, standing before me. I have to touch her to make sure it is all really happening.”


Danuta (55) lives at


Wroclaw in Silesia and helps prepare meals at a technical institute. Neith­ er she nor her daughter speaks English, but the main language barrier is for May, who does not know any Polish. “I am going to have to


learn sign language be­ cause Danuta and Jolanda are with us for over a month,” she joked. St Ann’s Court' warden


Mrs Marjorie Hollywood said: “This is the first time anything like this has happened here.r We are all overjoyed that Zig- mund’s dream has come true.”


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. ..Norman - • will miss friendly village


BOBBY at Whalley for the last five years, PC Norman Ireland has hung up his uniform after 26 years in the Force.


. PC Ireland (55) moved to Clitheroe from Leigh, after service at Lancaster and Colne.


He joined the police


after completing National Service in the Royal En­ gineers and working as a ship’s joiner in his home town of Sunderland.


His years at Whalley


have been among the hap­ piest of his career. “ I can’t speak highly enough of the villagers, who have been most friendly and helpful,” he says. In his retirement PC


Ireland, who has two daughters, intends to put his practical skills to good use on his home and garden. But before that, he and


his wife, Maijorie, are h a v in g a h o l id a y in Austria.


SAVING


THE- Ribble Valley Coun­ cil has changed its en­ gineering insurance brok­ ers . . . with a resulting saving of £400.


' youngf.members’ of St ■"‘James’s Pathfinders, who - raised £80 by


being sponsored to keep quiet. About 80 Pathfin­


ders took part in the silence, held in St


... James’s CE School, Clitheroe, with all managing to say no- , thing for a whole two hours..


Some members were


sponsored for the sum of £20. Of the money raised,


about £50 is to go to club funds and the re­ mainder to an institute for deaf teenagers.


‘Satisfactory’


THE condition of former Clitheroe Mayoress Miss Dorothy Rushton, at pre­ sent in Blackburn Royal Infirmary, was said by s ta f f 'th is week to be “satisfactory. ’’ Miss Rush- ton, of Waddington Road, Clitheroe, was knocked down by a car.


, N ew B is h o p


THE new RC Bishop of Salford, whose diocese in­ cludes much of the Ribble Valley, is to be Mgr Pat­ rick Altham Kelly, Rector o f St Mary’ s! College, Oscott,. Birmingham. He succeeds Bishop Thomas Holland, who. has retired, and at 45 is'the youngest, to be appointed in the diocese.


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‘ Ideal’ day centre site


WHITEACRE School is to be suggested to Lanca­ shire County Council as a possible site fo r the Ribble Valley’s proposed 50-place day centre for the handicapped. , Members of the Ribble Valley Council’s Policy and-Resources Committee agreed with Coun. Mrs Myra Clegg. (Wiswell) that the school'had many of the facilities needed. Coun. Mrs Clegg said;


“The county has set aside £V£m for this project and here we have a


site on the market, com­ plete with caretaker, maintained grounds and ramps up to the build­ ings.”


A GIRL with her sights: set firmly on the Miss Royal British Legion United Kingdom title is Chatbum’s Anne Jackson, who has just won the competition’s NW final at Irlam. Anne (28), who repre­


sents Chatburn and dis­ trict branch, goes through to the national finals at Llandudno on May 26th.' A coachload of Chat-


bum members prqvided moral support at IHam “They Were a tremendous help out there rooting for me,” said Anne, who is secretary of the haulage business belonging to her father, Edwin. He went to the NW


final too, along with Anne’s mother, Joyce, and boyfriend, Martin. Once again yAnne, who


wore a cocktail dress, had to answer questions about the Legion in the person­ ality contest. She does not know what form the na­ tional. contest will take, but is prepared for any­ thing. - Mr Bill Wilson, chair­


man o f the ' Chatburn branch, said: “ Anne’s achievement is an honour for us. considering we are only a rural branch. We have never had an entrant do so well before and we are delighted.”


- of trio's achievement


HARD work and perse- verance paid-off for three


- Scouts, when -they- each re-: ■ ceived the high accolade o f .the Ch ief Scou t ’ s, award.


,:y ’’-They - w e re . DaVid 'Shackleton'(16), of East-


t^View,-' West Bradford; -' Andrew Mason (14), of Waddow Grove, Wadding-


: ton; and Simon Nicholson (14), of Newfield Edge Farm, Gisbum.


. The. presentation was


4 the 'District - Scout Execu­ t iv e , “ at "Grindleton CE * School.


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'The I boys'are all mem- ’.bers of'the 1st .Bowland


4 S c o u t s (■; w h i c h * D a v id i ^joined t on its-.'.formation • five years ago, and-they .are all patrofieaders.


'.V Their Scout leader, Mr ’’.Stephen Pietrzak, said:’ .'““This. is. a fine1 achieve-,. s i ment for the . lads and we ...


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SILENCE - is golden . . . at >least for these.


KISSES for Zigmund the day his dream came true and Jolanda


from Danuta (left)


Widow (82) died fighting blaze


A CLITHEROE widow who died in a bedroom fire should, perhaps, not have tried to fight the flames, but escaped, said East Lancashire Coroner Mr George Graham at a Blackburn inquest Recording a verdict of


misadventure on Mrs Elizabeth Veevers (82), of Princess Avenue, who died from th e' effects of smoke, the Coroner em­ phasised the importance of regular checks on elec- - trical appliances such as an overblanket, which; in this case, had caused the fire.


The inquest was told


how . Mrs V e e v e r s ’ brother, Mr Thomas Met­ calfe, o f Peel Street, Clitheroe, had been visit­ ing his sister on the after­ noon of February' 23rd when he saw the back room filled with smoke and flames.


He was unable' to enter


because of intense heat and smoke. A neighbour called the emergency ser­ vices and when firemen went in to the'house using breathing apparatus they


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Ambulance and police


men tried, without suc­ cess, to revive her with oxygen and cardiac mas­ sage. She had suffered ex­ tensive burns and a slight bruise to the back of her head. . The fire had been so


intense that it had not only destroyed the bed but also the floor which collapsed into the room below.


The ' Coroner said that


everything pointed to Mrs Veevers having tried to tackle the flames instead of leaving the room.


Tiddlers add up


A STREET collection held in Clitheroe on Saturday made a total' of £180 for the national “Give a tiddler, save a toddler” appeal.


Hair- raising! But worth £1,000


CHEERS! When the landlord and eight regulars at the Black Bull, Chatburn, abandoned their razors to cultivate beards and moustaches,: their charity sponsorship . grew with the. “ facial fungus.” • ■


.• Members o f the 2-30 Club — who meet at Mr


Norman Milligan’s pub every Saturday afternoon —. started o f f with the promise o f £500 and at the end o f the 60 days had managed to raise £1,000 for a machine to help multiple sclerosis sufferers in this part o f Lancashire. .


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The.local .area representative o f Friends o f Action Research for MS, Patricia Mercer, who


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Rostron, David Speak, Graham Cowking, Grant' Ingham, Keith .Myers, Keith Tomlinson and Norman — plus Frank Hayes, who is not pic­ tured. :


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are all proud. Already they are considering set­ ting their sights higher by becoming ■ Venture Scouts and trying for the Queen’s Award.”


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■ a rope and a clear head. - Other. tasks; included; a -10-mile canoe paddle on. a


■ s come back, fronv a week’s '(ski-ing holiday with,'the'


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•-1 f; Seen in our picture with -j Mr: - Westhead.. are (from /the • left), Andrew, David ;and Simon.


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