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Valerie in farm apprentice-of-year final FARM worker Val w *
erie Pickard, of Bolton-by-Bowland, has every reason to smile . . . for she has been chosen as one of six finalists in the national En glish Apprentice of the Year competi tion run by the Ag ricultural Training Board. And she can be sure
fa rm , w here h er brother Steven (22) also w o rk s . Her s is te r Alison (15) attends Clitheroe Girls’ Gram mar School.
for the farm’s 200 sheep including 25 pedigree S u f fo lk ewes and young stock. She also helps to milk the 55 cow dairy herd twice a day.
Valerie is responsible
of plenty of support from her employers who have been asked to attend the final on Monday. For they are her parents, Hedley and Alice Pickard, of Green Fold Farm. Valerie (19) served
her apprenticeship on the family’s 180-acre
Bowland School, she attended day release classes at the Lanca shire College of Ag riculture and Horticul ture’s Clitheroe Centre where she gained cre dits and five distinc tions in examinations. She is now taking a farm enterprise nvan-
A former pupil of __________L___________
Course brings new hope for jobless
THIRTY people desperate for jobs this week embarked on a course at Clitneroe aimed at giving them new skills and fresh
hope. They came from all
walks of life and all age groups to attend the five- week course . . . the brainchild of 50-year-old
Whalley psychotherapist Mr Ted Barrow. Mr Barrow, of Queen
Street, says his aim is “to improve the quality of their life and, hopefully, enable many of them to find work.” Coupled wit h the
COURSE tutor Ted Barrow discusses an information leaflet with Dorothy Brown, watched, from the left, by Stuart McCally, Malcolm Becconsall, Kevin Curtis and Margo Hudson.
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Town rate up .3p
CLITHEROE’S rate for
1985-86 is to be increased, from 1.5p to 1.8p in the £, largely to meet the cost of £1,200 on fencing allot ments and £1,000 towards an all-weather pitch at the Castle grounds. The council voted 5-4
against a proposal that the extra money should come from its balances of £9,700. Coun. John Cowgill said
Murray and she appealed for money to run the course from a £68,000 handout to Lancashire by
He approached Mrs
cated £2,500 and there are hopes of staging another in the New Year if furth er finance can be obtained from the fund. The “self-improvement
the European Social Fund. The course was alio,
launching of the course came an appeal to local employers from its co-or dinator, Whalley Adult Education tutor Mrs Pat Murray, to “take notice and for goodness sake help these people.” Mrs Murray told our re
porter: “There are so many unemployed, yet there are jobs available. .“If local firms would
only contact us and tell us what sort of skills they are looking for, we would be happy to run appropri ate courses." It was in June that Mr
are part-time staff of the Whalley Adult Education Centre' organised by Mrs Lynn Horsfall. Mrs Fiona Hayton is carrying out re search work to report on the p ro g re s s of the
Dispensing tlie advice
course. Mr Barrow, who also
course” follows a flexible format, the only stipula tions being that those on it must be over 25 and unemployed. ailThe facilities will be av
weeks on Tuesday, Wed nesday and Thursday at SS Michael and John’s Social Centre, Lowergate. The 30 on the course
able over the next five
offers advice on an indi vidual basis, says: “We are prepared to provide tutors for whatever sub jects the participants sug
gest.” The unemployed people,
ranging in age from 25 to 62, have been out of work for between two weeks and two years.
Enthusiastic
Barrow first thought of running a course to im prove the self-esteem of local unemployed people and cut out the depression which, he says, can lead to marital break-ups, vio lence and even drug abuse.
that the district auditor had “been surprised” at the extent of these ba lances. He felt that they should
are allowed to come and go at their own conveni ence. Other jobless people1 interested in taking part should telephone Mrs Murray on Whalley 2717 to register. This week’s programme
has ranged from a discus sion on self-appraisal to basic advice on literacy and numeracy, and more specialised subjects such as pottery, antiques, cookery and setting up a small business.
Children’s effort
precept for 1.7p — an in crease of ,2p to allow for inflation — and dip into the reserves. But Coun. Bert Jones
considered townspeople would be prepared to pay extra for the all-weather pitch. The pitch venture, cost
ing a total of £24,000. is being undertaken by Clitheroe Round Table. It hopes to receive 50 per cent from the NW Sports Council and 25 per cent from the Ribble Valley Council. The remainder will be
CLITHEROE brother and sister Simon and Marie Ingham, of Castle View, gave their head master a surprise this week . . . by presenting him with a £37 cheque to send to the Ethiopian appeal. Simon (10) and nine- year-old Marie gave the
cheque to Mr Bernard Warren, headmaster of SS Michael and John’s RC School, Lowergate, on Monday. The children raised £15
with a raffle and the re mainder by holding a good-as-new stall on the corner of Castle View and Bawdlands.
the course has been very enthusiastic. Stuart McCally (33), of
So far their response to
Mayfield Avenue, Clit'heroe, was last em ployed as a chef two years ago. He is now looking for work in the building trade. ■Another Clitheronian,
prize for the best Phase 1 agriculture student at the college and the 1983 award for the top stu dent at the Clitheroe Centre. She has also attended
agement course. She won the 1982
short courses on cattle fe ed in g and sheep shearing and dairy hy giene, organised by the Bowland T ra in in g Group, of which the farm is a member. Valerie, who is chair
man of Bolton-by-Bow- lan d YFC and a member of the paroc hial church council, is a British Wool Market- in g B o a rd b ro n ze award winner. Her h o b b ie s a re
dog breeding — our picture sljpws her with her dogs Lassie and Gyp.
gaining a reputation for shepherding and u n d e r ta k e s r e l ie f shepherding for local
Valerie is rapidly
la s t minute nerves about the competition final and she and her parents will be travel ling to the Royal Ag ricultural Centre at Stoneleigh, on Monday, for the selection.
farmers. She says she has no
£500 first prize, Valerie hopes to gain first-hand
bottle collecting, Suf folk sheep and sheep
Should she win the-
experience of sheep farming in New Zea land by taking a trip out there.
only audience at Well- gate Social Club and H local dar t er s watched in awe as John beat them with ease. In eight games of 1,001 lie finished on the ‘bullseye and in another match checked out with 22 arrows. After the exhibition,
“FANTASTIC” was how Clitheroe area cknis players summed up the devastating ac curacy of former world champion John Lowe. A standing-room
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Churchgoers support overseas aid plea
John answered c/ues- tions from the audi ence. In our picture, Mr
ABOUT 800 chur chgoers in Clitheroe added their weight to a petition urging the Government not to cut levels of aid to de veloping countries. Their signatures were
Vic Adcroft, who or ganised the visit, con grat ul at e s John (centre, back) watched by .beaten, but happy, opponents.
A visit from L a d y R y d e r
VISITING Clitheroe to morrow will be Lady Ryder of the Sue Ryder Foundation, a nationwide group of homes for people in need. She will be having a
' Mr Blackburn, of Buc- cleuch Avenue, Clitheroe, asked the clergy’ to take the unusual step of an nouncing the group’s plea for su p p o r t during worship. Most of them complied,
collected after services on Sunday by supporters of Clitheroe One World Group and forwarded the next day to Ribble Valley MP Mr David Wad- dington.
ised by Mr Malcolm Blackburn, a member of the group, in response to rumours that the govern
The petition was, organ-
ment was intending to trim its aid programme by b etwe en £ 5 0 m. and £150m.
look around the Sue Ryder shop in Castlegate in what will be her first visit since its opening in May,. Manageress is Mrs Barbara Watson, of Low ergate. Lady Ryder first began
her work helping Polish refugees in 1944 and since then her work has become worldwide.
ment on Monday by the Chancellor, Mr Nigel Lawson, that the level of support to the developing world would be decided by the Foreign Office, whose budget was-being increased by four per cent, Mr Blackburn thought that there could still be substantial cuts in the programme and that in view of this possibility, the exercise had been very worthwhile. On Saturday evening,
Despite an announce
GS headmistress retiring
at Easter
Miss Dorothy Brown, of Alma Place, had been a cleaner in the area all her life until two years ago She is hoping the course will help her to find another cleaning job. The course has at
GOVERNORS of Clitheroe’s grammar schools this week rubber-stamped a decision to amalga mate the two from September 1985 . . . but accepted, with regret, the resignation of the girls’ headmistress, Miss Barbara Bingham. Miss Bingham, who has
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traded applicants from Chatburn, Mitton, Whal ley and Mellor, but 75% are from Clitheroe. Malcolm Becconsall
(28), of Ribblesdale Place Osbaldeston, is attending because he would like to work in the Ribble
two years, but have good educational qualifications and would like to work in sales," he said.
Valley. “I haven’t had a job for
Chatburn’s effort for appeal
raised by the Round Table. The floodlit pitch will be available for sports such as five-a-side foot ball, netball, hockey and tennis.
is a £100 a year deputy mayor’s allowance, start ing in April. Coun. Ted Newhouse
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Twinning
A PROMISE- has been made by Clitheroe Town Council to meet half the cost of some Clitheroe/ Rivesaltes twinning signs which are being purchase by the town’s twinning or ganisation.
CHRIST Church, Chatburn’s, effort for the Ethiopian famine appeal raised about. £400.
stall.
Black’s home in Ribblesdale'View, Chatburn. Members of Chatburn Mothers’, Union, to which both ladies .belong, assisted them. Soup, sandwiches and coffee was served to visitors and there was a bring-and-buy
It was organised by Mrs Joyce Black and Mrs Barbara Quayle and held at Mrs '■ - v - , " ■ ■
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been head for 21 years, said: “I wouldn't like it to be thought I was leaving because of the changeovei; because I am totally in favour. “I decided some months
making some form of appeal from the pulpit or allowing a supporter of
the group to address the" congregation. Only one church refused
because it did not want to alter its arrangements for Remembrance Sunday.
Mr Blackburn said that
in view of impending dis cussions about the aid programme in Parliament, a pulpit appeal was the quickest way of gaining support for the petition.
have approached the Ribble Valley Church Council for advice. “But there was no time
Normally, he would
for any official approach so I had to go ahead and contact each church indi vidually," he said. Mr Blackburn said the
response to the petition had been overwhelming. “There are many who
share the views of the Clitheroe One World
Group that our aid prog ramme is inadequate al ready, but many, many more than that group clearly feel that to cut the programme at this time would be a slap in -the face for all those adults and children who have re sponded so generously to the Ethiopian appeal,” he said.
DANGER ISLAND
WADDINGTON Parish Council is to write to Lan cashire County Council asking for the removal of a traffic island opposite the Higher Buck Inn, for safety reasons.
hazardous to motorists and the parish council wants it to be replaced by a pilot scheme of sand bags, as is normally done when new traffic controls are initiated.
The island is proving
council'is asking the county to place some form of warning lights on the island.
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