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“AW come on,” she told 'em, through a mouthful of
talk and tell me straight. . . is it me? I want to knock ‘em dead in their pushchairs in
rusk. “Quit the sales
That’s what the ‘Mayor of Worston’ asks you to do by KAYE MOON
Clitheroe centre. “I’ve been told a girl
DREAMS will come true in the Kib ble Valley this summer. . . by order of the “Mayor of Worston,” Mr Roy
has to look her best in her Easter bonnet for the Easter parade, and all that malarkey — so does it do anything for my street cred?”
drooled, “it’s you to a T. It accentuates modom’s fair complexion and matches modom’s blue eyes. And when the boys see the tasteful ladybird trim on the daffodil, they’ll be bowled over.”
“Modom,” they
“You've won me over. I’ll take it. Pass me my piggy bank, mother!”
“Right,” she said.
Barry spotted this cute tot in her “tit fer tat” at the Easter Bonnet Competition organised by Downham Playgroup.
Photographer J ohn
Scott’s unusual daffodil hat was made by Mum, Mrs Christine Scott. . . and Dad, Gary, and sister, Vicky (5), thought she looked “blooming lovely."
Two-year-old Debbie
Ribblesdale View, Chatburn.
page 10. The Scotts live in Another picture —
Fr e e birthday swim le s so n s
CLITHEROE’S Ribbles dale Pool has come of age and to mark its 18th birth day, on April 28th, there will be free swimming ses sions for part of the Satur day.
contribution to the Ama teur Swimming Associa tion’s Swim-fit campaign for 1990.
It will also be the local
Dewhurst. In the district’s biggest-ever bonanza of
good deeds and spine-tingling prizes, the “Clitheroe Advertiser and Times” is joining Roy’s Mayoral Committee and the area’s main service organisations to make sure that 1990 goes down in local history books as the year the lid blew off the Ribble Valley . . . and it was the happiest place in Lancashire in which to be. Already local organisations are coming forward
July 1st, and the proceeds of the tickets will be allocated to the “Mayor of Worston’s” local
charities. On that day, the new “Mayor” will be installed
at a fun-day-to- remember in the village. A pitch has been promised to any local organisations want ing to raise money for their group or any other charitable cause. Organisations may include playgroups, village
groups, charity groups or any clubs and they could sell goods, provide games or other activities. Roy said: “We arc hoping these groups will just
in delight to take part and to offer their help. And at the top of the agenda is a Ribblc Valley lot tery . . . which promises a lotta fun, a lotta dreams come true and a lotta superb prizes. Within a week, tickets will be on sale for 50p
each at the “Advertiser and Times” front office in King Street, Clithcroe, various organisations, shops and outlets in the area. The winners are
promised: 0 The crock, of gold at the end of the rainbow. A
simple treasure hunt will lead the winner to a secret location, where will be hidden a crock of gold . . . £250 worth of ‘golden’ £1 coins, donated by Clitheroc’s Marsden Building Society in Wellgate. • The second prize winner will be whisked away
for a bird’s eye view of the Ribble Valley. . . in a round-trip donated by Griffair Helicopters, of Bol- ton-by-Bowland, with the final destination the Calfs Head Hotel, Worston. There, proprietors Mr and Mrs John Davies will offer a champagne reception and a dinner for two. • The third prize winner is taking off,
be happy to meet each other and have a happy day. The emphasis is going to be on enjoyment for everybody, big or small. . . and we’re hoping this bonanza will be a self-generating thing, rippling to include everyone in the Ribble Valley.” Anyone wishing to contact Roy for a pitch for
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Police alert after bogus officials
dupe ladies
TWO elderly Clitheroe women, one 92, have fallen victims to two bogus water board offi cials who carried out heartless thefts at their
with a total of £300 worth they were from the water of jewellery and £112 in board and doing tests in casn from the two houses the area,” the inspector in Victoria and Primrose explained. “In each case, Streets.
homes on Easter Saturday. The thieves made off "The tricksters said
the great day can do so after next Thursday on (Whalley) 822921.
I DEBBIE . . . “blooming lovely”! Loud voice of protest needed on Sunday
too . . . this time courtesy of Grassington hot air balloonist extraordinaire Graham Turnbull, of the GT Flying Club, who will take them on the thrill ing trip of a lifetime. Every lottery ticket also contains a “Worston
Last chance for Bramley Meade
Wish Voucher.” This will enable members of the public to nominate anybody local — even them selves — for a wish come true. “Wishes will have to be within reason, of
course,” said Roy this week, “but we are looking for deserving people who could be made happy with half a day of somebody’s time, or transport or something similar. Also in the category could come jokey requests for others, but our main idea is to give people a treat — whatever form they would like that to take — and I’m sure there will be lots of unusual ideas.” Service organisations in the town which have
THERE is still t ime to s a v e Bramley Meade Nursing Home — if the public rallies round with a loud voice of protest against closure. So says Whalley
already promised to do something are Clithcroe Lions, the Rotary Clubs of Ribblesdale and Clith eroe, Clitheroe Round Table and Ribble Valley Rotaract. As soon as people start buying their tickets,
turnout at Sunday’s meet ing, called by the District Health, Committee, will be as good as the last occa sion, when between 300 ments from women who and 400 people attended. are due to give birth in m,„ , •
Dr Whyte hopes the
etween the two meet- thyen b t mgs, he points out, is that. there .g ^
doctor Ian Whyte, secretary of the action committee fighting plans to close down
wishes will be allocated to the various organisa tions to fulfil — and Roy is hoping many more will come forward to join in. The wishes will be granted all summer long, even after the lottery is drawn on
The m ost deligh tfu l way to enjoy your Home.
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June and July that Bram- f course if
last-ditch attempt to keep Bramley Meade open comes this weekend at a .second public meeting.
the maternity home. The chance to make a
Family happy as ‘Treacle’ returns
home safely ONE of our readers was so relieved to get her cat back as a result of a story in last week’s “Clitheroe Advertiser and Times” that she presented repor ter Kaye Moon with a magnificent aza lea and some chocolates by way of a thank you.
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if cat-snatchers were on the prowl again in the Ribble Valley, fol lowing the disappear ance of two readers’ cats.
Kaye’s story asked
Irene Hornby’s four-year- spotted a pattern for cats old ginger and black cat, missing in Burnley and “Treacle," which went Darwen and says you
One of the cats was Mrs
“Treacle” from Cowper Avenue, C l i th e ro e , brought back memories of a cat which disappeared 15 years ago. when Mrs Hornby was living in Nel son and cat-snatchers were on the prowl! This time Mrs Hornby
missing four weeks ago. The disappearance of
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bring their pets indoors at night, which is when most cats go missing. One reader has even
might see a spate of blkack ana white cats disappear ing, then Persian, and so on, and is convinced it due to a local fur trade. Our
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tried everything she could think of to find “Treacle,” including contacting shops and advertising, Defore she spoke to reporter Kaye Moon. ten the paper was
several responses about o th e r c a ts and Mrs Hornby was hoping to match lost and found Tiut, as luck would have it, none of the found matched the
story provoked
lost. A car driver reported
published last Thursday the story was read by Mrs Lesley Metcalfe, of Kirk- moor Road, Clitheroe. That .evening, worried, Mrs Metcalfe called her. cats in so that they would be safe and saw a strange one under a wagon. She called and it came to her. She could see the collar
and tag and promptly returned the cat- in a bas ket to Mrs Hornby. “Naturally, I was over
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• had been seen in her gar- • den for two days — per-
running over, a dark fiat with a white tail near the post office in Henthorn Road, Clitheroe. A lady in Church Street, Clitheroe, found a tortoiseshell cat with a white face, which
haps the same cat spotted by another lady in Church Street, who also found a very, friendly, ginger cat. :■ An:80-year-oldf resident in Bolton-by-Bowland is
worried about her missing Persian cat; a black and white cat has been missing
Nora Briggs, chairman of C lith e ro e 's -F u r i.an d : Feather group, lost her small black cat, “Baby," a
the moon to get ‘Treacle’ back,” said-Mrs Hornby. , “But I’m sorry the other lady hasn’t got hers back." , The other-reader, Miss:
fe,w days before Mrs Hornby lost “Treacle” and was equally worried that cat-snatchers were on the prowl. She warns cat-owners to
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Health Authority, which °Pen- was not represented last “A number of people are time. This time the . very pessimistic that the authority’s district'general 'closure of Bramley Meade m a n a g e r ' Mr' David- is a foregone conclusion, Kenny, will be attending but it isn’t — and we need in place of district health support from- the public chief Mr Ian Woolley.
Sunday will see a repre- . Meade could still be sentative from the District
fully confident that the at Clitheroe Parish Hall Community Health Coun- begins at 8 p.m.
Dr Whyte added: “I am Sunday’s public meeting now more than ever. '
cil will reject the District Health Authority’s pro posal and the issue will then have to go to appeal. “I’ve heard a lot of com-
Authority’s proposals to close Bramley Meade and use funds generated by the closure to help pay for a tem po ra ry unit at Queen’s Park Hospital, Blackburn, are just one of a succession of changes planned for patients from Blackburn, Hyndbum and the Ribble Valley.
The District Health
the closure of wards G1 and G2 at Queen’s Park," and the replacement of these with a new building, purpose-built to look after elderly patients, at Park Lee Hospital — a scheme to be developed in part nership with the private sector.
Other proposals include
low, wno is leading the other rummaged through inquiry, said the two men the house to see what they used the same kind of pat ter to trick their way into the premises, moving quickly from one house to the other and getting clean away before the old people realised that property had been stolen.
Acting Insp. Roger Bar- resident talking, while the one man kept the elderly
could find." Now the police are
appealing for information which will lead to the arrest of the tricksters and have also issued a warning to local householders to be always on their guard against bogus officials. The incidents happened
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at about 3 p.m. and the police (Clitneroe 23818) would like to hear from anyone who saw two men behaving suspiciously in the area. One is described as in
his mid-20s, white, 6ft. tall, of slim build, with dark short hair and possi bly wearing overalls. The second man is in his
Young Sylvia serves up a triumph
ON her way to the top — that’s Slaid- burn waitress Sylvia Robinson.
has broken new boun- Slaidbum, Sylvia has been daries, taking second back in -the Ribble Valle
Aged just 19. she Woodhouse Gate Farm,
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early 30s, white, 5ft. 6in. tall, of slim build, with dark, short straight hair and wearing a dark grey “scruffy” tweed coat and a woollen hat. Insp. Barlow said: “We
would like to hear from anyone who saw anything at all suspicious in the area. This was a parti- cuarly mean trick against, two elderly people. ‘We would also like to
warn people not to let strangers into their houses on the pretext that they are officials from the water board or any other board. “Genuine officials will
carry identification and this, will include a photo graph and a description of the person. If this type of identification cannot be produced, then anyone purporting to be an official should not be admitted.”
the Hilton International Hotel, Kensington, Sylvia had to serve a four-course meal to four distinguished guests, including the pres ident of Hilton Interna tional, vice-president of the BBC and the general manager of the hotel.
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But for this lady loss of is last straw
A BROKEN-HEARTED Clitheroe pensioner, whose only daughter died tragically of cancer last month, has suffered yet another blow with the loss of her beloved pet cat.
a widow; of Brook Street, 'fears that her cat, “Marmite,” may have fallen prey to cat-snatchers, follow ing our story last week about the mysterious disappearance of two readers’ cats. . * v
Mrs Vera Longfield,
from a West, Bradford ' was “the last straw and I home for six months;-a
grey cat went missing .more." from: Kemple View last . ■
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. tom went missing, from neutered and had never sc a ts ' went .missing;" she vstaharingJsaid: “The dis- Gary’s YGaray’s Unisex : Sabden three weeks ago, wandered away before;,;: : r - !a d d e d i i ' . -i 'i vj ^^ vappearancebf Marmite has Hairdressers” in Wellgate. on the same night as a “She always came.home At. the time; Marmite :come as a shock, because ‘She was Mrs Longfield’s neighbour’s.
week; and a sm a ll,
..The nine-year old grey two weeks ag o. aLthe. of'Mrs Longfield’s late Hair Salon in Moor Lane, friendly, black and;white and black striped catvwas:? same time as the:other- daug h te r , ;% r s I r e n e working closely with
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She disapp her;? . evepj evening," she said,
was.not wearing a collar.
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in King Street, Clitheroe.: , ’ first being.taken ill, at her brother-in-law - eroe. She ran Hairways
it is so s^on after Irene’s only child.
Mrs Longfield, her eyes disappearance of Marmite feel
“I have, looked absolutely everywhere in the district and questioned lots of peo ple, but she has vanished into thin air. It is very strange and I worry about the thoughts of her being taken by strangers.” ..... .
, .Mrs Longfield, who has always kept cats, got Mar mite as a ; kitten from Dr
re(j with tears, told us the w*s my only comfort,” she - s-a!iJd, h hooping'that
Cyril Royle, in Clitheroe. . “She is a lovely cat and
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