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Children are dying for lack o f milk


CONDITIONS in Romanian orphanages and hospitals are “appall­ ing,” says Miss Jenny Riley, the 24-year-old Clitheroe nurse who has| just been on a charity mission to the country.


with CAKE, the Cumbrian Appeal for the Romanian Emergency, to help distribute the supplies provided by the Ribble Valley, as well as working at an orphanage in Brasov. She returned last weekend, a few days earlier than


Jenny, of Do Lacy Street, left on June 12th by lorry • .1 o •>*£•'


expected, because she was able to get a scheduled (light, and would go back again if she had the chance; unfortunately, however, her holiday allocation from her job at the Roefield Nursing Home has been used


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orphanages are absolutely disgusting. There were 25 children living in four small rooms which were dark, dank, and dingy stinking places. They had their heads shaved and never saw any daylight. "They were cramped in tiny cots and some of them


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had legs that were shrivelled and spastic. One child was tied so tightly to its cot that its hands were


purple.”The CARE lorry stopped at several towns along its delivery route, giving Jenny a chance to see conditions


A hardship plea by ‘too fast’ motorist


(;>!)). of Teewood Farm House, Slaidburn Road, Wadding ton, admitted driving at 42 m.p.li. in a 20


ni.p.h. zone at Crow Trees Brow, Chatham. The three-point penally


at children’s hospitals, as well as orphanages. But the hospitals were no better. “The children are very


EXCEPTIONAL hard- the court that he often ship was the reason given drove 2,2(10 miles a week by Clitheroe magistrates and would lose his job with for not banning a local Whalley’s Abbatoir il he motorist under the totting was banned. He also lives up procedure. Stephen Edward Berry


short of milk,” she said. Some children will die if they don’t get milk soon. The hospital could do with i new ambulance, too: the


only one they had was a delapidated old wreck.” The children she was


in an isolated place and his inability to drive could affect his wife and two daughters. Berry was fined £50,


took him over the 12-point limit and could have led to an automatic ban. However, Berry told


seeing were mostly haiuli- ■apped and destined to be


with £12 costs, and had his licence endorsed with three penalty points. The magistrates felt there were mitigating circum­ stances and Berry was not banned, on the grounds of exceptional hardship.


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CLITHEROE Royal British Legion ladies’ darts team scored a bull’s-eye with its fund-raising for


Christie Hospital. Member Mrs Jean Stewart underwent chemother­


apy treatment there and was full of praise for the staff. Now, as a “thank you,” the darts A team has presented a cheque for £1,525 to Dr Howard Scaffie,


on behalf of the hospital.


raised a further £320 for the hospital and a delighted Dr Scaffie said the money would help to purchase


The presentation on Friday, at the Legion Club, .


much-needed equipment. Fund-raising over the past seven months by the


darts team included a sponsored walk, raffle and


under the control of the state until they become 21. However, said Jenny: “I don’t think many will each that age.” Even the old people’s


home she saw was bad. •The old people were


dirty, smelly, lying in their own excrement and dressed in rags,” she said. ‘They, also, had no


bingo sessions. There was special thanks for 80-ycar-old Chtheroe


champion walker and club life member Mr Tom Ingham, of Highfield Road, who completed 20km during a recent army cadet marathon and raised more than £200. He received a tankard from Dr Scaffie to.


£112 from a bucket collection, £173 from a raffle and


mark his achievement. Money raised on the presentation night included


£20 from a gallon bottle on the bar. Club steward Mr Norman Garner said: “We would


daylight.” The British charity workers had little chance


like to thank the ladies of the'A’ team. Their efforts are greatly appreciated by the hospital." Our photographs show Mrs Stewart presenting


of talking to local people because of the presence of the state’s secret police. They did manage to speak to one girl, though, who told them that they were being followed every­ where and bugged. While unloading sup


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the cheque to Dr Scaffie, watched by team mem­ bers, and (right) Mr Ingham with his tankard.


stolen. Fortunately their video camera was too bulky to go missing and the footage they shot of the trip will be shown at the Catholic Social Centre, Clitheroe, oil July 8th, at 3 p.m.


dies, the CARE workers lad their camera and films


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began in May, when reader Mrs Sheila Berry, of Pimlico Road, Clith­ eroe, asked the “Adver­ tiser and Times" to publi­ cise Romania’s plight. She is collecting supplies and looking for volunteers to travel to Romania: medical supplies are needed as much as food, clothing and toys. Mrs Berry has been


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Whalley proclaimed Valley’s ‘grot spot’


CLAIMS that Whalley has become the Ribble Valley grot, spot have been made on the eve of judging for two prestigious competitions.


the village over the condi­ tion of the streets, follow­ ing the hand-over of street and amenity cleansing to the Ribble Valley Borough Council in April. Said cafe proprietor and


Anger is mounting in


village to a grot spot in just three months.


former Clitheroe publican Mr Gordon Miller: “They want tourists, but they are not going to come when it is like a pig-sty. Whalley has gone from a nice clean


was paid peanuts for doing a super job. Since Lanca­ shire County Council won the street cleaning tender, 1 have seen the street sweeper just once."


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At the parish council meeting, Mr Arthur Pear­ son called for the village to be withdrawn from the


storing the goods ill the double garage at her home, but hoped loca firms would offer storage space. The Ribble Valley pro­


Stepping out in the rain for new green


RAIN could not spoil the day for crown green bowling fund-raisers in Sabden.


vided one and a half tons of supplies, ranging from syringes to canned food, for the June trip and CARE organisers hope the Valley will be able to sponsor another visit, at cost per wagonload of £1,500. CARE will lie heading


for Romania via Clitlieroe again on August liltli.


their best feet forward on Sunday for a 12-mile spon­ sored walk, which is set to raise between £301) and


Seventeen of them put


£400.It was raining bard when they started their trek to Whalley, but then the weather eased off for a time. Mrs Anita Whalley. one


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BUDDING businessmen and women converge on Ribblesdale School today as the Ribble Valley Small Village Primary Schools hold their first ever Industry


Day.The top junior classes from nine schools in the area will be taking part and 75 children will be working on industry-related tasks with, represen­ tatives of industry and commerce. The aims are for the children to gain an under­


standing of industrial relationships, to appreciate basic requirements of working together as a team, to develop communication skills and to understand the individual's role in industry. The schools involved are from Bolton-by-Howland, Dunsop Bridge, Grindleton, Chatham, Gisburn, Waddington, Barrow, Slaidburn and Hurst Green.


of the fu n d - ra ise rs , thanked everyone who helped to make the event a success. Work on laying the


crown green started on Monday, with the cutting of the first sod, but around £2,000 still needs to be raised for the £40,000


green. The Sabden Crown


Green Bowling Club Com­ mittee lias raised £9,000, £15,000 grant lias come from the North West Sports Council and £10,000 from Ribble Valley Bor ougli Council.


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CLITHEROE should be : hive of activity today for another of the popular craft markets. Stallholder! will be in position from 9 30 a.in. until 4 p.m., with a wide variety of goods available.


Lancashire Best-Kept Vil­ lage Competition. Follow­ ing a vote, however, it was decided that Wliailey will stay in the competi­ tion. It is already entered in the National Britain in Bloom contest, for which judging began last week. Numerous complaints


were discussed regarding the untidy state of the vil­ lage. Mr Pearson said it had become an untidy eye­ sore since the lengthsman stopped sweeping the streets and emptying the bins.


Council took over respon­ sibility for street and amenity cleansing in April and since then the village lengthsman, employed by the parish council, only looks after the bus station and Vale Gardens. Members of the parish


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Miller said he had been in the village for 18 months and looked after the area around his own busi­ nesses, putting the rub­ bish into plastic sacks, for which lie was charged. “The churchyard is


COUNCILLORS over­ turned the recommenda­ tion of Ribble Valley Council's director of devel­ opment and client services when they voted to approve a planning appli­ cation for an agricultural worker's dwelling in Chipping. The applicants, J. and S.


lovely and well main­ tained, but it is not everyone who wants to go to church in Whalley. A lot of money is spent on the church grounds, but very little on the streets. As far as crows and rooks are concerned, they do come down and pull litter out of the bins early in the morn­ ing, but they don’t pull out cans and smash bottles. Some of the bottles have been there for three months,” lie added.


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