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own business in Clitheroe, a ladies’ and school outfit­ ter’s shop on four floors in York Street. She was the busy mother of two young sons, as well as a netball and tennis enthusiast, who particularly enjoyed walk­ ing with her husband, John. . It was on one of these •ambles around the Ribble


extraordinarily obvious or painful about the symp­ toms, but Mrs Bailey found herself undergoing a


certain that she would be told c an ce r was th e ’ culprit. “They didn’t want to tell


series of tests in Queen’s Park Hospital, Blackburn. She feared the results,


me, but I desperately wanted to know. Then I was relieved because I had thought I had cancer. You get these ideas in your l e a d , ” Mrs B a i le y reflected. “After that I was just


Mrs Bailey began stum­ bling frequently and hav­ ing a feeling of pins and needles in her hands. There was nothing


Valley countryside that the first hint of MS sur­ faced when she was unable to lift her leg over a stile they encountered. Around the same time,


lucky in many respects. Unlike the youngest mem­ ber of the local MS sup­ port group, who is in her late 20s, Mrs Bailey was only diagnosed when she was 40. At the time, she had her


Somerset Avenue, is among dozens of MS vic­ tims in the Ribble Valley who have been diagnosed at varying ages and stages of the disease, which damages tissue in the brain or spinal cord, even­ tually causing partial or complete paralysis. Mrs Bailey has been


ple sclerosis sufferers, she must simply manage her condition with a mountain of positive thinking and a m i n e o f q u i e t determination. Mrs Bailey (54), of


She need not fear for her life, but neither can she hope for a miraculous recovery. Like thousands of multi­


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Fighting back from her wheelchair


litheroe woman Mrs Pat Baiiey


suffers from an insurmountable disease.


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and just sitting in the car. Finally, I decided that at least with a wheelchair I could do more. It’s awful, really, at that point, when you’ve been so active before. “Still, when I was strag­


left in the dark. You have to find out about MS for yourself. At the time, I decided to push it to the back of my mind and not l e t i t m a k e a n y difference.” Mrs Bailey was able to


just walk anywhere. I was straggling. I started fall­ ing everywhere and broke my arm. I never thought that I would end up in a wheelchair. I had just shut off my mind to that. I didn’t even want to walk w i th a s t i c k , ” sh e explained. “But I was going out with my husband on walks


despite suffering from a limp. But, about seven years ago, her physical condition s ta r te d to deteriorate. “Suddenly, I couldn’t


her own home. There, she has channelled her energy into therapeutic sewing and quilting.


But Mrs Bailey is hardly housebound. With the help of h e r h u sb an d , she remains an active member of Downham WI and attends craft fairs around the county.


core of kindred spirits in the Ribble Valley MS S o c ie ty a n d , m o re recently, the Contact Club, which is for people who have been forced to leave work because of disabilities.__


She has also found a


wishes more people, like herself, would think about coming along to one of the meetings.


Mrs Bailey simply


gling to walk and falling all over the place, I felt much worse about myself. It took such a lot out of me. Now that I am in a wheel- c h a i r , I fe e l much healthier.” The change in her condi­


continue normally for a few years and maintain a relatively active life.


tion ultimately forced Mrs Bailey to close her shop and spend more time in


think that we sit around feeling sorry for ourselves and talking about MS. But we don’t. We have speak­ ers and outings. I t ’s a social gathering and chat­ ting can be comforting,” she said. Mrs Bailey is the pro­ gramme secretary for the


“I think some people Traditions which enrich life


A MOONLIT Pendle Hill is featured on the front cover of a new book on Lancashire folklore that has been published just in time foi Hallowe’en.


Times” recently featured “Ghosts, Traditions and Legends of Old Lanca­ shire,” whose cover is a specially commissioned painting of Pendle Hill by moonlight.


The “Advertiser and


Ken Howarth, the collec­ tion of stories from the Ribble Valley and across the county is now available from the Kaydee Book­ shop, in Moor Lane, Clith­ eroe. for £7.95.


Written by Sabden’s


h ap p en in g s in local theatres and pubs, the Pendle Witches and rais­ ing the Devil will make perfect Hallowe’en read­ ing, although other stories simply reveal a few of the


The tales about ghostly


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more curious Lancashire traditions. The book, published by


Sigma Press, is unlike many others on the same subject, in that North West Sound Archivist Mr Howarth compiled his collection from conversa­ tions with local people, many of whom live in the Ribble Valley.


have seen some unusual sights,” he said. “I specia­ lise in oral history and it is important to record for posterity not only ghost stories and other super­ natural events, but more importantly the local tra­ ditions which enrich local life and preserve the iden­ tity of Lancashire.”


“They really do claim to Top job with clothing firm


THE director of a recently-closed Whalley sportswear firm has been appointed the sole UK distributor of “adidas” outdoor clothing and footwear. Mr David Ramsay, of Beaver Close, Wilpshire, has


been appointed to the top job following the closure of his firm, “Optioncall.” Mr Ramsay, who has many years’ experience in


the outdoor trade, including five years with leading company Karrimor International, said he was look­ ing forward to building a successful UK business.


Contact Club, which meets every Wednesday at Roe- field Leisure Centre, and is secretary of the local MS society.


the steering committee which is trying to form an independent Ribble Valley MS group, because the present society is linked with Blackburn and Hynd- bum and members would like money raised locally to be spent locally._______


She is also a member of


. “We just need more MS sufferers to join. We don’t sit around feeling sorry for ourselves. But a lot of peo­


ple are petrified when they are diagnosed and we are there to give each other support,” she said.


normally. We don’t want to be looked down on. I have a positive attitude. Most of the people I know do. You just haven’t to look back and think about what you could do in the past and can’t now.” Anyone interested in


“We want to be treated '3


joining the MS group should contact Mrs Bailey (Clitheroe 24467).


LIBRARY CORNER


Clear}'. The murder of a local solicitor seems motiveless, but what is the involvement of Syd­ ney’s largest bookmaker, an off­ shore bank and an elusive Rus­ sian? A-gripping murder story which includes observations on the dark underside of contempo­ rary world events and modern Australian society. “ The running foxes” —


RECENT additions to the stock at Clitheroe Library include: “ Bleak sp r in g ” — Jon


Joyce Stranger. A classic story of the countryside set in the Lake District. The hunt is part of village life, but one vixen and her c u d s


thus earning the right to share the land with their human neighbours. ‘rHamIyn Guide to Herbs


outwit and outrun it,


and Aromatics” — S. Powling. Detailed advice and information is given on adding an air of fra­ grance to your garden. Full colour photograpns for every plant. “Repairing and restoring


furniture” — V. J . Taylor. Gives a full range of woodwork­ ing techniques, as w'ell as being a useful guide to the authen­ ticity of constructional and decorative details between the 17th and 20th centuries.


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wise, wonderful and breathtaking, but they rarely seek to put it into practice. In the churches, depleted congregations lack the presence of so many who began well and then found it easier to stay away and criticise. Not being prepared to get too involved, they neglected to take up all the possible options. I remembered reading years ago of how Ghandi


IT was G. K. Chesterton who wrote that “Chris­ tianity has not been tried and found wanting, but found difficult and not tried.” There is a shortage of fully committed Christians and too many nominal Christians who have never really tried Christian living. People readily admit that Christian teaching is


could not blame a doctor for not helping us to get well if we refused to take his medicine because we did not like the taste of it.


the New Testament are love and loyalty to God. The power to follow them through and make them work in everyday living is^saltl not to come from ourselves, but from God. The Gospels state plainly enough that the power to follow them through does not come from ourselves, but from God.


The motives behind the moral principles outlined in


was once attracted to the Christian way of life from his reading of the New Testament. He attended ser­ vices in one Christian church, in order to learn more of the Christian way at first hand. His presence was soon noted and someone mistakenly counselled him to go and worship with his own kind. Ghandi was appalled at the caste system in his own


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church for not being a dominant feature enough in Christian lives. If folks as a whole had not stayed away from the Church, they might, have been influenced. The simple truth is that, while so many admire the tenets of the Christian faith, few attempt to foliowthem because they cost too much.


country, but found that a similar set of ideas existed among the Christians in that church, so he decided that he might as well remain a Hindu after all. People have been quick to blame the Christian


- that which seems too difficult or uncomfortable, so are often ineffective. We have to accept full commitment. We cannot


' world, concentrating on the next world and saving the souls of people before they got there. But wouldn’t there have been an outcry if they had the nerve to speak about wages, trade unions, labour conditions and housing?


There is truth in the charge that Christian leaders have shown too little interest in changing the present


JOE STANSFIELD


unless we receive the power of the Holy Spirit of God to do just that. Nominal Christians tend to omit


We cannot fully commit ourselves to Christ’s way


dilute the teaching of Jesus to suit our own ends. Of course Christians throughout the age have made their mistakes and today’s congregations are still composed of fallible people.


In the face of this, why blame Christianity? \Ve


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