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Clitlieroe Advertiser i£ Times, November 10th, 1994 17
Town Crier gets home the message — in Romanian
by Mazy Baker .
H E A R ye, hear ye, hear y e ! Tw en ty - e igh t members of Fondle for Romania have returned from their 10-day mission, including Clitlieroe t o w n c r i e r
cal supplies the group had col lected. This meant shifting gear
again — literally -18 hours of it, in fact, as the g roup’ s convoy
rolled non-stop across Europe.
i\l r
Roland Hailwood, who was called upon to gi v e a c r y in Romanian!
Before he left Clitlieroe, the local home decorat- i n g s u p p 1 i e r w a s required to shift gear from wallpaper to loo paper. His toilet roll appeal collected over 2,000 rolls, which were distributed to needy Romanian institutions.
Next, he had to help transport the rolls, along with all the medi
Club looks back on
busy year
AN activr and enjoyable year lor (Milheroe Contact. Club drew to a close at its ACM. Secretary Mrs Maureen
Hawthorne told the meet ing that tin* did* had been involved in the Disabled Sports Corum and the Kibble Valley Transport
(»roup. Programme secretary
Mrs Pat Hailey said the club’s weekly meetings had included 10 talks, two day trips, two archery demons! rat ions, t hree social evenings, a fund- raising quiz, and a holiday in Holland. Treasurer Mr Anthony
Knittht commented that expenditure and subscrip tion income had increased ami were in balance. A new account had been*
opened for the group’s proposed archery section. Chairman Mr Krian
Hawthorne reported that plans for the archery itnnip were well-advanced and an inaugural meetiniir Would be held soon. He thanked committee
members and their sup portive spouses for their hard work throughout the year and expressed the dub’s gratitude to those helpers and drivers with out whom weekly meet ings would be imposMble. ( ’omrnil tee members
were re elected and Mr Hawthorne said he looked forward to an equally enjoyable ACM next year.
In the Rockies
A Sl'ECTACI
H.AU slide show about the Canadian
Kockies was presented to the Clitlieroe Afternoon Townswomen’s Cuild on
Monday. Cuest speaker Mr Ken
Kyrroft showed slides of his visit to Canada, show ing the splendour of the mountains, lakes and rivers, as well as shots of
flora and fauna. A vote of thanks was
given bv Miss K. Celdard. iMischief nitfht
d k l C K are seeking reen-fingered vandals ho removed a flower tub
om the garden of a Sab- •n house and then placed
on a car. causing £1U0
orth of damage to the mnet. The vandals placed the
ib on a Volkswagen Coif urked at the WhalleV oad house between 10-20
,m. on Friday and * a.m. ii Saturday.
On arrival in Romania, members set up their headquarters at a sana torium in the town of Baile Govora. They soon set to work making several improvements, including the transfor mation of a dank base ment shower room into a bright clean treatment room.
The group hosted a buf fet at the sanatorium for a p p r o x im a t e l y oil guests, including repre sentatives of the local autho r i ty and the Mayor. "The local auth orities tend to he quite distrustful of us, won
dering what our motives
really are,” said Mr Hailwood. “The buffet was a way of introducing ourselves to the commu nity and showing what we were trying to do.”
Dressed in his town crier's garb, Mr Hailwood read a welcoming cry in Romanian, prepared in advance with the help of an interpreter. “We interpreted what 1 wanted to say, then wrote it out phoneti cally, so I could read it.”
Tile next day, the Mayor rang the director of the sanatorium and offered him 2,()()(),000 leu (about £700) towards the refur bishment of the exterior of the building. “This was the first time the authority had taken any interest m the problems larmg the sanatorium,” explained Mr Hailwood.
The group gave basic m e(1i c: 'd al supplies to hospitals and a mater nity clinic and toiletries to residents of an old people’s home. Toys and toi letries were also given to a girls’ home.
“We tried to give each of the girls something they wouldn’ t ordinari ly have, even if it was just a box of crayons or some toi let ries, ” he said. “ Even the most basic supplies are difficult to get hold of.”
“The shadow of Commu nism is still a frightening presence there,” he added. “There is no way you can imagine what it's like until you've a c t u a 11 y b e e n t o Romania. They are still a very poor people.”
Some members of the group visited an orphan age, where conditions
KOMANIANS admire the Town Crier’s garb
were similar to those shown on television, and described it as heart rending, although they said conditions were slowly but steadi ly improving.
1’endle for Romania has played a part in these changes, for which mom-
hers have a right to he proud. Mr Hailwood said: “ I was only one of 28 members out there, ranging in age from 18 t o li 5 , ” h e s aid.
"Everyone did their bit — we went out there
to help and to work hard
and everyone got stuck in.”
The group plans to return to Romania in April, August and October of 1005, when members
will no doubt be kept busy improving the
situation even more.
Warning of threat to tenant farmers
Barn conversion policy under fire
REARS are mounting in the Ribble Valley that planning policy changes could pose a threat to tenant farmers. "They could lose their
livelihood and, at the same tune, receive little com pensation for their loss," Wiirn critics of the policy. The wo r ry is that Government guidelines now come down in favour of owners who want to sell off barns and other farm buildings for house con versions for the wealthy. Owners or developers
need no longer prove that farm buildings are redun dant when applying for planning consent for con versions. Although a good tenant,
A prizein
,* storeiorv couple/;
SIMPLY by returning their electoral registra tion forms on time, two Rihhle Valley couples have won £>11 shopping
vouchers. The prize draw was
organised hy Kibble
Val ley electoral and licensing of f icer Mrs Kathleen Law as an incentive to the elector al e t o re turn their forms on time. Although people are
le ga l ly required to return them, sometimes it can take a long time — a n d s e v e r a I reminders — before they do. The prospect of winning tlie vouchers, donated hy Tcsco, was
just enough to entice people to send hack
their forms sooner. Our picture shows
Tosco manager Mr Peter llampson with Mrs Law, prizewinners Mr and Mrs K. ( ’ lies- singlon. of Itead, and deputy manager Mr Ian Backhouse. The other p r i z e w i n n e r s , w h o could not lie present, were Mr and Mrs C. Bulcoek, of Harrow.
Antarctic
TH K st am ps o f t he Antarctic will be the sub
ject of a talk and display at a meeting of Clitlieroe Stamp Club on Tuesday. Mr CL Barber will be
speaking at the meeting, which begins at 7-20 p.m., in the United Reformed Church, Moor Lane.
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More grants for halls
AN additional £:i(ll).U(l() worth of village trail grants inis heroine available to rural communities in the North West.
In the last three years,
awards totalling £200,000 have been made in the area to schemes such as the West Bradford Village Hall project, to which the Rural Development Com mission allocated a maxi mum grunt of £20,000.
The grant scheme is
aimed at encouraging the extended use of existing village halls and, where there is no existing hall, at helping towards the cost of a new one.
More information about
the grant scheme is avail able from rural services officer Lynne Pox (07158 (55752).
Education chief opens school extension
AN attractive extension to Gis- burn County Primary’ School was officially opened last week — reflecting a large increase in the number of pupils.
Lancashire’s chief education officer,
Mr Andrew Collier, officially opened the new extension, whicli was completed in the summer.
The chairman of Lancashire County
Council, County Coun. Edwin Fail, and the Ribble Valley Mayor, Coun. Kate Hodkinson, were also guests of honour at the ceremony.
The extension has provided the school
with a new classroom, a kitchen servery and an office for head teacher Mrs Jackie Hargreaves.
Mr Collier was delighted to be on hand
to cut the tape. “The number of pupils has risen to over 100, which lias almost doubled the size of the school over the
past few years. These splendid new extension's will accommodate that
growth in size," he said. Architects for the £185,000 scheme
were the Design and Development Group from Lancashire County Council’s Department of Property Services.
Building work, carried out in tradi
tional stone and cement rendering in keeping with the existing buildings, includes the provision of an additional classroom, the replacement of a HOUSA servery with a purpose-built kitchen ser very and chair store and remodelling of the head teacher’s office to provide more
space and a store room. External alterations and landscaping
included in the contract have provided ear parking space for eight vehicles and an outdoor seating area.
Our picture shows guests, officials and pupils at the opening ceremony.
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Call goes out for creative crafts
THE New Year may slill svem months away, but local artists and craftsmen need to start thinking about (uttering their work in the annual showcase of Ribble Valley creativity.
The nth Open Art and Craft Competition will
once aqain draw the crowds to Whatley I.ihrary, where tile creations of talented local residents will he on display from .Iannarv 2Nt li until March 1st.
Visitors plav a crucial role in the eompet it ion every
Year, voting ter their tavourite entries in the art and craft sections. To ensure fairness, the identity ol com petitors is kept secret during the judging.
Advertiser and Times" shields in ivmgnilion of their aehirN e l l l e l l t .
The winners are then presented with " t ’litherne
won the’art honours with a pastel picture of Ninety- Milo Beach in New Zealand, while Wlialiey grand mother Irene Barratt was the craft victor with her "Toyshop" deconpage.
I.a.-t year, t ’litheroe resident Mr .lohn Murray Altogether, there were 102 entries ill tile art sec
tion and 71 craft entries, which a steady stream of visitors assessed in their role as judges.
Application forms and further details ahutit the
competition are available now from WhalleV Library. A hi ie v Road, Wlialiey.
with a tenancy for life, cannot lie pushed out of
his home or off the laud, the fear is that, once a collection of buildings cru cial to the farm have been sold off for housing pur poses, the business will no longer lie viable and tile tenant will leave. T h e w a r n i n g c o ill e s
farmers are at risk, par ticularly the small man," he declared. “A landlord could sell of f buildings around a tenant farmer’s home, tearing the heart out of his farm." Although the guidelines
“ Potentially all tenant
were introduced three years ago, it is only in
r e e e n t w e e k s that a national campaign against the policy change has taken shape. A press statement from
the valuers ami auction eers group explained: “The
threat lies in the fact that, under earlier planning guidelines covering use and adaptation of rural buildings, permission for change of use could he granted only when a build ing was considered redun dant for agricultural
purposes. "This is no longer the
from the l’ rotessional Society for Valuers and Auctioneers, which has already sent a protest to the Ministry of Agricul ture and the Department of the Environment. Mem bers are hoping to liaise with Government officials ill a hid to convince White head about tile need to protect tenant farmers against the policy changes. C'litheroe chartered sur
veyor Mr John Ballister, a member of the society,
spelled out his concern to the "A d v e r t i s e r and Times" this week.
He says that tenant
farms account for at least •I0G of all farms in the Rihhle Valley and that few farmers have yet realised
j t h e th re a t to t h e ir i livelihood.
ease. Under changes in the guidelines, which are cen tral Uovermnent’s advice to local planning authori ties, an application for change of use no longer has to prove such redun
dancy if. f«u example, the owner wisher to covert a
barn into a home. "This leaves the door
open for a disaffected landlord to make applica tion to convert farm build ings which are actually in farming use. While the guidelines are not manda tory, inspectors hearing an appeal will always give them heavy weighting." Mr Ballister said that
the guidelines were intro duced to help farmers who owned their own buildings and it was an obvious
advantage to them to be able to develop their own property for their own needs, say for housing or a small joiner’s workshop, without having to prove that the buildings were redundant.
He felt that the tenant
farmers’ needs had been overlooked and it was now time to alert everyone to the threat. He also warned that a
tenant farmer stood to gain little compensation for loss of use of farm buildings. This would be a cruel blow to those fami lies who had been tenant fanners for generations.
Sampling wines
MKMBKKS and friends of the French ( ’ ircle of Kibb- lesdale will be gat liering at Whalley Abbey on Mon day. at Sp.m.. fora wine tasting evening. .lohn and Deborah I.oveluck will present a range
of quality French wines for tasting, consideration ami judging in a light-hearted event. Krior booking is essential, by contacting Kevin
Fitzpatrick (C’litheroe 21529). The meeting on December 12th will include a slide
presentation i>y Mary and Norman Thorpe entitled “On foot around Mont Klanc.” Further information of future events is available from i>2o l >22t» 1«>.
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