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O f f t o a ‘F l y i n g S t a r t a s V i c k y w i n s T V
A t p a r t - t im e jo b a t th e
16, Cli fieroe health studio owner Vicky Carter had a
jobs, Vicky had her fair share of mishaps, includ ing gravy down a bride’s m o th e r ’s o u t f i t and another incident which is forever engraved on her
Higher Trapp Hotel in Simonstone. w Like all those.
w.ith
eekend ana part-time
memory. On that occasion, a welU
spoken, well-suited busi nessman walked into the
bar and asked for a bite to eat. Vicky asked if a plate of sandwiches and either a cup or mug of tea would
suffice. She recalls his surprise
when offered a mug, but he agreed to it and off Vicky went to find the chef and politely request his help in preparing tea and sandwiches. Chef curtly told her how she should never offer anyone a mug of tea in an estab lishment such as the Higher Trapp, but Vicky had already offered it, so away she went with the order. By then another busi
to him and returned to the kitchen. Unfortunately, in her young zeal and attempt to
the age of tne
nessman had arrived — and she offered the same
help, she entered the walk-in ’fridge, which shut behind her. ‘‘The sweet trolley was in there and I knew someone would arrive, so I ate a cake — it seemed the sensible thing to do,” she recalls. Chef arrived, let out a
left part way through her A-level course. Employment followed,
VICKY surveys the tana on which she is to expand her health studio Plans for a swimming
cold Vicky, who returned to the bar and, apologising for the delay in delivering the tea and sandwiches, explained th a t she had become locked in the fridge. She pointed out that she was not suffering from hy p o th e rm ia — because she had eaten a cake in there. A telephone call later
that day summoned her back to the hotel.
manager tore a strip of her for offering a mug of tea and plate of sandwiches to — wait for it — Egon
There, a somewhat irate - •
Ronay! It was a lesson learned
with Dr Barnado’s. “ I‘ decided to try and change the world,” she recalls. Three years working in a unit for maladjusted chil dren certainly gave her a grounding in life.
Today, some still keep in touch with “Aunty
Vicky”. “I occasionally get a
visiting order from Stran- geways,” she laughs. Life at Dr Barnado’s
brought a debt of £40,000 to obtain premises to start up.
Since then, lashings of smiles, hard work, enthu siasm, personality-plus and the support of hus band Chris nave combined to make sure that Vicky Lee is still on the right track. T h o u s a n d s of TV
That was 12 years ago.
was not without incident, including one particular holiday outing to Flee-
pool have been shelved. The c om p re h e n s iv e scheme now being deve-’ loped is the seventh and Vicky and the architects have agreed that the kind of pool that could have been installed on the site would have been impracti
cal. “Aesthetically, it has to
viewers watched as she won the “Flying Start" award for Business Per sonality of the Year.
Today, she is due to receive a cheque for £5,000
?woody Two T f the chill from sponsors Allied Dun- dren, one aged six years
by Vicky, who demon strated just how far she
and a four-year-old accom plice, took a trawler out to sea — and back again — on their own. The elder had, it later transpired, first read a book about fishing boats. “It made the national
has since come by clinch ing last Thursday night Granada TV’s “Flying Start” award for Business Personality of the Year. The Higher Trapp, for
tunately, went on to gain three stars. F rom G aw th o rp e
School, Padiham, Vicky went to Nelson and Colne C o lleg e , w h e re she embarked on 0-levels; but
million pounds expansion of her town centre health studio, due to start at the end of August.
newspapers. I certainly grew up fa s t. On my second day a t work, someone tried to stab me,”
she recalls. A period of work with
stone^nulhy*' lei3 to'staffs on antique markets for a few years. A lifelong interest in
present premises will be linked with a former sadd
By April, 1996, the
lery via a state-of-the-art, environmentally-green, glass-fronted extension unking the two. The whole will look out over the Lowergate car park and beyond to Pendle Hill.
sport eventually pointed her in the direction of the h e a lth studio — and
T H O U G H T fo r th e w e e k
SOMETIMES I am asked why, after 2,000 years of Christianity, the whole world is in such a sorry state. It was G. K. Chesterton who said, “Chnstiamty
has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult and not tried.”
and too many nominal Christians who have never really tried Christian living.
There are not enough fully dedicated Christians .
.
derful and breathtaking, but they rarely seek to put it into practice.
gregations, are lacking the presence of so many who began well.
■ But, they then found it easier to stay away and criticise, because they were not prepared to get too
True, we in the churches, with our depleted con ,
People admit that Christian teaching is wise, won ,
. . . . readers of the
serious themselves or make our mistakes. I read about how Ghandi was attracted to what he
ship with his own kind.
country, but found that it still existed in Chns- tian gatherings, so Ghandi decided that he might as well remain a hmdu after all.
church for not being a dominant influence among the people as a whole. , ....................
People have been quick to blame the Christian ,
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the church, they might have been influenced. The simple truth is that, while so many admire the
If the people as a whole had not stayed away from
tenants of the Christian faith, few make any real attempt to follow them because they cost too much. In the face of this, why blame Christianity? You
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could not honestly blame a doctor for not helping you through a time of illness if you refused to take his medicine because you did not like the taste. The motive behind the moral principles, outlined in
Ailer.V,;°r tViis country, inriudm^ «
turned.to the a r e ^ ds £ Ribble3 v ^ * ^ - u0f her staff, so, don’t
«\rea and opened vvo women and a tew £ 3
ountry . miss out, nun jr
the New Testament, are love and loyalty to God. The power to follow them through and make them work m everyday living is said not to come from ourselves,
too difficult or uncomfortable, so are ineffective. We have to accept full commitment; we cannot dilute the teachings of Jesus to suit our own ends. • Of course, the Christians of past days made many
Nominal Christians tend to omit that which seems . ,
; the souls of fools before they got there. But, would there not be an outcry if the churches
have shown too little interest in changing this present world, concentrating on the next world, and saving
There is truth in the charge that Christian leaders . ' ,
; dared to speak out about wages, trade unions, labour. - conditions and housing?
lutlu“j"fljiiorld of Nans • 8
°fNaii2, * o f.w men He was appalled at the caste system in his own ... ■ found in the New Testament, as the Christian way of
life, and went to India to learn more. He was approached there and told to go and wor
featuring a deli-style buf fet, with Tapas section, meat, seasonal vegetables and salads.
There will be a cafe-bar
be right,” explains Vicky, adding th a t , with the problems of excavations, th e pool would have proved an almost impossi ble task.
huge whirlpool bath seat :ing 12, a steam room and ..“They are good com-
Instead, there will be a s t S “ nto™hehfff-a^ meaning .that Lee; Carter’s superjads,” she adds, D e s ig n p e a c e p o s te r
“PEACE will set us free” — this is the theme of I the Lions Clubs’ 1995/6 peace poster competition.
School, Billington, and at Oakhtll College, Whal ley, are submitting their entries to Whalley and
And already pupils at St Augustine s RC High District Lions.
11 and 13 and winning designs could have the chance of going forward to compete in both national and international competitions. The club will be awarding hook tokens to local
The competition is open to pupils aged between . . . i
can open seven days a week for both men and
women. The new gymnasium
will fe a tu re Nautilus equipment, with top-of- the-range machines — all discreetly enclosed, but offering superb views of Pendle Hill throughout the seasons. “Our gym will have the
best views in the country,” enthused Vicky. Already, Blackburn
Rovers players are taking advantage of the facilities available almost on their doorstep. A third of the te am d r o p in fo r . treatments.
second'changing room,. pariy and ar-<r very^flt. and '
winners and the club’s press officer, Mr Frank Pope, commented: “Again, we hope to encourage young' people to take part, as the competition I focuses their attention on the theme of peace."
but from (Sod. The gospels state this plainly enough. We cannot
fully commit ourselves to Christ’s way, unless we receive the power of the helpful Holy Spirit of God to dojustthat.
mistakes and today’s churches are still composed of fallible people.
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