Chttieroe 22324 (Editorial), 22328 (Advertising). Burnley 422331 (Classified) ews from the Villages
newly -built pavilion is’ a,n eye-eatcher that
Eye-catcher SABDENBowIing Club's
^ has been nominated for a design award.
a do-it-yourself effort by club members, has been nominated by Sabden Par ish Council in the new development section of the Ribble Valley Council’s Design and Conservation Awards for T996.*
The stone-built pavilion, are reminded that 1996
Subs due Bowling Club members
subscriptions are now due. The club opens for the sea son at Easter and subs for playing, non-playing and junior members should be paid to the treasurer, Mrs Barbara Warburton, of Pendle Street East, as soon as possible. A summer event to note
is an open doubles compe tition on Saturday and Sunday,July 20th and 21st, in support of Sabden WI’s effort for the East Lancashire SuperScan Appeal to buy an MRI scanner for the Blackburn Area Health Authority. The entry fee of £o per
couple will be donated to the appeal.
Social Folk singer Roger
Westbrook and friends will be entertaining at Sabden Bowling Club’s social evening tomorrow. The evening with Roger
and Mr Dan Houghton. Dominoes: Mrs Maud Wade, Mrs E. Ford, Mr R. Ford and Mr Jimmy Royal. Raffle: Mrs Wade, Mr Ford and Mrs Flora Cooke.
at the Baptist Church and at Littlemoor to mark Women’s World Day of Prayer on Friday. The service was pre
Prayer Sabden women gathered
pared by the women of Haiti and provided a chal lenging look at the prob lems facing a country where the people have to suffer political persecu tion, poverty, unemploy ment and where the women play a vital eco nomic and social role because many of the men are imprisoned as a result of the political upheaval. The speaker at the
afternoon service in the Baptist Church was Mrs
Grace Darling, of Leeds, who developed the theme of the service entitled “God Calls us to
Mrs Mary Parkinson, ladies from all
churches gave readings and led prayers and Mrs Millie Moorhouse played the organ for hymns. The ladies of Littlemoor
the
Respond’’. The service was led by
in Whalley Village Hall, or ganised by Age Concern. The chairman of Whal
Confirmation Eleven candidates from
All Saints’ Church, Pend
leton, were confirmed a t ,a service at St Nicnolass
Church, Sabden, on Sun day by the assistant Bishop of Blackburn, the Rt Rev. Donald Neston. The candidates were Grace and Adam Thornber, Michael Hit- clien, Matthew, Edward and Jane Thornber, Jamie and Stewart Trotter, Michael Thornber, and Christine and Robert Dil- worth.
WHALLEY
Abbey senior citizens’ drive on March 2nd at Whalley were: Ladies, Mrs E. Charnley, with Mrs M. Delaurier amd Mrs P. Woof joint second; gents, Mrs J. Walmsley and Mrs M. Naylor, dominoes Mrs M. Morley and Mrs M. Madey. The sum of over £400
Winners The winners at the
led their own service on the same theme in the morning.
cil will meet next Tuesday at 7-30 p.m. in St Nicholas’s Church.
Westbrook and Company begins at 8 o’clock in St Mary’s Hall and tickets are on sale from commit tee members or on the door. There is a potato pie supper, a bar and tickets are £5.
den Over 60s when they met in St Mary’s Hall on Monday night were as fol lows. Ladies: Mrs Dorothy Houghton and Mrs M. Edmondson. Gents: Mr W. Ireland and Mrs E. Ire land. Dominoes: Mrs Eve lyn Ford, Mrs Ivy Cottam, Mr William Cooke and Mrs
winners were as follows. ' Ladies: Mrs Millie Moor-
beth Ireland. Thursday night's whist
house and Mrs E. Cham- ley. Gents: Mrs E. Mars- den, Mrs Gladys Walmsley
Frances Lowe. Raffle: Mrs Ivy Cottam, Mrs Dorothy Houghton, Mrs Helen Lawless and Mrs Eliza
Results Whist winners at Sab
paper collection takes Place tomorrow afternoon.
Meeting Sabden Christian Coun
was donated to leukaemia research in memory of the late Mr Norman Waims- ley. Members were thanked for their dona tions.
Store, Blackburn Road, at the end of the month. At present, the future of
ley Age Concern branch, Mr Frank Pope, hailed it as “an unprecedented suc cess” and stated that the committee would be dis cussing the possibility of repeating the event in the
Questions A quiz night at Grindle-
future. There was music and dancing to suit all tastes, including the waltz, foxtrot and sequence danc ing. Dancers not only from Whalley and Billington, but from Clitheroe and Blackburn as well, thoroughly enjoyed the afternoon.
coffee morning will be held on Saturday in Whalley Village Hall, from 10 a.m. to noon. Everyone is wel come.
Coffee A trash and treasure
Talk Whalley Young Families
ton Methodist Chapel was a great success with 40 people taking part. The standard of questions and answers was very high. Dialect readings by Mrs C. Thistlethwaite were well received, and the excellent suppers were equally appreciated. There was a sale of pies
and cakes at the end of the night. ,
. . . .
the shop is uncertain, but let us hope it is not the death knell of the last small grocer’s shop in the village.
Quiz Ribchester’s Rib-Tots ____
GISBURN Winners
There were 12 tables in play at the whist and
be held on May 1st, this time a photographic quiz entitled “Around Clith- eroe”, which everyone is welcome to attend.
Group At the first meeting of
Group has arranged a talk, „
mg mary School on Monday at 8 p.m. The evening will be an
illustrated with slides and and a varied programme l entitled “Illusion Dress- being worked out. in Whalley CE Pri-
. .
insight into the use of colour for clothing and make-up and the group would like as many people as possible attending, what should prove to be, a very interesting event.
Invitation Members of St Augus- ^
Paper The monthly waste Activity
and cardboard on door steps for collection or take it to the skip on St Mary’s Church car park.
lease leave waste paper
Society A talk by the area man
welcomed by the club's chairman Mr Les White and a question and answer session followed.
Raffle winners were Mrs E. Tagg, Mr P.
ager of the Marsden Build ing Society was the orderof the day tor members of Sabden Age Concern Lei sure Club. Mr Colin Tyer recounted the origins of the Marsden, in 1860s Nelson, and the services that the society can offer senior citizens. He was
dents to a fashion show and clothes sale on Wednesday at 7-30 p.m. the school hall.
ing a beeline for Spring Wood, Whalley, on March 23rd for a children’s activ ity session organised by the Lancashire Countrside
Youngsters will be mak
Spring Wood car park to an(] looked at Maori cul- find out what is happening ture. during the session. Wei- lingtons or boots are the oSfVlCG
bring their parents to the North and South Islands ___= . . .
order of the day. The fun, ^ special joint service to mark “Women’s World
and places booked. Grown-ups should ring
which starts at 1 p.m., will last for two to three hours
have to
Dancing Spring was in the air
Mather* Mrs D. Hayth- ornthwaite.
01772 264709 for more details.
and in the steps of 60 dancers who attended the first afternoon dance held
Church on Friday. Thirty people attended and this year a special invitation was extended to the men. Guest speaker at the
Grindleton
Meeting The next meeting of
tine’s RC High School iey "Abbey Conference PTA invite Whalley resi- Centre at 8 p.m. Fr Bert
Christian Action Group is on Thursday next in Whal-
m forking in the Commu nity”.
Ledwick will speak and the topic will be ^Churches
Service. They are advised to
attendance at Whalley Library when backpacking grandma Mrs Pat Isher- wood' showed slides of New Zealand taken during her year-long, round-the- world tour. She featured
Kiwi tour There was an excellent
Another quiz night will froup Who are we?, from Mrs J. Cowperthwaite, Mr ames Hall’s, of Preston, A. Stott, Mrs J. Taylor,
who won a bottle of cham- pagne and a meal each.
Glynms Eaves. Cricket
nrize were Wendy Davis, man and Mrs M. Bairstow. E v o n n e Dmvbekin and Raffle: Mrs M. Davies, nvnnis Eaves
Winners of the booby Mrs
F.Pye, Mr C. Wise Davies. St Ambrose Ladies’
Group, . 15 women attended. Many interest ing ideas were put forward ’ ’
is
........................ meet on the second and fourth Mondays of each month in St Ambrose
In future the group will
Church parish room at 8 p.m. On Monday, there will
be a quiz night and social evening for people to get
to know each other, and on March 25th a Lancashire Lass clothes party has been arranged. All ladies are very wel come to join in.
Welcome Grindleton Busy Bees
continue to meet every Thursday morning from 10 to 11-45 a.m. during term time in the St Ambrose Church parish room. If you are a mum,
granny or nanny, with a little one to look after under school age, you are most welcome. This is a chance for little
Club’s first fund-raising
Fund-raiser Grindleton
Cricket
t 0 Day of Prayer” was held in the Duke of York Hotel De
effort proved to be a huge success on Friday. A buffet-dance held at
Methodist was well attended by vil
service was the Rev. Eliz abeth Hodgkiss, of Great Harwood, and the leader was Mrs M. Ollerenshaw. The theme of the day
to. landlord and landlady Jeremy and Kathryn Wil liams for their help and the delicious food.
lagers and visitors and the well-laden buffet table was soon looking much lighter. Thanks were expressed
was “Haiti” and members of St Ambrose’s Church,Grindleton, who rave readings were Mrs
RIBCHESTER
M. Hogg, Mrs G. Moir and Mrs M.
Hood.Readers from the Methodist Church were Mrs H. Wad- dington, Mrs N. Knowles, Miss S. Lee, Mrs Hurst, Mrs C. Read. Organist was Mr H.
Fern.
Musical treat If you are a music lover
ley WI meeting,then you missed a real treat. Well- known, local conductor Mr Jim Parker spoke to mem bers about nis “Life in Music”, for one wonderful
and you were not at Whal
hour. It was inevitable that he
would be musical. His father’s uncle Mr Handel Parker (the whole family were blessed with names of great composers) wrote the beautiful hymn “Deep Harmony”. Mr Parker’s talk was
Angling With the majority of
fishing returns now in, it
appears that Ribchester’s anglers had the best of both worlds last year — a sun-scorched holiday fort night to keep the wives and children happy, then rain in late September to end the drought, and tempt a few salmon into the Ribble’s system. Of the 28 salmon
reported caught, three Preston
full of humour with impromptu bursts of sing- ing and tape recordings as sel;lcltuJ
sing at a wedding. He sang “City of God” and “Cherry Ripe”, receiving a bicycle saddle as a fee which meant as much to him then as his last fee of £150 from the BBC in 1979. He related how he spent
ers,under the baton of Sir week is the fact that Bob John Barbirolli and Sir and Hazel are to relinquish the lease on the Village
16 wonderful years with the BBC Northern Sing-
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dent Prince” and “Gigi”
but when he was given the part of the grandfather in “Guys and Dolls” he saw the writing on the wall and decided to become the con ductor, which he did until retiring at Christmas. All present enjoyed an
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accounted for five, as did Les Burrows. Mick Bell, Steve Harling and Mike Slater tempted a trio each. Before readers start lick ing their lips and think of fresh salmon and salad, that was not the case. The majority of the salmon were gravid and so were returned to the water to spawn and fight another day. The sea trout count
brothers he explained how at the pen for a rocj an(j landing ....
age of 10 he became a ejgj,t 0f these beauties, choir boy and was asked_to B*own trout catches
topped the 200 mark. Par ticularly successful, last season, was the Edmond son family, of Mellor, (father and two sons) who had 44 between them.
Store Disconcerting news cir
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season, and Ribchester Cricket Club’s opening fix
April, it appears everyone is trying to get in on the act.
ture against Longridge in
pamphlets on behalf of the club when he got quite a shock at the door of Par sonage Avenue. A dog which could not wait to get its paws on the pamphlet, sprang like a stumper, and a second later David and the dog stood staring at each other through a space in the door where the win dow had once been. The impact between dog and door had caused the win dow, frame and all, to crash outwards on to the floor. “And what breed of dog?”, I hear you ask. A Jack Russell, of course!
member of Ribchester’s squad, was delivering
Theft Thieves are getting
ones to play in safety with other children and adults
also to be able to meet together.
bolder and bolder, as this case of daylight robbery will testify. Two houses on Chesterbrook were broken into in the middle of the afternoon last week. Thieves were seen scurry ing across the fields of Higher Boyce’s Farm, to the west of Chesterbrook, about 3 p.m.
HURST GREEN
Welcome Hurst Green Over-60s
Club welcomed new mem bers Mrs Harry Moon and Mr Jack Kenyon. G ra ti tu d e wa
expressed to members Mrs Mary Agnes Cardwell
and Mrs Agnes Haworth, who make sure that the room is heated before every meeting and that the games tables are arranged.1 P re sentations were
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sent to Mrs Ethel Under wood. Whist winners were as
reached over a half a cen tury, with RADAC’s secretary swapping his
Richardson. Gents: Mr John Monaghan, Mr Jack Kenyon. Dominoes: Mrs M. Whalley, Mr Adrian •Holden, Mrs Lofthouse, Mrs Evelyn Ridge. Raffle: iMr Larry Meyler, Mr Adrian Holden. 1 The next meeting is on March 12th and all Hurst Green senior citizens are invited to attend.
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