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| gious subjects. The common people were happy to listen
to Jesus. He talked to them in clearly
I understood phrases. Jesus was so different from the usual teachers of the law and
they realised that he genuinely cared for
In St Luke's Gospel, our Lord describes a person who is so sure of his own voorinrec
that he felt able to look down on other peo ple less spiritual than himself.
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and the other a tax collector The P ^ r i ^ e s to o j up and prayed “0
| and pay taxes on all I get.”
Jesus told the story of two men who went e t0 pray- 0ne was a Pharisee
G°d j am n° t like the rest of these Rr e Jv and dishonest men. I fast twice e a c S
k But the Gospel says that the other man f o r t h e w e e k
HERE are some holier-than-thou folks who give me the willies. They are so proud of themselves. Jesus
kept his distance and would not even n •
he^ven* He beat his breast, s
mg 0 God, sinner that I am, have me on me.
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humbled and everyone who humbles h self will be exalted.
When we come into contact with th who have gone astray and spoiled tl lives, we should be quick to realise t they need our help. But for the grac
n. We owe a lot to those servants of l might wel1 have in their t
who have had a good influence on us in past, saving us from what sin might 1 madeof us. We can sing with great sin y» From sinking sands he lifted me.”
E should not be about living a be nie than some other sinners, they she
®f thanks for being lifted to pi
of light by the saviour. . e caiJ permit Jesus to use us to 1
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*rom m^re* Let us all praj e chance to give new hope and new
o anyone who prays for a fresh chan<
believe and share in Jesus’ mercy. Joe Stansfidd
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executive Mr Ossie Hop kins well for his next job and thank him for the man ner in which he leaves his
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old one. Mr Hopkins* graceful will
ingness to take part in the council’s money-saving
exercise has presumably made a substantial contri
bution to that effort. If he were a different kind of man and had refused to go voluntarily, who knows what i t would have cost Ribble Valley ratepayers to replace him with someone cheaper. The question is whether it was right to offer him such generous terms in the first place. For years we have been bombarded with claims about the success of the Government’s manage ment of the nation’s econo my, but it turns out that the Ribble Valley cannot afford to pay a salary today which was deemed suitable
j seven years ago. What has gone wrong? Is it misman agement on the part of Ribble Valley Borough Council or have we been misled by the Government? Or is the Government hugely successful national ly, but somehow leaving local government in the lurch? Of course, Mr Hopkins
was hired in the palmy days of the late ’80s, when the Conservative group ran Ribble Valley. Since then the party has lost control of the borough, and most other local government in the British Isles, so maybe members of the Cabinet
ITIZ EN S of the Ribble Valley will wish borough chief
are not so worried about the reputation of the party
in the shires. One thing seems reason
ably clear. Since, as Conser vative leader Coun. Chris Holtom made clear in this newspaper last week, they were in control of the coun cil until May of last yean the vast bulk of the present problems and the reason for Mr Hopkins’ departure must lie a t their door, nationally or locally. And while we are talking
about Coun. Holtom, he keeps on referring to "cus tomers”. Call me old fash ioned but, where my bor ough council is concerned I like to think of myself as an elector and a ratepayer. I , and my fellow citizens, elect the councillors and collectively employ the borough’s staff. Calling the citizens of the Ribble Val ley “customers” is ju s t rhetoric but it is a symp tom of a philosophy which has given us the privatised utilities, organisations where the chief executives seem singularly unwilling to fall on their swords in the helpful manner dis played by Mr Hopkins. If the Government is indi
rectly responsible for affairs in the Lubianka of Church Walk, it is certain ly responsible for the state of affairs which has led to a family having sold its home and business to support their son’s Olympic aspira tions. When our athletes came
back from At lan ta, we heard a rash of stories of how much taking part in the games had cost them. For example, the Ribble Valley’s equestrian com-
netitor, Joanna Jackson, ?ame back with a £ 2 500
overdraft as the price of the honour of representing her We immediately had excit
ing statements from the Prime Minister and vari ous members of the Gov ernment about the effort
which would be made to ensure that Britain did bet
ter next time. I do not remember any suggestion th a t people who had already made sacrifices should be helped and, clearly, people like the Heyes cannot wait for these promises to be ful filled. Young athletes can not stop their training pro grammes while ministers work out how they can milk the lottery fund to finance their promises. This could be a good news
story for the Government, rescuing a little feel-good factor from the ashes of the Olympics, but it looks as though it would rather talk about it than do anything. I t is back to this business
of slogans again. Do politicians have any
idea of how i t makes us feel, to be treated as fools, continually being told one thing while the evidence of the contrary is everywhere
around us? Tony Cliff
FAMOUS FIVE PROVE A HIT WITH RACHEL
dren even though they depict a way of life far removed from the modern scene. Today’s parents and
T
grandparents, who devoured the Enid Blyton adventure stories in their childhood, had more in common with the carefree Five of the post-war period. Unlike today’s kids, the storybook characters have unlimited freedom to wan der off across the fields far away from the prying eyes of grown-ups. Surprisingly, today’s
youngsters can still indenti- fy with the spirit of the Five, even though they recognise that the adven turers, who know nothing of such things as computer games and traffic-choked roads, belong to another age. Seven-year-old Rachel
Stafford,pictured above, of Kemple View, Clitheroe, our Junior Reader of the Month, is a Famous Five fan. She derived great enjoyment from reading ‘Five go to the Mystery Moor” and reviewed the book in her bid for the title. A spokesman for Lan
cashire County Library Service said: “Enid Blyton
received a cash boost from the county council. Lancashire County Coun
A
cil Library, Museums and Arts Committee has approved a £600 grant for a pilot project aimed at
N arts project for young people in rural areas has
HE Famous Five books are still a hit with today’s chil
(E d i to r ia l) , -1 r j j .U . i (A d re r t is hw )
books have never gone out of fashion. We’re lucky at Clitheroe in having a good selection and are pleased to say that loads go out every week.” Rachel, a pupil at Brook-
side Primary School, is a Brownie with the St Paul’s Church pack, a member of the gym club at Roefield Leisure Centre, and enjoys pony riding. In her review, she focused on the activities of tomboy
young people in the Ribble Valley, Pendle and Lan caster. The project, which has been launched by the Com munity Council of Lan cashire, will enable young people to identify and express their ideas and experiences, using drama,
George —probably every Blyton fan’s favourite char acter. She rounded off her review by stating: “I liked
the book because if gives a lo t of detail about my favourite character. I like George. I like dogs and I like books.” Rachel, who has a brother,
Paul (10), is the daughter of postman Mr Robert Stafford and his wife, Lorna, a secretary at Clitheroe Hospital.
County boost for rural arts
video, visual a r ts and music.
Further details of the pro
ject, called “Young, Free and Rural”, are available from Sue Caudle, a t the Community Council of
Lancashire, on 01772 717461.
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