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Coffee Members and friends of
Lisburn Parish Church are “hiding a coffee morning at the Festival Hall oil Saturday from 10 a.m. to noon. All are welcome to attend.
and maintain your sense of humour”. She also treated her
garden area at the bottom of St Nicholas’s Avenue
audience to a collection of poems based on her reflec tion on life as a woman. Mrs Olive Walker was chairman and Mrs Mar garet Garlic expressed thanks.
Winners Whist winners at Read
prayers at St John’s Church, Read, will be tomorrow at noon and on Sunday at 10 a.m. Mem bers are invited to join the congregation at St Peter’s Church, Simonstone, for a special Palm Sunday iamily communion service.
Prayers The next midday
Ministry” will be cele
Circle “Almost 40 Years in the
brated at the meeting of Read Friendly Circle, when the Rev. H. A. Reid, vicar of St John’s Church, will ' be guest speaker. The meeting will be on Tuesday at 7-30 p.m. in Read United Reformed Church, East View.
f from 8 a.m. to noon, at 15 Berkeley Drive, Read, to raise money for the National Meningitis Trust.
ing sponsored by Kenco is to be held on Tuesday
organised by Mrs Vicky Longton, over £410 was raised in aid of the Cystic Fibrosis Fund. Thanks were
everyone who attended or made donations.
expressed to
members of Read and Whalley Luncheon Club
Christine Sowden
Club Guest speaker
Mrs told
how to make the best of themselves and “How to
Boost At a coffee morning
Coffee A national coffee morn
Constitutional Club on Monday were: Ladies — Mrs D. Birch, Mrs S. Law. Gents — Mr R. Langston, Mr R. Elliott. Special prize was awarded to Mrs M. Dealing and MC was Mr G. A. Holden.
opportunity to dress up at the meeting of Simonstone with Read WI. Theatrical c o s t u m i e r J o y c e
Dressing up Some members had the
Plumridge brought along some of the special cos tumes she has made and told her audience of her life as a hairdresser and as a machinist for Jaeger, before starting to make her own costumes, straw hats and bonnets. Among the costumes she brought to the meeting were Vic torian dresses, an outfit for a pearly queen and a gown for Scarlett O’Hara. A competition for the
prettiest doll was won by Mrs Dorothy Shorrock, Mrs Kathleen Barnes and Mrs Margaret Simpson. Two outings have been
Lunch At the luncheon of Sub-
den Age Concern Leisure Club, held in St Mary’s Hall, birthday greetings were given to four mem bers and a special welcome was extendid to Mrs Edna Newmark, attending her first lunch since being taken ill before Christmas. Guest speaker was the
Social Services, Mrs Janet Gill, who explained a large number of available bene fits and distributed rele vant leaflets. In the absence through illness of chairman Mr Les White, the secretary, Mrs Ruth Shaw, thanked Mrs Gill for her information. Raffle winners were Mr
G. Ainsworth, Mr J. Tagg and Mr A. Shaw. Final
were made for a five-day break in Sidmouth by a group of members.
arrangements at Sabden Over 60s Mon
Winners THose taking the prizes
day night social last week were as follows. Whist — ladies: Mrs E. Ford and Mrs Dorothy Houghton. Gents,Mrs
J.Riley and M rs E v a M a r s d e n . Dominoes: Mrs Nora Har
greaves, Mrs Flora Cooke, Mrs Helen Lawless and
arranged for the spring and summer. Yealand Redmayne, near Carn- forth, is the destination for a slide show and guided walk i l lu s t r a t in g th e “Flowers of Warton Crag” on May 22nd, and an afternoon guided tour is scheduled for August 8th round Stonyhurst College. Members wishing to go on e ith e r of these outings should contact secretary Mrs Sue Ogden. Next month’s meeting
will be an open one on April 18th when Mr D. Green will speak about “The Bronte Story”. Mem bers of Little Mltton WI will be among the guests.
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n e rs were as follows. Ladies: Mrs E. Duckworth and Mrs M. Edmondson. Gents: Mr G. Law and Mrs W. Ireland. Dominoes: Mrs F lo ra Cooke, Mr Rowland Ford, Mrs Eve lyn Ford and Mrs Maud Wade. Raffle: Miss Edith Hayes, Mrs Pauline Taylor and Mrs Elizabeth I re land.
Mrs M. Bleasdale. Raffle: Mrs Eva Marsden, Mrs Maud Wade and Mrs Eve lyn Ford. Thursday’s whist win
around the village collect ing waste paper and card board left on doorsteps. A l te rn a t iv e ly , w as te paper can be taken to the skip on St Mary’s Church car park from noon tomor row until noon on Satur day. All the proceeds from the waste paper go to school funds.
Vouchers Shoppers who receive
Tesco and ASDA “com
tion day in Sabden tomor row when a team of volun teers from St Mary’s RC School will be going
Paper It’s waste paper collec
BARROW
Thanks After organising a suc
cessful St Patrick’s Day n ig h t , Barrow Action Group thanked everyone who attended the event at Pendleton Village Hall. The group also thanked
sacred cantata “Olivet to Calvary” will be sung in St Nicholas’s Parish Church by the Linden Singers, from Colne. It begins at 6 p.m. and lasts approxi mately 40 minutes and there will also be a short organ recital. All are welcome to join
for Eastertide. On Sunday evening the
Rimington and District Gardening Club was Mr
Gardens G u e s t s p e a k e r a t
district information officer from the Benefits Agency of the Department of
new season will get under
in both events. Bowling Sabden Bowling Green’s
way on Good. F riday, weather permitting. In the meantime, annual sub scriptions are due and should be paid to the trea surer, Mrs Barbara War- burton, as soon as possi
eagerly to hear the results of the borough’s civic design awards for which the bowling club pavilion
ble. The club is waiting
has reached the final three and could pick up the £150
first prize if successful. Blackburn Rovers’ foot baller Colin Hendry has carried out the judging and the results will be announced on April llth.
Cottage Gardens” . He showed slides and had sound advice to give on aspects of cultivating suit- ab le p la n t s . Mrs M. Clough thanked Mr Iddon, who had brought along a selection of plants for sale, for members to try out in their own cottage gardens. Final a r ran g em en ts
Don Iddon, bis subject being “The Managcmnt of
Scavenging Twenty children, plus
joined three Lancashire Countryside Rangers in Spring Wood, Whalley, on Saturday. All the children enjoyed an afternoon of fun,taking part in a scav enger hunt, bark ru b bings, collecting and iden tifying bugs and guessing and measuring the age of trees. The next activity, organised by the Lanca shire Countryside Service in Spring Wood, will be bird box building on May 25th.
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were made for the annual Spring Flower and Bulb Snow which takes place on Sunday at Gisburn Festi val Hall, commencing at 2- 30 p.m. Mrs Alice Seed, of Rimington, will open the show, which promises to be as colourful as ever.
ewall, Colne, will be pres
Gospel Mr Peter Alien, of Win-
home, of Downham WI president Mrs I. Bnndle and her husband Tom, in
aid of the Meningitis Fund.
included a cake stall, tom bola and a bric-a-brac stall staffed by Mrs Brindle’s grandchildren. Raffle winners were
Attractions
Mrs Capstick, Mrs Bailey and Mr W. Barker, and £200 was raised for the fund.
the band, the Dangerous Music Society, and the numerous organisations and people who donated raffle prizes.
HURST GREEN
members of Stonyhurst College attracted a good- sized audience and the pieces on offer were enthusiastically received. The young musicians represented some far-
Musical A recital evening by
David Oyston addressed members of Downham and Twiston Gardening Club. Mr Oyston described
Ranger Countryside ranger Mr
the animals he encounters during the course of his work, among them, owls, pewits and stray dogs. The threat to owls and
morning was held at the
Raised £200 A successful coffee
enting his complete mgv- ing and dramatic recitation of St Mark’s Gospel in Whalley Methodist Hall on Palm Sunday, March 31st, at 0-30p.m. The perfor mance will be in two halves with an interval when refreshments will be served. This event has been a r ran g ed by the social and cultural 1,400th anniversary committee and a warm welcome to a t te n d is extended to everyone.
bined open air service will be held in Vale House Gardens, at 11 a.m. fea turing Slaidburn Silver Band. Sneaker will be the Rev. Michael Wareing who is chairman of the North Lancashire District of the Methodist Church. The event is organised by Whalley Christian Action Group and after the ser vice a walk of five or six miles in the Whalley area, will take place followed by afternoon tea.
Service On Good Friday a com
term Whalley CE Primary
pewits from man’s abuse of nature was explained, as was the problem of ero sion on Pendle Hill, due to an increase in the number of walkers. T h e s p e a k e r w a s
flung parts of the world, but local pride dictates that James Thompson should receive honourable
mention.The Longridge day-pupil gave a haunting rendition of the andante and rondo movements from Mozart’s second horn concerto and was treated to resounding applause. Proceeds of the concert
puters for schools” vouch ers and have no use for them are asked to save them to help St Mary’s School. They can be given to any parent or left at the school.
Appeal Pupils at St Mary’s RC
School raised £36.28 for the Dunblane Appeal on Monday when, a t the request of a pupil, they held a non-uniform day in which the children left their uniforms at home and paid a “fine” to the
t junior children enjoyed a
appeal. On Friday afternoon
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Theatre at Queen’s Park to see a production of “Alice in Wonderland” and the juniors travelled to Whalley Library along with p upils from th e county school to meet and l i s te n to c h i ld r e n ’s authoress Kay Umansky whose works are currently p o p u la r in p r im a ry schools.
r ip to Burnley Youth
have rallied to the call from the Children of Cher nobyl Charity to donate clothes to give to children from the stricken area who will soon be coming to East Lancashire for a holi day. Children from Sabden
County School and St Mary’s school collected a l a r g e a m o u n t o f clothes,many of them new or near ly new, and a representative from the charity collected them on Tuesday.
will hold its monthly meet
Council Sabden Parish Council
ing on Tuesday in the Methodist Rooms at 7-30 p.m. The council’s AGM will be on April 30th, when Mr Colin Hastings, from Lancashire County Council, will talk about traffic calming measures.
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Events Palm Sunday will be
events in Sabden this weekend to begin Holy Week. The annual Palm Sun
day procession through the village will leave from the bowling green in Pen-
through the streets stop ping along the way for prayers and readings. The large wooden cross will
then be set in place in the
dle S tre et East at 2-30 p.m. and make its way
Charity Sabden schoolchildren
thanked by the group’s c h a irm an , Mr Shaun
Mr Roney, Jeanne Credie and Phyllis Jackson. The group’s next meet
Roney. The raffle winners were
ing is on April 4th, when Mrs Dickinson, of Oswald-
will go towards “Learning to Care”, a college charity run mostly by pupils themselves.
Annual At the annual meeting
of St John’s Church PCC,
Hurst Green, Mrs Joan Piercy was presented with a book entitled “The Lion Handbook of the Bible” in appreciation for her work as churchwarden for the past 12 years. Mrs Diane Monks accepted the vicar’s invitation to take her place. The vicar, the Rev.
WHALLEY
Abbey senior citizen’s drive, in Whalley,were as follows. Ladies: Mrs I. Hibblc and Mrs C. Horse
Results Whist winners at the
fold (joint). Gents: Mrs P.Wooff, Mrs M.
John Birbeck, thanked all parishioners who helped him during the year, espe cially those giving their time and money to make the old school an attractive meeting room. Mr Birbeck and lay
.ners the previous week were — ladies: Mrs B.
silence in memory of the children of Dunblane, win-
Gents — Mrs D.Farns worth, Mr J. Wooff. Dominoes: joint 1, Mrs S. Carlyon, Mrs M. Morley and Mrs R. Nutter.
Preston, Mrs L. Barker.
reader Mr Geoff Dcarden, together with other help ers, took a group of young people from St John’s Church and All Hallows Church, Milton,for a weekend stay at the Car lisle Diocesan Youth Centre, near Keswick. Among the lively activities arranged for the children was a midnight hike. In the vicar’s absence the family service was con ducted by Miss Alison Hoyle and the address was given by Mrs Susan Bir
beck.Each Thursday during Lent, congregations from both churches have been enjoying services in Hurst Green Old School. The last of these will be next Thursday when a Passover feast, with lamb and spices, will be held.
John’s Church Mothers’ Union, Hurst Green, Dot. Sgt David Jacques and his wife, Sgt Gillian Jacques, of the Lancashire Con stabulary,spoke
Police At the meeting of St
their experiences as police officers. They explained how they regarded their Christian faith as a strength which helped them in carrying out then- duties. On Monday, 11 mem
about JAMES ALPE
joined other members of the Bradford Diocese for a service of praise at Holy Trinity Church, Skipton. This service is held annually and known as the Lady Day service in recognition of Mary the mother of Jesus. The cele brant this year was the Itev. Stewart
bers of the MU branch of St John’s Church and All Hallows Church, Mitton,
vicar of Slaidburn, and the MU Diocesan Chaplain.
llidley
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Well done! C o n g ra tu la t io n s to
King Street, which sold knitting wool, haberdash ery and baby linen was for sale. The shop improved every week and, when the only dress shop in the vil lage closed, Mrs Cookson seized the opportunity and s ta r te d to se ll lad ie s ’ wear.
40th anniversary in busi ness. It was in 1956 that Mrs Cookson decided that she would like a small shop and still be at home with the family. Number 47
Maureen Cookson on her
came along to move into the present premises in George Street and since then the business has grown from strength to strength.
In 1970 the opportunity
DeLaurier. Dominoes:. Mrs R. Nutter, joint 2, Mrs V. Garner ana Mrs H. Hardy. After - observing a
twistle, will give a flower arranging demonstration.
Europe During the last week of
School is having a Euro pean Awareness Week, when each class will have
the opportunity to learn about some of the coun tries in Europe. Michael Hindley, MEP, planned to visit the school and speak on current issues in the European Union, and Mr Mark Hendrick, MEP, will be joining children, par ents, grandparents and friends in a special school. assembly tomorrow.
collection day in Whalley. From 9 a.m. o nw a rds volunteers will collect paper and cardboard left on doorsteps,or it can be taken directly to the skip on the tennis club car park between 9a.m.and noon.
M o th e rs ’ Union Holy Week service will be held on Monday at 7-30p.m.
Holy Week Whalley Parish Church
Members will be joined by the Young Families Group but would welcome anyone wishing to a t te n d . A Jacob’s join supper will follow in the school hall.
Appeal Queen E liz a b e th II
T ru s t is holding two events on Easter Satur day, to boost their commu nity changing facility appeal fund. A junior karaoke will take place from 4 to 6 p.m. and a comedian and karaoke disco from 7-30 p.m. Both events are at Whalley Vil lage Hall. The organisers need everyone’s support.
Playing Fields Charitable
ton Parish Council annual meeting will be held on May 2nd at 7-30 p.m. in Whalley Village Hall Members of the public, are invited to send written questions on police mat ters, to the parish clerk, Mrs
C.Mullarkey, Holm- field, Fleet Street Lane, Ribchester, Lancs PR3 3ZA, by April 20th. These will be addressed at the meeting, for a desingated time, by a police represen tative.
Meeting Whalley and Little Mit
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parents and grandparents,
Abbey WI members stepped
back to the 12th century — the time when Sawley Abbey was built — at their recent meeting. Mr Chris Hall gave a
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fascinating talk about the abbey and its surrounding area. He was introduced by p r e s id e n t Mrs R. Webb. The highlight of his talk
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were the impressive slides showing an original plan
of the abbey, which he explained in great detail. The plan included the main drainage system which is still preserved in the ruins to this day. Mr Hall said that, when
for the princely sum of £147.16. He also pointed out that many of the local farms and houses shown on the slides have some of the abbey’s stones incor porated in their buildings. Mrs P. Lord thanked Mr Hall for his interesting and
the abbey was disolved by Henry VIII, it was sold
amusing talk, which had k e p t th e 7 0 - s t r o n g audience spellbound. At the opening of the
meeting, president Mrs R. Webb welcomed everyone and held a brief business presentation. Lists were circulated to members wanting to buy fuchsia and to those wanting to go on the trip to Liverpool Mari time Museum on June 19th. The competition for a
picture of Sawley was won by Mrs L. Sandham, Mrs G. O’B r ien and Mrs Dyson. The WI jumble sale, due
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PENDLETON
ton WI, Mrs M. Haworth, welcomed members and guests to the meeting and introduced guest speaker Mrs Irene Chenery-Baker, a Clitheroe solicitor, who gave a very interesting and informative talk on the subject of making a w i l l . T h a n k s w e r e e x p re s s e d by Mrs E. Owen. It was announced that
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land Methodist Hall and Longridge Civic Hall. Mrs B. C o l l in g e g av e an interesting report on the spring council meeting, held in Southport. A competition for the
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