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Clitheroe 422824 (Editorial), 422323 (Advertising). Burnley 422331 (Classified) 4 Clilheroe Advertiser & Times, January 2nd, 1997 Valley Matters i a weekly look at local issues, people and places CLEANSWEEP


Cars & Carpets Caravans Trucks Office Private Homes


Steam Cleaning, Paving, Patios,' Conservatories etc


MICK WOOD - CLEANING CONTRACTOR Tel: 01200 444024 Mobile: 0973 841510


m a s Tel: 01200 441810


JOINERY WORK


Windows and doors, uPVC,


Profile 22 and wood


Kitchens - Bedrooms - Repair Work - Pointing and Plastering


Tel: A. Wright 01200 426385


Domestic, business, clearance & . deliveries


Furniture Refurbisher John Schofield Telephone:


Clitheroe 429217


BLUE SLfiTE New and second hand most types and sizes in stock


S P E C I A L O F F E R


Brand new 20” x 10” at 65p each plus VAT Discount for large orders Delivery Service


NORTH WEST RECLAMATION LIMITED


Tel: 01282 603108 BATHROOMS


Choose your own suite and have it fitted from as little as £199, also tiling and showers etc Timeserved tradesman with.over 30 years ■ experience ‘


■ ■ Free estimates


TELEPHONE - RAYMOND LOWE Where quality counts


on Sabden 01282 773173 (Evening ca ils welcome)


PAUL ASHWORTH


Qualified Painter & Decorator For all .


Commerciai/Industriai & Domestic Clients


For FREE estaimates or advice .


Tel: 01200 442134 MICROWAVE


OVEN REPAIRS (All makes)


Repairs and servicing by qualified staff


• Leakage checks • Fast free estimates' '; • Low rates • No “call-out” charge


COLCARE 0 1 2 0 0 4 2 79 73 D.HARTSHORN


Joinery Manufacturers and Building Contractors


Rotten Windows, Fascia’s, Soffit Boards REPLACE THEM:- TOP CLASS WORK Fully guaranteed.


References if required,:Grant work undertaken. Special rates for OAP’s


Tel: 01200 443524 or 0973 401853 Member of Federation of Small Businesses


T & M GATE, 124 PIMLICO ROAD OPTICAL SELECT


For all your spectacle requirements, caring and personal service.


No gimmicks, Just honest low prices. Try us first - no obligation.


Our aim is your satisfaction.


Prescription spectacles from £20, tints free. All types of lenses and extras


Large range of frames Inc designers ■ EMERGENCY REPAIRS - often while you wait Tel: Clitheroe 425552 • QUALITY St VALUE AT UNBEATABLE PRICES O ptica l Service


411 PARK AVENUE, CLITHEROE, LANCS? Telephone: 01200 429024


Proprietor P.S.,DIXON « Qualified Technician * 25 years Experience ♦


Same Day Repairs On All Broken Metal & Plastic Frames Multifocal Lenses from £68.00 Per Pair Bifocal Lenses from £39.00 Per Pair


Quality Genfs & Ladles Fashion Frames from £15.00 , (Always in stock),


Just Bring your Current Prescription For A Free .................Quotation'


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CLOCK


An t iq u e and Long Case Specialists


ASPDEN Clitheroe 423416


Single Mattresses from £25 Double Mattresses from £50 I


Telephone 0 1 2 8 2 7 7 2 6 6 2 NO CALL OUT CHARGE D.J.P. Domestics


QUALIFIED H0TP0INT/CREDA SERVICE ENGINEERS SPARES, REPAIRS, S0LES /


AND SERVICE TO ALL MAKES fll OF DOMESTIC APPLIANCES J f


EFFICIENT FRIENDLY SERVICE


CLITHEROE 01200 443340 MOBILE 0973 358778


2 FRANkLIN STREET, CLITHEROE NO CALL OUT CHARGE


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For as little as £ 5 .7 0 + VAT


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ads you take, you get one


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For help and advice to


promote your


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f - g g p * t S & k


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DOMESTIC CLEANING AGENCY ALSO


OFFICE/SHOP CLEANING AVAILABLE


Daily, weekly or monthly cleaning arranged Ironing service also available


• ' Competitive rates' .......


CALL JANET OR SARAH ON 01200 440243


FOR FURTHER DETAILS how God could possibly hear W


hen I was a little boy, I had a prayer prob­ lem. It baffled me


everyone’s prayers all at once. Even in our streets, my play­ mates would be praying at about the same time as myself, having put off bedtime as long as possible. In addition, there were all the other praying peo­ ple in the world. Can you picture the scene? I was


which were fashionable at the time. Each child had got into a dangerous


position, picking flowersand reach­ ing for a butterfly while standing too close to the edge of a cliff: Behind


each of them, with a protective r e s t r a in in g h a n d , w a s a g u a rd ia n


angel. On glancing at the pictures, 1


saying my prayers with this problem on my mind. In my bedroom were two pictures of a little girl and boy,


exclaimed: “Ah, that’s it!” I began to reason out my problem and conclud­ ed that we must all have a guardian angel. It would be his job to tell God about all my deeds, good and bad. He would be able to say what I had been praying about or, on that particular night, he would say Joe did not pray because he was thinking about how.


P S M


you could hear everyone’s prayers at the same time.


still rings true to me. I realise that my finite mind cannot understand


That simple answer to iny problem


the solution to some of my problems. Accidentally I stumbled on a great


truth. If I take my difficulties to the Lord in prayer, they shall be solved when I am ready to receive the truth. Sometimes I have asked God to help in a “God help me nowl” prayer. I sincerely believe that many of our problems can be solved by listening for enlightenment in our prayer time. Try itl


Joe Stansfield


PAMmSON rncmm em'mene


Tel: 01200 447009 Mobile:


0378 440158


All types of electrical work undertaken


Free estimates/quotes ALL WORK


GUARANTEED GENAE BUILDERS MERCHANTS


WHERE THE CUSTOMER COMES FIRST


For your building materials-- Trade & DIY


. Crano ofl toad available -


GREENGATES YARD WHALLEY ROAD ACCRINGTON


Call or ring 01254 872061 Same day delivery ;


REGTS GUTTERS


CLEANED & SEALED & GENERAL


HOUSEHOLD


REPAIRS Phone Colin f Moorhouse Whalley


(01254) 822883 evenings


BROADWAY is com- INTERIOR AND EXTERIOR


SOUND ADVICE MUSIC


WORKSHOP Plano and new style


electric keyboard tuition


We have now developed a new course which


makes learning keyboard tuition much more easy.


Over 10 years experience. Tel: 0976 413935


PAINTING AHD DECORATING


• Free Estimates • Special Rates OAP • • No Job Too Small • All Work Guaranteed •


Telephone: Whalley 01254 822248 Clitheroe 01200 443524


Mobile 0973 401853 • Member of Federation of Small Businesses •


| ing to Clitheroe, with the production of the New York version of a Gilbert and Sullivan


musical. Clitheroe Parish Church


Amateur Operatic and Dramatic Society are stag­ ing the most recent version of the Pirates, of Penzance, which has been described as “fast, furious, colourful and very, very funny.”


All shipshape for February musical


The basic plot revolves around an apprentice


pirate, who leaves his cho­ sen “trade” to take up a respectable life. He meets one of a bevy of beautiful sisters, daughters of the local Major General. His former friends become his


enemies and, after many twists to the tale, all become reconciled.


36 players in all. Bolton- by-Bowland’s Alan Mills is the producer, while the musical direction is under the control of Burnley’s


It is a big-cast show, with


Mick Dawson and choreog- ; raphy is by. Clitheroe’s Anne Grogan. Rehearsals have been


underway since September. Mr Mills says it will be a wonderful show, but one of his ambitions, yet, is to see all his cast at one rehearsal.


Hall, in Church Brow, are February 8th to 15th, with a matinee on the 15th. Our picture shows the cast at a picture call at Whalley Abbey. (CAT 5479).


Show dates, at the Parish


VAN AND MAN


LIGHT HAULAGE & REMOVALS & SINGLE ITEMS Tel: 01200 426809


Ribble Valley Council Approved Over 25 Years Service From Radio to Satellite


NO JOB TOO SMALL From houses to hotels Quotes and surveys


WALLBANK AERIALS Tel: 01254 392609


Mobile: 0831 641344 0585 168382


C.C. PARKER PETE HASLAM Painter & Decorator


Bst 1979


Telephone Clitheroe


0 1 2 0 0 4 2 5 5 9 5 STONE SALE NATURAL


New and reclaimed flags and crazy paving setts, curbs, etc


N E W Heads, Cills, Jambs, Mullions,


Quoins and Copings masoned to any shape or size


Also


Large selection of reclaimed DELIVERY SERVICE


NORTHWEST


RECLAMATION LIMITED T el: 0 1 2 8 2 6 0 3 1 0 8


Year not send might come in useful T


next year; and 1997 is upon us. And a good thing, too. This has been a dull year. There has


been a good deal of marking time, but change is coming, whatever the outcome of the General Election. I have my own list of wishes for the New Year, some global, some local. Here are some of the more printable, in no particular order. Let next year see the introduction of Cliff’s new law; that no management consultant can draw up plans for a company’s future without being made to leave the firm he or she works for and join the shop floor workers of the company he or she is seeking to remodel. . Anyone who uses the term “market


place”, and is not referring to the cen­ tre of Clitheroe, should be sentenced to public silence for at least 12 months. Nobody in public life should be


he turkey is a memory; the presents were just


the thing; the cards I did As I see i t . .


one can have their dental work done on the National Health. Here, in the Ribble Valley, let us see


plans for the new Clitheroe Health Centre proceed in the careful, consul­ tative fashion that it has been started.,, in and not be held up by any changes in health-funding policies. If the quality of the new project raises resentment in other parts of the Rib­ ble Valley, let us use its excellence as a benchmark for developments else-.


where. Let us hope that our Ribble Valley


railway, the only expansion in public' transport that I know of, goes from strength to strength as rail privatisa­


tion rolls on. A Happy New Year to all public ser­


allowed to carry on endlessly about the importance of cheap labour and a restricted labour market while vot­ ing themselves a whacking great pay rise on the grounds of comparability and getting decent staff. National agreements with dentists sh a l l b e re n e g o t ia ted so th a t ev ery -


vants, to health workers, teachers , and all who are employed in local government or who are elected to run it. Let 1997 be a year th a t sees renewed recognition of the role of all. these men and women and of their' importance to us all. These people care for us, educate our children, pro­ vide the services we depend on here in the Ribble Valley. Let us hope our debt to them is more properly recog­ nised in the next 12 months.'' ‘ Best wishes to all those men and


. these men and women are wrong, we should be grateful to them for testing that regulatory systems are actually working. If they are right, they are performing a service to us which our


' Sawley, led by their councillors, made sure tha t the planning process worked and halted plans to blight Sawley Brow and indefatigable cam- paigners continue to press for the fullest investigation of environmental conditions in the Ribble Valley. If


women who campaigned for some­ thing they believed in in 1996 and for those who will do so in 1997. The people of Rimington, Gisburn and


' children will have cause to thank them for. Right or wrong, they are brave and forceful and put compla­ cency to shame. May our traders have a prosperous


year and visitors to this beautiful heart of England enjoy it as much as we do, particularly our children from Chernobyl, whom we remember at


this time. And, finally, a happy New Yeiar to


. time of peace, prosperity and progress.


you, our readers. May 1997 be a good’ time for you and those youTove, a


T -ony CUff.


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