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said went: “Gentle Jesus meek and mild, look upon a little child, teach me how to pray to Thee, pity my
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simplicity.” I still need to use a similar prayer, but now I would alter it to say...“pity my stupidi
ty.”How often I have neglected to accept,the inspiration of the Holy Spirit of God, while talking to Him in prayer, and omit ting to pause and listen to His voice. A thought can be a prayer and a thought
long with many of my gener ation, I was taught to pray as a child. One of the prayers I
understanding, our heavenly Father h
act according to what he feels we are ingtosay. We might only see later that our prs
attempt to serve the Lord in ways we never thought possible. We must consider always what i
were said in ignorance and yet we been granted more than we could thit ask for when it comes to life’s blessing The way has been opened for v
would want us to say in prayer and our personal life. Then we can cone “For we ask our prayer in Jesus’s nai However, we can rely upon our Lord’
can also be God’s reply, if we will pause long enough to receive it in our minds. Sometimes we pray in ignorance of the
cious understanding at all times, a knowing, He pities our stupidity. Fc we can thank God.
full situation and, in His wisdom and great V
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controversial times, I have been wandering round the subject of the election and finding it a salu ta ry reminder of mortality. Looking at the Clitheroe Adver tiser and Times for May 3rd, 1979, reminded me of the changes there have been in those
f a week is a long time in pol itics, 18 years is a fair bite out of your lifetime. Asked to be non-controversial in these
controversial.
was advertising its first AGM that week West Bradford Indies’ Hockey Club
had decided to keep its “ dependent:e and not amalgamate with Ribblesdale derers Cricket and Bowling Club. _
Enjoying a successful run was Brian Tow- nend’s produ ction of “N ig h t in V e m ^ fo r
the Calderstones Revue and Dramatm Society, with a cast which mcluded HUda Ainsworth, Ann Haworth, Margaret Col
Ribble Valley Borough Council was signing the contract for the offices that were to be built behind Church Street at the ludicrously cheap price
18 years. That week the comparatively new
of £990,000. Holidaymakers were offered the chance to snap up a week in Majorca for £136 (not quite as big a bargain as I had expected), a three-course Sunday lunch at a well-estab lished Ribble Valley hotel was £2.85,“Fawlty Towers” was on BBC1 and “Bright Eyes” by Art Garfunkel was top
of the pops.
about now, with light mild 21p a pint at Clitheroe Royal British Legion Club. Petrol was hovering around the £1 a gal lon mark and plans for Booth’s new super- market were not submitted until almost two months later. Clitheroe Cattle Market was just cele
Beer prices then do not bear thinking , ;
bert, Mavis Crabtree. John Smith. P ^ h p A rm i ta g e , Brian Haworth Md A E B w ^ .
Many of those names will be familiar to . theatregoers today.
were reports of vandalism by young PW- ple in the Castle grounds andby^older
Some other things were familiar. There .
young people at weekends m the tre, with scenes of drunkenness and some
considerable damage. Those lads will now be.looking towards
their forties and the kids who heat up the Castle grounds have probably got tads ol
their own. My son, bom just a week before M a rg a r e t T h a tc h e r w o n h e r f irs t te rm o f .
office, has registered to vote 18 years Liter and he tells me that so have most of his
friends. Far from being politically apa- thetic, as so many commentators report,
Dad.”
brating its centenary, with the Auction Mart a distant dream, Jimmy Fell was
writing about garlic in socks as a cure for whooping cough, Wiswell WI members were being given a talk on fashions from 1914 to 1930 entitled “Pantaloons to Panties, Part Three;” and Bruce Dowles was planning to contest Clitheroe Town Council’s St James’s Ward as a Morris
Dancer. The Ribble Valley Talking Newspaper
of another similar span of time, I will be 74, the greenhouse effect will be really making itself felt, the A59 will probably be six lanes wide from Preston to the Al, a pint of beer will need an extension to your mortgage and it is most unlikely that I will care. You see, that’s what elections do, unless you get them by the tail and really shake them about. They make you mor-
And I gloomily remember that, at the end . . bid. T _ ’ ony Cliff WI’s remarkable lady by Tim Procter TH E remarkable 60 y e a rs ’
| membership of Grindleton Women’s Institute by charming Clitheroe personality Mrs Annie Slater has been marked with a
| cate of'thanks for her service at the WI county federation spring council meeting at Southport recently. “I t’s a long time I know, but it has
special award. She received an illuminated certifi-
been very enjoyable and if I have helped the organisation, I am pleased
this group of young men and women are keenly interested in the outcome of the election. As John says:“I t ’s my future,
for the opportunity,” says Mrs Slater. “But I do hope more younger women will join and am pleased our branch has some new members. It would be. wonderful if the Millennium saw an upsurge in numbers, for the skills and values of the institute must not be lost. I learn some thing at every meeting.” Now nearly 93 years of
age, Mrs Slater is very grateful that she has been able to retain good health and a spritely, active approach to life. After her big presentation moment, she got back to town in time for a Clitheroe Concerts Society event. Mrs Slater has a long record of service to Trinity Methodist Church and has been connected with several other local organisations, such as the Mayoress’s Committee and the Friends of Clitheroe Hospital
1 post she held until 1974, when she felt it right to retire and make way for a. younger person. “At one time we had nearly 100 members, but later those from West Bradford and Sawley formed their own institutes.” Mrs Slater was a founder and long-term secretary of
Clitheroe on her marriage and joined the WI at the suggestion of a friend. Within a few years, there was war — “We used to have knitting parties to make things for the troops,” she recalls. In 1943 Mrs Slater became; the institute secretary, a
Mrs Slater came to
the WI market and also ran
the Ribble Valley WI annu al show and competition for many years. She still looks forward to every meeting and says: “We have much more to offer than jam and Jerusalem, though there’s nothing wrong with either of theml” Two of Mrs Slater’s grand
children went to Oxford and the third to Cambridge and she. now has three great-grandchildren. 'A great nephew is Australian test cricketer Michael
. Slater, who has visited her several times when playing over here. (CAT 7861)
H e r work will improve lo t of former Communist co u n tr ie s
A FORMER Clitheroe Girl’s Gram mar School student has just been awarded the degree of Doctor of Philosophy at Manchester Univer sity and is about to start an exciting new project there. Miss Kate Wilson, the daughter of Mr
used by the World Health Organisation in a number of countries from the former Eastern communist bloc.
and Mrs J. M. Wilson, of Mitton Road, Whalley, trained as an SRN before start ing on the path to a doctorate and her research has been on the medical and non medical aspects of nursing and home care and the problems experienced by nurses
and others.
Now, she is starting work on producing learning material for nurses which will be
learning material has already been sup plied, but Miss Wilson will be working on material designed to increase the nurses’ research awareness, to give workers in these countries the best chance to look out for details of work that,is being done in other countries and benefit from it.
A considerable amount of basic nursing
Miss Wilson’s spare time is occupied with activities very different to academic work, such as mountaineering, ski-ing and dis tance running. She has competed twice in the London Marathon, but regretfully will not be taking part this year due to injury.
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