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| when we take the opportunity to contribute towards the gen­


I I ing.


eral expenses of the church. I hesitate to use the word “collec­


tion” because of a little tale a preach­ er passed on to us one Sunday mom- i ■


n our church services we always have a period for an additional act of worship,


would select special tasty portions from his own plate to supplement the diet of his canine friend. His mother soon noted this and pointed out that the dog was amply fed, without the addition of such sacrificial contribu­ tions on his part. When the lad next fed the dog, he


A youngster had a little dog he had come to regard as his best pal. He


be a gift of love. T1 tion” now always coi unvalued spare chan Occasionally, we ai


Our weekly offerini


tribute towards a i pause, in a separate


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I ion Kelly has had one of her paintings accepted at 10 Downing


| Street. Painting at leisure in Padiham has


, eight of her paintings accepted by Towneley Hall for a Christmas exhibi-


brought out the creative flow in Mrs Kelly, who lives in Railway Terrace, Simonstone. She has recently had


I tion. She has always been interested in art and decided to teach herself to paint.


I A few years ago, Mrs Kelly heard about the painting at leisure courses run by Iris Owen and decided to join. “I went along to one of the classes and they


were very informal. Everyone just painted what they wanted using watercolours, oils or pastels. The teacher wandered around talk­ ing to people individually,” she said.


| relaxed and started painting pictures of imaginary castles.” While at one of the classes, she talked to


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another artist who was getting ready to show work at an exhibition.


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me. And then, not long ago, I had a painting displayed in the Howarth Art Gallery, Accrington,” she said.


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tion of her paintings to show the curator at Towneley Hall. “I took three paintings, a landscape, a flow­


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| paintings of my imaginary castles,” she said. Her exhibition runs until the end of January


ery picture and one of my castles. She asked me if I wanted to put on an exhibition of


| ed at 10 Downing Street. “A good way to start the New Year is to


bition. (CAT 5882) and she has had one of her paintings accept-


| ing?” said Mrs Kelly. Our picture shows her preparing for her exhi­


relax, be happy — and why not start paint-


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YOUNG Slaidbum bookworm Phoebe Wallbank (9) thinks children’s author Roald Dahl is the


tops.The Brennand’s Endowed School pupil (pictured) gave his


“Big, Friendly Giant” the firm thumbs-up in a


review and earned herself our Junior Reader of the Month title,


cycling in her spare time (but only when it is not too wet!) has read nearly all Dahl’s books and described “BFG” as imagina­ tive, exciting and funny. The book, a perenni­


al favourite among youngsters, tells the


tale of Sophie and her adventures in Giant-


land. She meets a big,


friendly giant, who favours blowing dreams into children’s bedrooms at night, rather than eating theml The adventur­


ous protagonist hatches a plan with “BFG” to tell the Queen that the wicked giants are eating children.


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Need to be flushed with inspiration


relief to get back to basics. We are talking about toilets here. In the Ribble Valley councillors are con­ sidering whether they can afford to clean a selection of what our transat­ lantic cousins quaintly refer to as “comfort stations”. Anyone who has


A


fter the fine talk of fami­ ly values from the Prime Minister, it is almost a


As I see it


braved, or indeed managed to find, the example in Mellor will appreciate


the irony of that euphemism. But this facility, described by Coun. Charles Warkman, who represents the area, as “an Edwardian horror” is a necessity for many drivers and the councillor has been fighting for,five years to get it refurbished. It is next on the list for improvement, but will it survive? > ■ If the Mellor toilet is important for travellers in the Ribble Valley, what about its Gisbum equivalent? If this has to be closed because Ribble Val­ ley Borough Council cannot afford to clean it, drivers on the A59 will have no public convenience available between Preston and Harrogate. What a link between Lancashire’s major city and the Yorkshire Spa. Could this become a question in the Millennial edition of Trivial Pursuit? “What won’t you find between. . . ? Apparently, this whole business is


spend £50,000 a year for the next five years on the resort’s toilets or on the Stephen Joseph Memorial Theatre. The newly-honoured director of the theatre and one of the country s lead­ ing playwrights, Sir Alan Aykbourn, obviously thinks they should, but some of the town’s Labour councillors


clearly think that bums on seats means only one thing.


how Government spokesmen describe the action of anyone who calls for more money for the National Health Service and points out where under- funding is actually endangering pub­ lic health. This is called “shroud wav­ ing”. Are the Scarborough councillors indulging in a sanitary version of the same thing? Are they playing the same politically-disastrous card as some Labour-controlled local author­ ities who treat war pensions as income and claw back a large chunk of them, saying that Government


Or do they? We are all familiar with .


underfunding is to blame? Happily, the theatre won its battle


not peculiar to the Ribble Valley. Councillors in Scarborough have been debating whether they should


local authorities are simply under­ funded and the Government has given them no way out of their dilem­ ma except to make cuts. Capping means that councillors cannot go to their electors and say what they need


on Monday. What it all comes down to is that


Turning her i into


to do and what it would cost. The same men and women at Westmin ster who bleat endlessly about eco­


nomic sovereignty being ^ non of democracy have, for years now, prevented our local representa­ tives, and us, from enjoying exactly that freedom. I t’s like a topsy-turvy


version of that most basic of democ ratio slogans: “No ta c t io n without


representation”, in this case. No effective representation unless we can


*1^ we want to extend to visitors to the Ribble VaUey the minimal hospi- tality of somewhere to spend a penny, we will have to pay to have the facili­ ties cleaned. Councillors, under r increasing pressure to make cuts,


ightly have to examine every opnon,


but this does not look like one of the good ones. For an area with tourist -


interests, any reduction of facilities would be daft.


But for how much longer are we going to expect our councillors and


{


' local government officials to'go on finding money from nowhere? More, importantly, do grandiose schemes like the castle project make any sense when we cannot even afford to clean some of the toilets there now?


T ony Cliff


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