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2 Clitheroe Advertiser & Times, July 10th, 1997 F O R B E S


5. P A R T N E R S s o l i c i t o r s


Vicar warns of selfish attitude to other people


THE self-centredness of our age is having te r r ib le consequences, pupils of Clitheroe Royal Grammar School were told a t th e ir annual Commemoration Day service. The preacher was the pleased, as I read about


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Rev. John Corbyn, Vicar your school, to learn of of St Gabriel’s, Blackburn, and he said that today’s general outlook led to the attitude: “Every man for himself, and the devil take the hindmost.” Mr Corbyn declared: “It


is an attitude of life we cannot just turn on and off, so we judge even those closest to us as to


your concern for others, of your work for others through the charitable activities of the school, of the many and vaned ways in which you seek to help o th e r s a t .home and abroad.”


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* Mr Corbyn urged the congregation to not merely


woe betide them!” Rferring to the recent


themselves, gifted as they


OFSTED, report on the school, Mr Corbyn went on: “In contrast to this focus on s e l f I was


G o -a h e a d fo r b a rn p la n


AN amended scheme to convert a barn into two houses in Rimington has found approval from the planning authority. . Borough councillors


were with a committed and dedicated staff.


I do not think it too great a thing to hope that you will not only se t the agenda for yourself but that, through the example you set, you may also set the agenda for the commu­ nity of which you' are a part. In this way, you might strive not simply to


He continued: “Indeed, III


be the centre of intellec­ tual excellence in your


passed the proposal for Manor House Barn, and its. attached shippons, at the recent Planning! and Development Committee meeting. A garage within the


scheme has been resited and reduced in size to take into account existing trees. Access on to the site is to be improved.


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were taken into account when borough planners drafted a report, but they recommended the scheme and councillors agreed with them.


Neighbours’ concerns


community, which you most assuredly are, but also a source for good in the widest sense. One might even say that as you are an intellectual power­ house you might also.be a moral powerhouse. ”


of service to others and sacrifice to others was supremely revealed in the life of Jesus. Pupils of the school fol­


The preacher went on to emphasise , how the theme


lowed tradition by walking in procession for the ser­ vice at Clitheroe Parish


Church.


THE Vicar of Whalley is to hold, his final service in the village on Sunday. The Rev. Michael Ackroyd (64), who has


village, Mr Ackroyd pointed out that cele-^ brations of the parish’s 1400 years of Chris-'


lunch. Speaking of his time in the Ribble Valley


vicar takes very seriously. Not only, has he served the people through the church, but he spent seven years on Whalley Parish


looked after the parish for 16 years, says it will be a special occasion which will incorpo­ rate the Sunday School prizegiving and


tianity were very special to him, as were the good relations he enjoyed with all the area’s churches. Public service is something the departing:


Council, he has been involved in the Scout­ ing movement running Cub groups, and he is still involved at the village school. He has also been the chaplain at Calderstones Hospital,, a post he found both challenging and rewarding. > ,


ford, came to the ministry relatively late in life. After taking a degree in engineering,


lege to serve the people. He said: “You have, a great deal of responsibility and it is some­ thing we should all do in some way or another.”Mr Ackroyd, who is originally from Brad­


He emphasised that it was a great privi­ :. .


he followed a career in industry and even , studied for a qualification in teaching until, at the age of 40, he studied for the ministry and took up a post in Keighley. He stayed


■ A 40-year-old Bentley, which is at pres-. cnt only occasionally driven, around the


area, will be given more of an airing once Mr Ackroyd fully retires. ■ -


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retired clergy who have helped,, at. my.., .church when I have, gone on holiday, and now I am hoping to do the same for others.- Mr Ackroyd is pictured with,some..chil-,


GP Marguerite, will still be taking the occa­ sional sermon.,He has been invited to help out at a church in Great Harwood: He said: , “I have always been, very grateful for the


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Landlord Michael takes top award


THE former landlord of Waddington’s Three Millstones Inn has won a top award from brew­ ery bosses Matthew Brown.


- -Mr Michael Pearce, who now runs the Eagle and Child Hotel at Hurst Green, won the “Master Cellar- man Diploma”, during his time at Waddington, where he was landlord for eight years.


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After being nominated for the award by a repre­ were made by the brewery.


Matthew Brown’s multiple accounts executive, Mrs Jean Moffat.-Mr Pearce said: “I was really1 pleased to win the award.”-


He was presented with his award last month by


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Mr Pearce has-been in charge of the Eagle and :


his award by Matthew Brown representative Mrs Moffatt..


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‘Speaking for those so barbarically silenced’ —■ Auschwitz survivor


STUDENTS at Clitheroe Royal Grammar School lis­ tened to the shocking and moving story of an Ausch­ witz survivor at the annual Religious Studies Confer­ ence. ' The sixth-form played


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Polish Jew, recalled the events leading up to his imprisonment — irom the declaration of war, when he was only 13, to his time in the infamous death camp. His incredible story was


Second Generation Group. Mr David Arnold, secre­ tary of the Jewish Council, took students through the background of the Nazi Holocaust and its implica­ tions for today’s society. Mr Mayer Hersch, a


owever, was with the by Louise Hulland Hersch, the Second Gen- A c c o rd in g to , Mr


’eration Group was formed “to take over the task of re c a l l in g s u rv iv o r s ’ experiences of suffering” and to leave future gen­


erations in no doubt of the atrocities that took place under Nazi rule.


faced in remembering the “hell on earth” of Ausch­ witz, he said, he felt it his duty to keep the Holocaust an integral part of history. His parents, elder brother and sister and three youn­ ger brothers were all killed by the regime, so, although recalling was painful even today, he did so on behalf of his family and those who were not so lucky.


Despite the difficulty he


obviously inspired by Mr Hersch, who suprisingly felt no hatred towards the system which had such a devastating effect on his life. He condemned the Nazis and despised them for depriving, him of a lov- ia ing and a f fec tio n a te


The s tu d e n ts were say that survivors would


mily. Mr Hersch went on to


n e v e r fo rg e t th e i r experiences at Auschwitz and he admitted to suf­ fering from nightmares to this day.. He later revealed that, although he gave a detailed and vivid account of life at Auschwitz and the camps where he had earlier been imprisoned, to tell the whole story would take much longer than one afternoon.


bered with fondness his time spent in Windermere following the end of the war, when his new life in England began. He was stiU only 19 when the Allies liberated Auschwitz and he said of the end of


The speaker remem­


his ordeal: “I began in Hell, but ended up' in Heaven.”


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his work with David Arnold and the Second Generation Group, he would continue; to . move and inspire youngsters as he did at Clitheroe -Royal Grammar School. His final words to the students were: I.arn speaking for the many voices which


He hoped that, through snence^l.- S° barbarica11 .


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