Clitheroe Advertiser & Times, August 14th, 1997 13
Week of events to mark 81 years of the
Ranger Guides
A CEILIDH was held to celebrate a “camp with a differ ence’’ at Waddow
Hall, Clitheroe, on Friday night, after a
week of events to commemorate 81 years of the Ranger Guides.
enjoyed by local Guides, aged between 14 and 26, as well as others from as far afield as Aberdeen and Cornwall who descended on the Ribble Valley to take part in the week-long activities. These included caving, climbing, canoeing, self
The clance was
defence, and abseiling, to name but a few. “We have tried to set
up the week to be differ ent from the normal Guide camp, calling it Octi-Wot?, meaning ■ 81-what? Our aim was to create a very up-beat atmosphere, with plenty of fun for all,” explained Mrs Barbara O’Donnell, the camp co-ordinator.
has been a grafitti wall, instead of the usual camp newsletter, which Guides have used to send messages to each other.
One such difference
week was also enjoyed by selected Venture Scouts, and by youngsters participating in the residential course on the Duke of Edinburgh Award Scheme, who serviced
As well as Guides, the
TODAY and tomorrow AAH Retail Pharmacy T/A Hills Pharmacy, Church Street, will be open until G-30 p.m. Heyes Chemist, Moor
Chemists’ rota
Lane: Sunday noon to 1 p.m. Monday to Thursday until 6-30 p.m.
the cam)) for the other visitors.
for the special event, which also saw a visit from the North West of England’s Chief Commissioner of Guides, Mrs Pat Jackson, who sampled some of the pancakes and crepes on offer.
Numbers topped 200
GISBURN AUCTION MART PRICES
THERE were 124 newly-calved
dairv cows and heifers forward at Oisburn Auction Mart's Thursday sale with first guiltily cows making £1,101) (average £923.35) and first quality heifers making £1,0S0 (av e rag e
£7H0 (£075) and second quality heifers £700 (£051.75). , There were 1SCS rearing calves
Second quality, cows made
forward. Top prices for calves under four week* were I*. M. White and G. and I). Barnes, Continental Belgian Blue bill (£228); H. Lund, Continental heifer A. A. (£128); and T. Pick- lex, Friesian bull (£lo2).
made to £102 (£101), Limousin X bulls to £210 (£154.70), heifers
Calves: Charolais X bulls bulls to £118 <£7‘.», Belgian Blue X
to £140 (£00.05), Simmental X bulls to £220 (£172.45), heifers to £108 (£0:1.75), Hereford X
'.to £228 (£172.00), heifers
£102 (£81. 10), Angus bulls to £101 (£05.00), heifers to £1281 (£50.35);
heifers to £50, Friesian bulls to
tiori were 021 cattlo'(2()2, young . bulls, 119 steers and heifers) and 2,774 sheep (2,00,4 .lambs, 08(1 ewes and nuns)..;-;
£7(10.1)5,. \V; ‘J: Ashton and top kilo price was lJ)(».5p for 520ktf, £709.80, J. M. Townsend. .
Top sale price-for bulls was
Bulls: Continental X-light' bulls made to 120.5p (108.2p),'
medium to-lttti.up (110.On), heavy to’115.5p (105.9p); other
lieht bulls to 109.5p (98.7p), medium to 107.5p (9(i.0p), heavy
Forward in the fatstock sec-. ■■■■■• ' s':' ■. ', -
medium tolll.Sp (97.4n), heavy to 109.8p (lOO.Jlp), other lij?ht steers to 78.5p (Wi.7p), medium to 79.5p, heavy to 101.5p
. (8(>.5p).
medium heifers made to lOJ.op (9l.8p), heavy to 114.5p (9.>.7p), other light heifers to 81.5p ((>5.Op),, medium to 8.i..)|) (75.0p), heavy to 95.5p (77.8p). • Sheep: Standard lambs made
Heifers: Continental X . . i v
to 122.20 (li:i.5p), medium to 120.:ii) (110.:Jp). heavy to 108.8p (101.op), overweight to 9/.2p,
horned ewes to £d5 (£22.90), other ewes to £51 (£28.05), nuns
vthe twice-monthly sale on Saturday.
calves made to £445, Limousin heifers with heifer calves tu
Limousin heifers with bull
£400, Limousin heifers-to WJ», Simmcntal heifera to £07o, Blonde d’Aiiultmne heifers to
■ (£18.20), Texel to £41 (£10.00), Cluirolais to £17; Mule'Shcail-
i- Mule lambs made to .£09 £1(16. ■ ■ ;
. iiiga to £80 (£74), Texel to £70 (£04.40); Mule' ewes to £72 (£58.80), Texel to £00 (£52.80),
•Suffolk to £05 (£50.50),.Grit stone to £05, Horned to £30 (£20.00); Mule ewes with single lambs to £120, with twin lambs
to £135., Forward in the Beacon
to 10:).5p (92.51)). Top sale price for steel's and,
huifoi*s was £7.’4.85, 12. Tomlin son, and top kilo price was 114.5p for503kK, £578.2,1.
Steers: Continental X liKht made t»> OM op (08.:tpl.
..
stores) and 10 stores).
and 109 store sheen forward lor »
to £41 (£17). There were ,17 store cattle
North-West '(Gisburn) Elec tronic Auction, last week, were 0,508 sheep (including 249 ’ 02 cattle (including
s- Light lambs made to 205.0p,
240.51), heavy to 212.0p, store to £00.40; young bulls made to 180.01), heifers to 178.0p; store balls to £400, hello's to £125.
tandard to. 247.5p, medium to
A ROOF-RAISING auc tion of bric-a-brac, a n t iq u e s and to y s swelled the coffers of the Gisburn Festival Hall roof replacement fund by over £500. The event was organ
Naturalists enjoy a walk around Selside
ised by the Festival Hall Committee, and auction
eers were committee member Mrs Linda Farnworth and profes sional auctioneer Mr Peter Sayle, who don ated his services. Work on replacing half
THE Clitheroe Natural ists’ Society encountered 95 species of flowers and 14 species of birds when they took part in a circular walked based on Selside. Their six-mile walk took
rebuilt in 1687. There are similar buildings at Nether
Lodge and Colt Park Farm.
■
them from Selside to Low Birkwith Farm, Nether Lodge, Ingman Lodge, ,
and back to Selside. It.was a sunny, cool day, and the
of the roof is currently underway. It is due for completion at the end of this month, when com mittee members will be faced with a final bill of £5,000. The auction was just one of a series of fund
raising events held to help pay for the work. Our picture shows bar-
fain hunters with Mrs
arnworth on the far right. (CAT 11596)
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party of 27 had marvellous views of the Three Peaks. Summing up the day, a
“After passing the rail way cottages at Salt Lake,
spokesperson said: -TThe path between Low Birk with and Ingman Lodges, travels through small hills of boulder clay called drumlins,formed by debris deposited by melting Ice
Age glaciers.“Ingman Lodge was a country house with farm buildings of Furness Abbey. The house was
jected by the Nature Con-. servancy. The wood grows on a limestone pavement of over 1,000ft and there are rare species of plants in th e a n c ie n t ash woodland.”
we crossed the Settle to Carisle railway to Colt Park Wood, which is pro
on the walk included, a • wheatear, kestrel and house martins. Herons, flew close by and crayfish were also seen.
The birds encountered
• Brenda Wilkinson was thanked for leading the walk, by chairman Brian;-. Jones.
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