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14 Clitheroe Advertiser & Times, December 18th, 1997 YOUNGSTERS from the Clitheroe area are to take part Christingle anniversary
in a Christingle service - the most popular children s Christmas service in Britain - to celebrate its 250th anniversary.
Church of St Mary Magdalene at 5-30 p.m. Proceeds from this candlelight service will go to the
The Christmas Eve service will take place at the ransn „ . .
Children's Society to help fund its work with young run aways.
Ribblesdale Pool Public Swimming
ADDITIONAL SESSION Starting
Tuesday 13th January 1998 and every Tuesday thereafter the
swimming until 8 p.m. instead of 7 p.m. previously.
Pool will open for public
There will be a lane in the Pool for those who wish to swim lengths, or just simply enjoy a relaxing swim at a pace of your own.
£1.70 per session For further details
Tel: 01200 424825
Ribblesdale Pool, Edisford Road, Clitheroe___________
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LETTERS
Clitheroe 422324 (Editorial), 422323 (
Thanks for SuperScan efforts by everyone in the Ribble Valley
THE Ribble Valley Super- Scan target of £150,000 has been reached! My warmest thanks to everyone who has
contributed in any way. At times in the past two and a
quarter years, we wondered if we would ever reach this stage, but my committee and I have had marvellous support. This result has been even more
remarkable because we have been able only to target that part of the
Ribble Valley which traditionally looks to Blackburn for hospital
care. The money has been raised in so
many different ways, by individu als and by groups, from balls to barbecues, coffee mornings to sponsored slims and swims, from parachute jumps to raffles, lunch es and garden walks to gifts of birthday and anniversary money. The churches, schools, WIs, the
farming community, the milkmen and many of the service clubs and other groups have all contributed. We have been well supported by
Where is problem in Saiiisbury’s
coming to town?
NICE, but naive, to imagine that Sains- bury's wants to open in Clitheroe for philan
thropic reasons. I t is believed th a t
Clitheroe Tesco is the most profitable of its kind in the country, and Sainsbury's
Peter 3fetneller£/<Ea£t Hancastfnre 3Seto£paper£ Competition HERE’S YOUR CHANCE TO WIN A
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Over the last 4 weeks, Peter’s Jewellers have been running clues for a chance to win this ring.
If you’ve been looking in any of their 4 local shop windows, you’ll have seen cards bearing different symbols associated with Christmas.
Along the bottom of each card has been the first line of a carol - just name the carols below and send off
your entry. (to arrive by Monday, 5th January 1998)
We ’ ve even filled in the first answer for you! 1. BAUBLE:......
............................Deck the halls with bows o f holly
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might just be aware of this and want their share of our money, and why not? After some initial
jostling for position, things will settle down and we will still be left with more choice and better parking provision. As to the further destruction of local traders'
business, surely most Clitheroe people also shop in Blackburn, Burnley, Accrington and Preston sometimes - not to mention Bury, Bolton, Manchester, Leeds, Meadowhall and who knows where else. Peo ple from those places also come to Clitheroe. The addition of Sainsbury's will probably bring even more people here. Is there a problem?
A SUPERMARKET SHOPPER, Clitheroe.
Civic guest at Advent service
CO N G R EG A T IO N S united for an Advent ser vice, a t ten d ed by the town's Mayor, Coun. Mr John McGowan, a t Trin i ty Methodist Church, Clitheroe. I t b ro u g h t to g e th e r
members of various denominations involved w ith th e o rg an isation Churches Together in Clitheroe and District. A choir and orchestra
performed "Night of Mira cles" by John Peterson, which tells the story of Jesus's birth. Choirmaster Dr Steuart
FRENCH HORN:............... • ..........• • • • .................................
Kellington directed the performance and there was
additional organ and piano a c c om p a n im e n t .T h e soloist was Joyce Tindsley and the narrato rs were Phyllis Rumsey and Peter Houldsworth. A retiring collection was
held in aid of Friends of Chernobyl Children, the group which is planning a third consecutive visit to the Ribble Valley by a party of youngsters from the Belorrussian city next year.
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KAY and Gerda (Olivia Barlow and Stephanie Bamber) with the Snow Queen (Clare Bollan) and the wolves (Daryl Dewhurst, Pat Morris and Terry Till)in the rehearsal of ■The Snow Queen’ at St Nicholas' Hall, Sabden on Sunday. (CAT 14778)
Cold-hearted queen defeated by Sabden warmth and love
A VILLAGE dramatic society opened up a package of surprises with a Christmas fairy
tale. Hans Christian Ander
son's age-old tale of the cold-hearted Snow Queen enticing away an unsus pecting young boy who can only be saved by warmth and love - was a Christmas treat. Those expecting a tradi
almost as much as the show's three comedy char acters, the friendly wolves - Jack and Vera and vegetar ian son Julian! (yes, a vege ta r ian wolf, whose best friend happened to be a reindeer). The Snow Queen was
tional panto instead found themselves watching a fairytale beautifully per formed by this relatively new, but eager and enthusi astic group. It was formed by produc
played beautifully cold- heartedly by Claire Bollan, while there were good per formances by the two chil dren, Kay (Olivia Barlow), who is enticed away, and Gerda (Stephanie Bam ber), who goes off in search of him. Young Hayley Bamber
St Mary's in Sabden tried something different with "The Snow Queen", which played to packed houses on Friday and Saturday - with just a few spare seats on the opening Thursday. The cast was a mix of
er Dee Bottoms, who put on her very successful "Songs from the Shows" last year. This year the Friends of
children and adults who worked together very well.
The children obviously .......' themselves - »
gave a smashing perfor mance as the hobgoblin who, by the end of the show, is transformed from a nasty little character to a friendly one - all by the power of love. Of course we had a
Ribble Valley Borough Council, the parish councils, the Clitheroe Advertiser and Times and the
Whalley Medical Centre. I t is impossible to thank you all
individually, but collectively my thanks to you all are very sincere. You have helped us to achieve a wonderful asset - the MRI scan ner is on order and will give East Lancashire the most advanced diagnostic equipment available. Overall we still need a further
close until the scanner is ready for
use in the late spring. We shall be happy to receive any
further donations, which will swell the Ribble Valley total, in the New
Y<The Rotary carol service a t Trinity Church on Monday will be the last event this year. Come and join us if you can, but to everyone we send Christmas greetings and
our wannest thanks.
£35,000 for the hospital to com plete the appeal, which will not
MRS MARY BARNES AND THE RIBBLE VALLEY SCANNER COMMITTEE.
I hope pupils realise morality implications
THE Clitheroe Advertiser and Times recently featured four Ribble Valley and two Hyndburn schools participating in the Young Enter prise scheme. Did the schools involved at any point consider the morality or environmental cost of
their activities? Most of them seemed to be defining
business enterprise in exactly the way it is all too often defined in the adult world. You make a product which nobody needs, then, by clever advertising and image making, create sufficient demand (assum ing a society with money to bum) to make a profit. The morality of this is th a t even a
ON Saturday, May 17th this year, I suffered a car diac arrest in the tre a t ment room a t Clitheroe
Health Centre. Several patients present played a part in helping
short-term profit for a very few people jus-
tifies any amount of pollution, global warming and waste of energy, materials and other finite resources. And the result
of th a t morality is to make the world rapidly uninhabitable.
; _ The scheme may be "excellent training |
for the future", if th a t is the future we want. Do we really want our children to' be educated to become "captains of indus try" or morally responsible members of the world community?
MR KEITH SAGAR, Blackburn, Hyndburn
and Ribble Valley
Friends of the Earth, Leys Close, Wiswell.
the staff nurse and, there by, a major part in my sur
vival. May I, through the
Advertiser and Times, thankthem. I don't know who you
> ‘ Heartfelt thanks to those who helped
are, bu t my heartfelt thanks and best wishes to you.
MR ROD PETTY,; Downham Road, Chatburn.
LOCAL farmers are continuing to P1,0^ a g a in s t th e G o v e rnm e n t in a bi
farmers keep up the block ades and protests a t Heysham, Ribble Valley farmers and their families plan to travel around Clitheroe to hand out leaflets and to get local peo ple to, sjgn the "Keep Britain Farming" petition. Mr Stephen Fawcett,
seniortgroup secretary of the Clitheroe branch of the National Farmers' Union, said: "We want to try and get as much support from local people as possible." Ribble Valley MP Mr
Nigel Evans has also given the NFU campaign his full support and publicly signed a petition on the steps of Longridge Conservative Club on Saturday. Speaking from the House
of Commons, where he met a delegation of North-West
farmers on Monday, Mr Evans stated that people had "more chance of being hit by a meteor than dying from BSE". He said: "The farmers' plight is profound and the Government must listen to them before it is
too late. "First the Government
has refused to apply for European aid for farmers,
which is there for the tak ing. Second, they ban beef on the bone even though there is more chance of you being hit by a meteor than dying from BSE. And third, they are doing noth ing to prevent cheap
imports from abroad com ing in and undermining our
fanners even further." Echoing'Mr Evans's
m A m - m
comments, a spokesperson for Gisburn Auction Mart said: "Our farmers are absolutely fed up that poli tics is interfering with peo ple's livelihoods." The NFU nationally is
campaigning for the Gov ernment to bid for £980m. from a Brussels fund set up to compensate farmers whose currencies have
Farmers keep up pressure over beef
change its mind over the current bee As many, North-West rev^ “e^ inister 0f Agricul
ture Jack Cunningham is standing firm, saying the Government would have to contribute half the sum. Rules requiring the de-
boning °f beef came into force at midnight on Mon
day, which means that the sale of any carcase or bone- in beef is prohibited. Mr Cunningham said:
"My first priority is the protection of public health. I have acted quickly on the latest scientific advice to ensure that consumers can eat British beef with com plete confidence. _ "This action had been
taken on a precautionary basis. The decision means I can honestly say to the British people and to our European partners th a t our beef, is the safest in the EU, and probably in the
world."
the Government has come under criticism for not giv ing consumers .the opportu n ity to choose whether they want to eat beef on the bone. NFU president Sir David Naish said: "The NFU has carefully consid ered the facts put forward by the Spongiform Encephalopathy Advisory Committee (SEAC) on BSE to the Government and believes that the risk to human health is extremely low. "Consumers can easily
As a result of the ban, '
see whether beef is on or off the bone. We believe it is entirely appropriate for the decision to be left up to the
individual." Mr Stephen Fawcett,
from the NFU's Clitheroe branch, said: "Consumers should be made aware of all the known facts, but at the end of the day they should be able to make their own decision as to whether they want to eat • beef or not."
GISBURN AUCTION MART PRICES
THERE were 54 newly-calved
1 dairy cows and heifers forward, at Gisburh Auction Mart's Thurs day sale, with first-quality cows making to £1,000 (average £956) and first-quality heifers making to £1,050 (£914). Second-quality cows made to
£720 (£676) and second-quality heifers to £700 (£653). Top prices for calves under
four weeks were: R. H. Vickery,. Continental Belgian Blue bull (£240), J. Bennett, Continental Simmental heifers (£68). Calves: Limousin X bulls
made to £180 (£106.75), heifers to £58 (£25.10); Belgian Blue X ■' bulls to £240 (£142.65), heifers to £58 (£42.30); Simmental X bulls made to £192 (£136.75), heifers to £68 (£45.60); Blond . d'Aquitane X bulls to £158; Hereford X bulls to £92, Friesian bulls to £95 (£73.60); Angus bulls to £100 (£96). There were 378 cattle forward,
including 190 young bulls, 188 steers and heifers (50 show cattle average 131/kg) a t the Christmas show and sale of fat cattle, which was held on Thursday. The champion was J. M. Townsend,
£930 (200p). Best young bull from classes
1-4 was F. Burrow, £790,40. (152p). Best young bullocks from classes 5-7, J. M. Townsend,' £930 (200p). Best young heifer from classes 7-10, A. A. and E. Critchley, £798 (152p). Class 1: Belgian Blue X baby
beef bulls: 1st, F. Burrow, £790.40 (152p); 2nd, J. M. Townsend, £894.40 (157p); 3rd, D. J. Lambert, £810.10 (146p). Class 2; Charolais X or Sim
mental X baby beef bulls: 1st, J. E. Burrow, £599.25 (141p); 2nd and 3rd, J. C. Clayton, £752.50 (86p), £787.50 (90p). Class 3: Limousin X or Blond
d'Aquitane X baby beef bulls: 1st, R. E. and S. Baldwin, £886.55 (149p); 2nd, J. E. Bur row, £812.50 (130p); 3rd, W. A. Towler, £682.50 (130p). Class 4; Baby beef bull of any
ing by the costumes and make-up, which were excel lent. Producer Dee was
other breed: T. Knowles, £524.70 (106p). Class 5: Belgian Blue X bul
delighted with the perfor mance from all her team the cast and the backstage workers. The show was also a
locks: 1st, J. M. Townsend, £930 (200p); 2nd, R. E. and S. Bald win, £613.20 (146p); 3rd, R. and E. Cowperthwaite, £829.60 (136p). Class 6: Other Continental
financial success, realising more than £1,300 before expenses, with a sizeable donation going to St Nicholas's Church for the upkeep and facilities of the hall where the show took
place. The cast: Hobgoblin, Hayley
Bamber: grandmother. Sue Moretta; Kay, Olivia Barlow; Gerda, Stephanie Bamber; Snow Queen, Claire Bollan; Prince, Gemma Warburton; Princess, Rebecca Gill; robber king, Den
happy ending, as all good fairy tales have, and every one should be applauded for their efforts. Grieg's music in this tale might not be to everyone's taste, but musical director Mary Seaford put it together very well - adding a few livelier numbers - and the show was made more entertain
nis Moretta; robber woman Veronica Heffeman; robber girl, Sarah Bradley; reindeer, Melanie Bamber; old woman, Tina Bradley; wolves, Terry Till, Pat Morris and Daryl Dewhurst; Ravens, Melanie Byrne, Louise
McKinlay. Children, snowflakes, soldiers . . . ,
and robbers: Marco Galea, Nicholas Galea, Dale Bamber, James Harper, Sarah Naughton, Rachel Ashcroft, Michele Dar win, Pippa Holt, Samantha Per sons, Rachel Ashcroft, Emily Artingskoll, Xanthe Gill, Amy McEwan, Amanda Gill, Vanessa Boocock, Lisa Wilson, Kerry Bamber, Sarah Bamber.
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bred bullocks; 1st, D. J. Lambert, £725.50 (126p); 2nd, A. A. and E. Critchley, £678.30 (133p);
Class 7: Non-Continental ' ' , r,~
3rd, M. and E. Hartley, £659.60 (136p). •
bred bullocks or heifers: 1st and 2nd, J. E.' Holt, £436.80 (96p)
and £510.40 (98p). Class 8: Belgian Blue heifers
(476kg and under): 1st, E. and M. Ha rtley n/s; 2nd, J. M. Townsend n/s; 3rd, J. E. Burrow, £613.20 (146p). Class 9: Belgian Blue heifers
(480kg and over): 1st, A. A. and E. Critchley, £798 (152p); 2nd, . R .E . Cowperthwaitel £741.60 (144p); 3rd, M. and E. Hartley,
£708.75 (135p). Class 10: Other Continental X
heifers: 1st, J. M. Townsend, £681.10 (139p); 2nd, A. A. and • E. Critchley, £592.20 (126p);
3rd, M. and E. Hartley, £591.85
<133p). Bulls: Continental X light
bulls made to 141p (100.6p), medium to 152p (109.6p), heavy to 157p (98.3p); other light bulls . to 85.5p (83.5p), medium to
- 115.5p (89.3p), heavy to 95.5p (84p).
Steers and heifers: Continen tal X light steers made to 138.5p
' (112.8p), medium to 200p (110.5p), heavy to 136p (101.8p); other light s teers to 78.5p ' (63.8p), medium to 94.5p
(83.Ip), heavy to 92.5p (81.5p). Continental X light heifers,made to 107.5p (93.4p), medium to 146.5p (97.1p), heavy heifers to 152p (102.4p); other medium heifers to 96p (66.4p), heavy, to
81.5p (71.5p). There were 3,125 sheep for . Sheep: Light lambs made to
80p (74.1p), standard to 102.2p (79.3p), med ium .to 103.4p (83.1p), heavy to 102.5p (78.6p), overweight to 81.Ip (73.3p); homed ewes to *£31.50 (£24.05);: other ewes to £51 (£32.35); rams - to £39 (£29.49). There were 15.92 tonnes of
straw forward in the produce sec tion with wheat straw making to £40 per tonne and barley straw to £45 per tonne. Forward in the Beacon North- West (Gisburn) Electronic Auc- ' ' tion last week were 6,700 sheep
' '(including
420.store lambs) and 44 cattle. Standard lambs made to 220p,
medium to 215.5p, heavy to 194p; store lambs to £31; steers to 176p; young bulls to 185p; heifers to 172p.
Search is on for friends to care for lonely people
FRIENDS are being found for lonely people in
Ribble Valley's scattered towns and parishes. A Caring Neighbourhood Scheme has been set up as a
befriending service for socially-isolated people by provid ing a volunteer to visit or telephone them on a regular basis, giving friendship and support. "It is expected that those who will use this service will
be, perhaps, older people who feel they are socially cut off, said a spokesperson.
Churches and clubs throughout the borough have been circulated with details about the scheme in a bid to reach
people who would like to help as volunteers or benefit from the project. I t is being run by Age Concern Lancashire and Lan
cashire County Council. They say i t is hoped other organisations in the area will he able to offer volunteers, especially where people already visit informally. It is being stressed that the identities of people taking
part are fully confidential. More information may be obtained from Mrs Christine
Fish at the Age Concern office, in Moor Lane, Clitheroe (01200 425654).
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ward a t the sale of fa t sh'eep (including 2,772 lambs, 353 ewes' - and rams)..
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