4 Clitheroe Advertiser & Times, June 8th, 2000


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LOCAL Rotarians have been playing hosts to a team of Aus­ tralian visitors, including a police chief from the Melbourne area, as part of a group study


exchange project. Every year, the Rotary District


(Lancashire and Cumbria) finances an exchange for young professionals


from another continent. This year, it was the turn of the


local district to exchange with the dis­ trict of New South Wales and Victo-


ria. One of the highlights of the visit


was a presentation at Sparth House, Clayton-le-Moors, before a packed audience of Rotarians from five clubs


- Clitheroe, Ribblesdale, Accrington, Church and Oswaldtwistle, and this year’s host club, Great Harwood and


Rishton. A to ta l of 96 people attended,


including wives and guests. The visiting team, led by Geoff Mcllvenna, a police station comman­


der from South Morang, near Mel­ bourne, were teacher Kaye Harris; child support agency officer Judy Hutchinson; Kim Scanlon, a primary school teacher who manages an out­ door pursuits camp; and chartered accountant Anthony Liston. Attending the presentation was


Shelley Whitehead, a member of the team from the local district which vis­ ited Australia recently.


Farewells to the Australians were said at an informal Rotary party at


Sawley Village Hall. Visit co-ordinators and host fami­


lies took over the venue for a buffet meal and sing-song. Our photograph shows, from the left, Mr Peter Laszlo, of Preston Rotary Club, who arranged the trip; Elaine Haugh, who was part of a North-West team to visit Oz last year; Australians Judy Hutchinson, Geoff Mcllvenna,


Anthony Liston, Kim Scanlon and Kaye Harris, with Clitheroe Rotary


Club's Mr Roland Hailwood, who led the British exchange contingent on their 1999 Antipodean adventure. (290500/10/23)


Teacher turns his hand to writing


CHILDREN in class five at Read CE Prima­ ry School have an author as their teacher! Mr Chris Broadbent


became so fascinated by the story of the Accring­ ton "Pals" who were largely wiped out in the First World War that he


Link adds up for


town firm


CLITHEROE accountan­ cy firm Varley Edmondson has merged with Porter Matthews and Marsden, of Blackburn. The move, which came


into effect last month, will mean that the company has a branch in the Ribble Val­ ley, as well as in Blackburn and Burnley. Senior partner Mr Jere­


my Stirrup said the move was good news for clients of both firms. "We’re gaining two more experienced part­ ners in Roger Smith and Tony Tinker and we're expanding our sphere of operation to take in Varley Edmondson's Wellgate


office in Clitheroe," he com­


mented. The merger of the two


firms brings the story of Varley Edmondson full cir­


cle - founding partners Messrs Walter Varley and George Edmondson origi­ nally worked with Porter Matthews and Marsden


more than 50 years ago. Mr Stirrup is pictured in


the centre of the photo­ graph with Mr Smith (left) and Mr Tinker.


has written a novel based on their story. "Old Pals Act" is by no


means set entirely in the war. In fact, the family "skeleton in the closet a c t io n ” goes back from almost present day Oxford through the Lake district


of the 1960s. Mr Broadbent had no


special interest in the sol­ diers' sacrifice until friends took him to the Somme battlefields. That set him off on a voyage of discovery, and he has now published the book himself, though Ampersand, a small pub­ lisher in the Rossendale Valley, where he lives. Apart from its war over­ tones, the book reflects var­


ious aspects of family life, with realistic plot lines, dia­ logue and locations. Mr Broadbent's efforts are a labour of love and interest rather than backed by any expectation of fame or rich­ es. However, he hopes to at least break even on his investment in the book. It is on sale a t Kaydee, Clitheroe, price £7.99.


Accolade for world traveller


A FORMER Clitheroe Royal Grammar School pupil, who is working his way across the world, has boon awarded a Ph.D. by Edinburgh University. Jeffrey Stephen Nightin­


went on to study at CRGS, le a v in g in 1971 to s ta r t


gale (pictured), the second son of Mr Brian and Mrs Elizabeth Nightingale, was awarded the Ph.D. by the Faculty of Arts at Edin­ burgh University. He started his education a t Chatburn School and


work with the National Westminster Bank. Four years later he left and went to North Stafford Polytech­ nic to study for a B.Sc. in Computer Science. The next 14 years saw


him working in Washington for the National Institute of Standards before he went back to his books and stud­ ied for an M.Sc. in Comput­ er Linguistics, Japanese Syntax at Edinburgh, gain­ ing the qualification in 1996. Dr Nightingale decided to stay on in Scotland, in


the department of theoreti­ cal and applied linguistics, and eventually gained his Ph.D. for his thesis "Polyse­ my and Homonomy in Japanese Verbal Alterna­ tions". Dr Nightingale, who has


an elder brother and three sisters, has now taken up an appointment with A.T.R., a research company in the field of voice recognition, in Kyoto, Japan.


Gold medal


A COMPANY based in Clitheroe has won a gold medal for its safety record. The Lappet Manufac­


turing Co. Ltd has been rewarded previously, and this year was again in the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents honours list. The awards go to


employers who can demonstrate th a t they have successfully man­ aged health and safety at their premises. The object is to focus atten­ tion on the need to make improvements all the time.


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Entrepreneurs hitting the right note for Valley’s music lovers


work put in by our local music entrepreneurs. They put in hours of effort and


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skill and we should salute them all. A few, not always willingly, are constantly in the public eye, but the point must bo made that some labour diligently away with their heads well below the para­ pet!


On Sunday, "That’s the Spirit”, a


Lancashire churches' worship cele­ bration for the Millenium, will see Preston North End's stadium full of people. As reported previously, the director of this biggest ever


ANY Ribble Valley people are blissfully unaware of the hard


As I see i t . . . by Tim Procter


Lancashire pageant is Mrs Mar­ garet Smith, of Clitheroe, and sev­ eral other Ribble Valley personali­ ties have key roles. They include Mr Peter Jolley, Mrs Gladys Sut­ cliffe, Mrs Anne Grogan and Mr Derrick Holmes. Various groups are taking part,


and special mention must be made of Alpha Drama and Arts, of Knowie Green. The afternoon will track the


ble Valley International Piano Week, is at the Centenaries The­ atre, Stonyhurst College, from Sun­ day, June 18th. It has now achieved a standing sufficient to a t tra c t John Lill, a household name for over 20 years, who will play on Thursday, June 22nd. Other famous musicians appear­


Christian story from the creation to the present day using a "cast” of 1,500. A quite different, but equally sig­ nificant event in its field, the Rib­


ing include Nelson-born Kathryn Stott, who this writer first met when she was aged 10, Martin Roscoe, the 1997 world piano com­ petition winner Ashley Wass, Ronan O’Hara, Anthony Hewitt and Ian Buckle. The festival is supported by


Yamaha-Kemble Music, who sup­ ply a top specification concert


grand piano free. The popular music festival


planned by Keystreet proprietor Mr Phil Knight, is still the subject of discussion with the emergency services. Unlike the other two, it is a commercial venture, but showing a profit in the first year may be a tricky proposition. Thanks to Mr Knight's contacts


and long experience in his branch of music, the artists visiting could be the most famous of the lot. Large, possibly huge, crowds will be attracted. But there is nothing new under the sun. Buried away in our files for early last century is a head­ line: "10,000 flock to gala on Castle Field"!


Australian visitors enjoy taste of life in East Lancashire


is asked to accept useful vol­ untary service. I t is a well known fact that if there is a job which needs doing, it is best to approach a busy per­ son, who will fit it in to a hec­


HI I haven't time" is a phrase often used when someone


tic schedule. The folks who say that they have


enjoying themselves on Saturday nights on church premises, I was approached by several persons with ideas of what we could do in the club. "You want to do this, or that," they would say to me. * I was not aware of wanting any­


no time are often people who laze a lot of their existence away with an aversion to being disturbed in any way. If they really wanted to do something they would make time to do it. Limited to 24 hours in each\\ day, some of us put more into our1


lives than others. Years ago, when I was occupied


leading a very successful youth club, with 70 to 100 teenagers


thing of the kind, but would say: "If you would like to come and help me on Saturday nights, we could tackle this venture together." I knew from experience th a t they would tell me a t once th a t they simply had not got time to spare for such activities. They expected me


to cope. Everything depends on how we


are prepared to use the time we have. Towards the end of the evening in our youth, club we had an epilogue, a short prayer and a talk of about five minutes from me. For the firs t month or so there


would be a mass exodus at the first signs of the coming epilogue as the youngsters were not prepared to give their time in this way. It was then decided to have the


short religious interlude at half way through the evening. After all, the chip shop could only hold a dozen or so and if it was raining there was nowhere to go. My youthful assis­ tant leaders were quick to round up any reluctant heroes, stopping all games in progress prior to the epi­ logue. Gradually, more and more came


to spend a short but profitable time with us. Even today I am still approached by some of those who recall those special times with grat­ itude and introduce their children tome. Occasionally, when I have stressed the value of the early


morning quiet time of prayer and Bible reading, people have assured me that they never had time in a morning for any such thing. I point out that we should sort out our pri­ orities to contrive to make a little time for communion with the One who has given them all the time they have. We do not always make the best


use of the time spared to us. Some folks wish it away, longing for some event in the future to arrive. It can he very sad to realise that so much of our time has been frittered away with no trace in later years to show for it. St Paul’s advice was that we should buy up the golden amounts of opportunity as they came. He was drawing words of wisdom from his own vast experience that we will do well to heed.


Joe Stansfield


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