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Life-saving aid for South Americans
by John Turner es
A CONTAINER left the Ribble Valley this week packed with goods destined to save lives in a back ward South Ameri
can country. The container contains dozens of uniforms, hel
mets and boots and vital equipment like breathing apparatus and hydraulic spreaders for use by res cuers in road accidents. The equipment will
fire-fighters had done in
Yugoslavia. They came back to
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England with their shop ping list of items to beg, borrow and scrounge. Mr Cunliffe said they were amazed at the state
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- ^ The unusual aid pack age stemmed from Oper ation Florian, a charity formed among fire-fight ers and retired fire-fight ers to help out in Yugoslavia. Ribchester man Mr
breath new life into the volunteer fire service of Paraguay and a team headed by a retired Ribchester fire-fighter will follow the container to train the South Ameri cans in its use.
of the service in Par aguay, which is not fund ed in any way by nation al or local government. Even the capital, Asun cion, with two million inhabitants, has a totally volunteer service. In some places, fire
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fighters had uniforms, but no equipment. Else where, volunteers had equipment, but no uni forms. In one place he was proudly shown a pair of hydrants. But that was all the fire- fighters
had. Mr Cunliffe said: Sev
Colin Cunliffe, former station officer for Lan cashire Fire Service at Accrington, flew to Paraguay last year with a group of other fire offi cers to carry out an audit of the service, after some one in the struggling South American service read on the Internet about what the British
enty-five per cent of their callouts are to road traf- fic accidents. The roads are long and fast with no fences and they can run into cows and donkeys at speed. In some places the only rescue equipment they have is a crowbar and an axe," he added. All that will change when the container
arrives in Paraguay. Six pairs of hydraulic jaw cutters and spreaders
were among the shopping list of desperately-needed
equipment, which also included redundant uni forms from Lancashire, Cumbria, Lincoln and Tyne and Wear, and 200 breathing apparatus cylinders and more than 100 breathing sets. Training in the use of
who were very helpful by giving us the use of their
warehouse. Mr Cunliffe has
the gifts will be carried out when Mr Cunline (59) joins a team in
Paraquay in the New Year. He said: "We have had some wonderful assistance, particularly here in Ribchester, where Fr John Francis, Rector of St Wilfrid's, allowed us to commandeer his
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Room at Down- t of augmenting t on the billiard Greendale View ain amount of
g that the politi- ertain. He said: ould have been unged gaily into o them as a mil- | would have been
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jor parties a les- | never to ride too
e Conservatives e Socialists bet- report said that
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as found dead in I
ng-off of workers, 'ves' shift" at one
and threats of a ' eroe mills were
;il said that a I he lack of tele-
ly saying ,-ere told
id to the the tele-
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Fracture proves no handicap for Pat in Himalayan trek
A FRACTURED
hand has not pre vented a Clitheroe rambler from com pleting a long trek in
the Himalayas. Mrs Pat Parrott hurt
a knee and hand in a fall two days before the start of her holiday. Thinking they were just bruised, she decided to continue with her plans and' flew to Delhi to start the six-
day trek. I t was only when she
returned home and had her hand x-rayed that she discovered why it was so painful. As she also found diffi
—— — Everest, Lhotse T flf.RR and i
Nuptse, and the Kang- chenjunga massif.
rocky, and its highest point is almost 12,000ft. above sea level (3,600m) Descending from the
The trail is steep and
ridge, the party passed through rhododendron forest and Nepalese and
up from my tent and held when the pony went down steep slopes; the sherpas even packed my
sleeping bag." She said th a t they
culty walking downhill, she thought she would have to wait in Darjeel ing for the trekking party, but a personal sherpa and a pony were placed at her disposal. The route followed the
Singalila Ridge, an old mountain track which has become a popular trekking route for walk ers and mountaineers. It runs through the border country between West
Bengal and Nepal. Mrs Parrott said: "I
tly smiling" Prime n, over his compla- I ed-smile politicians |
rd of the USA, say- ce of foreign affairs
when a 23-wagon shton Terrace level I
and demolished lan, who walked ruised, but oth- waiting at the iris and suffered
tunately damage to 1 explosion were avoid-
made up of bonded of whisky and three
on Carter, of Trapp self as a top crafts-
olton church brought terviewed with them
was often able to walk, even uphill, but I had close assistance all along the way. As soon as I moved they came to help. I had to be lifted
looked after her when the group had to camp, bringing her food and her bowl of water for wash
was able to stay in the small guest houses that dot the trails. She said that her slower progress meant she met the other trekkers at lunchtime and in the evenmgs only. "Being separated from the mam group and stay ing in the guest houses meant I spent a lot more time with the sherpas and local people, so I got more out of the trek,
When possible, she
she added. The Singalili Ridge
trail winds between the Mount Everest group:
Parrott was able to join the group on a week's full tour programme, which included visits to several Buddhist monasteries and, on the last day of her holiday, she saw the Dalai Lama. She said: "We were on
Indian villages. After the trek, Mrs
already done consider able globe-trotting with Operation Florian, named after the patron saint of fire-fighters. He was twice in Yugoslavia, three months on the South Atlantic island, St Helena, and is hoping to visit Papua, New Guinea, soon. Our picture shows Mr
Conditional discharge for drunk and disorderly man
A SIMONSTONE man claimed he was the victim rather than the aggressor after police saw two men fighting in Accrington
Road, Whalley.
garage, and Clarendon Haulage m Ribchester
Cunliffe and his col leagues giving the fire fighting equipment a final check before being sent off to Paraguay. (C031101/1)
However, Blackburn magistrates . t
heard it was Peter Dalby who was arrested in the early-hours fracas
outside Rio's nightclub. Dalby (20), of Harewood Avenue,
Simonstone, pleaded guilty to being drunk and disorderly. He was given a conditional discharge for 12
m o n th s an d ordered to p a y £ 5 5 costs. Mr Andrew Church-Taylor (defend-
ing) said Dalby was queuing for a taxi when two people walked past the queue and got into the first car that came. One of his friends remonstrated with the men and was thumped for his
trouble. "My client got involved and was
also assaulted, in front of the P°bce officers," said Mr Church-Taylor." 1 he man responsible for both assaults was not arrested and my client expressed
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our way to Bagdogra air port to catch our plane to Delhi and the Dalai Lama had just arrived. The road was lined with monks and decorated." She described how he
passed the group and the sherpas all bowed in
prayer. Mrs Parrott is a well-
known local rambler, with considerable experi ence. She was once vice- president of the North East Lancashire execu tive committee of the Ramblers' Association and remains committed to the organisation as footpaths secretary to the Clitheroe section.
Public meeting for views on Queen’s golden jubilee
TOWN MAYOR Coun. Mrs Mary Robinson is to host a pub lic meeting to debate bow Clitheroe should celebrate the Queen's golden jubilee next sum-
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Torchlight procession are already in place and previous appeals for residents to come forward with
Although plans for a September „ , , reaiuexiLo ™ — ------ j f c ‘ ■ ii •».,*«»***
other celebratory ideas have gone unanswered, Coun. Mrs Robinson
ideas have Eone
remains undeterred. Said a town council spokesman: i t
is felt the matter of Clitheroe celebrat
ing the Queen’s jubilee next June should be given some prominence. The meeting will take place at 8
n.m. on Monday, November 19th, in Clitheroe Town Hall, Church Street,
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