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I threatening our farming indus­ tries and our very lives - what shall we sing at harvest festival


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this year? Matthew Claudius, an 18th Century


J German poet, had no difficulty when he penned a poem which has come through to every harvest festival - "We plough the fields and scatter the good


seed on the ground". But what are we to make of the idea


that it is God who feeds and waters the seed, sending "the snow in winter, the breezes and the sunshine and the soft,


favourite hymns, they were writing poetry not scientific treatises, and their poetry still speaks to the heart. "He paints the wayside flower, He lights the evening star." Not even a weather fore­ caster should have difficulty in rejoic- | ing in that couplet.


refreshing rain"? To be fair to the authors of our


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N our changing climactic conditions and with BSE and foot and mouth disease


risk of retreating into an Old Testa­ ment or pagan view of the way God works in nature and sometimes the hymns we teach our children senti- malise the Christian religion to such a degree that teenagers and adults reject the Christian faith as utterly out of touch with the real world. In Sunday School you may have


But our harvest celebrations run the


sung "All things bright and beautiful, all creatures great and small.." But as you watch the beauty of a kestrel swooping on its prey in the long gixiss you may be sure the field mouse in its talons is not singing! Faced as we are with nature "red in


have taken on a political and social dimension. If we are to sing with any sincerity "All good gifts around us are sent from heaven above" then we must recognise that those gifts are not evenly distibuted. Our TV screens bring us pictures enough of starving children whilst we are having difficulty finding space in the fridge for the fruits of our latest trip to the supermarket. So harvest is rightly made a time for


thinkers have always understood the limitations of human language and the human mind. Richard Hooker, an Eng­ lish priest of the 16th Century, writes: "Our soundest knowledge is to know that we know Him not indeed as He is, neither can know Him...his glory is inexplicable, his greatness above our capacity and reach." So scientists talk in terms of models


fund raising in support of aid agencies which service the Third World. The bottom line of our harvest cele­


tooth and claw", with natural disasters, floods and earthquakes and with ram­ pant diseases, it is only too clear that Divine benevolence - God's kindliness - is not particularly evident in the natur­ al processes of Plant Earth.


we needed a visit and a crucifixion to convince us that the Creator has a


That is why, in Christian thinking, . Most harvest celebrations these days h .


brations is simply what it always was, a recognition that we are utterly depen­ dent upon the creative arid destructive forces of this vast universe to which we all belong and upon the life force behind it all - "God" by whatever name he or


she is to be called. If you have been watching the recent


Channel 4 documentary you will know that scientists, working their way back to the original Big Bang, are as tongue- tied as anyone else when it comes to describing just how we came to be here, never mind WHY! The wisest religious


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Architects shortlisted for village church plan


ARCHITECTS from London, Wales and Manchester have been shortlisted by Slaidburn residents with designs on the vil­ lage's redundant M e thodis t


chapel. The villagers want to develop


the chapel into a community cen­ tre, a project they anticipate will cost approximately £500,000.


[ To see it through and secure fund­ ing from grant awarding bodies and private industry, the villagers have formed Slaidburn Community Development Group, whose chair­ man, Mr John Parry, invited six architects' practices to present their outline plans for the building.


The meeting was attended by more


than two dozen group members and villagers, who selected London co­ operative Architype, Archa of Man­ chester and David Lea Architects of Porthmadoc to produce more detailed concepts to a deadline of late next


month. These will be displayed in the chapel


for a week. A final decision on who wins the design contract will then be made in early November. Said Mr Parry: "Once we have architects in place, we can look towards applying for'planning permission. Providing everything goes smoothly, we antici-


• pate actual building work to convert the chapel will start towards next


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iSandra wants to hear from those remember tiny comedian


FINAL research is now being undertak­ en for a long- planned book on C l i t h e r o e - b o r n comedian Jimmy


Clitheroe. Now author Sandra


Skuse, of the British Comedy Appreciation


Society, is seeking more material - ideally, per­ sonal memories. She is visiting the area soon to search personally, staying with a family


member. Perhaps the only


entertainment personal­ ity at his level of fame to retain their real name, Jimmy Clitheroe literal­ ly lived in the town of his name and birth for only a few days. His parents then took


had a down-to-earth, unfussed, Lancashire common sense style, whether in peformance or in personal conversa­ tion, and it comes through vividly in Mr Noble's classic-style arti­ cle. Carefully avoiding any patronising air towards the north, it marked the success of Jimmy Clitheroe's "Call Boy" series - presum­ ably based on the activi­ ties of a theatre. "Nothing about


The 4 ft. 3 in. comic


C h u r c h ’s cashflow problem


A CHURCH in Clitheroe is suffer- ing a cashflow prob­


lem.St Paul's, Low Moor, needs extra donations from its congregation. The appeal for


i- Club met on Monday I * evening for a talk by Mr I I- Clive Harrison on "Big | Game". Mr Harrison I


Young farmers Members of Bolton-by- Bowland Young Farmers'


- explained how game was I '( farmed in South Africa| before being shot.


Jimmy's act has the air of being contrived.


Things just happen," writes Mr Noble, accu­


rately enough. "His catchphrase, for


him for a new life in Blacko, but returned later. Jimmy Clitheroe and his mother later had a caravan at Blackpool before moving to the house where they died within a few days of each other in 1973. The Radio Times of


December, 1956, carried a chatty article on the


mother and son by a well-known journalist of the day, Vernon Noble.


instance - 'Don't some mothers 'ave 'em' - got into his patter without his thinking about it because it is a normal expression in his part of the world. But it tickled the public's fifth rib. "He is a tiny person to


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funds is made by the Rev. Rodney Nichol­ son in the latest issue of his parish maga­ zine.He complains that St Paul's regular income still falls below the £500-plus a week it needs just to meet its commit­ ment to the diocese, out of which the cost of having a vicar is met, along with other central ser­


vices. "All other costs of


St Paul's - heating, repairs, music, insur­ ance, etc. - are extra to this £500," he


THE star, his mother and their pet dog, pictured in 1956, whe n they were living in a aravan


shoulder responsibilities, but nothing worries him very much. He looks at life calmly through round green eyes and


chuckles at it." When booking clerks


at railway stations insisted on giving the w.ell-into-adult-years


comedian a half-price ticket "it's easier to take the ticket than s ta r t explaining" he told the interviewer. The article does hot J im m y


mention


Clitheroe's earlier film career, when he appeared with "Old


Budding soccer s ta rs are now tu rn in g o u t in style


Mother Riley" Arthur Lucan and Kitty McShane. They wanted him to be the Mickey Rooney of the British Hardy family, according to our newspaper. He also appeared with Frank Randle and George Formby.


People who remember


the final years of "The Clitheroe Kid" with nos­ talgia will be interested to see what the .book


reveals. We will gladly put


anyone with memories or memorabilia in touch with the author.


>t- Monday will be a tour oil Ultraframe. Members! should meet in the villageT ' at 6-30 p.m. and parentsl


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f“ are asked to provide trans-l •• port to and froirj Clitheroe.


CHATBURN}


Service On Sunday, a service o|


Remembrance was held in Christ Church, ChatburrJ for the dead and injured if the terrorist atrocities il the United Sates of Ame j ica.


■ brance was lit as the sef ; vice opened,.followed by I


writes. "Very few people


. period of silence. Prayel ' were said for the victim! ' their families and for tl • emergency services.


have increased their giving over the last three years. One or two have reduced their amounts," he added, urging parishioners to "think seriously" about their giving. "We cannot meet


”■ and identified God's pij \ tection, provision and pi '■ eminence in times of d;l ger and anxiety throufl


.- vicar, the Rev. Walt! Drain, spoke on Psalm I


In his address, tl


2001's and 2002's costs with 1998's income. Few house­ holds could."


LOOKING BACK 100 years ago


A TRAGEDY for the USA. The impudent murder of President William McKinley in Buffalo, New York, raised the indignation of the civilised world. It was expected that a stricter watch would be set on anarchists and that they would be prevented from holding their meet­


ings.The McKinley administration was marked by the highest tariffs in US history and by expansionist poli­ cies which included the US/Spanish


war.


was held in the Parish Church with only moderate attendance. The vicar of Grindleton urged that it was the duty of everyone to attend


The annual Dedication Festival . ,


divine worship and not to let trivial things keep them from meeting God


in his temple.Mr John Frankland, a fruiterer of School Terrace, was fined 6d for allowing his chimney to be on fire.


50 years ago


OVERCROWDED classes in Clitheroe junior schools caused con­ cern among teachers and parents. However, hopes were raised that the situation would be solved by 1953, when the new school being built on Edisford Road was expected to be


operating. At a meeting of the Clitheroe and


District Amateur Football League members were told by the Deputy Mayor that supporters were too fickle and that it was not the spirit in which football should be carried on. Encouragement for players was


required, he said.


and committees in government were really necessary, because our rulers used to be men of business who managed the national household for the good of everybody not for the benefit of one particular section. He said that despite all the plan­


Mr Carey Lord asked if planners


ning the nation was still embedded in the bog of austerity. He added: "When no-one had ever heard of 'fair shares', wo were much nearer to fair shares all round than we are today.


25 years ago


THE council leader warned RibUe Valley Council Committee that \t \


must keep a very close check on spending. He said that the reduction in Government grant aid to local authorities planned for 1977-78 might lead to drastic cuts m ser­ vices. He added: "There seems to be a vendetta against local government and we are being made whipping boys for legislation which forces us to spend money, such as the Com­


munity Land Act." In the sophisticated techniques or


space age medecine, the health cen­ tre on Railway View became the first general practitioner unit in the country in which heart conditions could be diagnosed by computer. A two and a half acre car park


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ri thanksgiving will be hi ' in Christ Church, Chi • burn, on September 3| V; at 10-30 a.m.


• out history. : Harvest thanks ‘ A service of harvd


, Blackburn's Harx! Appeal, which will tl


1 two damaged rural cj munities on opposite:


lieu of harvest gifts, will sent to the Bishop!


This year's offerings! I I


A candle of remenj


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' of the world, the farr ■ community in Britain! the predominantly rl economy of Cambodj ■ south-east Asia, wherl


planting of land mine! prevented the cultiv:! of essential crops. I Token gifts of fl


flowers and vegetable! also be accepted froil


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Thanksgiving | A harvest festive vice held in St Jal


Church, Daleheal Sunday was well-attil The service was cond by the Rev. Mark l |


Smith. On Monday ever


whist and domino! and sale of producl held in Tosside Imf which raised £891 were S. Hogg and I|


calfe. P r i z e w i n n e r s


and picnic site, planned for a site on the Trough of Bowland road near Dunsop Bridge was labelled a seri­ ous visual intrusion by an objector. Police warned: "If you don't lock


Whist - B. Waddind Robinson, M. Edir|


J. Meyler. Dominoes: C. WiJ


F. Lofthouse, F.


it up, you'll probably lose it", as car thefts increased in the Ribble Val­ ley. A spokesman said that most stolen cars had notbecn properly secured.


Interchange proves ju s t th e ticket for tran sp o rt guide


THE award-winning Clitheroe Intercha­ nge project is being held up as an exam­ ple throughout the country of the way forward for public


transport. The Countryside


Agency highlights the Interchange in a new


guide, "Great Ways to


Go". The guide is to encourage rural commu­ nities and transport partnerships to apply for £47m. over the next three years. The money is for


and working in Eng­ land's village's and mar­ ket towns. Countryside Agency


imaginative rural trans­ port schemes to meet the needs of people living


deputy chairman Pam Warhurst said: "There are a lot of good schemes operating around the country from which we can learn lessons - including the Clitheroe Interchange."


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whilst religious believers (and these are often the same people) use symbols and poetry. Welcome back all those familiar harvest hymns, but perhapsi with a wiser understanding of what we mean when we sing them. There is a popular hynin which best expressed all this for harvest celebra­ tions in the 21st Century:-. "0 Lord my God, when I in awesome


wonder "Consider all the works thy hand


hath made "How great though art - how great


though artl"


R cv. Ian Robins, Anglican priest


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