- - Clitheroe 422324 (Editorial), 422323 (Advertising), Burnley 422331 (Classified), www.eastlancashireonllne.co.uk 8 Clltheroe Advertiser & Times, May. 23rd, 2002 ■ • Lots under hammer to boost club fund


AUCTIONEER Mr, John Pallister is expect^ . ing-to be busy with his hammer tomorrownight. ^ He will auction a large


collection of. donated^ goods to raise funds for . the v Pendle ~ Club, Clitheroe. Bicycles and other household effects are


among the goods already given for sale and the. club still has room'for


^Friday, with the first lo t. coming under the ham­ mer at 7 p.m. The Pendle Club has


other items to.boost its fund-raising effort.' Viewing of the lots begins a!t 5-30 p.m; on.


more than 300 members aged 55 and over who "join in activities like solo whist, bridge, sequence, ballroom and line danc­ ing, snooker, cribbage and darts. There is a tele- vision lounge, a library and a weekly, lunch club for those aged 60 and over living alone.


Youngsters go wild in campaign to save the king of freshwater fish


by Vivien Meath - 1


CHILDREN at a Kibble Valley village school are helping in the fight.to halt the decline of wild


salmon. The youngsters from


Thorneyholme RC School,:Dunsop Bridge, have been helping to. restock a smolt release pond alongside the River Hodder. The pond is the first in •


the region and Dr Mal­ colm Greenhalgh, the broadcaster, naturalist and conservationist, gave the pupils a talk on : the life of the salmon. The project was a bonus, adding to a life sciences course the students had just completed. The fight to halt the


decline locally has been brought to the attention of Mr Orri Vigfusson, chairman of the North Atlantic Salmon Fund. He made a flying visit to Lancashire where he met members of the Hodder Consultative. Mr Vigfusson, an Ice­


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THE £8,000 fund to pay for a garden at the side of Whalley .Methodist , Church is now halfway to its target. ■1 ■ The work is almost" complete and soon the garden, created by con­ tractors from shrubland, will be taken over by a team of green-fingered church members. Everyone is very


pleased that the chinch's latest contribution to Whalley's main street image has worked out so well. An auction of promis­


es a week tomorrow is the next fund-raising event and it will he con­ ducted by Mrs Glenys


Nolan. She has been asked to


repeat her confident, bid-upping performance of eight years ago when she took the rostrum in aid of church hall funds. The promises are ones


ton; lunch out, garden­ ing services, a manicure, waxing and a- basic course on using e-mail are among them. ’ Furniture, china and similar items are being collected for a ratherdif- ferent auction later in the year. It was to he on June 13th, but a new date is being arranged. : Ribble Valley estate agent Mr John Ather­ ton, a church worker in the village, will be the auctioneer and i t is expected th a t dealers and private buyers from a wide area will attend. A coffee morning and


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designated by the World Wide Fund for Nature as the 10th most threatened species in Europe. According to the Envi­


• Yet the agency says, the natural stock is too low to sustain itself and the Hodder is beset by abstraction problems. Mr Brian Wells, chair­


as important as the par­ ent Ribhle itself.


which the Environment Agency had been forced to close for financial rea­


sons. The origins of the


ronment Agency, the Ribble system is the fifth most important for these fish in England and Wales and the Hodder is


man of the Hodder Con­ sultative, and Mr Philip Lord, chairman of th e . Ribble Catchment Con­ servation Trust, dis­ cussed their work on the Hodder and Mr Vig­ fusson congratulated them on their efforts and gave them his support. . The Hodder Consulta­


tive took over the run­ ning of the salmon hatchery at Witcherwell, near Dunsop Bridge,


hatchery date hack to the building of Stocks Reservoir which created an impassable obstruc­ tion to salmon reaching important spawning streams. A year or so after the


So, for these fish,-


raised in tanks by. the Hodder Consultative, a period where they can be held in the water of the Hodder is imperative and so a smolt release pond was built a t the side of the river. Normally only 1% to


salmon eggs hatch, the young fish turns silver ready for its long ocean journey towards Green­


land. At this stage the small


fish are called smolts and the young fish are “imprinted” with their river of origin. .


MEMBERS of Whalley Deanery Mothers' Union have set their sights on filling all 600 seats in St John's Church,' Great Har­ wood, on the evening of June 12th.


book sale on Saturday, July 6th, and a car trea­ sure hunt on Sunday, August 18th, will he fol­ lowed by a dinner and speaker on Saturday, August 31st. This event is still being arranged and has been brought forward from its original date of September 14th.


Songs of praise for jubilee They are holding a


jubilee Songs of Praise, to be led by the Rev. Brian Stevenson, with Canon George Moore at the organ. The choir of St Silas's Church, Black- bum, will also attend.


Young team is gearing up for final


MEMBERS of .the •Young Enterprise prize- • winning team Chame­ leon are gearing up for the North-West regional


final. Ribblesdale/-: High


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School Technology Col­ lege has won its way there several times in recent years and were winners in 1999.


sells clocks mid student souvenir material ’avail­ able m CD form! I t will be pushing its skills and achievements to a panel of judges bn June 16th. Team members are


'Clitheroe 422324 (Editorial! James


CLITHEROE soldier Dr mer James Kemp has beef putting his skills to the teF a major exercise. James (21) and 600 fellowl


was the trenches they dug thi selves. But there was not mu| • time for resting, they were all


diers from The Queen's Lan-f cashire Regiment have been! ing part in Exercise Druid's f Dance on Salisbury Plain. Their only home for three i


on the lookout for the "enemi realistic war-fighting situaticT The soldiers were armed wil tech laser equipment which rd


also very busy in quite another direction - tak­ ing their GCSE exams! The final is again at


the Quays Theatre at the Lowry Centre, Salford. . Opposition will come


from schools in Man­ chester, Merseyside, West Lancashire, Cum­ bria, the Isle of Man and Wigan. Personal qualities and


A59 busil dwelling: the go-al


skills will play a large part in the marks award­ ed, but the judges will also look at the real-life balance sheet, reflecting actual money. Few local firms do as


THREE bids for dwellij different business needs ( were viewed favourably 1 lors. . Several other claims


well as Chameleon has. Investments by pupils and supporters have shown a remarkable increase, with a £3 invest­ ment turning into £11. The pupils will be wear­ ing smart business clothes for the event.'


2% survive the 3,500 mile: journey to'their feeding''grounds and hack to the Hodder to spawn. Evidence shows that


using a smolt release pond may increase this to I around 5%. Pictured is Dr Green­


halgh explaining the life of | the salmon to pupils, (s)


Chess trophy goes to master V s ‘MS


that a countryside home is justified for commer­ cial reasons have been turned down by Ribble Valley Borough Council recently. But the council has


always said that it will support bids for rural diversification where they meet the laid-down criteria. The Planning and


, three applications. They were fon- •A bailiff-manager's


Development Commit­ tee accepted officials' recommendations on the


dwelling with office and workshop plus two holi­ day chalets for Linda Ann Davies at Pendle View Fisheries, Barrow. There is already permis­


. of the site is envisaged. •Conversion of a barn


sion for a dwelling else­ where on the site. Expansion of the fish sales and fishing aspects


\ room and four-bedroom : dwelling at Greenhead , Farm Barn, Sawley, for !-. Mr Newton. Officials r.; said th a t there was a "reasonable amount" of


to form a design studio, office, instrumentation


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I the man who runs the club. Mr Brendan Brown, of Chatbum,


A TROPHY given in memory of one of Clitheroe Chess Club’s most long­ standing members has been won by


I the club .through the season. The trophy was given in memory of


was the eventual winner of a knockout competition held between members of


THIRTY pupils at St


Mr Brian Carr, who played competi­ tive chess for many years, including several games against former world champion Dr Max Euwe. Mr Carr died last year in his 80s.Mr Brown (25), an IT developer who has played chess since the age of .12, is pictured


with Mrs Chris Carr and the trophy (K140502/12)


Speech examinations success Key: D - distinction; Walsh (H), John Willets


Mary’s Hall, Stony- hurst, proved themselves expert in the art of pub­ lic speaking when they passed the LAMDA elo­ cution examinations, nine of them with hon-


I ours. • The school has been


I their teacher, Miss Catherine Robinson, is delighted with their suc-


entering candidates for more than 20 years and


I cess. The results of the 10


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to 13-year-old pupils liv­ ing in the Ribble Valley are printed below.


H-honours. Acting Grade Three


Duologue: Laura Wil­ letts, Beth Mcllroy (D), Marianne Alton (D), Duncan ■ -Edmondson (D), Thomas Adamson,


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Duologue: Sarah Moss (H), Matthew Lambert


Acting Grade Five !' >


(H). Acting Grade Three:


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stone. - Preliminary Examina­


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LAST week's meet­ ing of the Ribbles­ dale Camera Club presented the cream of renowned interna­ tional competition,


(H). Introductory Exami­


nation: Harriet Bell (H), Hannah Cunliffe-Lee (H), Simon Dowds (D), Penelope. Frankland- Smith (H), Michael Johnstone (D), Joshua Reilly (D). : The Speaking of Verse


and Prose Grade One: Joseph Garlington, Philip Alton (D), Mary AnnWoolon(H). ' Grade Two: John


Walls (D). . Grade Five: Matthew


Lambert (H). r -'


the London Salon. A first-class commen­


tary by Salon member George Felton took the club through the latest work from Britain, Europe, Australasia and South America. The number of ink-jet


prints was striking, but so too were traditional pictures and a number of wet chemistry rarities such as bichromate


prints. One technique com­


pletely new to members was printing from nega­ tives which had already- been hand-tinted. The common theme in


'all the sections of the saloii was an obvious


; artistic feeling and bril­ liant execution. Perhaps with a "high


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