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DURING the summer holidays, Chipping Pony Glub members
have been away at camp. Below, two members
write of their experiences. The first diary report is
by LUCY . HUGHES (eight), of Alston who attended the junior camp. “Day One: We are all
tacked up and ready to ride. I t is quite a nice morning, but I don't think it will last. There are 21 of us here today. The teachers are called Helen, Becky, David and Joanna. There are lots of older
members here helping us to get our ponies ready and leading the little ones. We have been split into three groups and every group has a teacher. Most of the mothers have gone to have a nice day in peace and quiet, but a couple have stayed to watch. We are in our groups rid
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to homes plan TOO many houses in the Ribble Val ley was one of the objections to a pro posed redevelopment of a business in Blacksticks Lane, Chipping. ■ The plan involved the construction of a fishing lake, the conversion of a shippon and workshop into a holiday bungalow, and of a restaurant into two dwellings with associated garages. Members of Ribble Valley Borough
Council Planning and Development Committee heard how the plan would add to the significant oversupply of residential development in the bor ough and they rejected the proposal. Council officers also reported that
the development would have a signifi cant impact on the existing landscape character of the area, to the detriment, of the appearance of the Area of Out standing Natural Beauty.
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ing and having a good time walking, trotting and can tering. We are riding in pairs and meet each other again, but try not to crash and we do exercises on horseback. I t is all great fun. By noon we have all fin
ished riding for the morn ing and are enjoying a love ly lunch. At lunch we are talking- to our friends, telling jokes and having a good time. After lunch we get back
in our groups to do stable management.' We are learning about points of the horse, grooming kit and how to look after our ponies. By 2-30 p.m. we tack our
ponies up again with the aid of the helpers. My ride is outside and we are doing tro tt in g over poles and jumping. I t is 4 p.m. and we have
finished riding for the day and are now sitting with our friends cleaning tack
for tomorrow. When we have cleaned our tack our teacher checks it. After wards we get our ponies ready to go home, which is all too soon. Day Two: Like yesterday,
we are ready to ride by 10- 30 a.m. My group rode like jockeys to begin with; then we made a course which included you having to go through two poles (the cliff top and not fall off the edge) and weave in and out of blocks, trot round and go over a little jump. At lunch today we are
being entertained by the helpers and a few other children having a three- legged race (and four, five and six-legged races) and jumping over jumps on foot for fun while the peo ple sitting on the side talk to their friends, tell jokes and also watch the other children have fun. Anyone could have taken part in the three-legged race or jumping. I t was very funny to watch. • In the afternoon, after lunch, my group measured everyone's pony and we measured ourselves from our nose and our head in
hands and centimetres. Then the lead rein group and my group got into teams and had a games competition while the top group had a jumping com- petition.We were going to swop round, so we went outside, but instead we carried on with the games and they carried on with the jumping. When we had finished, we went back to our stable, b u t did not untack because almost s tra ig h t afterwards the mounted presentation in the arena took place. I think everybody got a prize and I wish i t had lasted for more than two days, I had so much fun.”
SAMANTHA BAKER (15), of Knowle Green, puts her thoughts on to paper. “ I am a member of
Chipping branch of the Pony Club and am writing a repor t of the summer camp 2003. Our camp had 28 mem
bers all with their ponies and was from August 8th to 13th at Somerford Park in Cheshire. The day before was all very exciting, yet there
New look for centre shop
IT was a snip for two long-serving staff members to re-open a Clitheroe shop. Boots the Chemist in Castle Street has undergone refurbish
ment and a small ceremony was held to declare the shop open again.
! The honour of cutting the tape
went to Mrs Chrissie Baines and Mrs Peg Parkinson, who have between them served 60 years with Boots. They wielded a giant pair of scissors to do the job, after which the celebration switched to business as usual. The shop has new flooring and
fittings, although manager Mrs Helen Maginn stressed that the new dispensary is the most impor tant change. I t is more open and
user-friendly, allowing customers to see what is going behind the counter. She described how the staff, who
are local people with families, worked long hours, including the Bank Holiday weekend to ensure the shop was ready on time. Praising their efforts, Mrs Mag
inn said: “Although the shopfitters did a really good job, a lot of the unit assembly and fitting work, and of course the restocking, was done by the staff. They all worked really hard.” Our picture shows Mrs Baines
and Mrs Parkinson cutting the tape accompanied by, on the left, manager Mrs Maginn, plus a gathering of fellow staff members. (G280803/1)
was a lot of preparation to be done; ponies had to be bathed, tack to be cleaned, suitcases to pack and cara vans to collect. For me the journey
prize at the end of camp. At 10 a.m. every morn
there was a handful- the car towing the caravan which my cousin, Jane, and I were sleeping in broke down so my mum took the horses ahead while someone towed the broken down car and cara van to a service station and we waited two hours until my dad came back to collect us! When we got there, two
hours late, we settled down to our accommodation yet were so excited none of us could sleep! Instead, we stayed up all night laugh ing and telling jokes. Next morning, a t 7-30 a.m., bang, bang on the caravan walls. “Come on girls, time to get up!!” We all climbed out of bed to feed and water the horses and then have breakfast in the can teen. After, we returned to tidy the caravans to make them spick and span for our bed inspection which won us points to go towards the overall points
ing, we rode for one-and-a- half hours, by the end of which our horses needed a good hosing down. Some examples of what I did are: flatwork, jumping grids of jumps without reins and stirrups (fortu nately there were no falls); cross country courses using the massive 80-acre cross-country field; going on the farm ride with our rides and following each other over fences as in a hunt; show jumping in a main show jumping arena and getting aggressive at polocrosse. We rode twice a day and
did stable management in between each ridden ses sion. In the evenings plenty
of elbow grease was put in to making our horses and ponies "bling" after riding in preparation for stable inspection in order to gain more points. After that, all of us had tea and had a shower to get rid of feeling grotty. Once nice and refreshed we enjoyed evening activities and then had spare time. I personal
ly found a l i tt le rowing boat and started sailing it down a big pond past the pavilion where everybody was enjoying sausages cooked on the barbecue. Everybody retired to
their tents and caravans at 10-30 p.m. and went to sleep at around 1 a.m. after lots of laughs, jokes and banquets of sweets avail able from our on-site tuck shop. On the last day it got to
the point where our horses lay down in the day time and riders had not the strength to stay in the sad dle! We ordered a pizza after our hilarious talent show of crazy Spanish horse owners, makeovers for the instructors by orange-faced “beautiful” make-up artists and mimics of the instructors and organisers. For five days I think it is
fair to say that we had an awful lot of fun and for any one given the chance to join pony club my advice would be: Go for it! You’ll love it! Pictured are members of
Chipping Pony Club lined up during Chipping's recent show, (s)
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AN outline application for housing on land off St Paul’s Close, Clitheroe, has been refused by offi cials of Ribble Valley Borough Council, acting under their delegat ed powers. They ruled that dwellings would create inappropriate, unjusti fied development contributing to housing over-supply.
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