Clitheroe 422324 (Editorial!
i a weekly look at local issues,- people and places compiled by John Turner i
ley today sets the seal on a new year heralding a continued period of rebirth and recovery from one of the most disastrous episodes the a re a ' has had to suffer for many a decade. ; The Prince’s visit is, in a way, recog
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dog called Streaker that runs 100 miles an hour and a boy called Trevor. His mum gives him the ,: school holidays in which to train the dog and if he does, he will get £30. But: Charlie; the policeman’s son, makes a bet that if they don’t manage to train' Streaker in the holidays, : they will have to bathe in a trough with yellow scum; at the bottom and dirty ; water.
"They won the bet, but
Charlie wouldn’t go in the ' dirty water. They saw him: holding hands with a girl, ' so they said they would - tell everyone about it if he
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:; "I like the book because: ■Trevor was always getting
: into trouble trying to train Streaker. First he tried 1;
’ was pulling him along, but unfortunately the dog took him into the market ( and smashed the stalls./ ' "A funny part of the
(rollerblading and had a ( free ride because the dog L
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nition of the strength and bravery of those people whose lives and liveli hoods were stricken for a full year by the loss of flocks and herds because of foot and mouth disease. Our royal visitor will see prime exam
ples of the fightback from the depths of adversity. As he arrives in Clitheroe by the Royal
Train and departs for Chipping by bus he will not fail to have noticed that the verdant pastures are, once more, filled
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YOUNG book fan Joseph Fourie is the latest Relay / ’.1 Reader winner, a f te r - P reviewing.VThe 100 Mile an Hour Dog" by J. 1. • Strong. -
. Joseph (pictured) lives : /
in Langho and wrote a - - review of the story for. the ( competition, which is run every month by. Lan- ■ cashire County Libraries >
and sponsored by the Clitheroe Advertiser and Times.
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THE final fund-raising event of Mrs Jeanne Hanson’s three-year chairman ship of Ribble Valley Cancer Relief went with a bang. A Christmas Soiree at her home in
Whins Lane, Read, raised more than £10,000, helping to bring the total raised under her chairmanship to more than
£75,000. Highpoint of the evening was an auction
of gifts. A dinner party by Northcote Offsite
attracted a top bid of £2,500; a framed England shirt, signed by the England team, including David Beckham, and Sven Goran Eriksson reached £1,600; four tickets for an England match reached £1,000; and £700
was paid for the use of a new Bentley for the day from Ribble Valley Bentley. Other items auctioned included a day out
on a speedboat on Windermere, a necklace donated by Humberstones Jewellers, a half day car rallying, a hot air balloon flight and golf and tennis lessons. Musical entertainment was provided on
the evening by pianist Mr Steve Black, who accompanied the 70 guests in carol singing. Staff from Northcote Manor served a buffet. Mrs Hanson said: “The generosity of the area has been overwhelming and very much
appreciated.” Pictured is Mrs Hanson, second right,
with, from the left, Mr Michael Ford, Mrs Judy Ford and Mr Nik Hanson, (s)
Health staff pair equipped to drive computer keyboard
TWO computer-minded Rib ble Valley NHS staff have received new European certifi cates in computer training. Billington health visitor Jan
Sharpies and Patricia Perkins, a clerical health officer from Mellor, received their awards from Pendle Training. The European Computer
Driving Licence (ECDL) was described by Vivien Aspey, chief executive of-Blackburn with Darwen Primary Care Trust, as enabling staff to obtain a transferable qualifica tion wherever they work. "It is a benchmark for
/book was when Trevor i and Tina were riding their
- bicycles towing a skate-';, /board with a bowlofdog /
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t policeman came arid_ (stopped themjandas soon /ias they stopped the skate- Tb’ord flew overitheir:lieads.j iThe policeman-had just /. |
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Miitohisface.Streaker, ' ’J .. ,»jumped through the win- : j dow and started licking it
off his face.” •
everyone to follow and we aim to increase the use of electron ic communication so this kind of training is essential," she said. Pictured are Mrs Sharpies
and Mrs Perkins with the new European certificate, (s)
AN additional non-executive director with specialist experience has been appointed to Calderstones NHS Trust.
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Recruit with accent on performance She has professional interests in personal
and organisational performance manage ment; quality assurance and communica-
" / Mrs Chris Leyboume has worked exten sively with varied teams of other^health;^ professionals on community resettlementoU- residents from large hospitals.
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various in te re s ts so th a t they become almost superhuman in
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our minds. Their private life is constantly
under the microscope as they make their living out of public appearances of one sort or another. ■, . You might think: “Why should we
feel sorry for them? After all, they have often become rich because of our inter est, be they footballers or film stars.”
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here would we be with o u t th e - rich and famous?'They feed our
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’> Mis iieybourne, who lives in South Lake- landj^vorked for Lancashire County Social Services, latterly in business management.
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Langho, the seven-year- ; old is a keen footballer and - enjoys adventure stories, t i He also reads the Beano M comic, and is currently collecting Beano Annuals.
Visit by farmers’ Prince sets the seal on T
rural fightback against times of adversity ' t ’-'7 v As/I s e e it : . by John Turner v • y |
HE visit by His Royal High ness, Prince Charles, to Clitheroe and the Ribble Val
with cattle and sheep and the farming industry is back in business. Prince Charles will discover that it is a
leaner, stronger industry which has been created.’A number of initiatives, some of which had been in progress when the livestock disease first struck, have sprung up for more efficient and reward ing marketing of the fine products ema nating from the fields of the Ribble Val ley and the Trough of Bowland. Farmers have been impressed by the
interest Prince Charles has taken in then- plight 1 so much so that the farming readers of one popular farming magazine recently chose him as their Farm Person ality of the Year. When he thanked those who voted for him, Prince Charles told them he
believed the award should have gone to the farmers themselves, who battled on despite crippling problems. He wrote: “Even before the horrors of
foot-and-mouth, the farming communi ty has been suffering real hardship in recent years. BSE, Classical Swine Fever and the weakest agricultural returns and rates of farm employment since the 1930s have led to farmers having among the lowest incomes in the land. “I have heard stories of desperate
hardship and anxiety, but I have also witnessed examples of extraordinary courage and determination which I hap pen to think are one of the true hall marks of country people, particularly farmers. “What has been clear to me is that
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there is a real gulf between those who live in our towns and our cities and those in the countryside,” he added. Bravo for the Prince! The countryside has a powerful voice
at last. And we are delighted that he is taking the trouble to pay us a visit today. Not so many years ago the Queen was
reported as saying tha t one of her favourite places was Whitewell. It was a place in which she would like to have lived. Some people in the seat of power rely on Australian jailbirds to buy their prop
erties for them. How much more appropriate would it
be for the Queen to send her son and heir out on a house-hunting expedition in the Ribble Valley? Wouldn’t that add the finishing touch for the Centre of the Kingdom?
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LOOKING n BACK
100 years ago
AN excellent concert was held in the U.M.F.C. Church, Low Moor. A vari ety of orchestral and vocal pieces was heard, including the violin solo from “Cavallera Rusticana”, a song from Mrs Crook called “The Better Land” and the banjo solo “Fun and Frolics” from Mr A. Blackburn. Scottish prize pipers, the Nichol Brothers, also played a selection.
□ The Coronation Ox Roasting
. Committee purchased the head of the ox at a cost of 20 guineas (£21) from Alice Schofield, the young girl from Taylor Street, who won it at the Coro nation Festivities, for presentation to Colonel Aspinall. The head was hand somely mounted and bore a silver plate, suitably inscribed.
□ I t was confirmed that a vagrant
named James Grocott was lying in the workhouse suffering from smallpox. He had come from Blackburn and officers suspected he had the disease, so isolated him and quarantined con tacts.
50 years ago
COAL stocks were higher than at any time during the previous seven years, being 250 tons more than usual for January. Merchants were able to sup ply consumers with their full allowance of 5 cwt (1,275 kilos) per month, though that was usually used up in the first two or three weeks of a cold spell. Unrationed fuel, such as the poorer quality nutty slack, was used to spin out the ration.
□ Mr Ralph Assheton MP
addressed the Rotary Club of Clitheroe on his return from a tour of the USA. He said: “Americans are a great and virile people and if we can work together, a great deal of good may yet come to the world in the des olate and shattered century in which we live.” He added that women ruled America and they apparently did not believe in settling down in one place. He found them hospitable and gener ous, but materialistic.
□ The pantomime Jack and the
Beanstalk held its 13th and final per formance of the season at The Hall, Lowergate. The Catholic Pantomime Society concluded a record success as more than 5,000 people had attended the shows and an extra performance had to be arranged.
25 years ago
ASSURANCES were given by the Lancashire Association of Rural Councils that small village schools would not be closed before proper con sultation and calculations had been made. As the birth rate in the Ribble Valley had dropped from 754 a year in 1966 to an alarming 499, classes were becoming smaller and the cost of keeping the schools open was becom ing very expensive.
□ A councillor said that packs of
dogs which were running wild in the Edisford and Low Moor areas of Clitheroe were a nuisance and a dan ger to people. He was compiling a dossier of incidents to convince Rib ble Valley Council to engage a dog warden.
□■A specially-convened meeting at
the White Horse Inn was attended by 120 workers from Ribble Cement They voted almost unanimously to support the blacklisting of Clitheroe’s strike-breaking firemen, to the delight of the secretary of the joint shop- stewards committee.
• Stail setting an'example to us all. .
-•il find th a t expectatiomstrange:! they are just like us; they are only
; reflecting back to us that they are as ordinary as we are, with all, the. human frailties and failings that we
have. Something in us tells us that people
who are rich and famous must be dif-
' ferent from us. It may be a way of coming to terms
with the fact that we ARE NOT rich and famous, so they must be better
we'are .disgusted by; , i;
thanjwe are or they jolly well ought to' be: ( bejbetter. than us! This phenomenon
; Saviour’s birth. ‘ People are perfectly willing to ques
tion the traditional beliefs and record about her, and the deep truth of her role in the Christian story can stand just that. In fact, she loses touch with the
rest of us, if we see her as being so sin gled out that she cannot possibly be like us. We hold up her faith in God
Sisiothmg new; Take for example the fwirgiirMary; who figures' so largely- evfery Christmas in the story of the
and her obedience as an example for all Christian people. Millions of peo ple pray to her believing that she has an eternal special relationship with the Saviour, like all mothers with their children. Maybe above all else, the wonderful
truth is that she believed that God was not ashamed of her, and if she could believe that, so can we believe that of ourselves, and of our world. Canon Philip Dearden
■ Vicar of St. Mary Magdalene, -
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Barrow trailblaj
A MAN from Barrow, who once was a pupil and a teacher in Clitheroe, has been appointed headmaster I of a trailblazing new school | in Wrexham. Mr Bernard Knowles, pic
tured right, is a former pupil | of St Michael and St John’s | RC School. He trained as a teacher
and specialised in maths, PE I and technical drawing at Ribblesdale High School. He I is the first head of a large I school in the newly-created education system in the Welsh town where three I schools are being replaced by I two new ones.
The appointment comes I |
after Mr Knowles was select-1 ed by the Department fori Education and Skills to be I one of just 11 deputy heads I in Britain to take part in a I training course specially fori headmasters.
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