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IT is never too late to be a volunteer - that was the message members of the Trinity Partner ship when they staged special activities to o thank their existing volunteers and attract new A number of people came forward interested
Age is no barrier to being a volunteer
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in helping out in the numerous activities backed by the partnership.
lady who was keen to do some voluntary work with children.
was marvellous. It proves age is no barrier to becoming a volunteer. We look forward to the lady beginning her work with us.”
A spokesman for the partnership said: “It
ble Valley Town Hall coincided with National Volunteers Week.
The annual presentation evening in the Rib- They entertained 50 volunteers working in
some of whom are pictured here, for their work during the year. (T080603/5)
projects which varied from the Grand Cinema, the Jigsaw Pantry, Ribble Valley Community Transport, youth work, a school club and Skill- share, and enjoyed coffee and cakes. The evening was to thank the volunteers,
Offers sought for village hall
OFFERS are being sought from people willing to demolish and remove Tosside Village Hall. As reported in the
Advertiser and Times last week, the hall is being replaced with a modern £440,000 building. I t will serve people living in an area of 60 square miles of isolated countryside. Now Tosside Community
for the old building, which is constructed of concrete panels and metal roofing sheets. It could be disman tled and rebuilt somewhere for commercial or farm use either complete or in small er units. “We’ve had one serious
Link, a charitable group formed last year to manage the project, is hoping some one will find a further use
grant rules we need to see if there is any other local interest before we finalise the arrangements.” Tosside Institute is the
offer to dismantle and remove the building,” said Mr Eddie Runswick, secre tary of the group. “To comply with the
second village hall to occu py the site. The former wooden hall constructed in 1919 had been a Skipton First World War hut which was brought to Tosside by the residents with horses and carts and rebuilt on the present site. That was replaced in 1969 by the pre sent hall, again built by the residents from concrete panels from postwar prefab ricated housing. Both institutes have
served the community well and have been famous for the dances and other events which brought people from
miles around to Tosside and still do. The final event, a village social evening, is being held on Saturday, July 5th. The historic dance floor,
which still bears the marks of the old coke heating stove, is to be kept and reused in part of the new hall. The current building has a small amount of asbestos in it and the sur vey report with ideas for
safe removal is available to potential buyers. Anyone interested should
An underground ceremony for Cub Scouts
TWO boys from Whalley and two from Chipping were invested as Cub Scouts 550 metres below ground, with a backdrop of stalagmites and stalactites, on a visit to Treak Cliff Cavern, home to the famous Blue John stone, at Castleton, Derbyshire. The ceremony took place during a day out from Ilesley
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seven leaders look part in numerous activities, which included zipping 100 feet down an aerial runway, canoeing, rocket launching and building and firing flam ing arrows.
well Cavern, and spent some time in Castleton sight-see ing and souvenir shopping. While on site, 25 Cubs and
Wood Scout Activity Centre at Chapeltown, near Sheffield, where the two packs were holding their five- day annual camp. They also visited Speed
contact Mr Runswick on 01729840650.
One of them was an 86-year-old Clitheroe
Date for meeting
HOPES are high that next year’s annual town meeting will attract more members of the pub lic than this year’s event. Despite pre-pub
licity, not one resi dent turned up to participate in the annual town meeting on May 22nd. As a result, mem
bers of Clitheroe Town Council drew the conclusion that all must be well. Councillors have
already set the date for next year’s meet ing, which is sched uled to take place on May 20th.
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Ribble Valley troops head out to Iraq
CLITHEROE soldiers have flown out to Kuwait to start intensive training for a four-month stint in Iraq. A total of 500 troops from the Queen’s
Lancashire Regiment, plus 100 members of the Territorial Army, set off in groups over several days. Vehicles and equipment were sent to
the Gulf more than three weeks ago to enable the soldiers and their equipment to arrive at the same time. While in Kuwait the troops will spend
over from the Desert Rats in Basra. A small number of Servicemen from
duty at their base at Catterick Garrison in North Yorkshire. They have spent a month learning how to survive in the desert, deal with heat
whose mission is to re-establish law and order and' maintain calm through humanitarian and peace-keeping tasks. The troops trained for their tour of
Clitheroe will work alongside 70 from Burnley and Padiham and more than 110 from Pendle. They will all work along with troops
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stress and carry heavy equipment in sweltering conditions. They have also learned to speak simple greetings and commands in Arabic.
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more traditional Scouting activities, such as map reading, orienteering and fire lighting.
They also enjoyed some
several badges, including the Outdoor Challenge Award, Camper and Chef Badge, for part of which
All the Cubs completed
they made doughnuts and baked shortbread biscuits in traditional mud ovens and cooked all their own meals on open fires.
VETERAN cyclist Mr Peter Hes- keth is full of praise for the oppor tunities for cycling in the Ribble Valley. It is not just the open road and
the rolling hills that please the 75- year-old. While he lived in Birmingham he
lost six bicycles to thieves! Retired schoolmaster Mr I-Iesketh,
of Stamford Place, Clitheroe, meticu lously logs all his bicycle journeys.
Cyclist is living proof that exercise works! lie has cycled 13,000 miles since he
was 70. Since February he has clocked up
around the villages of the Ribble Val ley.
Mr Hesketh regularly pedals
train and travels to places like Dent, just so that he can cycle back.
Often he puts his bicycle on the
1,500 miles - just to reach 9999.9 miles on his cyclometer, the gadget which measures how far he has trav elled.
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A59 there is plenty of scope for peace ful cycling.
He said: “As long as you avoid the
During the winter I tend to give my bike a rest and during the spring at first I am huffing and puffing. “But it soon wears off, which means
“I have been cycling all my life.
it must do you good. “If more people took up cycling,
there would be less congestion on the road and less congestion in the hospi tals,” he added.
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