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All on target for new village hall


[church on Tuesday evening | at 7-30 p.m. for a short service Ito celebrate Lady Day, fol­ lowed by Mrs Sally Britnell


[speaking about Singing in |


the Rain". All welcome. (Confirmation


I On Sunday evening at 6-30 Ip m., there will be a Confir- Imation service in St John’s I Church, Read, with the Bish- |op of Blackburn. This will be (instead of the usual evensong.


■service. ( There will be no services in


| St John’s Church, Read, on (Sunday morning, but a joint, | parish Communion service


| will be held in St Peter’s , 1 Church, Simonstone, at 10


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VILLAGERS in Toss­ ide are on1 target to raise1, their £14;000 contribu-fi tion to a new village hall.~ Grants from a wide.vari-


ety-of sources are paying the rest of the £440,000 cost. A Lottery Community.


what unique and at;times'


: difficult”, observes-Mr, Runswick. But he pays


::tribute to . the • support ■ received* from councils,


'local groups and residents ■ on both sides of the border. - The large new hall will accommodate dances and


Fund contribution ;of * £181,000 has been supple­ mented with promises of a similar sum from Euro- ipean sources plus smaller amounts from the Coun­ tryside Agency and coun­ ty-based organisations. ■ ■ Our own campaign is


going well, with more than £10,000 raised,” says pro-- ject manager-Mr Eddie; Runswick. We have written to',


I Last week’s bingo evening I raised almost £250 for St


Bingo


I Nicholas’s Sunday School. | The next Sunday school I event is the pedlars’ fair m the I church hall on Saturday, I March 29th, at 3 p.m., when


I by the children.


| Craft fair An arts and craft fair will


I be held in St Nicholas’s Church Hall on Sunday, March 30 th, from 11 a.m. to 5


| p.m. There will be refresh- 1 ments and admission is 50p. Proceeds from the door and


I refreshments are for the I church roof repair fund.


I hoping to arrange a parish pil- I grimage to the shrine of the J newly-canonised St Padre Pio I in Italy. The cost is £385 and 1 the trip is due to take place I from August 5th to 13th. Con­ tact Fr Peter Birmingham if


Pilgrimage St Mary’s RC Church is


B r e ^ m g t u p :


PATRONS braved very bad weather for a coffee morning hosted by the Mayor of


the Ribble Valley. Coun. Mrs Joyce Holgate held the


event at Whalley Methodist Church Hall, and had a willing band of helpers. The event raised more than £100 for the


I you are interested. | Fr Birmingham also has details of a diocesan pilgrim­ age to Medugorje, Yugoslavia, in June, if anyone is interested.


the guest preacher at Sabden Methodist Church for the 9- 30 a.m. service on Sunday. J The Baptist Church will wel-


Services The Rev. Keith Borwick is


I Joan Peagam at the 10 a.m. service, and the Rev. D. Wotherspoon will lead Eucharist at St Nicholas’s Church at 9-30 a.m.


come Mr and Mrs Tim and


Quiz night Sabden Football Club is


holding a quiz night tomorrow in St Mary’s Church Hall at 8 p.m. It costs £3 per person, : including supper, and every-’ one is welcome. There is a bar. ■ Contact Nigel Clarkson on 01282 680523 for more details.


IIMONSTONE


^ H t i p S ^^^Kimonstone Garden Club will f^ ^K ch o o l next Thursday at 7-30


agoodcause


Mayor’s charity fund and she is very grateful to everyone who helped. Coun. Mrs Holgate is pictured with


Coun. Mrs Pat Chadwick and, from the left, Rachel Dent, George and Sammy Horsfield and Sarah Lawless. (C080303/2)


.•who have moved intp the area recently. The hall will include


•other-events, from indoor, carpet bowls to youth-club meetings. . I t will also be used for community services, some involving young families


a modern kitchen and small bar and there will be


- a separate outside.toilet, shelter and cycle rack to cater for walkers and other


every farm, business and household in Tosside andj district requesting dona-’ tions.” The red and white rose


county borders meet in Tosside, making the grant application process “some-


I everyone is welcome to go along and buy the goods made


■ visitors, as well as a car park. . The work of St Bartholo­ mew’s Church will benefit greatly from the availabili­ ty of the hall. However, it is not known when building work will start. 7


£2,000 karaoke machine stolen


A KARAOKE machine*) The machine is valued at arid 20 square yards of , £2,000 and the flags at flags have been stolen from £400.: premises in Pimlico Road, Inquiries are being made


Clitheroe. by the police. % .4U 4 1 ‘ 'M s. W1 * * Clitheroe Advertiser & Times, March 20th, 2003wle-


Eggs-actly what the doctor ordered!


A SPONSORSHIP exercise by the 118 pupils at Barrow Primary School was eggs-actly what Barnardo’s


wanted. The children took par t in the


Barnardo’s egg care challenge, which meant they had to look after an egg


Slides take the centre stage at camera club


THE second half of the annual Rib- blesdale Camera Club exhibition was devoted.to slides. Judge Mr Gordon Bartley, of


Freckleton, was a good speaker, never 'digressing and also explaining clearly why he awarded a particular mark while giving practical ideas to improve the image. ' The general quality of entries was


again very high. In the open section, Mick Caddy won all three placings and was also commended, an excel­ lent result with the quality of his pho­


tography speaking for itself. Joan Whittaker was also awarded a


second place and was commended together with Steve Ashcroft and there were highly commendeds for Mike Bartle and Steve Ashcroft.;; The portraiture section was less-


Student Anna is back


from African adventure A'STUDENT from Rimihgton has hiked the African Great Rift Valley for charity. Anna Johnson, who is studying equine sci­


|^ ^ R o b e r t Hughes, of Myerscough ^^^■llking about “Organic Pest Con- ^^^Hhop will be open on Wednesday


Communion service will be held rch, Simonstone, at 10 a.m. on g with members of St John’s


ice 1 S LA ID B U R N


tr at the meeting of Slaidburn I Club on Monday was Mr David I Ark, who spoke about car rally- lid details of his various trips to (xperiences of public transport (ere expressed to Mr Calvert by


|s meeting, PC Nathan Calton (ered numerous questions about loliceman with the Lancashire Thomas Wells volunteered to be (riot gear and PC Calton was i Walker.


|1 darts, dominoes and pancake i Lower Buck Inn, Waddington, prts were Graham Robinson and Winners at dominoes were


In and Mrs Rowena Parkinson, fleeting will include a talk on the Ir Andrew Bleazard.


TOSSIDE I hist ;


2 tables at a whist and domino isside Institute in aid of funds. Kenyon and Mr P. Metcalfe, tainton, R. Brown, J. Traynor, E. Jackson, V. Duckworth, F. fe, D. Lowe, A. Taylor, F. Loft- F. Taylor, M. Berry, F. Calver-


eman. Raffle: C. Wiseman, E. rry and M. Edmonson, e will be on April 19th.


VADDINGTON


J welcomed everyone and intro- laker Mrs Mary Gibson, a mem- oridge WI. Her talk was about ge, telling her audience that in fjuilt it was called Marcham Park,


[ollege lg of Waddington WI held in the prch schoolroom vice-president


ence,at Hartsbury College, Gloucester, returned from Nairobi after spending a. week in the Kenyan bush and highlands. She joined a 62-strong group to undertake the walk in aid of the mental health charity


MIND. Anna said: “I felt like a challenge and want­


ed to do something for charity. I didn’t know anything about MIND, but I was diagnosed with stress at Christmas and they’ve helped


me quite a lot.” The team, its guides and porters travelled


through Masai game reserves and camped at the foot of Mount Suswa, a dormant volcano. They climbed to the summit the next day,


then spent three days hiking along the Rift Valley plains via the Hell’s Gate Gorge, an area of spectacular cliffs, hot springs and gey­


sers. Along the way, Anna saw giraffe, waterbuck


and gazelle, plus the Masai herds of cattle and


goats. The group then climbed to the crater rim of


Mount Longonot, which the group continued to follow.


The trek concluded with a day’s game view­ . ,


ing at Lake Nakuru National Park, where thousands of flamingoes gather at the lake. Anna, pictured above left, at the first camp­ site, said: “We also got close to some rhinos. It was quite exciting.” Regarding the trek, she said: “It was a lot


more difficult than I thought it would be. There was a heatwave in Kenya. Tempera­ tures were up to 111 degrees and I got mild


heatstroke. ; “It was a fantastic experience but very tir-


mg. • „ tt i"


Grand helpers enjoy a thank-you celebration


THE hard work and commitment of the staff and volunteers who run the Grand Cinema at Clitheroe was marked by a thank-you party. ■ Tributes were paid to the team which has-


contributed to the continuation and growth of the community-based cinema. . Mr Geoff Jackson,' chief executive officer,


highlighted how volunteers have been an essen­ tial factor from the very outset from the cine-


m He said: “Back in May 2000 when we took on the running of this project, individuals came forward to offer their time to the cinema, to spruce it up, then help with screenings,-,. “Since then the numbers of volunteers have


|e with 74 bedrooms and 500 dif- |or WI members to pursue each (on showed interesting slides of Be the house. Mrs Marion Barrow (bson for an enlightening talk, pre reminded that tickets were le border meeting in Gisburn in bean Entwistle and Miss Hylda • fed on a visit to Lancashire Police . I Hutton.


jvas taken over by the RAF as a Ihe war Marcham House became


leeting will take,place in the . rch schoolroom on April 8th when I Smith will take members on a' } Holy Land”.


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well supported, but worthy top plac­ ings were given to Steuart Kellington, first and second, with Stephen Robin­ son third. • There was another first for Steuart in the record class with Eleanor Friend second and Mike Bartle third. Perhaps the most unusual picture in


Healthy aid for tots


A FIRST aid course for those car­ ing for babies and toddlers is being run in Clitheroe next month. The Red Cross course, designed


mainly for new mothers, nannies, child minders or nursery helpers, will be held at the Red Cross Cen­ tre, Back King Street, from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. on Wednesday, April 16th. Those who would like to book a


place or find out more should ring Wendy Entwistle on 01772 42496.


CAR owners have suffered at the hands of vandals in Clitheroe in recent days.


. ' The most serious incident was in


Church Brow some time during Sat­ urday night. The owner of a Peugeot 206 woke


on Sunday morning to find someone had jumped on the bonnet and the roof, denting bodywork and causing damage estimated at £1,750.


the whole competition was in this class, of an extraordinary toilet deco­ rated throughout with broken shards of tile. The nature section was again very


popular and the winner was Steuart Kellington, whose picture of a brown pelican must have been difficult to separate from Mick Caddy’s deer,


. placed second. Three different types of a snail on a blade of grass gained third place for Stephen Robinson. The.club will be supporting both


the Inter-Club Photographic Alliance and the Lancashire and Cheshire Photographic Alliance’s slide knock­ out contests, to be held in the next two or three weeks. Next week the club’s external com­


petitions secretary Steve Ashcroft talks about “A weekend with Charlie Waite”, who is an internationally- known and regularly published land­ scape photographer. ' New members are always welcome on any Tuesday evening and more information is available from the sec­ retary on 01200 423474


Ken Geddes


Vandals ta rg e t several p a rk ed c a rs During the same night damage


estimated at £70 was caused when the mirror on a car parked in Moor Lane was broken. The window of a Peugeot car


parked in Weslyan Road was smashed on Saturday night, causing damage of £100. Last week damage estimated at


£300 was caused to the panel of a Ford Maverick in Chatbum Road.


during a whole school week. Every­ where the children went, so, too, did the egg. They were allowed to paint it, give it a name and write a diary about where their egg had been dur­ ing the week. But to make matters a little easi­


LANCOME P A R I S • Is er, they were also allowed to hard-


boil it. William James (eight) with Katie


Collinge (11), Bethany Pearson (10) and teacher Alice Cranfield, gave his egg a hammock in which to relax dur­


ing its school week. (K100303/1)


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Pair elect crown court trial TWO brothers from Clitheroe elected trial at?


■ the crown court when they appeared before


. Blackburn magistrates. ' ' Gary'Lee Haslam (32)tand Daryl Ray-


ioncl Haslam (33); both of'Talbot Close, pleadedhot guilty to affray.,


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