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100 years ago
AN unusually long town council meeting, which lasted five hours, took place when the council dealt with a variety of complicated subjects. The topics discussed included approving the final plans for the Carnegie Library, inebriates' refor mation and aftercare, the disposal of a profit of £1,090 from the Gas Works, the medical inspec tion of children and the constant problems with the telephone system in the town. The monthly meeting also discussed the provision of a better water supply in the town as residents complained that the supply was unsatisfactory. H A good deal of interest was centred this week
on a white rook, which made its nest in the rook ery a t the Castle, alongside Woone Lane, and attracted many would-be bird-watchers. Howev er, this week it disappeared from its nest, only to re-appear a t a rookery near Edisford Bridge. B Hay harvesting began once again in Ribbles-
dale and th e crop seemed to be much more mature for the time of the year than for many years.
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O you know where your child was during the recent half-term holiday?
Could he or she have been one of the
youngsters involved in the school holi day vandalism in Clitheroe? • In the course of one week, Clitheroe's firefighters had to deal with 13 separate incidents, many of them started inten tionally by children as a prank. The monetary costs in terms of damage and fire cover will be many, many thousands of pounds. More importantly, Clitheroe Station
Officer Dave McGrath warns that lives are being put at risk. While the town's firefighters spend hours ensuring that derelict and empty properties are made safe, other areas of the Valley are of necessity "covered" by neighbouring crews. During the same half-term week, the
town's playgrounds were also deliberate ly targeted.
As I see i t . . . by the Editor
Thousands of public pounds have
recently been spent upgrading play areas. The Castle Grounds are a popu lar spot for children during the summer months and the play facilities are well used. The borough council has recently spent some £70,000 revamping the play area there. Just as the work finished, the young
vandals moved in. Specially-laid "soft- landing" surfaces have been ripped up, heavy ropes on a climbing frame cut and a "space dish" roundabout, specially installed for the enjoyment of disabled children, has been kicked away from its base. The bill for repairs could be in excess of £5,000 - money which will again
eventually come out of the public purse and impact on the council tax. Many areas of the town already have
CCTV. Now it seems highly likely that the "spy in the sky" scheme, already installed in the Castle Grounds, will shortly be introduced into the play area. More public expense! Ironically elsewhere in this issue, Rib-
ble Valley Borough Council's quality of life officer John Barber is appealing to residents and youngsters to show greater tolerance. He is facing a mountain of com
plaints from people who say their lives are being made a misery by budding Beckhams. With football mania grip ping the country, it seems that sales of
LOOKING BACK 50 years ago
INCENDIARY bombs blazed in the grounds of Clitheroe Castle this week to test the firefighting skill of the town’s 20 Civil Defence volunteers in the first of a series of exercises to be held during the summer. Wearing steel helmets and overalls, and armed only with a stirrup pump, the teams of volunteers tackled the fires quickly and effi ciently - the women members proving themselves as capable of dealing with this type of incident as the men. The demonstration was the first of a series of monthly exercises. B Clitheroe pigeon fanciers suffered heavy loss
es when hundreds of East Lancashire birds failed to re tu rn from a cross Channel race from Guernsey. Of the 140 birds sent by the Clitheroe Homing Society, only four returned home. Bad weather over the Channel or over the South of England was blamed for the losses. B Family and friends mourned the death of
Clitheroe’s oldest resident, Mrs Sarah Anne Brown, who died at the age of 95 after a short ill ness.
T H O U G H T fo r th e w e e k
ENTION “doctrine” and it smacks of laying down the law.
Doctrine (some say) is the food of
fundamentalists and anathema to liberal-minded folk. To be called “doctrinaire" is to be
stubborn, argumentative. Thirty years ago theologians were
adamant tha t Christianity was an historical religion. The life, character and teaching of
Jesus Christ, along with his resurrec tion, were the key facts which gave rise to our philosophy of life. The business of doctrine is to interpret these facts. Today theologians advocate a revi
sion of these historical facts. They say we are not bound by words of scripture or by past decisions of the Church. We are free to reject elements of tradition where we feel it necessary.
balls are soaring and kick-abouts taking place on every piece of open land. As a result he is dealing with daily
complaints about youngsters playing football in public. Parents, can, he says, help in teaching their children how to politely retrive their ball from someone else's property without their youngsters resorting to rudeness and bad language. But he also points out that, when the youngsters are playing football, they are not doing any of the other things they are regularly accused of - under-age drinking, drug taking and vandalism - and, importantly, gaining exercise Perhaps next time you are tempted to
ring Mr Barber because your neigh bour's child has been kicking a football around for hours on end, stop and think. At least if the incident is in a private
garden, as many of the complaints stem from, then you and the parents know what he or she is doing. And Euro 2004 will draw to an end - eventually.
New possibilities open up on the world wide web
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HE Internet has opened up a world of possibilities for sculptor Martyn Bednarczuk.
Thanks to support from the East Lan
cashire Chamber of Commerce, the Barrow master carver now has his own website and is hoping i t will help attract business from art lovers across the world. Martyn (49), explained: “People buy all
sorts of things online so hopefully they will also buy my sculptures. Although the web site is very new I am getting quite a lot of visitors to it. My ambition now is to take my a r t to a whole new, worldwide audi ence.” The former period furniture maker began
turning his hand to sculpture about five years ago. Since then he has produced sev eral pieces of public, private and corporate art in a wide range of styles for customers in the North West region from his workshop in Oswaldtwistle. He recently produced the stone tiger that
25 years ago
A GROUP of Clitheroe parents were circulating a petition in the town for a safer way for their chil dren to attend school. The parents claimed their children’s lives were at risk when they had to walk along the narrow footpath in busy Taylor Street to reach Brookside County Primary School. They wanted the local authority to provide a footpath from Pendle Road to Brookside - avoiding Taylor Street altogether. Parents claimed the problem was growing because of increased traffic, partic ularly in the mornings. The Ribble Valley author ity was looking into the matter. B Motorists feared remote parts of the Ribble
Valley could be turned into a “petrol desert” as petrol companies claimed they were finding it more viable to drop full loads a t major town garages instead of part consignments to small operators. B Summer arrived a t last in the Ribble Valley
with temperatures of 76F recorded in Clitheroe making it the hottest day of the year. •
Pick ’n’ mix beliefs
And we might belong to one or more religious traditions. I t is a bit like going to the pick 'n'
mix counter at Woohvorths. Choose the doctrines you may fancy and leave the rest. Only a few weeks ago, Ruth Gled-
hill, the Times’ religion correspon dent, described a proposal to turn the Anglican Communion into a confed eration, so that “they would be free to adopt almost any practice or doc trine they wished”. I t is a worrying time for Chris
tians. Especially for us Anglicans. The Archbishop of Canterbury and the Lambeth Conference had plead ed with the liberal bishops in Ameri ca not to rock the boat. They took no notice. Consequently they ordained
women priests, women bishops, con ducted and blessed same sex mar riages and consecrated a bishop who
lives with a male partner, while hav
ing divorced his wife and left his chil dren. Recently the Bishop of Pennsylva
nia reassured us th a t , since “we wrote the Bible we can re-write it.” As I see it, Anglicanism appears no
longer able to proclaim with any clar ity or confidence the doctrine about God the Father, about Jesus Christ, His birth, death, resurrection; nor
about His Church or the Holy Spir it.
The Chancellor of York Minster,
Edward Norman, has recently con verted to Roman Catholicism.' He writes of “Anglicanism....going
to tip into the sea”, that the C of E
is no longer a Church, “more of a reli gious society”. A research survey has published
alarming figures about the lack of belief among C of E clergy in the central doctrines of the Faith.
So, isn’t it time we got hack to a bit more doctrine? For th e clergy as
much as the laity! A 4th Century account describes
people openly discussing questions of doctrine. One story speaks of a dis cussion about the nature of the Per son of Christ between a barber and his customer. Compare th a t to the present day
“debate” on England’s chances in Portugal! Doctrine is neither dull nor dirty!
Christians need to know some doc trine. And the clergy (it appears) a lot more! Only then can we challenge society
with the Good News of Jesus and establish a yardstick by which peo ple can be converted and come to faith.
FR TREVOR VAUGHAN
Si Nicholas’ Church, Sabden
is now turning heads in Montague Street, Blackburn. He added: “ I enjoy making very large
sculptures, such as the tiger, and would love to do more on that scale. To do that, I need to attract customers from other parts of the country and even around the world.
“British art is very popular in Japan so
who knows I might one day end up sending something out there - th a t would be a dream come true.” A selection of Martyn’s work will be on
display at the Southport Flower Show from August 19th to 22nd. The website address is
www.stonesculpting.co.uk. Pictured is Martyn with one of his latest
pieces, (s)
Local solicitor is elected president
CLITHEROE solici tor Irene Chenery has been elected the 106th president of the Black burn Incorporated Law Association. She is only the
fourth lady president of the association and th e f i rs t
from
Clitheroe for more than 20 years. The association has
a wide geographical area and. represents
solicitors in Clitheroe, Accrington, Darwen and Blackburn, its members numbering around 240. Mrs Chenery takes
over th e prestigious role from Mr Thomas Hoyle, of Dinckley, who practise s in Blackburn. She is pictured
receiving the chain of office from Mr Hoyle, (s)
Soccer-mad Chris is named top reader
A PUPIL a t Barrow Pri mary School is the m o n th 's Relay Reader
winner. Fo o tb a l l-m ad Chris
Sumner (10) wrote the winning review on the book "The B u tte r f ly Lion" by Michael Mor- purgo. Chris, p ic tu red , of
Pendleton, enjoyed the story about a white lion and his young South African friend, Bertie. He wrote: “I t ’s a beau
tiful animal story with a twist in the tale. “Bertie was heartbro
ken when he had to go to boarding school and leave his white lion to a circus.
injured fighting in th e First World War, Bertie finds the white lion with the help of his friend Mil lie. They tak e the lion back to England.” “The sto ry is told by
Millie, who became Bertie’s wife, to another unhappy school hoy.” The Relay Reader pro
je c t - ru n by the L an cashire County Council library services - hopes to spark children’s interest in reading. Special sheets are pro
vided to enable the chil dren to write reviews on books they have read for the monthly competition, which can then go
gold award. Chris, who plays football for Whalley Juniors and also his school team, continued: “When the lion dies from old age, Bertie and Millie carve out the shape of a lion in chalk in his memory. “The Adonis Blue but
terflies alight and drink on the chalky rain.” The review leaves us in
suspense about the "twist in the tale". ■ “If you haven’t read the
book i t would spoil the ending - and i t really is worth reading,” said Chris. Details on entering the
competition are available from libraries within the
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