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and, indeed, in everypart of the town, were temptingly displayed for the festive season. To the young people, the confec tioners and toy dealers shops were an irre sistible attraction, while to the children of the larger growth the grocers, drapers, and other places of business had an equal attraction. • The oldest inhabitants of Clitheroe
could not remember a December 50 dry, clear and free from frost. They had had some rain, but the mildness of the season was shown by the autumn flowers which were still blooming in the gardens and the primroses were in full bloom.- • A deputation of the various depart
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X H O U G H T for the week
my favourite moments. As a child I tried (unsuccess
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fully!) to stay awake. As a mother of young children I would go and stand on the doorstep around midnight, when the work in the kitchen arid the sorting out o f Christ- ' mas presents'was finally done. I liked to stand and stare at the night sky and welcome Christ
mas
oiice.agam. So for me, as a Methodist
Minister, the, Christmas Eve Holy Communion has to be the highlight of the year. I t is a. beautifully special hour when
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Christmas Eve has always been one of
Highlight of the year
a while. After the hectic lead up to yet another Christmas, here is the opportunity to be still in my soul and focus on the One it isallabout.' ■ A minister’s telephone is usu
ally busy on Christmas Eve. vrith folk phoning to ask if we have a midnight communion. I t is always a joy to welcome visitors tq worship vrith us (and of course I alvY'ays hope that in these moments they will embrace the love of Christ). At my last appointment in South- port on one Christmas Eve, much to our delight we were joined hiy a dozen young inen from Fiji. ; They were .wearing brightly pplpur.ed shirt?
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together towards the back of the church. They were a long way from home. As we stood to sing our first carol we were treated to the sound of glorious singing as our. visitors joined in to sing “Silent Night” . Their voices filled the church, their bodies swayed in time to the music - and we felt.we had been • ■visited by angels! . . Some of yoii vrill be unable'to
take part in a Christmas Eve midnight communion. Mums and dads vrith small children, those who have to go to work as carers or in the hotel/reqtau- rant industry, and those serv ing the community by keeping, the peace on our streets. Others among j(qu vvouUnft pp(;er a.
place of worship because it just isn’t part of your lifestyle. . Does this mean that you must miss out? Dora God only send His Son to those who are ■within the four walls of a recog- ' nised church building? No!, Wherever you may find your self on Christmas Eve at mid night, if you look for Christ He . ■will be there for you. The cen tre .of the Christmas message is that Christ came to us where we are. He came for all, not a select few. •
■ • ' May the peace of Christ be
with yoii and your loved ones during this Christmas seqsoh.' The Rev; Pauline Basterfleld, Minister of Trinity and
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e a d e r s will recall concerns I have expressed about anti-social behav iour, and my belief that such con
duct is frequently due to poor parenting. In fact, the examples I cited are trivial com p a r t to those young local arsonists who set fire to an elderly person’s front door, or the murder of Anthony Walker by the 17 year- old whose mother is reported to have “boast ed” that he and his brother were “my own little Kray twins” . What has gone wrong? Let me suggest just four answers arising
from my;experience as a parent and head teacher. ETrstly, are children given sufficient quality time and attention? Some parents need to work to provide the basics; but for many, both worldng is a life-choice. Feeling the need to keep up with the Joneses, they choose non-necessities over maximising essential parent-child interaction. When our first child arrived my wife became a ‘stay-at- home mum’ . The ‘cost’ of that was only
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being able to take our first foreign holiday when the kids were in their mid-teens; but the benefits were immeasurable. Further more, how many families have lost the com mon ihealtime to TV programming and pri vate boltholes, so conversation and mutual learning suffer? What of moral structures? What do you
say to the child who has already conunitted to a school match or concert, and then the invitation arrives to a party to be held at the same tim& If the parent doesn’t encourage the positive attitude: “ I ’m already booked; sadly, I must mi.s.s the party” , then the child
LOOKING BACK 50 years ago BETWEEN six and 12 inches of snow
had fallen to turn the coimtryside into, a greeting card scene vrith the promise of the
■ first white Christmas for many years. The snow was followed by the coldest day of the winter. And it brought chaos. Trains, buses and mails were delayed. Snow ploughs were out clearing blocked country roads. • Roy Rogers outsted Dan Dare in the
Christmas stakes for children’s to3^. Kid dies turned from the space gun to the western six-shooter as their favourite Christmas gift. Young children would have been out of fashion if they decided it was more thrilling to take a trip to mars, wear ing a space suit and armed with a ray gun. •. Plans by Clitheroe R.D.C to bring 76
houses up to modern standard were approved by the Ministry of Housing. • The second stage in Clitheroe’s new
street lighting scheme was to include many parts of the town which were inade quately lit by gas. The biggest part of the scheme was the completion of the electric lighting at Low Moor. 25 years ago
A CLITHEROE man who had been
totally blind for the past 11 years received his best-ever Christmas present - a new pair of “ eyes” .
Busy.streets, bustling, crowds and traffic-congested roads now held no fear for despatch worker Stanley Snape after he was joined by Peter, a giant crossbred labrador-retriever, the first guide dog to be allocated to a blind person in the town. • Jingle hells and Christmas carols
music from a mobile fairy-lit grotto brought a festive touch to the streets of Clitheroe this week. Organised by the charity fund-raising efforts of the Clitheroe Round Table, the grotto, which was built of hardboard on a caravan chas sis, carried Santa Claus and two illuminat ed Christmas trees and kept both children and parents captivated. • One oif the youngest people in
Clitheroe to gain the Duke of Edinburgh (Sold award was presented vrith her badge by the Rev. Stanley Birtwell .during a serv ice in the Clitheroe Parish Hall. Judith Dixon, (17) of Cha,tburn Road received her certificate at Buckingham Palace.
\ ■ M o r t g a g e
T V s h o v t r COULD you pay off your mortgage in one year’s time? The BBC is making a
new primetime documen tary series and is looking for Ribble Valley people to get involved. “ Pay Off Your Mort
gage” is not a reality tele- ■vision programme, but an upmarket BBC2 series ■with' a financial edge that will he filmed over a year. “We are looking for
households in the Ribble Valley that are made up of couples, families with teenage children, shared ownership properties or people with an entrepre neurial flair who might also have a business idea they haven’t exploited yet which could make them money,” said assistant pro ducer Danny Piesley. “With help and advice
from our financial expert, they could be looking to make the final payment on their mortgage in one years’ time. Ideally they would only have a mort gage of £60,000 or less, very little if any debt and be in a position to spare a few hours per week for filming of the one-year project. “ If you’re interested and
would like more informa tion, then please phone me on 0121 567 6466 or you can e-mail POYMort-
gage@bbc.co.uk.”
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will learn that it’s OK to do only what is most pleasurable for you, rather than hon our commitments to others. They will, in short, learn how to be selfish. None of us is perfect, but some parents fail to understand that children ^
particularly
flawed. Naturally: they are “growing up” ; their personhood is at an early stage of development. So when a parent simply denies that their child is capable of doing wrong, they not only fool themselves, they ensiu« that the child fails to learn an essen tial truth - when we p t things wrong, the most important issue is to put them right. Finally, the Beatles were right: “Can’t buy
■ me love!” . Loving your child doesn’t mean giving them everything they want. I f chil- dren learn that equation,'and so come to believe that the world owes them a Imng, what hope is there for their own system of values? The same as for a fulfilled parent hood: none whatsoever!
Legal fees rise attacked A
CLITHEROE solicitor, who recently fronted a major Government initiative, has
expressed her concern at its new pro- posals to make family and civil courts entirely self-financing. In order for this to happen, the
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•Government would have to raise an additional £50 million from court users and according to Carol Maher, pictured, a partner in the Church Street practice Irene Chenery Maher, this could mean fee increas es of up to 650% on current rates in some cases. “ The Government is proposing
additional rises in fees for family and cml courts when the latest, increas es were only implemented earlier this year,” said Carol. “ People on low and middle
incomes, who are already being priced out of the judicial system because of cutbacks in eligibility and funding for Legal Aid, will be hardest hit should these proposals be accepted and they then need to go to court to recover debt, obtain child contact orders and sort out financial payments following divorce. “We are talking potentially mas
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oning the Government for its cam paign to encourage more people to settle their differences and disputes through mediation rather than takr ing them to court. She fronted the campaign in the Ribble Valley, throughout the rest of East Lan cashire and into North Yorkshire. “The Government’s support for
mediation has been great and much appreciated by the legal profession,” said Carol, “but these new proposals are far from welcome and it’s up to us all, whatever our industry, to express concern.” Carol’s professional body, The
Law Society, which represents solici tors in England and Wales, has also hit out against the proposals.
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