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100 years ago


CLITHEROE was host to an open air lec­ ture given by Mr Reuben Fetch, the organising secretary of the Land Nation­ alisation Society. It was accompanied by a second lecture, held in Salford. 0 The Bowland Annual Athletic Sports


Gala was held at Bolton-by-Bowland. The village family event, included high jump, walking, tug-of-war, all weights and wrestling. Competitors were awarded cash prizes. O West Bradford presented an annual


choir sermon at the United Methodist Free Church. Conducted by Mr James Chadwick, of Lytham. All collections were in aid of the village church choir funds. O An exciting cricket match was held at


Chatburn Road grounds between the sec- ond teams of Clitheroe and Sabden. Owing to rain it was not possible to finish play, but Sabden batted between showers, running up a total of 151 for seven wick­ ets when the innings was declared closed. Following this creditable performance, Clitheroe lost three wickets for seven when the game had to be concluded.


ty of life officer, John Barber, is calling on local parents to keep an eye on their youngsters over the coming weeks. . Fie said: “Children deserve the protec­


tion of their parents, who must share responsibility for their behaviour and


safety. “Left unsupervised, they can cause


problems and be at risk. “The guidelines and parameters that


youngsters need appear to be lacking in modern society, so I am calling on parents to be aware of where their children are.


ARENTS are being asked to keep their children in check during the summer school holi­


As I see i t . . .


by John Barber, RVBC quality of life officer


who they are with and if they are safe. “I am calling on parents to ensure their


children have a happy, healthy and safe summer, and make sure their behaviour allows the rest of the Ribble Valley to do the same.” Ribble Valley Council was one of the


LOOKING BACK 50 years ago


SHEEP dog trials and BSJA Jumping Championships were among the many events held at the Royal Lancashire Show, which took place at The Showground, East Park Drive, Blackpool. The event, which ran from Wednesday to Saturday, was publicised as “The Show of the North.” • Clitheroe and Barnoldswick firemen had to run hosepipes over three-quarters of


.a mile of fields in an attempt to curb a barn fire at Bashall Eaves. The fire-fight­ ers found that they had insufficient water supplies and had to use the hosepipes to gain access to the River Hodder, as well as using an immediate “booster” pump. • The Brabin Charity paid tribute to


the memory of John Brabin. Exactly 272 years to the day since he was buried in the parish churchyard, the villagers of Chip­ ping unveiled a plaque at the house where he had lived. O “Bengal Rifles” was showing at The


Grand, in Clitheroe. Starring Rock Hud­ son and Arlene Dahl, the film was in colour on widescreen, reflecting the turbu­ lence of Indian’s action- packed history.


T H O U G H T for the week


to us brings out the best in us. Political and religious differences have been set aside. We have been moved to sympathy and grief. We have watched and lis­ tened, prayed and shed inward tears. We have lived John Donne’s great words: “Any man’s death diminishes me for I am involved in mankind.” We have seen the worst and the best of humanity. Yet, for religious believers the tragedy has posed the great


T


h e London bombs and their horrendous toll in life, for a while united us in grief. The worst that happens


first authorities in Lancashire to appoint a quality of life officer. Former rural bobby John Barber mediates between feuding neighbours, works closely with the police to identify community prob­ lems and keep nuisance juveniles in check. He also co-ordinates the work of agen­


cies involved in the issuing of anti-social behaviour orders. The council has organised a series of


supervised, safe and secure sporting and artistic activities for young people over the summer months. Further details of the scheme, called


“Kids Get Active”, are available from the council’s community services department on 01200 414475.


Know where children are and what they are doing


Be happy! You never know what lies ahead


ON Friday of last week, one of my best friends was due to be married. The quaint countryside church had been booked and the much-sought-after country club for the reception and evening parties had all been prepared and paid for to secure a lovely sunny summer’s day wedding. All the details had been meticulously


planned for, from the posh car to the suits, the flowers to the entertainment and all the effort and expense put in over the past 18 months were all in place and ready to go for the big day ahead. And then - on Monday of last week,


totally out of the blue and just four days prior to the wedding, my mate’s fiancee decided that she wasn’t actually ready to get married and called the whole thing off.


Upon this decision, £12,000 worth of


wedding was lost, as was the £4,000 hon­ eymoon that the couple had saved up hard to buy. More importantly, seven years’ relationship had suddenly reached an abrupt and shocking end and, as you can imagine, my friend was left with a broken heart in the new home that they had bought together just a year earlier. Stories such as these can often be seen


25 years ago


A VILLAGE school was told by the coun­ ty council that it would have to close the following July in an attempt to cut spend­ ing on education. Pendleton CE Primary School, which had around half a dozen pupils, was 143 years old. ■


supermarket in Station Road, Clitheroe, was put back again because of new legal moves by Smith Transport. Chairman of the Preston grocers, E.H.


Booth, who planned to build the super­ market on the site of the old railway sid­ ings, said he had no intention of pulling out and remained confident that Clitheroe would have the store one day. • Six young people from the Mediter­


ranean sampled a taste of rural life during a visit to the Ribble Valley. The visitors, from Gibralter, visited the


area under a scheme arranged by Lan­ cashire Education Ribble Valley Youth Service. The youngsters, who were staying with


local families, spent the day at a farm in Wiswell Moor.


God’s faith in us i


question: “Why does God, who created us in love, allow such things to happen?” I t was a question asked by some of the great figures of the Bible, Abra­ ham, Moses, Jeremiah, Job. They lived without easy answers. Perhaps that is what faith is. To be a parent is to be moved


by the cry of a child. But if the child is ill and needs medicine, we administer it, making our­ selves temporarily deaf to its cry. A surgeon operating in an emergency without anaesthetics must momentarily distance himself from the patient’s pain.


If we were able to see how


tragedy leads to good tomorrow - if we were able to see from the point of view of God - we would understand divine purpose, but at the cost of ceasing to be human. God does not want us to cease to be human, othenvise he would not have created us. We are not God. There is divine pur­ pose and sometimes looking back at the past, we can see it. But those who suffer in the


present are not healed by the past, God does not ask us to act from his point of view, but from ours, striving to be good in the short term not just the long, in


this world, not the next; from the perspective of time anc space, not infinity and eternity. God asks us not to under­


stand, but to heal; not to accept suffering, but to diminish it. We cannot, should not, seek


to understand God’s justice, but we should strive to emulate- hi: compassion. That, these past days, is what people ha,ve done. Without pausing to vindicate their faith in God, they have helped to vindicate God s faitk in us.


A parishioner at St and St John’s RC Church


Clitl cr le 8 i3- • The starting date for work on the new


in magazines or in our favourite soaps on our television screens. More often than not, the people on the receiving end of these dramatic tales are usually getting their just punishment for previous misde­ meanours. But in this instance, it has to be said that my mate is one of the most decent, honest, hard-working chaps you would ever wish to meet. He’s a young man who has his head


screwed on, he’s carved out a brilliant career in his profession as a high school teacher and is very popular lad with all


his mates. He is good-looking too, but always put


his fiancee first and was truly looking for­ ward to the future with his new wife. In fact, he’s probably even more perfect than


me! But despite the absolutely awful timing


of this life-changing decision, credit has to be given to my mate’s fiancee for being able to pluck up the courage to make what must have been an awful and gut- wrenching decision, just days before the


wedding. Even so, it leaves a sorrowful reflection


upon life and made me wonder how such a nice fella could end up in such an awful predicament. To me, it didn’t seem fair that this should happen to such a nice


person. On Monday morning of this week,


there was another bit of bad news, this time for my family. My dad had tele­ phoned me and as soon as he said “hello”, I knew what news would follow. Unfortu­ nately, my grandma had been unwell for some time suffering from a pretty rare ill­ ness and sometime during the night, she


had passed away. As is the case when all people die, posi­


tive words, stories and tales are talked about and people mention how nice a per­


son they were to know. I t ’s great to hear things such as this


being said and in this instance, my grand­ ma really was a brilliant person and well worthy of all the nice things that have


been said about her. Throughout my life certainly, she never


had two pennies to rub together and then when she did, she was forever giving her


money away! I lost track of the amount of times she .


moved houses, probably because she just never liked stopping anywhere for more than five minutes, and each time she


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moved, she would give half the contents of her house away to “someone’s friend’s sister’s daughter”, who had just moved in to a new house with her boyfriend and needed a kitchen table! She would make a friend of anyone and


was well known in Accrington for her karaoke antics in the pubs and bars around the town. She was still singing and dancing into


her 60s and the amount of people, both young and old alike, who stopped to say “hi” was unbelievable! What should have been a five-minute walk into town would take half an hour due to all the people who would stop for a chat! As far as grandmas go, I have never met anyone else like her and she certainly was the life and soul of the party. A complete nutter! But brilliant. Due to the nature of her illness, it was


inevitable that she would pass away soon and it’s great that she was being very well looked after in the comfort of my dad’s home by him and his partner. But as was the case with my mate’s cancelled wed­ ding, it just didn’t seem fair that some­ thing like this should happen to such a nice person, who was well-liked and was so kind to so many people. Throughout these times, all of life’s


favourite cliches are banded about by friends and family as they try to console the people close to them. One of my favourite ways of looking at these situa­ tions is to think of all the other things that are happening around the world at that very same moment in time. As one person dies or a couple break up,


there are thousands of other people up and down the country going through the exact same experiences a t th a t very moment in time. And the world continues to spin, and life goes on. Upon starting this week’s column, I


was uncertain what direction it would go in, and what point I would try to make, if any point at all. In truth, there is no accu­ rate conclusion to this story, but one thing that is clear in my mind at this moment in time is that you never know what lies around the corner in this life. Would it be irresponsible of me to sug­


gest that you should live each day as if it was your last? To try always to have fun and a good laugh, to do all the things you love doing, visit the places you love going, eat and drink your favourite things as often as possible and to be around the people you love each day? I know for certain that another cliche -


“Don’t put off until tomorrow what you can do today”, certainly rings true. What is the point of drawing out argu­


ments for days on end? Why do so many couples stay together, even though they know that deep down, they’re unhappy? I ’d be happy to list a whole range more


of scenarios and situations like these, but the Editor might chop me up! We only have one life, so surely i t ’s


important that we are happy in it for as much of it as possible? You never know what the future has in store. To my mate: You’ll be glad that this


experience happened and you will end up in a much better situation in time. To Brenda Taylor: Rest In Peace. Put


that microphone down. Should you need to contact us please


leave your messages for PC Geoff Pennal on 01200 458727 or myself on 01200 458772. Please be reminded that these numbers are for non-urgent matters and if you require immediate police attention, you should ring 0845 125 35 45 or 999 in the case of an emergency.


t 1 Delight as grant will


mean memorial facelift A GRANT of £250 has been awarded to Whalley Parish Council to assist with the restoration of the village’s War Memorial. The cash boost was given by the War Memorials


Trust - a charity dedicated to the conservation and protection of all UK War Memorials. Whalley’s War Memorial, in King Street, is a cen­


tral feature in the commemoration of those who lost their lives in both world wars and an intrinsic part of the community life. The Trust, which


earlier this year changed its name from Friends of War Memo­ rials, is the only organ­ isation solely devoted to preserving and restoring the 65,000 War Memorials across the UK. I t relies totally on


voluntary donations and fund-raising efforts to carry out its work. The charity’s new


name reflects the role of the organisation as a focal point for War Memorials concerns, the most basic and urgent of which is to ensure that, as the Sec­ ond World War moves from the realm of liv­ ing memory to record­ ed history, those who gave their life for just peace are not forgot­ ten.


Club night


YOUNG people in Whalley are invited to a club night extravaganza a t the Rendezvous tomorrow. “Juicy July” is open


to anyone aged 18 and under and Whalley’s Police Community Sup­ port Officers will be there. The event will begin at 6 p.m. and fin­ ish at 9 p.m. Admission fee is £2.50 and all drinks (non-alcohlic) will be priced £1. Parents are advised


to arrange pick-ups tor the youngsters If anyone turns up


having had alcohol, they will be escorted home by a police officer and issued with a Refer­ ral Form.


by Jean Miller


SO many people attended a fund-raising event a t Whalley Methodist Chur­ ch Hall th a t for a time all chairs and tables were occupied. Stalls of books and bric-


a-brac outside the church attra c ted a considerable amount of passing trade, while inside there was a large cake stall plus a plant stall and raffle.


The organisers expressed


themselves delighted with the result of £570, which will go towards the cost of sending three volunteers from the congregation to Sierra Leone in January. Under the auspices of


th e M e th o d is t Church, they will be part of a work­ ing party of 15 people of varying ages who will be living and working in extremely basic conditions in the very hot equatorial climate.


OUR pitlure


shows, from the left, Maureen Cookson, June Weaver, Sheila Sugar and


Doreen Bal-


sliaw at the suc­ cessful event.( G160705/1)


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