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100 Years ago


THE meeting of the Clitheroe Education Committee was one of the liveliest in the history of the Corporation. Alderman Tom Cowgill protested against the con­ tinued delay on the part of the Lancashire County Council with the scheme to pro­ vide Clitheroe with a secondary school. • A cycling club was formed for mem­


bers of Clitheroe Co-operative Society and their families. - • A jumble sale was held in the Sunday


School in aid of the restoration of St Helen’s Church, Waddington. The event raised £32 for the project. - • Dog fanciers a t the White Lion,


Market Place, formed the Clitheroe and District Canine Association for people liv­ ing within a 20 mile radius of Clitheroe Town Hall. Anyone who wished to join the society paid an entrance fee of five shillings.


Confederation of Roofing


Centracton Reg No. 5668


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IZ3 tctmiiDItM f '5 ' - a weekly look at local issues, people and places Bin there. . . dump that! T


h e r e is one aspect of Kibble Val­ ley’s wheelie bin invasion that-has thus far been overlooked, but which requires some serious thought.


When our two or three shiny new wheel­


ie bins have arrived and are lined up in a neat, colourful row, what happens to our old dustbins, those reliable, resilient recep­ tacles that have served us as faithful family friends? For years they have sat out in all weath­


ers, their outsides serving as Fido’s favourite leg-cocking spot, their insides home to our rottenest rubbish, man-han­ dled weekly (but never weakly) by rough- hewn refuse collectors, taken for granted yet never complaining, never letting us do-wn.


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' Are they now to be casually cast aside, kicked out to make way for new-fangled state-of-the-art two-wheeled technobins without so much as a “thank you” or an affectionate pat on the lid? Is the Kibble Valley braced for the


inevitable glut on the secondhand dustbin market? Prices are sure to plummet as sup­ ply far outstrips demand, with the area’s hitherto prosperous used dustbin dealers destined for the dole queue. As binmongers


go belly-up, desperate housewives will attempt DIY disposal. Our classified columns will be flooded with “dustbin for sale, one careful owner” ads, some even resorting to “free to good home” tactics. The Valley’s multitude of car boot sales


will need repainted signs: “No new goods;., or old dustbins!” Because try as you might to sell your redundant receptacle, in the words of Lionel Bart, “who will buy?” Overnight our dustbins, once a basic neces­ sity of every home, will become obsolete relics of a bygone age. A new generation of Kibble Valley children will grow up won­ dering why passing Cockneys refer to them as “dustbin lids”, asking: “Mum, what’s a dustbin?” Perhaps our dustbins can be recycled,


but which recycling bin would they go in? Will the new blue wheelie bin for recyclable waste accommodate a whole dustbin, or


LOOKING BACK 50\'carsago


A WOMEN’S section of the Clitheroe branch of the Royal British Legion was to be formed. It was agreed that any women, whose husbands, father, brothers, sisters, son or daughter had served in HM Forces were entitled to become members, as well as any women who had themselves serv­ ed in the Forces. ® Complaints were received by the


county surveyor about litter on Clitheroe’s roads, blamed on the disappearance of lengthsmen. The Chief Constable of Lan­ cashire was considering legal action against offenders. • The first polio vaccinations in


Clitheroe were announced with 17,000 forms being distributed in schools, clinics and nurseries for those born from 1947 to 1954. There was a limited supply so it was expected some children would have to wait until nearer the end of the year.


T H O U G H T fo r t h e w e e k


day and no doubt many of you used up your fats on 'Tuesday for pancakes! :


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I Lent has long been associat­ ed with times of fasting, absti- nance and preparation for the coming joys of the Easter Fes­ tival. So we have been encour­ aged to give things up for the period of Lent. I challenge this view and see


it as a time to take something on or to support financially some particular cause. In the Methodist Church


recently from the North Lan­ cashire District we have had a team of 16 people, three of


O today is just the sec­ ond day. of Lent - Ash Wednesday .was yester­


will it need'squashing first? This at least ,


■ could offer new, if shortlived,-career prospects to our out-of-work trashcan traders, re-training as mobile bin bashers. Have sledgehammer, will travel! ■ Yet I fear so many of our cast off dust­


bins could be duihped in Kibble Valley’s quiet country lanes, abandoned with only a manky mattress and long-forgotten fridge for company. How many demobbed dustbins are destined for landfill, taking up the precious space once reserved for their festering contents. Or is there somewhere a European dustbin mountain to which Kib­ ble Valley must add its quota? Canny Valley folk with a bit of spare


space in the shed could put their old bin into storage, to be passed on as a family heirloom, a curiosity to amuse the grand­ children; Will any of us live to see Silver- woods auctioning “a rare corrugated and galvanised dustbin complete with original black bag and lid” in its sales of 20th Cen­ tury design classics? As for me, I ’m on to a winner. My new


book, available from all good bookshops, is sure to be a bestseller: “101 Uses For Your Discarded Dustbin - From Elephant Boots To DIY Daleks”.


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GREAT HARWOOD'S Help the Aged volunteers Maureen Tomlinson (right) and Val Culican hands over the keys to Corsa winner Mrs Bottoms. (G23020G/1)


new Vauxhall Corsa Air in a charity raffle. Mrs Bottoms, of Whalley Road, scooped the top prize in the Help the Aged winter raf-


L "fle. She took delivery of the £7,000 Atlantic


blue one-litre model last week in a special presentation at the charity’s Great Harwood shop. Thrilled with her prize, Mrs Bottoms, who


now plans to sell her current vehicle, a Proton Wira, said: “When they rang me to tell me I had won the car I couldn’t believe it at first. “I have never won a major prize in my life


and it will be a pleasure to travel around in a new car. It’s absolutely brilliant.” This year’s raffle helped to raise over £350,000 nationally, the best total ever of all raffles held previously. A spokesman for Help the Aged said: “It is


through people like Mrs Bottoms supporting us by buying raffle tickets that we are able to invest the funds in projects to help disadvan­ taged older people all over the UK and over­ seas. I t is nice to be able to say thank you in. this way.”


Laying a ghost to rest. . . ; • 25 Years ago


A BEVY of beauties from the Clitheroe area swept the board at the “Miss Royal British Legion” competition held at Calderstones. First place went to Miss Susan Hargreaves (21) of Kibble Avenue, Grindleton, while 18-year-old Miss Chris­ tine Taylor, of Waddow Grove, Wadding­ ton and Mrs Janet Livesey, of Mayfield Avenue, Clitheroe, came second and third. 9 Top woman darter and England team


captain Maureen Flowers played 16 mem­ bers of the Kibble Valley Ladies’ Darts Association. ■ - • 9 Electors in Clitheroe’s largest ward


went to the polls in a by-election for a vacant seat on the town council. The 3,500-strong electors in Edisford, Low Moor and Trinity had a choice between Mr Henry Chapman, who hoped to hold the seat for Labour, and Tory candidate Mr Derek Scorer.


Famine or feast


them from Whalley, who have worked for three weeks in Sier­ ra Leone or the far eastern borders of that country build­ ing for and with the people a skills centre where they will be able to learn new ways of working to enable them to pro­ vide for their families. ' The building work is over,


but more work needs to be done to raise funds to sustain the work. The group from Whalley is hosting an evening at 7 p.m. on March 5th in the Methodist Church telling their story. Why not go along, ■ learn and give to that work? In Tanzania the rains have ;


•failed again and the crops have not grown for harvesting.


The Bethany Project -


which has sprung out of East Lancashire - has been sup­ porting the local community with food from their stocks. • These need now to be replenished so the school in Whalley held a non-uniform day and raised £800 towards the £2,500 needed. Whalley School has links


with the project in Tanzania by e-mail and had a visit from a group of children from the Bethany Project two years ago and another is planned. Here is another need to which you could respond. You no doubt can think of


others where your hand could touch - remember during Lent


it is not just a time for cutting off, but for becoming more involved. Christ challenged the devil


in the wilderness and whatever he threw at Him, Christ had


an answer. We need to explore again


the story of our Lord during chis season and not just wait in sackcloth and ashes for the coming season of . Easter, but explore ways in which we can help and support others dur­


ing this time. Rev. Chris Chccscmaii


Depiily Chair North Lan­ cashire Methodist Disirici


, Superintendent of Clitlicroe .


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A CLITHEROE man is planning to lay a 19-year ghost to rest when he


jL ^..parachutes out of a plane from 10,000 feet to raise money for needy local children.


> Castle Cement lab technician Jason


Whalley was just 16 and in the Army’s Royal Corp of Transport when he was given the opportunity to parachute out of a small Cessna aircraft. . . . “I climbed out on to the ledge, looked


down and climbed back in again,” remem­ bers Jason. ■ “I’ve regretted not jumping ever since


that day so this is my opportunity to put matters right.” In hindsight, Jason said he would prob­


ably have done better taking the earlier opportunity - it was “only” 2,000 feet! Jason (35), who is married with one


daughter, will be taking off from Lancast­ er Airfield on April 2nd after a few hours’ preparation and instruction. He will be jumping in tandem with an


experienced member of the British Para­ chute Association and will freefall at 120 . m.p.h. for the first 5,000 feet. So is Jason confident his nerve will hold


this time? “Oh yes. I ’ve waited a long time for


this. I t was a touch unnerving 19 years ago because the chap who jumped just before me had a problem with his chute.


“The main one wouldn’t open so he had


to rely on his back-up chute. I suddenly lost my enthusiasm and decided to get back inside the planel' “The fact I am raising money for the Help A Local Child appeal will spur me


on,” he said. Gareth Price, general manager at Cas­


J


ANUARY’S Relay Readers’ compe­ tition was won by Clitheroe school­ boy Christian Barsby.


The 10-year-old, of Dorset Drive, was


crowned winner of the monthly prize for his review on Paul Stewart and Chris Rid­ del’s book “Midnight Over Sanctaphrax”. The Relay Readers scheme, which is run


by the Lancashire County Library Service in conjunction with this newspaper, aims to encourage more young people to read


books. Christian, (pictured) a pupil at Pendle


Primary School, who won the competition for his descriptive review, described it as a . book of “adventure, danger and a race .


tle Cement’s Ribblesdale works, said: “I have nothing but admiration for Jason.


. “Personally, while no amount of money would entice me up there with him, the company is proud of his attempt and is very happy to sponsor him.”. • Our picture shows Jason (left) with Mr- , ■


Price, (s) ■ Christian reviews ‘a fantastic book’


against time”, which readers over nine would like. “In this book, Twig, the son of the


famous sky pirate. Cloud Wolf (Quin- tinius Verginix), journeys far off the Edge to look for his long-lost father.


, “On the journey off the Edge, Twig’s


hopes are high for finding Cloud Wolf, but they are lowered when they bump into something terrible. “Something so terrible that it could


threaten all life forms on the Edgeworld,” wrote Christian. ■ Rating it 10 out of 10, he added: “This


is one of the most fantastic books I have ever read.!’'; ^ ■ . . ,


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