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Vote for your ‘Inn of the Year’ OUR competition to find the


Inn of the Year lias attracted lotsof entries. .


From public houses in


Clitheroe and Whalley centre to those in rural village loca­ tions, the response has been brilliant. Next week, readers will be able to vote for their favourite inn. We will be put­


ting the spotlight on all the hostelries entered and asking readers to-decide which they think is most deserving. The prize is £200, a special trophy and feature in this newspaper. Make sure you order your copy of next Thursday’s Clitheroe Advertiser and Times to regis­ ter your vote!


www.clither6etoday.co.uk to the -| M rile lo: TIu! Kdil»r, ClilliiToc AdvcrliscT and Times, S King Slrci‘1, Clilhcroc BB72I-.W Keiilorial e-mail:' » k‘n.tnt*alli^ra.slliinc.snettS.ro.uk We need pounds


not pennies! YOUR headline: “We need pen­ nies for your heaven” over the article on fund-raising for Whalley Parish Church was not very helpful.


; I t was in fact a travesty of


the truth and an insult to the many people who currently support our ancient church. Anyone responsible for the


maintenance of old buildings or the payment of salaries knows that it is not even pounds - but


..hundreds and thousands of pounds that are needed. This is why many faithful supporters of Whalley Church are giving regularly, in a range of £5 to over £20 per week - because this is the value Christians place on the ministry and their place of worship. Since so many people visit th is church for the g re a t


. 'moment in their lives - bap­ tisms, marriages and funerals - and since such an his toric church attracts large numbers of visitors as tourists, benefit­ ing the whole local economy, it would be reasonable to hope for


Calling all Inn owners and managers, you still have time to enter your venue. For further details please contact Colette Leaver on 01282 426161 Ext:418


Listed below are the entries so far...


Moorcock Inn, Waddington White Lion, Clitheroe


Hark to Bounty^ Siaidburn The Swan Inn, Whalley


Traders’Arms, Mellor Spread Eagle, Sawley Freemasons, Wiswell Black Bull, Old Langho


• White Bull, Ribchester Higher Buck, Waddington Calfs Head, Worston Aspinall Arms, Mitton


The Old Post House, Clitheroe


Bayley Arms, Hurst Green Shireburn Arms, Hurst Green


Lower Buck Inn, Waddington Whalley Arms, Whalley


Waddington Arms, Waddington Wagon & Horses, Clitheroe Punch Bowl, Hurst Green


Blackhorse, Clitheroe Craven Heifer, Chaigley


Black Bull, Rimington White Hart, Sabden Bridge Inn, Clitheroe Parkers Arms, Newton Dog Inn, Whalley


Edisford Bridge, Clitheroe Swan & Royal, Clitheroe' Pendle Hotel, Chatburn


Ribchester Arms, Ribchester


Vote for your favourite Inn on Thursday 30th March


when our voting coupon will appear


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generous support from many in the area who do not necessarily use the parish church for regu­ lar worship, but who see it as a resource for the whole commu­ nity..


THE REV. IAN ROBINS, Retired Anglican Pricsl, Painter Wood, ■ Billington •


® We apologise lo those who


look offence at our headline. It was, of course, a play on the song title: “Pennies from Heaven” - editor


Markets to come


back into vogue SINCE you kindly published my letter: “Let’s breathe new life into market”, Clitheroe Advertiser, March 9th, a num­ ber of readers have told me “traders’ don’t want to work on


s:


A MAGICAL night in Waddington raised more than £200 for charity.


. Over. 60 members and guests of The Rotary Club of Ribblesdale enjoyed an evening of “Close-up Magic” organised by the society to- raise funds for its chosen project, Mercy Ships.


Held a t the.Moorcock Inn,' six ■


magicians from the Modem Mystic League, in Blackburn, worked their


magic on the guests with a series of performing tricks.


Also featuring a potato pie sup­


per and raffle, all proceeds from the event will be donated towards the global charity,f whose ships visit


co untr ies in need of help and resources.


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.. Our picture shows magicians .David Snell and Allan Clarke show-' ing the president: of. the R o ta ry


.Club, -Paul Carlton (centre) some magic tricks. (S220206/6) '


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Wheelie bins are here


not to change to wheelie bins f™ • some time yet.


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By havmg the black plastie bags Ribble Valley Borougl


■ Council has forgotten howl: ■


terraced properties.


: For about a hundred yeais all' terrace houses had metal dust-


bins, half-full of coal ash, the


same having to be carried to be emptied. They should ask the retired


dustmen how it was done, and visit the neighbouring towns, to


see how they cope, theirs being much larger bins.


Common seiise is all that is


needed, the vehicle moves along past each house, as it used to do, not as is done now. All black bags collected and dumped at


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the back entrances awaiting the vehicle. These bags left overnight


prone to scavenging by whatev­ er animal.


At least wheelie bins will pre­


vent that and the street will be cleaner, especially when ours has not been swept for four years


'm s THE new wheelic bin service starts on Monday. Pictured is street


scene manager Graham Jagger with one of tlie new borough coun­ cil bins. (A20020(5/3a)


WE three witches of Pendle seen. .


about,


Clitheroe market”. Wrong! That is defeatist talk.


The answer is staring doubters in the face. Market


.rabins all taken with a waiting list. Open stalls mostly empty and NO waiting list. Why? Surely the answer is obvious to anyone with a modicum of commonsense.


Mark my words! With unem­


ployment rising fast (now over 1/4 million) and more and more means testing for state benefits, open markets are going to come back into vogue


To bury us in a landfill site.


Burgundy, indigo and green. And use black plastic again! But many good folk round M.G.,


Whalley Wish we had never been (name and address supplied)


with buyers looking for bar­ gains and sellers trying to “earn a crust”.


If local councils do not cater


for these good people then the car boot sales will. BERT HARDWICK, Queensway, Waddiiiglon


Don’t forget our


black bin bags! IT appears that the Wednesday refuse collection in Whalley is


because of parked vehicles all day. C. CLARKE, Whalley


Reward the real


community folk! INTERESTING! Millions of' pounds are loaned to politics for which, in one particular party, donors, or loaners, are recog­ nised with th e award - the reward - of peerages of the. realm. Meanwhile, the “real” people


of our community - home car­ ers, carers in residential homes for our ageing, cleaners, the basic essentials of our lives - these dedicated people get along, somehow, on the pit­ tances the system (seemingly begrudgingly) allows them. ■ Something wrong with our


system somewhere. ROBIN PARKER, St Chad’s Avenue, Chatburn


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Walter loved the small things in life


A FORMER Ribble Valley livestock farmer has died at the grand old age of •


102. Mr Walter Robinson (pictured) lived and


worked on several farms in Bowland and the Ribble Valley before spending his last years in a retirement home in Accrington. The sixth of 12 children, he was born at


Brockthorne Farm, Tosside. Although he lived through a century of major technolog­ ical changes, he demonstrated throughout his life the virtues of a simple lifestyle in which family and friendship ties bound small, often scattered rural communities together. Although the valleys where he once lived


have now been gentrified and transformed, Mr Robinson’s extraordinary ability to remember the smallest detail carried the lis­ teners to his wonderful stories back to the lost age in which he grew up. : On his centenary celebrations he recalled


the arrival of the first motor car into the \il- lage in 1908. This was in Dalehead, a village whose residents were forced to move out before it was flooded to create a reservoir.;


Mr Robinson could remember how one of . the villagers, an old woman, refused to go. The roof tiles were puUed off and eventually she was evicted!


; . ■ Mr Robinson was married to Clarice '


Cowking for 41 years with whom he had three children: Phyllis, Geoffrey and Jennie. After Clarice’s death, he re-married at the age of 77 to Alice Elliot, of Barnoldswick, who died 14 years ago. In the last years of his life, he was well


cared for by the staff a t Henley House Retirement Home in Accrington. Mr Robinson’s death has saddened many


people. His grandson, Steven Swann, has this week been paying tribute to a caring and loving grandfather. He commented: “My grandfather took


pleasure in the smallest things and will be long remembered for his playful use of lan­ guage, inventing his own words, such as


: ‘calafudge’. If ever a word could sum a man up this was it. (‘Calafudge’ means to repair something by patching parts together). “He was, as the vicar at the funeral serv­ ice in Chipping said, a ‘natural recycler


before it was fashionable’. Nothing was ever allowed togo to waste. “ I t was typical of his


down-to-earth and opti­ mistic n atu re' th a t although he went blind, he was able to take comfort from what he described as his‘second sight’.


. “The world was never a dark place for


him. He was head of a large family, which for 60 years has maintained a tradition of meeting twice a year in the village hall in Tosside, to talk about old times and catch up on gossip. Those gatherings will be impoverished by the passing of this lo'ving man and expert storyteller.” Mr Robinson, whose burial took place at


Chipping, is survived by his children, Geof­ frey (and his wife Shirley) and Jennie (and her husband, Geoff); sister Monica; grand­ children Neville (and his wife; Sarah), Michael, Kim, Dawn, Da\rid (and his part­ ner Angela), Steven (and his partner, Rachel) and Joanne (and her partner, John­ ny); his great-grandchildren, Laura, Jessica, Emily, Ella and Jack and his son-in-law. Bill.


Cliff takes over from Eric


R E T IR IN G Probus ch air­ man Eric Ronnan welcomed incoming chairman Cliff Astin a t th e c lu b ’s recent annual meeting. Held at the Pendle Club on


Lowergate in Clitheroe, Mr Ronnan welcomed members and made special mention of Clitheroe R otary president Graham Claydon who is also, by the Probus constitution, the president of Probus. Mr Claydon brought greet­


• Applications welcome for boys and girls aged 3 upwards ■


ings from Rotary and wished Probus well a t th e s ta r t of their new session. Sec re ta ry Alan Daniels


reported th a t numbers had dropped slightly, but that the variation in membership num­ bers was not unusual. Mem­ bers were urged to publicise the activities of the club. He went on to briefly review


the programme for the forth­ coming year and emphasised th a t the list of speakers was very varied and promised an extremely interesting session. Mr Daniels asked members


to note th a t the new normal s ta r t timewill be 10-45 a.m. The club subscription remains at £19. Single nominations had been


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• ROBIN PERCIVAL D.O. • HILARY PERCIVAL D.O. • ROBERT J GOODMAN EDWARDS B.Sc (Hons) OST • TAMSIN HEWITT B.Sc (Hons) OST, Med.ND-


• JAMES RUDDICK B.OST B.Sc Registered Osteopaths


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received for all places on the committee, so no vote was required. 'The incoming chairman.


Cliff Astin, who was installed and closed th e meeting, is aided on th e committee by Dennis Ogden (vice-chair­ man), Alan Daniels (continu­ ing as secretary), Jim Parker ( tre a su re r ) , Tony Hill ■ (almoner), ’Tom Duff (social


; secretary), Brian Nightingale, Doug Stewart, John Heming­ way and Derek Cressey (com­ mittee members), and Peter


■ Garner (speakers’ co-ordina- tor). ; A .traditional AGM lunch


was enjoyed at The Swan and Royal in Clitheroe. 'The next meeting of


Clitheroe Probus Club will take place on April 7th when


•Phil Bamford will give a talk en ti tled : “The M y s te ry of Magnets”. For further information call


01200 429207. Our picture shows from left to right president of Clitheroe


. Rotary, Graham Claydon, new Probus chairman. Cliff Astin, and retiring Probus chairman Eric Ronnan. (s)


Apologies to the Round Table


THE rush to meet our print deadline led to an unfortunate error on page 34 of last week’s Clitheroe Advertiser and Times. An a r t ic le a b o u t Clitheroe Round


Table making a £750 donation to the Anthony Nolan Tru st was mistakenly headlined “Rotary club’s cash boost for charity”. ■ ■ ' An easy mistake to make when both


organisations do so much good work for worthy causes, but we nevertheless apolo­ gise to Clitheroe Round Table, whose members certainly deserve full recogni­ tion for their ongoing efforts.


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