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PETE HASLAM www.clitheroetoday.co.uk Clitheroe 422324 (Editorial), 422323 (Advertising), Burnley 422331 (Classified) Valley Matters MOTMCEBOABD


well and truly ended. My first bill of the new year arrived,


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through my front door. This bill was sent by British Gas, who


were kind-enough to inform me that my monthly direct debit was to increase by more than double! Now is it me or does the cost of living


seem to be rising at an incredulous rate (I'm talking house prices, council tax, the price of a pint of beer - you know what I mean?) while our earning power stagnates. While I wallowed in self-pity at the


thought of more of my hard-earned cash being swallowed up by unscrupulous others, I was told of an interesting story by my mother. She had just been to see my grandmoth­


er, who, while fighting fit(ish) at 85, lives in a lovely care home where she wants for noth­ ing - three meals a day, help at hand 24/7 and a nice room which she keeps nice and tidy. A large portion of my grandmother's pension goes towards her rent and the state foots the rest. This covers her food, heating, laundry and even her weekly perm! She is


a weekly look at local issues, people and places


HRISTMAS may have only just passed, but I was reminded the other day that the season of goodwill has


A crazy waste of cash As I see i t . . .


by Craig Salmon


left with a few pounds of her pension each week and has a few grand in th§ bank, which, bearing in mind she struggles to get out without the help of friends and family, is barely touched. So it was with great surprise that my


mother, who has power of attorney over my grandmother's bank account, noticed that she had been credited with a one-off pay­ ment of £150 - the winter fuel allowance! Now I am entirely in favour of our older


citizens, who may still be living in their oivn homes and struggling to make ends meet on their pensions, being offered help to keep nice and warm as.the cold weather sets in during the winter months. However, my grandmother's heating bills


are covered within her fixed weekly rent, which is the same all year around - and which the taxpayer already contributes towanls. When my mother queried the pay-


L f l£ > K IN G 4 p ]K 50'years ago


USING a silver trowel. Lord Clitheroe laid the foundation stone of the new Clitheroe Girls’ Grammar School in Chat- burn Road. ■ Beneath it was placed a lead cylinder


containing a set of -1956 coins, a school hat band;and badge and copies of the school magazine, the Clitheroe Advertiser and Times and the Borough Record. . -©(Patrons of the Whalley cinema were surprised to see an organ light up and begin playing before the main feature was shown; , O Colleagues of Mr Richard Bruce,


manager 9! the Yorkshire Penny Bank, Clitheroe, for almost 30 years, said farewell to him at an informal presenta-- tion ceremony at the bank. Mr Bruce, was presented with a chair.


T H O U G H T f o r t h e w e e k


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b o v e me hangs a 1940s’ photo of a couple on their wedding day.


As with any couple, 60 years


on, the years have taken their toll. One died of cancer, per­ haps caused by smoking, 20 years ago. The other partner is now in a care home which spe­ cialises in looking after Alzheimer sufferers. Equally, the years have


brought good things to my parents: humour, forbearance, widening horizons, humility, an ever deepening love and much more. Over the Christmas/New


Year period we may have met friends whom we have not seen for a long time, commenting on


Readers are latest v\7inners T


WO young bookworms are the latest winners of our Relay Reader of the Month competition.


ment, she was informed that everyone over a certain age is entitled to the payment regardless. - Seeing as though my grandmother does


not have to worry about keeping warm dur­ ing winter, this £150 will gp towards a nice new cardigan (of which she has several) and a nice new pair of shoes (of which she has several). I t makes you think about how many


MILLIONS of pounds of YOUR and MY money is being wasted by lazy Government policy which fails to reajise that many of these payments are needless. Perhaps Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer •


(or should that be our unelected Prime Min­ ister-to-be) should keep all these wasted £150 in a piggy bank and subsidise the ridiculously high rises in oil prices which are going to hit hard every home in the country this year. However, he is more concerned \vith acting like our Prime Minister (should­ n't our elected Prime Minister be acting... well, like our Prime Minister?). Still, should I get cold at home as I save


on my central heating so my gas bill doesn't get out of control, maybe I will get a "hand-me-down" cardigan off my grand­ mother - that should keep me warm!


Six-year-old Joe Noone (pictured) was


selected for his review of “I Want My Tooth”, by Tony Ross while Corrine Wringe (seven) impressed the judges with her com­ ments on “Mermaid Magic”, by Gwyneth Rees. Joe, who lives in Read, said the book


appealed to him because like the girl in the story, he will soon be losing his teeth. His


Karen shares experiences


A 2o years ago


PUPILS at four Ribble Valley schools had an unexpected day’s holiday as the big freeze kept th e area in its iron grip. Lessons were postponed at Bolton-by- Bowland and Long'ridge schools because of boiler problems and at Clitheroe’s Pen- dle County Primary, which did not receive its usual coal delivery. Pupils from.Edis- ford Primary also had to be sent home because of a fault in the heating system. 9 Read headmaster Douglas Brown,


and his 'wife, Marian, who was blind, were going on a marathon cycle ride to raise money for guide dogs. But not on an old tandem as they thought. Instead, they were taking to the road on a gleaming new touring machine, which 44-year-old Mr Brown had won in a competition.


Our face says it all


how well they look: “You seem no older at all,” we sometimes, say, although we may discreet­ ly remark about other people that they have aged consider­ ably. Whether we look older or the


same is unimportant. Far more significant are the characteris­ tics which our faces display. Do we seem full of life and inter­ est, or do we wear an expres­ sion of cynicism and boredom? Does a snapshot of our face Indicate compassion and encouragement, or do we exude an appearance of hard­ ness and unfriendliness? While it is right to look after


our bodies, since health and personal appearance con­


tribute to our general wellbe­ ing, it is just as important to think about how we are inwardly - in our attitudes to others, to ourselves, to life and. to God.


Someone nursing a grudge,


for example, will damage themselves as much as the per­ son who misses out on their vitamins. Someone, on the other hand, who is always quick to welcome and to offer praise may well add a year or two to their life because of the inner wellbeing which this approach to life fosters. Those who have faith often


show it in their faces.. A deepening awareness of God and an openness to the


spiritual realities of prayer, worship, Bible reading and the sacraments, colours all of life. The Bible speaks of our


being transfigured - our appearance changed - by the presence of Christ in our lives so that, in the words of Charles


Wesley’s great hymn, we are “changed from glory into glory t i l l in heaven we take our place”. The years may indeed give us older faces, but hopefully


. they are faces of tenderness and love. '


Canon Rodney Nicholson,


vicar of St Paul’s, Low Moor and pricsi-in-charge of Chatburn and Downhani


CLITHEROE woman has helped produce a sound archive featuring vol­ unteers.


Karen Hands, project co-ordinator of the


Working Lives Foundation, has produced a compilation CD entitled “Sharing Experi­ ences”, featuring interviews with six volun­ tary sector workers from Bury. "This is the first project to be completed by


the Working Lives Foundation, which is funded by Awards For All North West. Its


' aim is to record people talking about work then turning it into education material and distributed to the appropriate audience. The foundation’s aim is to educate mem­


bers of the public about issues relating to the experience of work by maintaining a sound archive, conducting research and publishing the useful results and information from the archive. A limited number of free copies of the CD,


which will be held at the Clitheroe-based North West Sound Archive, are available from the Hyndburn and Ribble Valley CVS in Swan Mews.


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Caring couple head for India


a children’s home in Goa. Carol and Raymond Briggs, who run


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Ideal Pet Stores in Clitheroe along with their son-in-law Phillip, collected the money through raffling off a knife set and collecting money in the shop throughout the year. The couple, who liye at Eshton Terrace,


will donate the funds to Elshaddai Chil­ dren’s Home when they fly out to India in February. “We already travel to Goa every year


and sponsor a little girl, Saku, who lives in the children’s home. “We’ve been going out there every year


for last 10 years now”, explained Mrs Briggs. • “This year, we’ll be going to Goa in Feb­


ruary and presenting all the money we’ve collected for the children’s home in person. This way, the people who make the dona­ tions know exactly where their money has gone.”


doubt, being shown to rela­ S s


OME happy pictures of children opening Christ­ mas presents are, no


CARING Clitheroe couple will fly thousands of miles next month to present £166 they have collected .to


I


T really was a case of head in the clouds when Phil Mahon made a fund-raising parachute jump. •


The retiring head of Oakhill College,


Whalley, jumped from 12,000ft. Imagine standing a t the edge of an'


open doorway in an aircraft flying a t : that height - the noise of the engines and the wind ringing in your ears with only the outline of distant fields below. Now imagine leaning forward out of that door­ way and letting go - falling forward into the clouds, diving down through the air as you start freefalling at over 120 m.p.h. Mr Mahon and another five members


of staff from Oakhill jumped in freefall to 5,000ft. where the parachute was deployed. Each was harnessed to a pro­ fessional parachute instructor - only way you can jump from such an altitude without being a trained freefall para­ chutist. The charity tandem sky dive-at


tives with pride. However, the negatives of similar pictures were found last Wednesday on Parson Lane, Clitheroe, near


North West Parachute Centre, Flook- burgh, was arranged by business studies teacher Barbara Andrews to raise money for various charities. I t took considerable planning and


with two previously aborted attempts due to inclement weather conditions, it also tested the nerves of the intrepid teachers. Pictured, from the left are: MrMahon,


representing the Wooden Spoon Society/ Oakhill College: Holly Bowden, (nurs­ ery) representing Derian House Chil­ dren’s Hospice;Karen Wilson, (prep school teacher) representing Foresight; Barbara Andrews, (senior teacher) rep­ resenting Self-Reliance in Africa; Debbie Watson (nursery) representing Make A Wish Foundation and Gareth 'Wahl (prep shool teacher) representing Derian House Children’s Hospice, (s)


to the decorating shop, by a member of staff a t Trinity Community Partnership. ■ If the negatives are yours.


either call at Trinity Commu­ nity Partnership, on Wesleyen Row, to collect them or tele­ phone 01200,427886.'


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favourite part was when she found her tooth. And Corrine enjoyed reading her book


because of its happy ending and she found the magic spells especially exciting. She also drew a mermaid picture from the book. The Relay Reader scheme is run by the


Lancashire Library Service in conjunction with East Lancashire Newspapers and encourages children to read more books. Youngsters are asked to review the stories they read and every month a Relay Reader winner is selected.


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Green awards


RIBBLE VALLEY companies with high en'vironmental stan­ dards and green cre­ dentials are being offered the opportu­ nity to bring their achievements to a wider audience by entering the North­ west Business Emi- ronment Awards 2007. They were estab­


lished in 2001,and entries must be sub­ mitted before Febru­ ary 2nd. Following last


year’s record number of submissions, two new awards have been added to the list of categories - the Sustainable Pro­ curement Awards, and the Built Envi­ ronment Award. Last year Lan­


cashire swept the board, taking more honours than the other four sub- regions in the North West. The award categories are: © Best Environ-,


mental Practice Award - recognising exceptional improve­ ments in business pe rfo rm a nc e achieved through good environmental management. O Built Environ­


Ex-‘Sir’ keeps his head in


ment - two awards, one recognising envi­ ronmental excellence and innovation in major development projects and the sec­ ond rewarding excel­ lence in smaller proj­ ects. O Sustainable Pro­


curement - recognis­ ing commitment and excellence in sustain­ able procurement - green purchasing - and innovative sup­ ply chain manage­ ment. 9:Environmental


Technology Award - recognising inhova- tion and excellence in environmental tech­ nologies and servic­ es.


® Environmental


Champions - two awards, one recognis­ ing leadership in the area of environmen­ tal improvements, sustainability and regeneration, and the second rewarding outstanding commu­ nications within the en'vironment sector. For more informa­


tion visit the Mersey Basin website on: {www.me rs ey- basin.org.uk), call 0161 242 8200 or e- m


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