10 Clitheroe Advertiser & Times, Thursday, June 14th, 2007
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Dreams can come true if you buy a piece of village park
by Natalie Cox
BUYING a piece of park will help realise a Kibble Valley village’s dream. Work is almost ready to start on Gisbum’s
new community park. To date funding totalling £45,000 has been secured which means work will soon be able to get under way. However, the challenge now facing resi dents is to raise some additional money towards play equipment.
Members of the committee have now
launched a “buy a piece of the park” cam paign which they hope will attract donations of at least £5. Anyone wanting to make a contribution
can contact Nadine Jackson on 01200 445543. • Gisburn’s new Community Park will
transform a site adjacent to the Festival Hall car park into a play area for all ages. Planning permission and funding has been
secured by members of the Gisbum Playing Fields A^ociation. The aim is to provide a
toddler and children’s play area, goals and a cycle path. Pupils from Gisbum Primary School and other local youngsters have heli^ choose the sports and play equipment which will be installed. Wildflowers along with native hedges and trees will also be planted to ensure the new park provides a green space for villagers to enjoy. David Fischer, who was responsible for
designing the Rose Garden at CUtheroe Cas tle, has come up with the concept designs which can be viewed in the Festival Hall.
A FUN celebration is being held on Sat urday (June 16th) for childminders, parents, carers and children at Ribbles- dale Children’s Centre. Running from 9 to 11 a.m., it has
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been organised by the Ribblesdale Childminding Network as part of National Childminding Week 2007. Activities will include face painting, story sessions, displays and crafts with Lizi Botham of CBeebies Bizi Lizi fame. The children can make family portrait banners, egg bugs, funky sun visors and lily pond plates. The week runs from June 16th to the
23rd with the theme of “Supporting Families”. It will promote the work that registered childminders and nan nies do in supporting families.
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A GROUP of Ribble Valley mums are really cooking with gas when it comes to healthy food preparation. The mothers took advantage
of a six-week “Cooking With Us” course put on at Ribbles dale Children’s Centre by pub lic health professionals from East Lancashire Primary Care Trust. While their young children
played safely at the centre, the mothers took a couple of hours to brush up on their healthy eating skills, guided by two of the PCT’s Community Health Workers, Anna Thornton and Hayley West. The mothers took part in a
“fun food for toddlers” session, making healthy pizzas and desserts such as fruit kebabs. Next on the healthy eating menu was alternatives to ready meals, fruit-based snacks, and how to grow your own vegeta bles. After that the emphasis was
on lunch boxes for children and, at the final session, the parents held their own “cook
and ta s te ” session, based on the skills they had learned over the previouss few weeks. Joint course leader Anna
said; “I t ’s been a lot of fun so far, helping the mums to appre ciate good healthy eating for themselves and their children. We aim to point out what to look for, the range of ingredi ents available, helping mothers to understand food labelling better, as well as cooking demonstrations using healthy recipes. “I t ’s all part of our public
health approach of trying to point people towards a healthi er lifestyle. “We find th a t people just
need a bit of a helping hand and the habits set in over time.” Our picture shows Ribble
Valley mums Anna Mirante and Angie Almond getting a “pizza the a ctio n ” at the “Cooking With Us” course staged by the East Lancashire Primary Care Trust at Rib blesdale Children’s Centre, in Clitheroe. (s)
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BOLTON-BY- BOWLAND
Origami Pupils of both classes at Bolton-by-Bow- land School enjoyed a visit from origami artist Steven Watson. Each class had the opportimity to make several paper sculp tures.
The Mobile Stars Planetarium also vis ited the school. Each key stage class had their own show designed specifically for them. This proved to be a valu able enhancement to the science curricu lum.
Key Stage 2 class enjoyed the Festival of Games held at Rowland High School. They were participating with other local schools in a games tournament organised by the pupils at Rowland.
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Website The president of Chip ping WI, Mrs Mar garet Gardener, wel comed members and visitors to the meet ing and announced that the branch web site was now live. It has useful informa tion about past, pres ent and future events and members were encouraged to view the site and told that comments would he helpful. The address is
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Guest speaker for the evening was Miss Anna Watson, of the Lancashire Record Office. Miss Watson distributed a copy of the booklet “Family History for AH”, which gave members useful references for starting to explore their family trees.
She went on to explain that the record office was establisheded in 1940 by a concerned individual who stored documents in a base ment to protect them from war damage. Today the LRO is housed in purpose- built accommodation and has miles of shelves full of docu ments. Everyone is welcome to visit, but to access paper records a LRO card must be obtained from the office.
Miss Watson briefly described various resources that are useful when investi gating family trees. She also gave a num ber of useful tips, including to be sure you are researching the right person. Apparently, one visi tor spent 10 years investigating, only to find that the subject of their investigations
was not a relative, merely someone with the same name!
After questions, Mrs Barbara Demaine gave thanks, saying that she had enjoyed many hours re searching at the LRO and hoped others would now be inspired to do the same.
Winner of thecompeti- tion for the best fami ly photograph was Mrs Jennifer Kelly. Mrs Helen Powell received the birthday present and Mrs Betty Seed won the raffle.
Mrs Gardener announced that the coffee morning had raised £241.60p. Members agreed to donate £50 of this towards the cost of repairing the van dalised Scout's minibus. A choir is to sing in the village hall tomorrow to raise money for the Chil dren of Chernobyl. Tickets cost £5.
Last September mem bers collected toi letries that were given to visiting chil dren from Chernobyl. It was agreed to col lect again this year and members are asked to bring their donations to the July or August meetings.
Members who have signed to go to South- port or Haworth are iisked to pay for their trips at the next meeting.
The luncheon club will he held at the Derby .Arms and anyone interested should give their name to Mrs Margaret Rich, and be at the old village hall car park at noon on July 20th.
The walking group tvill meet on June 27 th in the old village hall car park.
The next meeting will he held in the village hall at 7-30p.m. on July 4th when Mrs Linda Barton will talk about the St Joseph's Orphanage. The competition will be for an old-fash ioned game.
GRINDLETON ^oppy party
The popular annual cheese and wine party in aid of the Poppy Appeal for the Chatburn and Dis trict Branch of the Royal British Legion will be held on Sun day, July 1st, at Well House, Grindleton.
During the event, which will last from 2 to 6 p.m.. jazz music will be playing in the garden.
Admission is by ticket, costing £5, which includes one glass of wine and food. There will be various stalls.
For tickets, call Mandy on 01200 441551.
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Lovestruck Alan conquered 10ft snowdrifts to meet with Marion
THEY say that love conquers all. And in the case of Mr Alan Cliff, love gave him the determination to walk over 10ft snow drifts in freezing conditions just to spend a few hours with his fiancee, Marion.
That was more than 60 years ago and their love has stayed true as the couple today celebrate their diamond wedding anniversary.
Mr Cliff had moved to Whalloy as a boy from his native Devon and met his future bride at the village’s cinema when they were teenagers. Their courtship was often long distance, how ever, as he served in the Royal Engineers for five years, three of them in the Far East.
Even after the war, he had to stay with his regiment in Ripon on stand-by to go to India and hitch hiked home every weekend to see his sweetheart.
“I usually managed to get a lift, but some times the snow was so bad there was nothing on the road and I had to walk. In the dreadful win ter of 1946, the snow' over the Illubber- houses was as high as telegraph poles and I remember one day walking for
Waste paper The usual waste paper collection will take place in Grindleton today. Contributions of newspaper, maga zines and junk mail can be left in the enclosure at the top of Back Lane, near the chapel wall.
This collection is organised by mem bers of Grindleton WI to help raise funds for the branch.
Sports day Grindleton village sports day on Satur day was very enjoy able and the Summer Bash in the marquee later saw an impres sive amount of money spent at the licensed bar. The previous evening's Pendle Jazzmen event was also suc cessful and the Recre ation Ground Chari ty will benefit to the tune of some £1,000 once the bills have been paid. Many thanks to everyone
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al Society (of which Mr Cliff is a former chairman and was show secretary for 26 years), and the Age Concern Leisure Group. Mr Cliff also served on Sabden Parish Council, remember ing being on the council when electric lights first came to the village. He is a life member of the Burma Star Associ ation.
They have a daughter, Joyce, who has trav elled from her home in New England, USA, to join her parents for today’s celebrations and it will be open house as friends and neigh bours are invited to call in and help mark their big day.
miles on the top of 10ft of snow' along the .A59 into Gis- burn, where I even tually got a lift.
“When I finally got home to Whalley it w'as to find that Marion’s father wouldn’t let her out because the condi tions were so bad. So the next day I had to set off back to base without seeing her and it took me all day.”
He was eventually demobbed and they married at St Nicholas’s Church, in Mrs Cliff’s home village of Sabden, in 1947.
who turned up to the events and especially to the many villagers who provided the superb selection of cakes for the after noon teas.
Cricket A contusion in the fix ture list meant that Grindleton cricket team had no oppo nents for what was probably
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warmest Sunday of the season.
During the summer bash on Saturday night, it was decided to have a village friendly. Young and old turned-up on the Sunday and were paired off, mth seven father and son part nerships.
The opening pair of the Briggster and Dave Brown set the stan dard by scoring a respectable 28, espe cially as they had to face top bowlers Robinson and Jack- son.
As pairings came and
Since then they have lived in the Pendle Street East home where Mrs Cliff (83), formerly Mari on Beckett, was born.
Up to retirement she worked in the kitchens at Sabden Primary School for 25 years and Mr Cliff (84) spent just under 50 years at Howard and Bul- lough (later Platt’s, engineers) Accrington.
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Both have been very much involved in village life, being members of St Nicholas’s Church, Sabden Horticultur-
w'ent it was looking like a score of 39 posted by Steve and Sam Cherry was going to put them in the final. After a drinks break there were several great performances, but the pick of the youngsters included
On Sunday they will have a family cele bration at Mytton Fold, Langho, where their new great- grandson Joel, just 10 weeks old, their grandson Steven and his partner, Joy, and Joyce’s hus band, Steve, will join them.
And, who knows, there may be a Royal greeting, as 10 years ago when they celebrated their golden wedding in the same year as the Queen and Prince Philip, they received a personal greeting from Buckingham Palace.
Henry Ollerenshaw, Josh 'Taylor and Jake Connelly with both bat and ball. It was just a shame the fathers could not match their sons’ eagerness to put them in a final posi tion.
Hats off to umpire n f. ‘■
Frankie Ainsworth for keeping a check on the more competi tive players.
The biggest cheer went to eventual winners Ian Nuttall and Chopper Taylor, who beat Rhino junior and young Jack Tay lor in a final playoff.
Celebrations Grindleton Methodist Church members ivill be celebrating this weekend with two events.
Tomorrow, from 7 p.m., there will be a coffee evening in the hall. Coffee or tea with a toasted tea cake will be served for the £1.50 entrance fee and there will be a variety of stalls , including one selling cakes, books and plants. Proceeds will be used to fund essen tial pointing and external decoration work.
On Sunday, at 11 a.m., there will be a lively serx'ice for all ages led by Mr Mark Sleet. The service will be celebrating Father God’s work in the church on Father’s Day.
For those attending the serx'ice there is an invitation to round of tlie iveekend ivith a buffet lunch together in the hall.
WI trip Tonight, members of Grindleton WI will he taking a mystery trip. Those going should meet at the Buck Inn at 6 p.m. and wear reasonable shoes. There will also be a shopping oppor tunity followed by supper.
The competition is for a poem.
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Cabaret night Proof if it were needed that musical talent is hereditary was pro vided in spades by the football club cabaret night.
After a delicious hot pot supper, 100 sup porters settled to he entertained. The irre pressible David Jacques compered the cabaret with sto ries, jokes and his own brand of ’’Mr and Mrs’’. Andrew Holden starred as a comic turn and musi cal treats were sup plied by Yvette and Daniel Wilkinson and Daniel’s father, Richard.
Star of the evening was 16-year-old Charlie Bolton, w'ho is more relaxed and yet more professional each time he appears.
In Charlie’s final num ber he was joined on stage by his dad, Barrj', and another of the singing Wilkin sons, Vinny.
The three gave an excellent perform ance of “Shine” by Take That. The evening continued with a disco.
Play area Hurst Green Parish Council is delighted to announce that it has been awarded a grant of up to £15,000, with the proviso that the parisli council raises the other £10,000 needed for a £25,000 makeover of the play area at Bailey Field.
The parish council is planning a major refurbishment and extension and seeking sponsorship from local businesses.
There is to be a meet ing to update vil lagers on the plans and seek ideas for sponsorship and fund-raising. All interested individu als are urged to attend. This is a project specif ically for the children
of the village and the playground will be in place for many years to come. The meeting will be held next Monday, at 7-30 p.m. in the Memorial Hall.
For more details, call Pauline Tyson on 01772 780125 or Peter Butterfield on 01254 826308
Organ concert
A final recital to cele brate the refurbish ment of St John’s Organ will take place on Saturday, June 30th. St John’s will welcome the Chester St Cecilia Singers, a choir famed for its performances of Eng lish choral music.
The concert will com mence at 7-15 and will be followed by cheese and wine in the hall
Tickets cost £5 (con cessions £3) and can be reserved by calling Roger Wilkinson on 01254 826061.
Hall cleaning It will be all hands to the mops on Satur day, June 23rd, when the Memorial Hall committee is organis ing a cleaning morn ing from 9 a.m. to noon.
If you can spare the odd hour or tlie whole morning you will be most welcome. Take your own rubber gloves. Coffee and croissants will be served.
Annual outing
Members of Hurst Green WI are reminded that it is the annual outing on Thursday, June 28th.
The outing is to Glas- form, where members will see a glass blow ing demonstration and then have lunch at Bonds of Elswick. Any members who wish to go should contact Gill McDon nell 82G378. O More News
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