12 Clitheroe Advertiser &Times, Thursday, March 22nd,2007
Senior citizens More than 30 members of Mellon Senior Citi zens enjoyed a fasci nating talk about
Dowson, of Black pool. The talk was illustrated by slides of outstanding quality, an attribute the members have come to expect from Miss Dowson, who is one
the standard of hotels used during the holi day and was equally impressed by the friendliness of every one they had dealings with throughout their holiday.
of their favourite She showed pictures of speakers.
many famous build- India by Miss Pam She spoke highly about ings such as Delhi’s - a j
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Red Fort and the magnificent architec ture of New Delhi. The fabled Taj
Mahal at Agra with other temples and its beautiful carried water features in the marble screens was Indian countryside. sho\vn together with The highlight, howev
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motorised. Vice- ^ i j will be chairman Mr Ellis Roscoe chaired the
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evening in the absence of chairman '^''6 1 OUS Mrs Barbara Cutting The over 50s group who is ill. Best wishes roeet on each Thurs- were sent to her for a day afteroon from 2 speedy recovery. The to 4 p.m. in Read AGM will be held on United Reformed April 11th when it is Church, to socialise hoped that as many ^r*d enjoy a cup of members as possible tea. •will attend.
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Away day Friends from the church of St Alkelda, Giggleswick, trav elled to All Hallow’s Church, Mitton, for time together at the end of their Alpha course. Members enjoyed a wonderful opportunity for refreshment in a place of worship and prayer which dates back to 1270.
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Mother’s Day The Mothers’ Union choir of Irene Art- ingstall, Joan Harg reaves, Susan Parry Barbara Sharp, Ann Goodway, Barbara Lord and Cynthia Carter sang at the family service on Mothering Sunday in St John’s Church, Read.
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Sidemen were Mrs Eileen Wilson and Mrs Linda Webster. Two Sunday School pupils took-up the collection and flower posies were distrib uted to the congrega tion by Mrs Good way and Mrs Art- ingstall.
Two bands were dedi cated in memory of Mrs Hilda Lord and
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Instead of a sermon Sunday School schol ars performed a play. Mrs Carter read the lesson and the gospel was read by Mr Howard Wadsworth, who also took the service.
Vleeting
Members of St John’s Mothers’ Union, will meet in the vestry on
Tuesday at 7-30 p.m. when Mr Brian Williams will speak on “The Church of England Adoption Society’’. On Mon-
Waste paper It’s waste paper day in Pendleton on Tues day. Please leave papers in the bags provided.
Winners of the quiz held in Read Consti tutional Club were Three Blokes and a Girl with captain Billy Woods winning on a tie break. Sec ond was Quack, Quack Quack and Quacky,
third
Cliviger Clowns and booby Sean Porter’s
team Four Gals and a Guy.
IsAbd eN; St Nicholas
About 75 people attended the Mother ing Sunday servnce at St Nicholas's Church. Flowers were given out by the children to the women in the congregation and afterwards the Thursday Club mem bers held a coffee morning in the church hall. This was well attended and there was a cake stall and raffle. The event raised £170 for funds and the Thursday Club wishes to thank everyone for their support. On Easter Saturday, April 7th, there will bean East er Garden Service at 4 p.m.
Paper The next waste paper collection is on Tues day morning when old newspapers, mag azines, junk mail etc should be left outside as near to the kerb as possible in the white hessian sacks provid ed. They will be col lected by the borough council's recycling service.
Services Sabden Baptist Church will hold a service at 10 a.m. on Sunday, led by Mrs Elaine Frankland. Mr Leslie Jackson will take the service at the Methodist Church at 9-30 a.m. At St Nicholas’s Church, the Rev. Brian Stevenson will lead the 9-30 a.m. family Eucharist. Weekend Masses at St Mary's RC Church are at 6 p.m. Saturday when chil dren from the school will take part in their sacramental pro gramme and 10-30 a.m. Sunday.
Day service will be held
at7-30p.m.in church.
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Bowling The annual presi dent’s coffee morn ing at Sabden Bowl ing Club will take place on Saturday, March 31st, in the clubhouse from 10 a.m. to noon.
There will be a tombola, raffle and cake stall.
Admission is £2 and everyone is welcome. Any members can pay their subs on that morning, £25 full membership, £23 over 60s, £8 juniors and £5 social members.
Weather permitting, the green will then open for the new
School pupils are busily making deco rated eggs at home for a display in school next week. All the children tak ing part will receive a Fairtrade choco late bar from the PTFA as a thank you.
There will he an East er cake sale next Thursday at 11-30 a.m. and 3-15 p.m. and donations of home-made cakes on an Easter theme will be welcome. School closes for Easter next Friday and re opens on Monday, April ICth
Puppets The Presto Puppets are in action in St Nicholas's Hall at 3- 30 p.m. on Saturday. The hour-long per
come to the assem bly and cake stall. On the Friday evening the Friends of the School Associ ation is holding an Easter Egg Bingo from G-30 p.m. to 8- 30
p.m.There will be a pie and peas sup per and everyone is
prizes and any dona tions of chocolate eggs will be wel come.
On Saturday night Year 3 children will be taking part in the next stage of their sacramental pro gramme at the 6 p.m. Mass in St Mary's Church.
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Primary schooi Mountain high Sabden
Primary = At the meeting of
welcome. There will At the next meeting be Easter eggs for
oughly entertaining with talks of his encounters with well-known political figures. Names were taken for the spring lunch tomorrow. Those attending should meet at the village hall car park at 11-45 a.m.
on April 19th the speakern will be Mrs Janet Wareing, talk ing about her life in the police force and as a bailiff. The competition will be for an outrageous conviction.
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the Land”. He showed wonderful scenery close to home, visiting Towneley Hall, sea sonal views of the Pendle area and a light-hearted look at some flufly friendly sheep.
He continued with a
Red Nose Day through "fines". The total of £500 was helped by activities organised by James Ballantyne and Lewis Barlow and their friends and a cake stall to which many parents con tributed.
tour of the York- Tomorrow parents of shire Dales in sum mer and winter and a visit to Brimham rocks and Malham. He concluded his tour with pictures of the gardens at Bod- nant and the dra-
Sawley WI presi dent Mrs Alison Blakemore, gave a
special welcome to two new members and introduced guest speaker Mr Norman Harris whose talk was enti tled “Gasping for Breath in the Himalayas”. He
Young farmers Members of Slaid- burn Young Farm ers’ Club met on Monday for a visit to the vets in Lon- gridge.
described how his Next week's meeting journey took him by jj qj, Monday and is small aeroplane from Kathmandu to Lukla from where the ascent on foot to Everest Base Camp began.
a talk by the Belgian Blue Society in Slaidburn Village Hall at 7-30 p.m.
The camp is in an area within sight of
fSIMONSTONE
above sea level and A faniily night out to the diminished oxy- Practise artistic
Mount Everest R p a tlp Hriue which is 17,500 ft
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formance, a light- He captivated hearted panto on the theme of the Arabi an Nights, will include a 10-minute demonstration of the puppets.
Tickets are £4 adults and £2.50 children obtainable from the primary school in
773805, or pay on the door.
gen levels, due to the high altitude, add to the difficulty of the climb.
the
audience with his professional presen tation of panoramic views of spectacular mountain scenery, brought to life by video clips of the climbers as they ,
Whalley Road, by The trek totalled 64 ringing 01282 miles and he con-
School Children at St Mary’s RC School are in training for a spon sored skip in aid of the British Heart Foundation next Hostesses were Mrs Friday, March 30th. Pat Ratcliffe and The children are Mrs Janet Cosgrove, looking for sponsor- A competition for the ship from villagers and will be doing their skipathon between 10-30 a.m. and noon.
In the afternoon the Mrs Kate children will deco- reported rate an Easter egg and this will be judged by staff and the winners announced in assem bly a t 3-10 p.m. when prizes will be awarded.
The FSA will run a cake stall from 3 p.m. Family, friends, villagers are all wel-
The guest speaker Mr John Sergeant, for mer chief political correspondent for the BBC, was thor-
hers. on the
LFWI spring coun cil meeting in South- port, which she attended as dele gate, accompanied
skills, benefit from the exercise, win prizes and have fun. All these attractions will be a t Simon- stone Old School tomorrow at 7 p.m. where a beetle drive has been arranged. Family tickets are £5, children £1. Pay at the door. Refresh ments included.
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negotiated the dim- High 0016 cult terrain.
eluded that it was altogether a wonder ful experience. Mrs Betty Truman thanked Mr Harris for a very interesting and talk.
The meeting of Simonstone with
Read WI began on a high note by con gratulations being extended to the win ning quiz team of the LFWI fun quiz held at Hurst Green,
best mountain view was won by Mrs Margaret Baines Mrs Rita Webb, and Guest speaker Mrs Mrs Mary Wallace. Sims
entertaining The four ladies, Mrs Anne Atkinson, Mrs Anne Goodway, Mrs Ann Lennox and Mrs Hilary Clark son were each pre sented with a feder ation certificate and gift voucher.
by six other mem-Thirty four ladies from WIs through-
out the country took part and one man. Mrs Ascroft told many interesting stories about Cuba
Pat Ascroft held her audience enthralled and amused with her account of the WI Cycle Cuba experi ence, a sponsored event to raise funds for Denman College. ________ _____
They were shown round the consulting room, x-ray room and operating the atre. Members also completed a quiz on animal health. Daniel Parker expressed thanks to Andrew Hutchinson and his team.
matic ascent of Next Thursday, Snowden. Miss March 29th, ehil- Hilda Emsden thanked Mr Roberts for a spectacular show and enchanti ng music.
At the ne.xt meeting [\Jgyy envelODGS on April 10th in the
Dinner boosts Breast Cancer Care
A VERY successful charity dinner raised the magnifi cent sum of more than £700 for Breast Cancer Care.
The evening was held at The
they give to their families, were held with thanks being Vine House also has a centre expressed to all those who in Garstang and charity provided wonderful prizes, shops in Longridge, Preston At the end of the evening the and Garstang.
Ribchester Arms Hotel, in Personality Margo Grimshaw, Ribchester, organised by a of Blackburn, was the sec- group of ladies who are keen to raise awareness of the dis ease.
Two guest speakers gave the audience of ladies much to think about, firstly Mrs Marina Garside, bereave-
ond speaker who spoke about her entertaining life owning public houses in the area including the De Tab- ley at Ribchester, and of the It is hoped to arrange a fur- TV work she has done in ther event in aid of Breast recent years.
Cancer Care, an “Ascot
ment councillor at Vine She has also written a book of Ladies Day” in June. House, Preston, spoke of her life and gave a donation Pictured are the ladies and how the project was found- to the charity from the sale guests at the charity dinner ed by Margaret O’Donohue, of the books during the and of the great work they evening, do for people who suffer To help swell the funds fur- from cancer and the help ther a raffle and a lucky dip
sacks and amusing children’s cameras recycled from drinks cans. She said people of Cuba sensibly insist that all seats are occupied in cars when possible. She Thanks also said there are excellent medical facilities and good education through out the island. Mrs Ascroft was full of praise for the eight Cubans who had given up six days of their holidays to be a support group for the WI team and
towards the fund.
The Caribbean haiku competition was won by Mrs Clark son, Mrs Beryl Pol lard and Mrs Lennox.
class will be held on April 2nd at 17 Lawrence Avenue.
and its people and showed examples of their recycling skills, very attractive shopping bags made Old-tifTIG danCG from old hessian There was a good
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crowd for an old time dance held in Tosside Community Hall. Music was played for dancing by organist Alan Cookson.
prizes, help and sup port in any way.
Raffle winners: M. Knowles, B. Shuttle- woth, R. Middleton, M. Harrison, E. Neal, V. Wallace, J. Dickinson, D. Nel son, J. Finder.
The next dance will be on April 20th.
the Lancashire WIs Thicks a n d SpOtS raised over £8,000 .,
At a whist and domi no drive held in Tos- side Community
, . , ,£ .
were J. Kenyon and P. Metcalfe.
quilling . ]\,i_ Davies, N. Fox, J. Carr. Gents - W.
All members wel- Dominoes: V, Giles, come.
land. . . Whist winners: Ladies
P. Oddie, A. Lowe, R. Knight, E. Now ell, M. Smith.
Raffle: J. Hartley, J. Oddie, J. Chew, J.
son. The next drive will be on April 21st.
IVW^DJNGTONl were A nnivGfsary
expressed to all who W a d d i n g t o n had given raffle Methodist Church
will be celebrating on Sunday, April 1st with a special serv ice and buffet lunch.
The church is mark ing 100 years since the laying of the foundation stones of the existing chapel. Mr. Eric Brennand, of Grange-over- Sands, has specially been invited to take the service at 10-30 a.m.
Hall there were 12 To mark the occasion tables in play. MCs the congregation
will enjoy lunch together along with friends, neighbours and former members of the church.
D. Knight, J. Chew, Carr, J. Rilej', E. Ire- An open invitation is
extended to anyone from the area who would like to join in
held at the Ribchester Arms, in aid of Breast Can cer Care. (A080307/8)
this occasion, espe cially those who have been a part of any church activity in the past.
Hartley, F. Calver- ScGFlGry ley, J. Carr, J. Pear-
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speakers and hostess of the Ribchester Arms, Mrs Maria Joyson, were present ed with small floral arrange ments made by Lee Akroyd, along with hand-made cards by Kate Akroyd.
room, Mr Daniel Nelson will talk on “The Craft of Shoe- making”. Tea host esses will bo Mrs V. Towler, Mrs D. Underwood, Miss Walker and Miss Wallbank.
Methodist school- Offer ory envelopes for the new financial
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year are ready for collection at the hack of the English Martyrs’ RC Church. Last year over £5.000 was recovered from the Inland Revenue, thanks to lliose who used Gift Aid.
Final lunch
Parish council The correct details for the meetings of Whalley Parish Council are: annual parish meeting is on Tuesday, April 3rd at 7 p.m. in the Methodist Church hall Parish council meeting - Thursday, April 19th at 7-30 p.m in the Adult Education Centre (Old Grammar School)
RG sp o n dG rs
Th meeting of Whal ley First Responders will take place tonight at 7-45 p.m. inthe Methodist Church hall.
Both trainee and qualified responders will be training.
Waddington WI New members, who Mrs Ann Howard live in Whalley, are welcomed everyone urgently needed to including visitors he of groat service to and introduced the community,
guest speaker Mr R gcI COSG Malcolm Roberts Children wearing red who gave an audio on Friday at Wlial- visual presentation
The preacher at Sun day worship at 2 p.m. in West B r a d d f o r d Methodist Church, on Cliapol Lane, will he the Rev. Chris Checseman.
ley Primary School Everyone very wel- entitled “Light on raised money for come.
Be a community volunteer and help make a difference
JUST three hours a month is all it takes to make a real difference in your community.
WRVS volunteers are urgently needed in Mellor and Saleshury, Longridge and Chatburn.
The volunteers will be fully trained and all expenses are paid. WRVS volunteers are very active in the local community delivering hot lunchtime meals to the elderly and isolated.
For many recipients the friendly WRVS volunteer is the only social contact.
They look forward to seeing a friendly face and having a quick
chat. Drivers and helpers, men and women, are needed now to continue this much needed serv ice.
If you can spare just a couple of hours once a week or fortnight and would like to know more about making a real difference in the local community, please con tact 0845 601 4670 (local rate call) for more information.
If you can spare just three hours once a month, the WRVS is seeking volunteers to help witli the rotas in Mellor and Salcs- bury, Longridge and Chatlnirn, plus drivere and helpers.
The final Lent lunch of soup, broad and cheese, organised liy Whalley Christian Group is on Tuesday at 11-45 a.m. in the Methodist Church hall. Tile title of the Rev. Norma John son’s talk is "Hope througli vision."
On Sunday morning the Rev. Chris Cheeseman's theme is "Objects of the cross".
A quiz with meat and potato pie supper has been arranged for Saturday at 7-30
p.m.Tickets costing £5 are available from Joan Davies or .Angelino Whittaker.
dren are invited to pay £1 to wear non- uniform clothes. .All proceeds will be for school fund.s.
the violin group are invited to assembly a t 9 a.m. as the pupils and their teacher, Mrs. J. Price, will be play ing their instru ments.
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