I- 16 Clitheroe Advertiser &Times, Thursday, February 14th, 2008
Church service On Sunday, the fami lies together service will be held at 11 a.m. in St John’s Church. Evensong will be held ;is usual at 6-30 p.m., but members of the church who are to be confirmed will attend Whalley Parish Church for this year’s confir- matin service.
Education It was a packed St John’s Church at 11 a.m. on Sunday when the children of Read CE School led the Education Sun day service. The recorder group played the entry music and the vicar, the Rev. Dr Alan Sowerbutts, wel comed everyone.
Violinists played “Spanish Scale” and “Celtic Songs” and the opening hymn was “i am Special”.
Key Stage 1 pupils performed “The Wolf and the Pan cakes” and the fol lowing hymn was “Our God is a great big God”. The choir sang “Amazing Grace” followed by the offertory hymn “Praise Him on the Trumpet”. Key Stage 2 performed “The Blind Man and the Elephant”.
The choir sang “Time will Tell” and the congregation sang “We are climbing Jesus’ Ladder.”
Alston Hall or Den man Gollege was available for mem bers to consider tak ing up.
There was prelimi nary notice of a flower arranging and coffee evening by Petals of Padiham in the Memorial Institute on April 23rd.
Members of the W1 walking group enjoyed the January ramble round the Standen Lane area.
Birthday greetings were read out by Mrs Carol Little.
Successful in the com- petition for a pin cushion, judged by Mrs Dakin, wore Mrs E. Jackson, Mrs B. Spencer, Mrs M. Silverwood.
At the March 4th meeting speaker Mr Michael Emery will explain the work of a magistrates’ court.
Dominoes At the monthly whist and domino drive, organised by Rim- ington Memorial Institute Manage ment Committee, a pie and peas supper was served. Mrs E. Jackson and Mrs E. Hartley were MCs and a raffle was held.
Whist winners: ladies - Mrs E. Barker, Mrs E. Jakson, Miss Wellock; gents-Mr K. Tennant, Mr S. Hogg, Mr M. Grainger.
Dominoes: Mrs Thornber, Mr D. Lowe, Mr E. Fox, Mr P. Eccles, Mr R. Knight, Mrs A. Fox.
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Needlework Guest speaker at the meeting of Riming- ton WI was Mrs Claire Dakin, who amazed and delight ed members with a talk and demonstra tion on City and Guilds needlework. She had brought a hugevariety of sam ples of her course- work, showing the many different tech niques used in creat ing designs and stunning decorative effects.
Mrs Dakin went on to demonstrate the skill of producing felt material from sheep’s wool and showed colourful felt wall-hangings and collages.
The two teams who took part in the LFWI fun quiz at Hurst Green had thoroughly enjoyed the evening, and acquitted them selves with honour. The schedules for Clitheroe Area WI Show were available from Mrs N. Healey and the bursary for courses at either
Choir concert The sounds of the Haslingden Choir rang out from St Mary’s RC Church on Sunday. The evening with the mixed choir of men, women and children was a very enter taining event, with a wide variety of music ranging from traditional choir anthems to Ameri can boogie and from Westlife to children’s nursery rhymes set to music in a very entertaining way, through to the finale song, which was an Irish Blessing. There were also sever al moving solos from flautist Michael Ish- erwood.
A buffet supper was served in the church hall at the interval and a raffle with some excellent prizes was held. The whole event was organised. by church members, Peter and Susan White and was in aid of the communi ty hall new roof fund.
Fr Peter Birmingham thanked the choir
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A CIIATBURN home has kick-slarlcd a cam paign to refurliish the village .sports field changing rooms.
Clialburn residents arc raising funds to give
and the organisers for the excellent evening.
AGM Sabden Bowling Club’s annual meet ing will be held on Tuesday, March 11th, at 7-30 p.m. in the pavilion in Pen- dle Street East.
Fellowship There will be Lenten Fellowship gather ings and supper on the next three Thursdays in St Mary’s RC Church presbytery at 7 p.m. These are open to people of all denomi nations.
Concert There is to be an organ concert in St Nicholas’s Church, on Friday, March 7th, featuring a return visit from the Octavius choir and Anthony Hunt, the organist at Man chester Roman Catholic Cathedral.
Well-loved The funeral takes place tomorrow of well-loved villager Mrs Ruth Parfitt, who died last week, aged 93. Sabden- born Mrs Parfitt had always lived in her native village until recent times when she moved to a care home.
She was born Ruth Birtwell, lived in Padiham Road, attended Sabden
' Council School and was married at St Nicholas’s Church, where she was a life long member and where her ■ son, Bernard, is church
warden. She worked as a winder in the former Cobden Mill alongside her late husband, Reggie Parfitt, who worked as a taper before joining up for active service with the RAF in Egypt.
He later took over the family coal business and she ran the office and took care of the administra tion.
The couple lived in Gardeners Row all their married life, until Mr Parfitt’s death in 1988, and there brought up their children, son Bernard and daugh ter Anne.
Mrs Parfitt was popu lar and well respect ed, becoming involved in all aspects of communi ty life, especially the church where she was
actively
involved in the Mothers’ Union and Ladies’ Circle.
She celebrated her 90th birthday in May, 2004, sur rounded by all her family and many friends in St Nicholas’s Church Hall. She leaves her two children, grand children and great grandchildren.
Her funeral service takes place in St Nicholas’s Church at 1 p.m.
Services The Rev. B. Knight will take the 9-30 a.m. service at St Nicholas’s Church on Sunday. Mr Ian Wheeler is the preacher at the
the football and cricket club facilities a facelift.
The Manor House handed over a cheque for £1011 to get the hall rolling, (s)
Methodist church service, also at 9-30 a.m. and morning service at Sabden Baptist Church is at 10 a.m. This week it will be led by the Peagam family.
Roof fund Plans are to be sub mitted soon for a new roof on St Mary’s Community Hall in Whalley Road.
Since a surveyor from the Salford Roman Catholic diocese drew up £100,000 plans for major refurbishment of the hall last year - including replacing the existing asbestos roof - the whole scheme has been revised.
A parishioner, Mr Tony Hargan, of AJH Associates, Clitheroe, has offered his services as surveyor to offset the huge costs it would have involved and a new target of £20,000 has been set for the replacement roof.
When this is achieved a new scheme Mil be drawn up to replace the fire doors and windows and, even tually, internal alter ations.
Planning permission is needed, however, as the building falls within a conserva tion area.
The fund-raising has become a village effort, as the hall is a community building used by all sections of the community for events such as evening classes, tea
dances, meetings and private func tions.
It is available to hire by calling Mrs Betty Clarkson on 01282772762.
A number of fund raising events have already been held, but more are needed and any ideas would be very welcome.
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Victoria Cross Guest speaker at the meeting of Simon- stone with Read WI next Thursday at 7- 30 p.m. in Simon- stone Old School Hall, will be Mr Tony Ormiston.
The title of his talk will be “The Histoiy of the Victoria Gross” and because it may be of interest to some gentlemen, they too are invited to attend the meet ing it they wish.
SLAIDBURN
Bracelets Members of Slaid- burn WI met in the village hall and were welcomed by Mrs Christine Blakey.
A simple and effective way of making beads was demon strated by Mrs Vicky Blackie and members quickly made themselves an attractive bracelet. Thanks were expressed to her by Mrs Pat Garnett.
A competition for members’ own work was won by Mr.s
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Anne Swindlehurst, Mrs Tracy Ankers was second and Mrs June Carr third.
Slaidburii Young Farmers met on Monday at Manor House Farm, New ton, by kind permis sion of Mr and Mrs J. Harrison.
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Members had the choice of judging dairy cows and sheep or making Valentine’s cards. Results for the stock judging were: seniors -1 , Steven Walker; 2, John France; juniors: 1, Mick Handley; 2, Jonathon Parker; 3, Harr}" Shaw. Results of the card making were: Seniors - 1, Anna Cowperth- waite;
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-l,Anna Jean Paton; 2, Laura Coupland: 3, Holly Shutes.
Next Monday’s meet ing is ice skating at Blackburn. Mem bers should meet at the Parkers Arms, Newton, at 6-45 p.m. or Blackbiirn Ice Arena at 7-45 p.m. The cost is £5 per member.
5 p.m. and at 11 a.m. on Sundays. On Fridays, at 7 p.m., there will be the sta tions of the Cross, confession at 12.30 p.m. and 5 p.m. on Saturdays, with exposition and bene diction at 4 p.m. on Sundays.
Sermons during Lent will be on “The Faith”.
Tomorrow is CAFOD fast day. Envelopes for donations, now in the pews, should be returned as soon as possible.
During 2007, parish ioners contributed £1,261 for the.APF Missionary Society, about £1,000 being from the red boxes available at the church. Collections for this year are at the beginning of March, July and November.
Prayer wave Tomorrow, at 2 p.m., Whalley Mothers’ Union members will take part in the annual wave of prayer in the Abbey Chapel. At 9-15 a.m. on Fridays, also in the chapel. Holy Communion is cele brated.
Church service Sunday worship at 2 p.m. in West Brad ford Methodist Church will be led by Mr Peter Howard.
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Excellence An award from a panel of head teach ers and school advis ers is to be made to Whalley Primary School for learning excellence innova tive practice.
Writing in the school newsletter, head teacher Brian Beres- ford comments: “This award is specifically for our work in providing enriched role play activities for chil dren up to and including Year 4. The school has well- established periods of learning from out door classrooms and creative play, devop- ing this throughout Key Stage 1.”
In other school news, the soccer team has won the St Wilfrid’s High School feeder schools tournament by defeating Mellor, C.E. School by a resounding scoreline of 15-5 at the JJB Soccerdrome.
Mass In Lent In addition to mass at 10 a.m. from Mon day to Friday dur ing I^nt at the Eng lish Martyrs’ RC Church, mass on Salurday.s will bo at
Christian Action About £335 was raised for Christian Aid and CAFOD at a coffee morning- with cake and other stalls, held in the Methodist Church Hall on Saturday and organised by Whalley Christian Action Group.
The group has also organised the Lent lunches of soup, bread and cheese, held at 11-45 a.m. and followed by a short talk. These are also being held in the church hall. The theme is “The Five Marks of Mission".
The poup welcomes visitors and new members at the bi monthly meetings.
Reflection A Lenten day of reflection entitled “Guided by the Spirit” is being held at Whalley Abbey on Saturday, March 1st, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The cost will be £23 and itt will be led by the Rev. Dr William R. Davies, a former president of the Methodist Confer ence.
Bookings should be made on 01254 828400.
On Sundays at 7 p.m.during Lent, services and com pline are held in the chapel. This Sun day’s will be led by Fr Philip Price, parish priest at the English Martyrs’ RC Church.
Junior football
Whalley Juniors FC are lo hold iheir
annual sportsper- son’s dinner on Fri day, February 20lh at Mytton Fold Farm Hotel. Guest speaker is former international soccer referee Dermot Gal lagher. Tickets cost £25 and are avail able from club ch;iir- man Dave Astley (tel 01254 249601 j . ‘
On Sunday The service on Sun day morning at the , Methodist church at 10-30 a.m. will be led by Peter Duck worth.
Seniors’ AGM The new date for the AGM of Whalley Senior Citizens is Saturday, March 1st, at 6-30 p.m. for 6-45 in
the
Methodist Church Hall.
Last Saturday’s win ners wore: ladies whist - Miss J. Teller and Mrs H. Hardy; gents - Mrs D. Farnsworth and Mrs G. Walmesley.
Winners at dominoes were Mrs J. Peel and Mr F. Peel.
Slave traders At the first meeting of the newly-formed Whalley with Mit- ton WI, Mrs Janet Nelson, of Lancast er, gave an interest ing and well- researched account of the development of the slave trade in Lancaster from 1740 to 1807. She men tioned the local wealthy families who were involved with the transporta tion of slaves from across the Atlantic.
There were slides of old maps and build ings of both Lan caster and the sur rounding area which all told their own story of this oppres sive trade. ■
Mrs Sheila Sagar con gratulated Mrs Nel son on her depth of knowledge of her subject which mem bers had enjoyed.
The competition was won by Mrs Hillary Scott.
President Mrs Sheila Bowles expressed best wishes and con gratulations to Mrs Dorothy Dixon who has celebrated a spe cial birthday.
At the next meeting on March 5th in Whalley Methodist Church hall at 7-45 p.m. Mr David Kay will talk about shire horses.
Learning skill Classes on sign lan guage for mums and babies are being run in Whalley Village Hall.
Two classes will be held on Tuesday mornings during term time, at 9-30 and 10.-45 a.m.
For further details, contact Helen on 07828196879.
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