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4 Clitheroe Advertiser & Times, Thursday, September 18th, 2008 V.;


Loyal sonof Clitheroe


dies in USA


A FORMER pupil of Clitheroe Royal Grammar School and a member of the Old Clitheronians’ Associ­ ation has died in Jack­ sonville, Florida, after a long illness. Gerald Iveson Bish­


op (73) was born in India, but brought-up from an early age in Waddington, where he lived until his career took him to America. He worked for John­


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son and Johnson, who made healthcare prod­ ucts, locally before moving to the parent company in .New Brunswick, New Jer­ sey, USA, where he worked for 20 years. He met his wife,


Bridget, when she was a nurse at a Blackburn hospital.. The couple, had three daughters: Elizabeth, Frances and Catherine, and a son, James, who were born and still live in America. Mr and Mrs Bishop


returned to the Ribble Valley often to meet friends and family and renew old acquain­ tances and they retained a house on Church Brow Gardens for, their .visits until last year. Mr'Bishop's ashes will.be .brought back for burial a t Waddington.


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Tea party ■with SaraJij for charity


TIRELESS fund-raiser Sarah Bleasdale has been busy raising


more money for charity. She organised a tea party at the


Brown Cow, Chatbum, which raised £40 for Marie Curie Cancer Care.


ordinator at Clitheroe’s Tesco, said she was pleased with the amount


Sarah, who is the fund-raising co­


raised. She is hoping to raise a total of £3,000 for the charity by holding a number of fun events throughout the year. Our picture shows volunteers


Kathleen Ridgeway, Julie Bleasdale, Sarah Bleasdale, Matthew Clews,


' and Estelle Bolton a t the tea party. (A280808/1)


Animal open day for fund


A B R EA S T c a n c e r v ic t im is ap p e a l in g to R ib b le Valley re s i­ d en ts to su p p o r t an open day in ■Whalley tha t will raise vital funds for th e Rosemere Cancer Founda­ tion. • • Based at the Royal Preston Hospital,


the foundation provides extra financial support to.the hospital’s Rosemere Cancer Centre as well as the cancer units scattered throughout the Lan­ cashire and South Cumbria Cancer Network;- Through'fund-raising initiatives it.


collects more than half a million pounds a year, which is used to provide addi­ tional facilities and services that can


make all the difference to a patient’s experience of treatment. Mother-of-two Letitia Newhouse


(51), of Cowgill Farm, Sawley, is just one of many local residents who have been treated at Rosemere Cancer Cen­ tre and benefited from the additional facilities the Foundation’s fund-raising pro-vides. She underwent radiotherapy treatment there after being diagnosed with breast cancer. “Most people know someone who has


been affected by cancer and having a facility like Rosemere so close by is so important to patients who would other­ wise have to travel to Christie’s Hospi­ tal in Manchester for treatment,’’ Mrs Newhouse explained.


“When you go to Rosemere everyone


is so friendly, especially in the coffee shop which is run by volunteers. They provide patients and whoever is with them with a hot drink free of charge. I t ’s just these little things that help so much when you are ill and make it feel less like you’re in hospital.” Now a regular coffee shop volunteer,


Mrs Newhouse, who used to run her own dog grooming business, urged local people to support the open day at Whalley Corn Mills, which has been billed as a “family day out for all ani­ mal lovers”. Taking place on Sunday, September


28th, from 11-30 a.m. onwards, the main attraction will be the “Parade of


Stallions” due to take place at 1 p.m. - a sight surely not to be missed. Other a t tra c t io n s include a dog agility demonstration, as well as novelty dog classes to which ■visitors are encouraged to bring their own dogs along. Judging •will start at 2 p.m. with a hog roast plus refreshments'also available on the day. Admission is free but donations for


the hog roast would be gratefully received with all proceeds going to the Foundation. For further information about the


foundation call 01772 522913 or log on to the web-site a t ■


For more details about the open day call Whalley Corn Mills on 01254 824643.


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Nominations sought for election


ANelection is to be held for the Billington and Old Langho ward in Ribble ■Valley following the resig­ nation of Coun. Graham Sowter. Prospective candidates


are ad'vised that nomina­ tions open tomorrow and close next Friday (Sep­ tember 26th). Nomina­ tion packs are available in person from the Council Offices in Church Walk, Clitheroe, or by phoning the council’s electoral reg­ is tra tio n officer, Jane Horsfield, on 01200 414411. The election will take place on Thursday, October 23rd, and the result announced as soon as the count has taken place. Applications to change'


a postal vote to a proxy vote, or vice-versa, to have a postal ballot sent to a different address, or to cancel a postal or proxy vote, must be made by 5 p.m. on Wednesday, Octo­ ber 8th. Applications for a postal or proxy vote must be made by 'Wednesday, October 15th. Applica­ tions must be made to Jane Horsfield, electoral registration officer, Ribble Valley Borough Council Offices, Church Walk, Clitheroe, Lancashire, BB7 2RA, or by phoning 01200414411.


Lead stolen


LEAD flashing, worth an es timated £100, was stolen from the roof of S talw a rt Commission Carpets Ltd, Primrose Works, Clitheroe, on either last Wednesday or Thursday.


by Fai2a Afzaal


AN in sp ira t io n a l explore r who finally fulfilled his 30- y e a r dream is coining to a Ribble Valley school. Pupils at Stonyhurst College


and members of the public are invited to hear first-hand about the exploits of ex-pupil Adrian Flanagan (pictured), Earlier this year explorer


Adrian become the first single- handed sailor to achieve a “ver­ tical” circumnavigation of the earth. Adrian, who boarded a t the


school in the 1970s, ■will •visit the college on November 13th, a t 7- 30 p.m., to give a presentation and will be signing his new book “Over The Top”, which details his amazing trip on his 38ft. sloop “Barrabas”. During his epic voyage that


lasted 405 days and covered 31,000 miles, Adrian dislocated both wrists, was tracked by pirates off Brazil and was washed overboard. The Alpha Global Expedition


ended at 11 a.m. on Wednesday, May 21st, 2008, when Barrabas crossed the s ta r t /f in ish line between Calshot Spit and Hill- head in the Solent. Completing the voyage ful­


filled a 30-year dream for Adri­ an, who, as a teenager boarding at Stonyhurst, was inspired by Sir Francis Chichester’s voyage on Gipsy Moth IV in 1966/7. He is only th e 14th solo


yachtsman to successfully dou­ ble Cape Horn westwards against wind and current, recorded the first non-stop UK to Hawaii (18,000 nm) and is


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AN exhibition looking at life over the past 200 years at St Michael and St Jo h n ’s RC Church in Clitheroe opened yesterday to mark the depar­ ture of the Jesuit order. The display was officially


opened a t the Lowergate church social centre by the Mayor and Mayoress of Clitheroe, Coun. John H i l l ' and his wife, Phillipa. I t includes a wide variety of


photographs, ar tefacts and memorabilia, some dating back to the mid-19th Centu­ ry.


I t ■will be open to the gener- al public from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.


and 6-30 p.m. to 9-30 p.m. from today until Saturday, September 20th. ‘ On Sunday, the exhibition


will be open ^ te r Mass a t 11 a.m. and will close a t 4-30 p.m.


The Jesuits have been serv­ ing the church’s parishioners for more than 210 years.


I t is handing over the reins


to the Salford Diocese due to th e dwindling number of Jesuit missionaries who are available.


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the only yachtsman to have ever sailed Rus sia’s Arctic Coast along the Northern Sea Route single-handed. Tickets to Adrian’s presenta­


tio n are £10 each, which includes a glass of wine and proceeds of the ticket sales wiU go to Adrian’s nominated chari­ ties, Save the Children and the Oxford Children’s Hospital, as well as Stonyhurst’s own chari­ ty S.C.H.T. Mr Jo n a th an


Hewat, Stonyhurs t College Admissions and Marketing Manager, said: “We are all looking forward to listening to Adrian’s adventures. There are only a limited number of seats available and they are selling very quickly indeed.” Tickets are available by con­


ta ctin g Beverley Sillitoe at Stonyhurst College, e-mail assbciation@stonyhurst.ac.uk or telephone 01254 827043. (s)


Fresh fish shop is the ‘plaice’ to be!


WHAT are all the people who ■visit Clitheroe most impressed with? Could it be the Castle, the tradi­


tional market, or the town’s loca­ tion? Apparently it is our indi'vid- uality - shops such as Byrnes ■wines, real butchers’ shops such as Harrison and Kerr, Cowmans and Alpes and our very own fresh fish shop - Wellgate Fisheries. This month proprietor Giles


Shaw is promoting fresh lobster from the choppy seas around the Orkney Islands at a price, he says, never seen before. In conjunction ■with the Orkney


Fisherman's Society, Giles is bring­ ing 200-300 live lobsters a week to Clitheroe. He cooks the lobsters in a sympathetic and friendly way,


' before dressing theni ready for the table. Giles is keen to support British


fisherman; The native lobster is not farmed, they are cultivated from eggs and when still quite tiny


. released into the sea near rocky ground then caught in the old fash-


; ioned way by pot. The main catch­ ing period is September to October,


but the society has holding ponds where i t can keep up to eight tonnes of lobsters to cope with demand through to its peak in late December. Wellgate Fisheries is one of the


North West's finest fishmongers, Giles and his father, Ian, bought the business from Brian Hall in 1989, nearly 20 years ago, and built up a thritring business. Sadly, Ian died in a plane crash


in 1992, so Giles continued on his own. Pre'viously he had trained as a chef under Nigel Haworth, of Northcote Manor, so can give cus­ tomers the benefit of his culinary knowledge in cooking fish and seafood. This lobster festival month is running in conjunction with the seafood fortnight to pro­ mote all British shellfish. Giles and his staff can recommend how to cook any kind of fish, as they spe­ cialise in nothing, but fish. The lobsters are £9.90 each, dressed and ready to eat.


,, Pictured is Giles with freshly


cooked lobsters, outside Wellgate Fisheries. (A160908/2)


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