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~ - a weekly look at local issues, people a n f places^ An overpaid position!


template writing a column about just a few tens of thousands of pounds. ' - Nevertheless, most of us work terribly


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hard for our livings and resent it terribly when the public sector wastes our tax payments - even when the sums are rela­ tively small. The staff of Ribble Valley Borough


Council have been led, for the past decade or more, by a genial-old cove called Dave Morris. Apart from' the fact that he supports Manchester United, he is a decent sort of a man. He is an active member of his church and his greatest delight is in taking his grandchildren away for short trips. He really is a kindly man. No one would describe Dave as espe­


cially dynamic and, in a sense, a dynam­ ic man is the last thing the Ribble Valley wants or needs.: We are a conservative lot and the gen-


u r in g the credit crunch, we. have all become used to hearing about billions and trillions and it is a t least slightly embarrassing to con­


prefer the devil we know. The second is a | little more complex.


As I See I t . . •by Contrarian


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tier the pace of change, the better we seem to like it. Dave is going to retire in April and it is overwhelmingly likely that


-he will be replaced by one of his subordi­ nates who will spend the last few years of his own career, revelling in the title of Chief Executive of the Borough Council. I actually prefer the old title of Town Clerk. To my mind, it better reflects the nature of the job. There are two reasons to think that an


internal promotion is the likeliest out­ come of the current recruitment-process. The first is that our councillors, like us.


: . , 100 Years ago


THE committee of Clitheroe’s Good Samaritan Society decided to solicit subscriptions to enable them to carry on


: their work. The committee made the public appeal in th e hope th a t the


■response would help.them meet the demands made on them. The society had been in existence for 35 years and its sole purpose was to help the helpless. • A special meeting of the 'Town Council was arranged to discuss the pro-


.-visions of the Children’s Bill relating to the feeding of school children. As a


■ result of the depression in trade, many children were going to.school without breakfast. Efforts were to.be-made to


;help the proud families who would silently suffer the pangs of hunger • rather than seek Union relief.- • -


Looking Back .50 Years ago


YEARS of hard work were marked at Gisburn when the foundation stones were laid for the new Parish Hall, which was to cost £5,316. The stones had been bought by local residents and organisa­ tions and donations, in the form of the foundation stones, were to bear the names of the donors. Six corner stones were sold for £50 each and .24 centre stones for £10 each. • Prizes at the annual speech day of


Clitheroe Royal Grammar School were presented by Professor F. E. Vick, of University College, North Staffordshire, a t the King Lane Hall. -Afterwards, he addressed the gathering of boys, parents and guests, who included the Mayor and Mayoress of the town. Head boy, M. J. Niland, proposed a vote of thanV.';!.


- Ribble Valley has a population of only


about 50,000 people against the normal minimum of a quarter of a million and a maximum well above th a t. I t is a tiny


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organisation and local government ser-1 vants with any real ambition would not


dream of. applying to run anything quite | so small.


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An Alex Ferguson does not apply to I manage Accrington Stanley, however big


the recruitment process look likely to set a very high salary level, in the hope of attracting an Alex Ferguson. When they


the salary. ■ Mistakenly, the councillors in charge of I


- discover th a t he has not applied, they will recruit from within and pay that enormous salary to an internal candidate who would have been more than delight-1 ed to get the job for just shy of £100;0 a year, which Dave is currently earning, I and the generous pension entitlement | that goes with it. c-mail: (hccon(rurian@holmail.co.uk


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High-flying lawyers earn top promotion


I w o 'Valley lawyers ■ have been promoted by their firm.


David Yates, of Hurst


Green, has become a partner a t Forbes Solicitors. Mr Yates has returned to


the firm’s Blackburn office from Leeds to lead the team working for the Cooperative Society Group Risk and Insurance Department. He joined Forbes as a


trainee in 1993, qualifying in .1995 and specialises in com­ plex personal injury work and has wide experience in group litigation claims and in cases involving defective equip­ ment. Martin Crabtree, Manag­


ing Partner of his department, said: “ I t is pleasing th a t


DAVID YATES ( s ) .


Da-vid has been with the firm throughout his legal career having trained with us. This demonstrates the effectiveness, of the firm’s training and our


SIMON G R E T TO N (s)


ability to develop our team from within.” Simon Gretton, of


Waddington, works at Forbes’ Chorley o f f i c e h e has also


25 Years ago


THE-Clitheroe division of the St John Ambulance was preparing to host a recruitment drive in an effort to survive. In pre-vious years adult membership of the group, which was formed more than 90 years earlier, had dwindled. Superin­ ten d en t Mrs Edna Hothersall had organised a introduc tory course to attract members. • On the step of Number 10 Down­


ing Street stgod Clitheroe newsboy Rus­ sell Sanderson. Russell made an impor­ tant delivery of the Clitheroe Advertiser and Times to Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. But unfortunately the PM was not at home when Russell and 250 other youngsters representing local weeklies across the country called to pop the papers through the letterbox.


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-HE X-Factor is back .: arid I have to confess;: that I’m hooked again!


thought for the Week Be the best we can! rather than to be served!


.-- The s i tu a t io n .made me think of how we see ourselves in relation to the work that we do. People often introduce us by saying what job we do, but it’s not what we do, but'who we are.that really matters. Our self-worth must not be


dependent on what job we have or. do not have in this economically difficult time. -. .-Self-worth is .what you are =


born with. As a human being you are uniquely, created and


- valued and loved; You can’t■


loseself-worth,■butunfortu-. nately we often lose sight of it and forget qur-value.. If we serve others we are to do i t


love for others, but loving our-; selves too.


■ One of the things about the


X-Factor contestants is th a t they know that they have a ta lent which is special and want to share it. I don’t know about you; but when I was a t school it wasn’t cool to be seen to be clever or good at things;-’ People often play down the


, positive things about them--’ selves.


‘ . Nelson Mandela says th a t


we shouldn’t be afraid to' shine! “You are a child of-; Cqd. Your, playing small does ;not serve the world. There is -


with self-respect; inspired by­ won't feel insecure, around"


: nothing enlightened a b o u t ' . shrinking so that other people'


' ■ Reianna and Jcnner’s


been appointed as a partner. Mr G re tto n works in the crime department, specialis­ ing in all areas of criminal law, but particularly road traffic offences. He also qualified in 1995 and was based in Clitheroe before moving to the Chorley office in 1999. The two men were among


four solicitors from Forbes who were promoted to part­ ner.


. Forbes’ managing partner


John Barker said: “All of the promotions are internal, giv­ ing clients the reassurance that they -will receive the high levels of service and quality advice Forbes is known for. Each individual is well respected for their work and recommended highly by clients.”


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you.' "We a re all meant to shine, as children do. We were


born to make manifest the. glory of God tha t is -within u&


' It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we uncon-- sciously give other people per­


mission to do the same.” Forme, the “X-Factor”is not some special unique tal-


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- ■ ■ Churches - ^1.’S SefcrrcfiffR w o young-book-


I worms have devoured J L 50 books each to win a library reading award.


' N APPEAL to all the Wiseman families in


’ Read CE Primary School,;


pupils Reanna Collinson (10) and Jenner Smith (10),-., were presented with their


cial weekend event in July. The “Wiseman Weekend”


jL. A .th eR ib b le Valley, is; being made-by the Rev.


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■ ‘ j REV.KATYTHOMAS, .- c f'. Whalley, Waddinglon and r


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- David Wiseman, of Skipton. ■ Mr Wiseman hopes to b r in g all the Wisemans


. together at “the land of their fathers”, in the Yorkshire vil­ lage of-Kettlewell, for a spe­


will take place from Friday,


• July 17th to Sunday, July, 19th. According to Mr Wise-


:,man - who organised th e weekend following the suc­ cess of. last year’s event— 200 years ago, around half of the people living in Kettlewell


Relay Readers’ gold award at school. Headteacher Mrs


: Joyce Shaw said: “We have, very strong links with Read _


were called Wiseman, and most people w ith .th e'su r - name can trace their roots back to the village. _ The 2009 Wiseman Week­


end will include a to u r of Kettlewell, a treasure trail, an exhibition of memorabiL ia, family meals, and many more activities. ■ u . . - -


. Library and it is good to see that two of.our pupils are ob-viously taking full advan­ tage of it. (S021008/2)


W i s e m a n f a m i l i e s c a n t r a c e t h e i r r o o t s Last year’s event attracted


; around 150 members of the • family, including some from Canada, South Africa and


-New Zealand. Any member of the.JViseman family inter­ ested in attending the event,


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