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. : A T thistime'of yeaif every columnist :; ZA .and his dog is writing a retdew o f ; X ASOOS.'Allow me, instead, to offer ■ myreviewof 2009..


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At the end of the year,' about 99 Vi % of. people who have mortgages now will still '


: be litring in,their homes and more than v95% of:people who are in employment:; - now will still be employed. Food and petrol , will be a lot cheaper and inflation, at least


: for .the time being, will have disappeared. ; ; As a nation,' we will have continued to - get healthier and ouryxpectation of life


• ter, having spent more of our holidays here. - ■ Our cooking skills will have improved a-


bit and people who only knew, how to grill: steak will have found out how to stuff a- breast of lamb and have discovered how - delightful it tastes with a’ touch of garlic and a sprig of rosemary from the garden. '


i t e X ^ . o n t r a r i a n s | sRead other A ^ I ;^ It fe»tures;at|


:Traq. For 4,500 f^ l ie s , it will be a blessed; • relief. For the res't of us, it will mean little' ■. change. The Islamists will no.longer be.


..will have got a'little lon^r. On the average, : we will know our.own co'untry a little bet-'


:; trying to murder our children because of ■


Iraq. They will be doing it because of what -Vie are doing in Afghanistan or what the 1'Americans are doing in .Guantanamo or


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A PENSIONER suffered a head injury when he was thrown off a horse.' The man sustained an injury to his head and was taken to the doctor.


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;■ .O.C.hristmas work at Whalley Post Office exceeded all previous records and four.extra men,were called in to cope : with the increased deliveries. ; • What was described as “Ye Olde =


: ChristmasParty!’ was held in the Wes- leyan Schooli Low Moor, Clitheroe, oh ’: Christmas Day and the room was: deco- ' rated for the festive occasion.: : ,-ft-: , ft ■'


• Families will have got a little stronger as we spend more evenings together, at home, . instead of dashing about seeing what we, can spend. We will have started looking after our cars a little better and making all sorts of things last a little longer. ' ,.We will have got used, again, to the


' imaginations and never lack for an excuse; ■ Globally, we will have increased the quantity of greenhouse gases we produce,


V buildings to which the speakers have : flown; first-class, at our expense.


: ; :':The owners of our,supermarket chains


' will ha-ve spent, another year being • absolutely religious about hygiene and


., cleanliness in their food preparation and in the .work done in their supply chains.-As a


;;; resuIt,-no One will.have died from eating their food. The nationalised health service ■ will have done its best and only a few thou-


..‘ sand of.us will have, died from hospital- - acquired infections.


- -ft ; . Some politicians will have spent the:.


' whole year telling us that the others are . uncaring, money grubbing spivs and the .others .will have told us that their oppo-


. nents are sucking us dry and choking us in regulation. In this one respect, all of our


. -politicians will have told us the truth. The thing that will have depressed me


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, to the great benefit of the poor. In China, where a quarter of the world’s population' lives, they will have opened a new coal- fired power station every five days and ■


standard of living, we used to enjoy a few ; years ago. Even that tiny, minority who ■ will have lost their homes, their jobs and their business^ will have a standard of liv­ ing higher than that to which most of. the people of the world aspire. •,


. : Our .troops will have come home from ,


-massively increased the number of cows and pigs spewing methane into the atmos­ phere.- As a result, they will lead longer, healthier, warmer happier and better lives. , Their, babies mil be stronger and more of


: them .Tvill survive infancy. 'Wealthy climate . change fanatics, in the West, will have told us what a disaster this is for the world.


, Most of their conference speeches will have .been made in luxury air-conditioned


Looking Back 50yearsago


PROMPT action by a Clitheroe busi- ■ nessman and good work by two police­ men saved the life of Candy, a small ’ brown and black terrier, when she became-.trapped in a field drain. The


, police dug a five-foot trench to rescue the dog.


,.


- each costing £126 -/were bought by Rowland RDC. ■ ' ’


■ • Three two-way type snowploughs, :


ft An-application was made to White­


hall for.permission to borrow the nec-' essary money.


- - 2d years ago


AN end to the recession was being cau­ tiously predicted by some Ribble 'Valley businessmen following a year of expan­ sion, reinvestment and increased sales. Most local companies had a good 1983 and were optimistic about prospects for the coming months. ■


'


■ • Dreaming of a “wHite” New Year were members and friends of Clitheroe French Connection who brought in 1984 with a p a r ty .a t Clitheroe Football Club’s clubhouse. They celebrated with a buffet supper and disco. ■ :


bought for theli^ek ’ FalsG starts


; ‘T T'AVE you made any - ■ ■


5 - So much thought and deter- : mination is put into starting a;>


- new year, with a new beginning. Stopping smoking; healthy.::


;r eating, taking more exercise; . , etc. I have a friend who moved : house recently and went for a: : ; mile-arid-a-half constitutional"'


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; in the morning saying he heed-: • ■ ed to do it'regularly. :! asked:


- him a few-weeks later and he,:: said it had got lost under the


/pressing. All these resolutions


H -New Year’s resolu-'- ■ A '-L tions?. Will they last? -


; may.be good, but if they only-’ last two days, one week; or;


: even a: month they do, not ,bring about lasting benWit.


, Why do we do these things?. Because we believe there is something better to be had; some better way of living'


..which we want'to start on; : There was a time when I


-mountain .of-.work th a t : was;; ; butil,knew, thaLresolu tio n s ; „ ty_of a new beginning that,,^- . .-F-


realised that there was some­ thing better to be had; some­ thing my life was lacking. ! .wanted to make a new start,


.the true meaning of the season^ we have ju s t celebrated.' l l couldn’t do it for myselD But .'! Jesus Christ came into this world that first Christmas toft .. give me, and you, the possibili-'i


.-were not the answer.'Resolu-:’ tion depends on me; on my!-' ability to carry it through with'


. my strength and determina-' tion, And like most people my>:


, resolution Has weak points,'and ft ..thenj am back at square one.': ,Sp there had to be a different': answer. I found the answer in ; :


doesn’t just depend on me. He worked out the possibility with


: His supernatural strength. I simply had to triist^Him for


.- the best new beginning possible and surrender my life to His way. Will it last? The great


'. tMng about this new beginning ■ is th a t it'doesn’t-just last all through this life, but it lasts for


■ ever; I ’ve experienced that new ; Beginning - have you?,


. BRIAN CLARK, ^ r- ,


clilheroe Community Church


most; by the end of 2009, is our ongoing debate about education. In the summer, yet again, we will have been told that even more of our children have been better edu­ cated than a t any time in the past though, as we all know, it is simply not true.


, We are the fourth richest country on - earth and, after 11 years of schooling and , £75,000 a head of expenditure, most of our children will have been so badly failed that they will not have been brought to Grade C in five GCSEs, including Eng­ lish and Maths. I t will have been a good year for those who set out to make the best they could of it.


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X-ACCOUNTANT Helen Carter, kept her head for figures when she retrained i


a pilates teacher. ' Helen, of Wilpshire,'decided to


change career direction when the • younger of her two daughters- started school. A year later she is now a quali-.-^ : fied .teacher of Body. Control ,


: Pilates and a member of the Reg­ ister of Exercise Professionals. . : Originally from Clitheroe, Helen was a pupil a t Clitheroe Royal Grammar School and went on to


■ gain an MA from Cambridge Uni- -versity. She joined Price Water- house and trained to become a chartered accountant working in London before moving back to the Ribble Valley four, years ago. A keen ballet dancer since child­ hood, Helen still takes lessons at


s mermaid is a Winner


e la y , reader Emily Sharpe is our monthly award winner.


The seven-year-old pupil of


St Mary’s RC Primary School (pictured) reviewed Michael Morpurgo’s book “Mairi’s ' Mermaid”.


' Her three favourite parts of the book were when Mairi - found the mermaid, when they went swimming and when she went to their home. , She enjoyed the colourful pictures and for Emily the best bit was when Mairi saved the mermaid. /Emily wrote: “One day


Mairi went to the beach but


'she could not swim. When she; tries to swim she always sinks.' Mairi went a bit further out and she heard something cry­ ing. ; “Mairi found a mermaid


stuck in a crab’s claw. Mairi - picked up the crab and shook it. The mermaid dropped out of the claw and fell into the water. “A minute later the mer­


maid bobbed out of the water. Mairi said to the mermaid if she was real and the mermaid ■ said ‘of course I’m real’. Mairi carried the little mer-


maid over the rocks. The mer­ maid said to Mairi that she had to go home and said if Mairi wanted to go with her but she couldn’t swim. . “So Mairi said: ‘I ’ll take


you as far as I can walk’. I t got as high as her waist, as high as her neck. Suddenly a great wave dame rolling in and lifted Mairi right off her feet and when she came down there was no sand under her feet, Mairi kicked and ■splashed and the water came in her mouth. Mairi could swim and she swam all the way to the mermaid’s home.


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the Mary, Waddington School of Dancing where she originally started at the age of three. ■ For the p a s t five-and-a-half years she has also enjoyed pilates


: saying: ‘.‘I want to pass on to oth­ ers the sense of - well-being that I, have gained: from pilates. The


^mobility, flexibility and core : strength that it offers helps us how and in later life.” - Helen is now taking enrolments


for her beginners “Starting Out” classes which she runs at Wilpshire Methodist Church on Mondays from 9-30 to 10-30 a.m; and 10-45 to 11-45 a.m. She also plans to start a new class in Clitheroe. For more details contact Helen


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■ "T^XREPARATIONS are already ^ well under way for next year's


, J . Chelsea Flower Show, with a Ribble Valley exhibitor again asked to


.tak e part. ■ Clitheroe-based garden and land­


scape designer Paul Hensey has been selected by the Royal Horticultural Society to create a show garden at.the : •the UK’s best-known and most presti­ gious gardens event.


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Paul designed a garden at this year’s show for London-based solicitors


. Pemberton Greenish, and the innova- ■ tive design was awarded a Silver Gilt Medal. I t was featured extensively in television coverage of the show, in the design press and included in The - Times newspaper’s top 10 things to ;


see at Chelsea. . Preparation for,:the-2009 show ;


began the week after the 2008 show.


closed. ‘ :■ / ‘The design for a Chelsea Show gar­ den has to be meticulous,” said Paul. “I t has to appeal to both the.RHS,-


-,^the wider public and the media. ^ ■ “Plants have to be sourced up to a .year in advance to ensure that they


Flower show here we come! Wit and banter boosts charity


are in prime condition for the show. Our.show gardens.frequently use materials in unexpected and exciting ways and the design for the 2009 show - is even more exciting. . , “We are hoping to work and repre­


sent some local companies and take a little Lancashire influence down to. London.' . “There are only 12 ‘urban gardens’ selected for the show, so we are incred-


: ibly thrilled to be selected for a second. . year and hope that the experience for;


• this year’s show can be used to create something special.” /


' ■ - ■ Paul also noted how many local gar­


' this year’s show was seeing so many ■ • familiar, local faces in the crowds. We :- ' really appreciated the support.’’; ; ■ ft Paul’s company,/'Elysium Design, - I has previously won eight RHS Show-


': Medals,' including Gold and Best in Show a t the.RHS show a t Tatton ' Park, Cheshire. - You can find out more about the company.at its website: www.elysi- ,umdesign.uk.com


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A NEVENINGof Irish wit and banter ZA . raised £2,800 for the North West Air A. A.Ambulance.


' Padiham Rotary Club hosted a “Dennis


Taylor Night” in aid of the emergency service at the Mytton Fold Hotel, Langho.


,:;, '.'More than 200 people attended, including -. the Mayor of Ribble Valley Coun. John Hill. The one time World Trick Shot champion


and sbe times Irish snooker champion, Dennis ■ Taylor, wowed the audience by doing impres- > sive trick shots on a full-size snooker.table. ', Two guests tried their “pot luck” and ■


-':


s' den enthusiasts travel to the Chelsea ■ show, adding: ‘‘One of the thrills of


played a game against the event’s namesake, > after placing the winning bids in a special


. auction. And other guests walked away with : snooker cues; signed by Dennis, which were - donated as raffle prizes; Games of bingo were also played and the MC for the night was club member, Barry Brown. - A presentation evening took place at the : ■


: Higher Trapp Country House Hotel, in ; ; Simonstone,'_at the epd of last year where the ' club president, Mr Paul Wright, presented a cheque to Jackie Northover, of-the North ’ .West’Air Ambulance.


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