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100 years ago .


PRCPOSALS were afoot to build a skat­ ing rink-in Clitheroe. The plans were to erect an all-brick, building at the cost of more than £2,000 in King Street. Magis­ trates agreed to grant a music and danc­ ing licence to the venture, which would see the new building fitted out with all the necessary requirements for it to be an up-tordate skate rink.- V : . ■ '. . '■ • The internments at Clitheroe Ceme­


tery this week were more numerous than any previous week during the incumben­ cy of the Rev. J.H. 'Wrigley.


Looking Back ' -50 years ago


TC mark the treble achieved by Ghat- burn Football Club in winning the championship of the Accrington Com­ bination, Division 1, the 'Walmsley Cup and the Clitheroe FC Medals competition, a dinner was held at the Brown Cow Inn, Chatburn, attended by 84’members, supporters and •friends.


. • Mr-Harry Taylor, of Halsteads


; Farm, Rimington, was awarded seven rosettes at Cheshire Agricultural Soci­ ety's show for his Guernsey cattle.


. " - 25 years ago A ROW started in Sabden regarding the


' name of one of the village’s streets. Some of the residents of Grimshaw Terrace had wanted to change the name of the pictur­ esque row of cottages to Badger Well Terrace. However, other residents object ed to the plans and the matter was left to Ribblo Valley planners to decide. • Villagers in Chatburn had their


• hopes for a ban on heavy vehicles dashed following a county council decision to shelve a £85,000.re-alignment plan for


WorstonRoad. . Free to care


■ we have freedom we are sud­ denly given choices, because ■j freedom can also.be defined by


:: having the ability to act speak'; .^or think without restraint; in


V.Bmuch'talk about freeing.our- ■/other.words it is our choice. Oiice .ive a re : free it


'“ “ selves from corruption, espe-: dally with respect to the Gov-i'i ’■ i ernment..Freedom is defined|


:i> by some'people as an escape! 'I'from some sort of tyranny andj . in this sense freedom releases';


V'peopleTrom: oppressiomih; ■’Whatever form ittakes.In this


i' case by implication freedom Hvsuggeststhata-OTohgjsbeing;


i " put right and therefore there is i’;' some sort of of moral integrity [/ in having freedom’; But once


is o ur•


’responsibility, to make the - decisions.


; . gain, which is an abuse of free- .dom and which is the charge •


• that has been made against Y-some'.of our MPs. Another


■•■vchoiceis.to.Telinquish-that'' •i: freedom and give it to some-


• ■ one else and one way of doing ■' . that is by doing nothing. As


the saying goes, bad things happen when good people do nothing. ■ The fact remains that if we


are free, we have.choice and, consequently, responsibility.";


:Whefe'then is the moral integrity in having freedom to be found?


y One of those choices can be ■ ;-,to use.our freedom for our own


■ In our 'post-modern world


there are many different approaches to this question; u In our. churches we talk


about Jesus coming to set peo­ ple free from whatever


. bondage.they may be under ;i.e. whether it be physically,’


■ mentally or.even financially’ inflicted by others, or maybe


an illness that rules their life,, , -or a state of mind the soirie--.; : how inhibits or restrains etc../


i/Th'e'road to freedom is found ,5 ‘fcih following Jesus’ tenchingl,it. ,.


;Si.- is'a process. The moral imper-., -"ative when given our freedoin ’.'is to follow. Jesus. Freedom in > V.this^ense is hai/ing and taking;.; on our corporate responsibili;|


■-ty for loving and caring ior„: •; one another and caring for the; •. world in which we live - loving ■ one another and caring for the, ■world - a world “God.so/


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__________ i _________________________________ _ Gerald loved the contrary view


■: 1 - 1 'have.been,kept guessing about, J l.' ■ the identity, of Contrarian, the j


OR two years now. regular readers


regular writer of. this weekly .‘ it” column;


■ This,.week I can reveal his identity, -


but I do so in the very saddest of cir­ cumstances. For Contrarian was none ■ other than Gerald HitrhanV the Kibble


■ Valley-property tycoon who died sud- denly a t his Kibble Valley , home last


Thursday. , A few had pieced together clues,


picked up on snippets of information occasionally revealed in the columns, and put them together like an elaborate. jigsaw, but to.the vast majority .Con­ trarian remained a mystery figure. . ’ And that is how.it had to be, because-


in order to“write such a column - often. presenting the alternative view, fighting the cause of the underdog, or even play- ■ ing devil’s advocate - the writer must be


anonymous. '. Inevitably-Gerald wrote about the


. things'which interested him, whether local or national issues, and he often wrote with great insight and knowledge gained from personal experience. But whenwriting about, for example, the


■ lack of affordable housing in the Kibble Valley, he needed to be able to do so free from accusations of “Well he would say ■ that.:, he’s a property developer”.


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' The whole point is that the column is here to generate debate about the views expressed in it, not about the writer expressing those views. In reality, Ger­ ald often took a surprising stance, fight­


ing the corner of those you would not expect him to ally himself with. ^ ' I t was he who first approached the


then editor, Vivien Meath,-offering. to write the regular column. She asked him


To pen a few examples! and had them on her desk a few hours later. He simply loved writing, and no, he wasn’t paid. “ Contrarian” was also an apt name,


and one he chose himself, for he loved to take the contrary -view, to stir things up a bit, to get people talking. Some.would agree wholeheartedly with the views he


• espoused, others oppose them entirely. There was rarely much middle ground, and that is just how a good opinion col- umnshouldbe.


■ Like i t or loathe it, it really doesn’t matter - just so long as indifference is


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not the response. Gerald was also very muchi of the “publish and be damned” school of journalism. If he believed >'' something was^right or .wrong, he would


- say it, plain and simple, regardless of the '■ consequences.


.. . > Cccasionally his coulmn had to be


toned down, if only to avoid lining the - lawyers’ pockets,-but Gerald quickly ; learned there were ways of getting his


: point-across. He wrote eloquently and his Contrarian column became a popu­ lar and well-read feature. His only frus­ tration was a t being limited to one per •


' weekl One one occasion his piece had to . be sidelined and something more press- - ing put in its place. In the editor’s e-mail;


-basket on the morning of publication was a tongue-in-cheek missive from Ger­ ald. I t read simply: “.Grrrrrr!” His writing brought him pleasure, he


did it with style and was happy for read­ ers to take issue with him, setting up an • e-mail address for Contrarian at which ^ readers could personally take him to" task. He loved the cut and thrust and' genuinely admired those who spoke out for what they believed in, even if those beliefs were at odds with his own. • Cften controversial, always oiitspo-;


ken, never dull - perhaps the real p - prise is that more people had not realised • th a t Gerald Hitman and Contrarian were one and the same.


. Ruth returns to her roots ’.'A -


' •ZA Whalley woman is X Amarking a milestone -


•birthday by undertaking a cycle challenge of almost 500 miles over two weeks.- ' , Mrs Ruth Donald, pictured, celebrated her 50th birthday in September last year, but • was challenged by her younger, sister, Susan, to accompany her on a cycle ride around


: Lake Malawi in order to boost ‘ funds for LEPRA. .


. Mother-of-three Mrs Don-- ald was born in Rhodesia (today’s Zimbabwe) and


• moved to Malawi when she was ejght weeks old. She lived there until she was 14 when the family moved to England for good.


• : Speaking about the chal- ’ lenge, Mrs Donald, who has lived in 'Whalley with her hus­ band for the past 22 years, said: “I certainly wasn’t a


■ cyclist of any note previously so this is going to be quite a •


daunting challenge for me, b u t. I have been working hard at the gym all Mnter improving my fitness as well as losing nearly two-and-a-half stones! “Now the better weather


and lighter days have arrived I am managing to cycle 50-f. miles relatively comfortably, which is amazing.” Mrs Donald and her sister


will set of f for the charity bike ride in.the middle of this month and are expected to be •


out there for two weeks. The tr ip will be extremely


. poignant for the sisters as they will pass several sites where they were brought up. •. • “We remember -visiting the


leper colony whenever we went up to the lake as my father would always stop,and do


. some work voluntary ‘fixing’ of any water problems they . Had. ■


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; “ I t seems to be a great way of gi'ving something back to a


beautiful, but extremely poor, country, which holds so many • happy memories for us, while helping to prevent this terri­ ble, disfiguring disease from continuing to blight so many lives as it-is now completely treatable. “LEPRA’S aim is to


■ improve the quality of life for hundreds of thousands of peo­ ple living with devastating dis-


' ease and illness such as leprosy, HIV/AIDS, malaria and TB around the world. ' “All travel, food and accom­ modation costs have been paid


• for by ourselves and so any ’ sponsorship money will be going directly to LEPRA to


:. assist them in this field.” Mrs Donald, who works as


librarian a t Rowland High School, is hoping to raise £1,500 for the charity. Anyone wishing to sponsor


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-.’th e T rin i ty Community P a rtn e rsh ip bu t is now a community interest compa­ ny in its own right. . ; - Valley MP Nigel Evans a tten d e d ; the relaunch


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; Beverley Jones, and her con­ so r t Mr.Howell Jones and th e Mayor of Clitheroe,


; Coun. Mary Robinson.,. , ' One of the many passen-


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' Little Green Bus spoke about ' the lifeline it provides to hun­ dreds of people across the Kibble Valley. ; -Manager Donna Atkinson


"■saidi’-'The Little Green Bus is going.from strength-to-


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from the Lancaster Founda­ tion and the Lancashire Local climate change fund as each one of the buses saves five tonnes of C02 emissions by getting people out of the cars and onto our transport.” Not only does the bus pro­


vide a door-to-door service, over the past. 12 months


working in partnership with


• Harve, Carers Link, sport. : and leisure services and the. young people’s service the Wheels 4-Youth scheme has been developed to transport, youngsters to and from dif­ ferent activities. - ; ; ; -. Thirty teachers are a lso ’


• working with the.service ■ th ro u g h ; ■; th e / Learning


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(B220509/6) ■ rently on display at Whalley


Graduate Janet’s exhibition of fine art B


AINTINGSand draw­ ings by- local a r t is t Janet Fletcher are cur-


Library. Janet has a degree in Fine.


"Art, from Blackburn College, ' which runs the degree course '^in conjuntion with Lancaster


University. She is also a mem-, her o f ’ecco arts”, agroup of / artists who have set up and own shared studio space in Blackburn.


■' : Speaking about her work,, Janet commented: ‘.‘I enjoy/


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and- paint on -raw-’Canvas. Working flat,-pools oL colour: are.manipulated, left to dry


: and then re-worked- until an - abstracted painting develops. I also enjoy taking this tech­ nique, enhancing lines of interest and combining them; - with layers of spontaneous


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