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! and being involved in this country’s I (sometimes).misguided interference in


I I sometimes wonder? j ' " :;-


j warlike savages that we are, has lost I many, millions of good, honest, hard­ working men, women and children on the whim of the higher-ups on our social ■


I This nation of. ours, consisting of the.


j -This country h^ ; over the years, gone I onto a war footing in somewhat'dubious i circumstances, ™th the resultant loss of i many a brave man.'And for what; I • ■


I ladder.'Most of them have never seen first hand what misery their actions, in


sending people to a war of their making, heaps on ordinary folk. In the .“good old days”, the war lead-.


ers stood side by side with their men and fought hand to hand, with the winner taking all. I doubt whether. Margaret Thatcher


I I other, peopie’s raainly.political and reli- gious affairs,'for.the gain'of afew. ■


WATCHED with much sadness the return of eight brave men who had died for taking the Queen’s shilling


we ever As I See It


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: Read o the r As I Se c It fea tu r e s ait ^ w w w .c l ith e ro ead v e r t ise r .co .u k


(Falklands), John Major (Gulf 1); Tony Blair (Gulf 2); Gordon Brown (Iraq and Afghanistan) and the Kings and Queens that have ruled us would have the stom­ ach to stand and fight shoulder to shoul­ der with our brave lads. I t would save millions of lives if they did. Let’s make it a rule that, in any future conflicts, the people who start the wars are the first: into the field and stay .there until the bitterend.


, ' On the same day I watched the fea­


ture film “Memphis Belle”, about a' crew of 10 brave young US airmen who were facing their 25th and final bomb­ ing raid in the Second World War, before being retired back to the States where.


Lookinig Back ■ 100 Years Ago


A RIBBLE.VALLEY woman escaped serious injury when she slipped from a ladder. Mrs'James Hartly was cleaning her windows when she slipped and fell to the ground. She sustained a fracture to her leg and was attended to by Dr Swin- dale, who told her to rest.


; ,• A CLITHEROE woman was so impre^d by Dr Nibbles' Vi-Cocoa, she decide to put pen to paper and write in to the Clitheroe Advertiser and Times. Writing on July 25th,"1909, Mrs C. Pate, from Derby.Stiwt,;aid: "I write to you ■ to say it is now'a long time since we first tried Dr Nibbles' ‘Vi-Cocoa’, but we are pleased to say it is a fresh forming and muscle builder, also a very strengthening food. I t is digestible even to the weakest stomach and I shall always recommend yourDrNibbles." : I .


; 50 Years Ago


WHEN Maurice Winnick’s production of the newly revived opera “Chu Chin Chow” opened in the Palace Theare,- Manchester, Mr John Snape, of Standen ■ Road, Clitheroe, appeared in it. Mr Snape was well known in the area for his interpretation of “Camille” in Clitheroe Amateur Operatic and Dramatic Soci­


ety’s production of “The Merry Wid- dow”. • A golden retriever, Mossbridge Dia- -


dem, owned by Mrs J. Gregory, of Whalley, was awarded the Stirling Cup for best gundog and was first in the open gundog class at Blackburn Agricultural Show. At the Royal Lancashire Show Mossbridge was first in the open gundog bitch class while her son. Storm of Hilli- -


cliffe, was second in the open gundog class.


. 25 Years Ago


; A GRATEFUL cattle breeder thanked a quick-thinking policeman for using his car radio to alert the fire brigade when a fire ripped through four wooden stor­ age sheds; Mr Frank Clayton was left


. devastated when his farm in Chatbum went up in flames. By the time Mr Clayton’s wife, Mabel, had spotted the smoke and was about to phone for help, four appliances from Clitheroe and Great Harwood were already on their way. • A SUM of £356 was raised by nim­


ble-fingered members of Grindleton WI. The amount was raised after a spon­ sored knit'-in.by 18 members of the group. A presentation was held and the money was handed over to Capt. Peter Downs, regional secretary from the Arthritis and Rheumatism Association.


lought for the Week Treasure God’s gifts


A MAN called Dave recently;; embarked on a challenge to .• de-clutter and reduce his per- sonal possessions to 100 items. -


; - How many things have you ■ ■


got? A hundred things sounds • quite a lot uiitil yoii s ta r t .; looking and adding up drna-;'! "ments and keepsakes, kitchen;; equipment, clothes'and evely^;-;’ thing in the garage or under :


'iO t ; , the stairs!, ,> 'S' His “100 thing challenge”.-'; blog has set off-a whole gras'i! roots movement of'peopled determined to reduce posses-';: sions, end storage problems ,S and live more simply.’KT:^ sfiiWHy? One woman writes;|


th a t possessions should enhance life, but having too.-' many of them can become a- :burden and a stress. Can bur obsession with buying and acquiring things distract us from the things that really are important in life?


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-;I. love seeing hot air bal- " loons at this time of year. 'We know,that if in trouble they could rise higher by dropping ' things overboard; Are you carrying too much baggage and are there things that you - could let go of to set you free" to live life more fully? ; Dave is still.working on his list of 100 things, working out_;


.what he can sell or give away. ;.'v


Interestingly.his Bibles and *■ prayer book are a t the top o f his list closely followed by his wedding ring - sign of his pri- - y orities.and commitment.-'';: What would be on your list?: The outer doors of;Milan:


Cathedral hold these state- ments: “All that pleases is for ’?* a moment” and “All-thiat troubles is blit fleeting”;'.The>''; Central door says: .“N othing;' save.that which is eternal is J truly important”.’ / y,,


I Jesus challenges us not to '-- ment.that .will lead ;to life •;


focus pn th in p that'do not';;! last, but on spiritual ndurish-jii


everlasting. Jesus also said: ‘ I came that they may have life and have it abundantly. ' (John 10:10)


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• .'-That is not about having an abundance of things. Perhaps by li-ving a bit more simply we ■ can live life more fully, treas-, uring God’s gifts of. lovei


f peace and joy; treasuring rela-- tionships; giving things away, that others might simply live. ^■Why not try a bit of de-clut-


.teHngl.-, - REV. KATY THOMAS, Methodist Minister at Whol; Icy,' Waddington and West. Bradford -


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;: as returning heroes, they would help . recruit other, young men to the cause During the film’s end credits, it stated . th a t more than 200,000 US air crew


were, killed during the war - a sobering thought. It was reported some years ago


■ th a t the British Embassy in Berlin wanted the go-ahead in 1936 to assasi-


L' nate Adolf Hitler a t one of his rallies. ' f : -Permission was refused by the Gov- : ernment of the day on the grounds that ■ the ruling elite could not be a party to


.. .that sort of thing..What a misguided- . and blinkered view.


■ So what of the future? Will we still,' over the next hundred years, be sending our.young men to the killing fields of some foreign land on the say-so of the ruling elite. , Will that ruling elite still sit in some


• posh room sipping their favourite tipple and wondering what war they can get into, next, while soldiers die and are returned with much pomp and ceremo­ ny, in a wooden box? . Will we ever learn?


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CYCLIST from the Ribble Valley will bpedal from Paris to


Blackpool later this month in . a “Tower 2 Tower” charity challenge. So keen was Jean Bennett


to boost publicity for her charity fund-raiser that she even stripped off for a daring recreation of Ol3unpic cyclist Rebecca Romero’s famous naked rider pose! Jean, who lives in Knowle


Green with her husband, Mark, and daughter, Becky, will set out from the Eiffel Tower in Pa ris on August 23rd, hoping to reach Black­ pool; Tower five days.and almost 500 miles later, on the 28th. A serving Police Officer,


with Lancashire Constabu­ lary for the p a s t 21 years, Jean describes herself as “a casual, fair weather cyclist, ^ who doesn't like hills or th e ' wind”, but she has been train­ ing hard for the epic challenge . ahead. The “Tower 2 Tower” spon­


sored ride has been organised by the “Rock FM Cash For Kids” charity and aims to generate £30,000 for vulnera-; ble children in Lancashire. Jean set her own fund-rais­


ing target at £1,500, but has already passed th a t and topped £2,000, no doubt helped by her daring pose appearing on fund-raising posters around the area!: Now she hopes the money


will keep on coming, bringing more help to more local chil­ dren who need it. A former pupil of St Peter and Paul’s .


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School, in Ribchester, then St ' Cecilias in Longridge, Jean, has set up a website where, people can read all about the challenge and make online donations. I t can be found at:


WWW. justgivingcom/Tower2T ower-Jean-Bennett


■’ Donation boxes can also be


found at Ribchester iuid Lon­ gridge Police Stations and any cheques should be made payable to: “Rock FM Cash For Kids”. The “justgiving” website


has several photos, but of her “naked ambition” pose, Jean writes: “One of the photos comes with a health warning : for those who are eating, have


School reunion ID you leave St Augustine’s RC


I . I High School, Billington, in the summer of 1986?


t ’Do you fancy meeting up again with


your old school pals? ‘ If so, then you’ll .be glad.to know a


school reunion is being arranged for next month; It will take place at Wilpshire Golf Club on Saturday, September 19 th, from 7-30 pirn;; and the cost is £10 including supper. One of the event organisers, Lucy Barnes,'said: ‘The reunion is for all pupils who were in the year that left St Augus­ tine’s in the summer of '86 and any teach­ ers that were a t the school at that time. It has been organised now because we will all turn 40 in the next 12 months.’’ Any past teachers attending the reunion can-do so for free.”:For more information, send m e- mail to L u c y ,(lucybames5@hotmaiI.com) or, if you are on Facebook, look up Joanne Tomlinson (nee Brown).


bad hearts, are in the compa­ ny of children, or just think that a woman of a certain age should not pose in such a fash­ ion.


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' entered into the scheme, which is run by local libraries in conjunction with East Lancashire Newspapers. ' A pupil at St James’s CE Primary School,, Khandro (pictured) is a keen swimmer, and . enjojzs arts and crafts. She also likes picking and eating produce she grows on her parents';; allotment. The three things she liked best about the.


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