. 10v, Clitheroe Advertiser & Times, Thursday, February 19th, 2009 Informed response


would be helpful IN response to Martin; James’ rather obvious and condescending < reply to my letter of'February 5th,v


: regarding the roadworks on Chat- burn Eoad, I would like to point out


, that while I'do appreciate that we ' are yefylucky to have a 21st Centu-': ry sewerage network and not to have " open sewers like they have in Third : World countries, the fact remains r: that these works have caused great ■ fnistration not only to me but to . ; other users of the road (yes,; I have ;• spoken to them); and local business- ■ es. '


• , • ; My point was that.United IJtili-


ties were digging up the road in a ■; place that they had previously dug-;


up the month before and Tarmaced over, resulting in traffic lights hav- ing to be used over the same stretch


■i! h


; of road twice in as many'months. :: Would it not of made sense to do the ' work all in one go? ■- ' - - Iw a s hoping for an informed :■ response to my letter from United'


. Utilities explaining the situation; : but would like to thank Mr'James : for his valuable contribution. '■ ‘


ADAM HOWARD, Pimlico Road, Clithcroc


A warm greeting


was encouraging I WAS encouraged to read of the warm greeting given to Pr Joseph Wareing on the occasion of his address to the Clitheroe Civic Sod-; ety. ( “Catholicism D eb a ted ”,


h't


Clitheroe Advertiser, February 12th) Could I correct two inaccuracies •


in your report? The Second Vatican Council was opened by Pope John; XXIII in 1962 and ended under the pontificate of Paul VI in 1965 (not 1952-1955).


■ :St Margaret Clitherow (not' “Margaret of Clitheroe”) was-born :


in York and died in the same city in 1586.


; She had been arraigned on a charge, of harbouring. Catholic priests and, on her. refusal to plead,' was sentenced to the legal penalty o f"' - “peine fort et.dure”.


\


; This was the barbaric punishment;' ; of crushing Vin extremis -


to death. /'


,/ Her shrine, in the Shambles, York,: is open to visitors and those who- :


JWrbc td^iTWEdijqi; Cli|hcroe Advcr(iscr and Times, 3 IGng Sired, Clitheroe BB72EW. or e-mail; \ i\icmnicalh@casllancsncAysm


, Wax wings were a joy!


• ,WE too had the joy of : waxwings, left, in our ^


:i garden overa two-week ■ : period up to Christmas. . .; At one point there were three at a time in our


; Mountain Ash, tree which was laden with : berries this year. Their


i bright yellow tail ends really stood out. Unfor-’


; tunately my attempts to - get closer for a better ■ ' photograph'were uiisuc-.: cessful as the birds were ■ veiy timid. Over the period from


October until the end o f . the year we also had a strange visitor which the


; KSPB has identified as a Leucitic Chaffinch, right.


MIKEBARTLE, Grindlclon .


wish to attend Mass in memory of


. troubled and intolerant times. KAROL J. GAJEWSKI (MR)


■Westwood Slreet,. Accrington


Don’t continue to


ruin'our town r HAVE just been to see the latest attempt to ruin our lovely market town.' ,


The Castle Grounds were laid out


as a memorial to our brave war dead, including my uncle, and I don’t think it is a place to test-bed silly ideas. Peo­ ple for years have come from the world


over to see a 700-year-old Castle, not a Lego set. We have put up with it too much.


People still ask “What happened to your lovely old market?” The next was Moor Lane - another set of van­ dalism.


What is wrong with putting the


Make Clitheroe |;Bike club keeri^ffor new recruits a Fairtrade town


FAIRTRADE fortnight starts nationally on


Monday and Clitheroe r Fairtrade Group is


1. i


pleased to announce that it is applying to . ' ■ the Fairtrade Fo'unda-; tiqn for Fairtrade sta- ;■ tus for the town. ' .‘ The conditions are •


rigorous, but the group: feels that, thanks to the help and support'of >;


; local shops,.businesses and other organisa- .''^ . tions,'Clitheroe can now meet.the criteria. The Fairtrade Foun->:


dation looks at the - : resources of the town ?; ; and also its attitudes ■: and habits and w h a t ' longer term plans it has. The group vvould : ' ; > encourage people dur-'


; ing.Pairtrade Fortnight' to shop locally, use local


services and buy goods ' displaying the Fair-


trade symbol.: You can also ask your employer,: or teacher to provide i ; ', Fairtrade food in the


: .workplace or school o r '


■.. :have your church, '.group or, organisation buy and use local and


.■Fairtradegoods.' ' ■ There is now a vast • array of products on the


: market available locally or, if not available local-


(..■^ly on the Internet, from 'food, clothes, jewellery; ■ to footballs


. Clitheroe Fairtrade; Group is planning, '■


: events for this and next : V year and would encour-


.- age anyone who is inter- , '.ested to join the group, ■ get involved or just help out at individual' ,,


, events.' y ■ Contact Jo Harding


01200 444242 for fur- ther details.


A TESTING 22km. trail in; North Wales was the latest destination for mountain'


bikers from,Clitheroe Bike' Club. The Penmachno -iTrail includes some steady climbs


and takes in spectacular; scenery.


. , ■ - . It uses p len ty of forest;:


roads, but also includes some:; decent single tracks incorpo-:" rating bridge crossings, ele-. vated wooden sections and;: stream crossings. ’ : :.


; Clitheroe Bike Club is keen ; ;


to recruit new members both:' for their mountain bike rides;i and their, regular road rides.: •There is something for every- body regardless of expe ri-•• ence, including beginners.r •-..As well as-various cyclei:


trips, members get together! every two weeks at'Clitheroe:;


; Rugby iClub, -where - non-' s .members’are'also vvelcome to' • attend.


,. i-The next m e et ing - is ’on r' Wednesday, February 25th,


:>and is a curry night; so tick-w­ ets are £ 5 ., .


i-:;-Please e-mail Sarah.Nock; - ,(sarahnock'l23@aol.'com) if:-;


; you would like to book a tick- - ■ e t'or-if you jus t .want to , know more about the club.': '


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www.clitlicroeadvcrtiser.co.uk _ . ibom in the old one 65 years ago and if


' , will soon need a bit of a facelift bi t don’t ruin it. What will be ne.\t’ “Ki«"


.me quick’.’, hats in the Town Halp Donkey rides on the Castle Field? ’ , Thank goodness we won’t need tn


buy the donkeys. We are fighting a


Battle of Britain RECESSION! Pawn shops, charity ;


,, shops and home-brew shops all doing' ’ ■ OK. The costly public sector is still" expanding while shed-loads of our' . taxes are going on overseas aid and in '


return we get ark-loads of immi- grants.-


::.; Folks, I know Government borrow- - ing is out of control and the pound'is'' in freefall while many billions of "


pounds are spent on overseas wars. ' ■ I have read about Government's '


broken promises, mercenary politi- ' '


cians, greedy councils, quangos and banks.


: I realise the rich are getting richer '■ and the poor are getting poorer, while many of our elderly are going cold and ; hungry, and numerous good, honest people are losing their homes and job^ but think about it? 'When president sorry. Prime Minis-; ■


ter Gordon Brown has solved the world’s problems he’s bound to take


decisive action and solve ours-isn't he? ' , Make no mistake, this crisis is the


"Battle of Britain" all over again not an election campaign Mr Brown. So ■


please put the United Kingdom first, - don’t put us and future generations into the pockets of the international • money-lenders and pawnbrokers. Cer- tainly no more of this mercenary public sector of take, take, take. If you and - yoim gang must take, then take respon­ sibility for most of the mess the UK is now in. ■ ■ ■"


;


BERT HARDWICK Queensway,; Clilheroe '


- .


Plaus in the pipeline


i AN application for the installa­ tion of a lOkw wind powered . generator.on a 12m free stand­ ing column has been submitted ' for permanent approval to Rib-.


• ble Valley Borough Council. Comments on the application


at Clerk Hill Abattoir, Clerk Hill Road,-Wiswell, (number


: 0093) must be made to the - council b y February 27th. : : Other plans submitted include: , ,


-.Dimsop Bridge: Two-storey


side extension at 8 The Cres­ cent 0 0 8 4 ) .: : ! , : v: - Hurst Green: Application for


■a certificate of lawfulness for the proposed use of the garage/st'orage facility within


.the curtilage, as a granny flat/annex accommodation at - Shireburn House Barn, Lon-


gridge Road (0085). 'i .SawIey: Addition of "grab"


handles to the outside of the door to ease disabled access at the Meeting House, Green End, . (0095); Farm workshop at Higher Greenhead Farm, Gis-, burn Road (0067).-;- : -AWiswell: Erection of a two storey extension to the side and ; a single storey extension to the ;; front of Hambledon View, Clerk , Hill Road (0072).'; . ■


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THE West End musi­ cal “Chess” must have


. b e e n a daunting . prospect for the cast, director and choreog- . .rapher when it was


>; chosen for Clitheroe - Parish Church Ama­ teur Operatic and Dra­ matic Society’s latest production, particular-


. ly after following the fantastic show last


~-year.of,“Singin’ in the Rain”.


: However, the end result certainly paid off. The leading roles of this quite complicated plot, to the uninitiated in the game of chess, were word perfect, even song perfect, all with . fantastic, strong voices, giving outstanding per­ formances. -The story, lyrics by


Tim Rice and music by - Benny Andersson and


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■ chess champions of America and Russia dur­ ing the Cold War era.


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. drum majorettes with : ." black and:white pom-.- poms and the sexy


;-Bangkok nightclub where ■ - Roger Dugdale, playing. ; Molokov, certainly put'. ; his heart and soul into the ■ routines ; with much enjoyment as they were


’ certainly dazzling. . During the show, tele- .


, ■


. The opening Tyrol scene, takes place in the Italian town of Merano, the delightful costumes of ' peasant dirndls and leder- hosen, are enhanced by some enchanting dances- before the dramatic-


' entrance of the loud- . ■ mouthed American chess


player Frederick. Trumper (played by James Cockerill) and his secretary and confidante, Hungarian bom Florence: Vassy (played by Dawn- Marie Nichols). Then the Russian con- : Anatoly -


tend"er.


Sergievsky (Paul Sock- ett) arrives along with his entourage of KGB heav­ ies.


The scene is set by the ■


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dressed in a wonderful red velvet suit, as he darts across the stage from one side to the other keeping the audience up-to-date withtheplot. The first game is a fias­


co with the American overturning the chess­ board and storming out, but Florence arranges another game with the help of the KGB Alexan-. der Molokov (R o g e r - Dugdale).


:. On one side of the stage is a television screen which helps the audience


see the chess moves. The stage se t t ing is


simple with black and white blocks being moved around, but it is dramati­ cally lit for each scene helping create a tense atmosphere. ■ The music too is haunt­


ing and dramatic with some toe-tapping Russ­ ian numbers as well as quiet ballads. Songs


which were familiar were “One Night in Bangkok” , and VI Know Him So Well”,


but other numbers “Pity the Child”, “Anthem” and “Heaven Help My Heart” were equally memorable. The scenes featuring


the dancers and choruses were truly remarkable, particularly the Embassy Lament with the typing


' Vision presenters from ; - across the world gave out i news bulletins in their various languages, Amer­ ican, Italian, Russian and French and each'one • sounded very authentic.- . Svetlana Sergievskaya, wife of the Russian chess


' pool girls executing a fast and furious tableau, the ■


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■ player who flies to Bangkok to . confront Anatoly about his defec- : tion, is sweetly played by Bethany Clews and Wal­ ter de Courcey, the Amer- . lean Government repre­ sentative, in his garish


pin-stripped : suit, is


■ robus t ly ;' 'played by Bernard Kennedy.- The Queen’s gambit is


brought to a closewith the disappearance of the cast and principals through the large rook. The production was


directed by Howard G. Raw, choreographed by Anne Grogan, musical director Roger Purcell and chorus master Philip Dobson all ably assisted by a talented cast and backroom staff.- > Pictured above from


the left: Bernard Kennedy, James Cocker- ill, Dawn-Marie Nicholls, Brian Haworth, Roger Dugdale, Bethany Clews and .Paul Sockett. (T160209/6b) and left the company of Chess i (T160209/6)


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