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valleyr liters Give us a
; I ,ibeen cast m the role of wheel- ;
Looks simple enough - load person into
wheelchair, apply a bit of forward move ment and there you are at the shops. , But there’s a Bumsian feeling of things
“ganging oft agley” within moments of that initial shove.' : • vln the ideal wheelchair pusher’s world,
. everything is flat. • ,-In the real world, the terrain changes
.with wrist-aching regularity every few yards. : For.ejfample, there’s no footpath ouL
i side iny house. Progress up the lane has ^ to be made on the Tarmacadam surface. That surface has a camber to allow water . to drain from the road.. '
■ The camber may be only an inch or so in several feet. When you’re steering a
' wheelchair it feels like you’re pushing a load along the side of a substantial hill, with the resultant swerving that induces the feeling that at any moment you’re go ing to get pinched for shoving under the influence. • That’s just for starters, you finally
reached a paved area. You look for a suit able dip in the kerbing, sometimes help fully provided by the local authority, and go for it. ’ ■ Now there are times when the laws of
physics come into conflict with the ever triumphant Sod’s Law. And Sod’s Law dictates that the point you have selected
lookinqback 100 years ago
A MEETING was held in Clitheroe Town Hall in support of the British Cot ton Growing Association. Mr S. Simpson,
: formerly of the Agricultural College in • Egypt, encouraged British colonies such ■ as India, Nigeria and Uganda to produce more cotton. He also urged the people o f ' Lancashire to look further to the future - as “everything is being done as if tomor row will be the same as yesterday.” , • Robert Watson M.D. said a cold is the prt of ailment which has to be caught
: during certain months if one wants sym- ' - pathy as a summer cold victim is regarded as a “clumsy fool.” To avoid colds he ad vised people to “dress wisely, avoid reck- > less exposure and bathe regularly”.
has some little defect that means the front wheels just won’t rise to the challenge. ■The result is a sudden halt to forward mo tion and another of those laws of physics' brings the danger of the passenger being catapulted forward at great speed - that’s another tip, always remember of fasten the seatbelt! Sometimes you have to question the
wisdom of the people who placed these little dips in the kerbing to help you cross the road. A pair near the railway station in Clitheroe seems designed to lure you into a dangerous entanglement with the wheels
. of traffic using the roundabout a few yards away.
Eventually, you get used to the slalom
course dictated by advertising boards, badly-placed bus shelters and lamp posts, but there are several hazards which go un noticed until you actually join the ranks of wheelchair pushers or users. In Whalley, there is a succession of
yTV VER the past few weeks I’ve chair pusher. '
www.cHtherooadvertiser.co.uk www.cHtheroeadvertIser.co.uk Clitheroe Advertiser ftTImes,Thursday, April 15,2010 A weekly look at local issues, people and dIacpq valleyn Lent service led by college
asiseelt by Glen Pate
Read other As I See It features at
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"channels designed to carry water from drainpipes across the pavement and into the,gutter. Negotiating these is some thing akin to Tony McCoy’s performance
* through Becher’s, Valentine’s and the - Canal Turn. Some kind of cover over the channels and flush with the pavement sur face would make the job a lot easier. I must say that access to buildings is
. outstandingly helpful. But it’s the few cases of ramps at angles
which demand Herculean performance from the pushers that really get up your
no.se. '
I’ve always considered that those elec-
. trie motorised jobs for shopping to be a great idea, but there are dangers there as well. An old chap I knew used to terrorise townsfolk by driving what appeared to be a souped-up version with the air of scaled- down Stirling Moss, regularly scattering all before him.
player, I was scripted to drive one of these things, chasing a pretty young lady down a street, shouting abuse. I’d never steered one before, so I was
In one of my appearances as a TV bit
given a quick acquaintance with the con trols. On the shout of “Action”, I hit the reverse by mistake and flattened an assist ant director. I seem to remember there was a lot of bad language after that, but we got the take done in quick time. I wonder why the scene has never been shown....
CATHEDRAL CHOIR: Stonyhurst College’s Schola Cantorum in Blackburn Cathedral with Fr John Twist SJ, left.
AN ecumenical Lent service at Blackburn Cathedral was led by Stonyhurst College. Prayers were read by. College Chap
lain, Fr John Twist SJ, and the Dean of Blackburn, The Very Rev. Christopher Armstrong, while headmaster Mr Andrew Johnson read an extract from the writings
sic by Stanford and a setting of “Be thou my -vision” with a piano duet accompani ment, played by Joann Belon and Pawel Rzemieniecki, which was conducted by Dr
of Lutheran pastor, theologian and martyr Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Stonyhurst’s Schola Cantorum sang mu
Kevin Morgan. They also sang Allegri’s “Miserere”
with the verses sung by Megan Hindle and Catriona Graffius and the service finished with a new choral setting of the “Pater Noster” by Stonyhurst teacher Mr Jonath an Sharpies.
Emily w ins award O u r S tC V e i l^ S a
EIGHT-YEAR-OLD Emily Sharpe is the lat est young bookworm to earn our Relay Reader accolade. A Year Four pupil at
50 years ago
THE Forest of Bowland was proposed as a place of outstanding natural beauty. According to the Advertiser, this would “gladden the hearts” of people visiting or living there. The status would mean that much of the countryside including the Trough and many of the villages in the area would be more stringently protected from spoliation in the future. • Cricket clubs were preparing for the
new season and hoping for a repeat of the brilliant weather of the previous summer There were no real changes at Clitheroe but Ribblesdale Wanderers had a new pavilion and a new professional in Garth Warren while Whalley would celebrate the clubs centenary during the season;
thoughtfortheweek
^j^THAVE a prayer challenge for you. I ■ Can you pray the Lord’s Prayer and
f j-l-mean what you say? Familiarity can breed contempt. -
" > InjJrayer, over-familiarity can also breecf apathy. So we find we are no longer
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I: thinking about what we say or pray. ; ■ Ponder this from an anonymous writer: I cannot pray: Our, if my faith has no
j; room for others and their needs. . I cannot pray Father, if I do not demon-
ristrate this relationship to God in prayer, s through my daily living. ^ I cannot pray who art in heaven, if all
j my interests and pursuits are in earthly things. ‘
cannot pray hallowed be Thy name, if
:;I
am.not striving,.with God’s help, to be holy and to live a life worthy of Him. '
I cannot pray Thy Kingdom come, if I
am unwilling or resentful of having God’s sovereignty in my life.
I cannot pray on earth, as it is in heaven, unlep I am truly willing to give myself to
God s service in the here and the now. I cannot pray give us this day our daily
bread, wthout ejqiending honest effort for °
It, or if I would withhold it from my neigh- bourin need. •
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as we forgive those who trespass against us, I f I continue to hold and harbour a grudge against anyone.
PC w f ““r trespasses tion, if I deliberately choose to remain in a ‘" ‘o tempta
situation wherelaiii likely to be t e m ^ _^1 cannot pray deliver us from evil, if I am not prepared to fight and resist evil wher-
ever and whenever I find it. I cannot pray. Thine is the Kingdom, if I
am unwilling to obey the King. I cannot pray, Thine is the power and the glory, if I am seeking power for myself
and for my own glory first. I cannot pray, for ever and ever, if I am
too anxious and fearful about each day’s affairs and what the future might hold. I cannot pray. Amen, unless I can hon
estly say “Cost what it may, this is my prayer.” O n you say the Lord’s Prayer and mean
what you pray? Can you pray the Lord’s Prayer and mean what you say?
.. REV. GILL MACK, Priest-in-charge of All Hallows at Mit- ton and St John’s at Hurst Green
25 years ago
CLITHEROE FC were crowned cham pions of Lancashire by winning the ATS Lancashire Challenge Trophy. The Shawbridge club defeated Barrow, who were three divisions above them, in a pulsating game played at Preston North End’s Deepdale ground. Eric Geldard scored the winning goal in the 12th minute of extra-time winning Clitheroe their first major trophy in 50 years. • A touring party from Clithcroc wit
nessed the town become immortalised in its twin of Rivesaltes in Southern France after a square was named “Place Clithe roe.” The only hitch for the group was a £70 charge by customs at Dover for all the wine they brought home!
St Mary’s RC Primary School, in Sabden^ Emi ly’s award-winning re view was o f Poppy Har ris’ book “Hammy the Wonder Hamster”. Emily, who has an old
er brother called Mat thew, enjoys gymnastics at Roefield Leisure Cen tre and is also a member o f the Great Harwood Otters swimming club. She enjoyed the book
because she loves ham sters, and particuarly this one, which eats a micro chip and becomes
veiy clever. Emily said: “I enjoyed
this book because it was about hamsters and I love them and also he was a very clever ham ster who could spell and speak rabbit.” Her favourite part
was when Hammy went to look for a lost rabbit called Bobby. Run by Lancashire
Library Service and sup ported by East Lanca shire Newspapers, the Relay Reader scheme rewards children who read and review a set number of books, with bronze, silver, gold and marathon awards as well as a monthly prize for the best review.
1 j ' wizard potter!
. A YOUNG pool player from Clitheroe potted his way to victory in a county wide com petition. Steven Walmsiey, a mem-;, ■Tief o f local youth group
■ Clitheroe Youth, beat strong ; competition to win the Un- ■
: 'ier-19s. Lancashire Asso- ' : elation of Clubs for Young People Pool Competition, '.
, recently held at Preston. Steven now goes on to rep-
EIGHT BALL ACE: Steven Walmsiey receives his prize from local youth worker Mel Diack. (s)
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Make sure or your postal or proxy vote on General Election day
VOTERS in Ribble Valley unable to attend a polling station at the General Election on Thursday, May 6th, can apply to vote by post orproiqr. ■ Postal and proiqi voters are advised that, fol
lowing a change in the law, they must now pro vide their date of birth and signature, known as “personal identifiers”.
The regulations apply to existing postal and .■
proxy voters, as well as those applying to vote by post or proiqr for the first time. ■ Postal voters must be a registered elector and will be required to return a security state ment with their completed ballot paper. The - signature and date of birth provided on the , statement will then be checked against the : personal identifiers on their application form; which will help to deter and detect fraudulent ■ use of postal votes.
' Postal votes remains in separate sealed en '
velopes until the personal identifiers have been verified. ■ Prospective postal voters unable to provide .
: a signature for any reason may be granted an exemption from
the.new arrangements and should contact Ribble Valley Borough Coun cil’s elections team
for.guidance. Proxy votes are available to people unable
to attend a polling station, for example due to holiday, disability or military service. . . Proxy voters are able to appoint someone, who must be over, 18 years old, a close rela tive and a registered elector, to vote on their behalf.
Requests for a postal vote or to change an " '
- existing postal or proigf vote must be made to ‘Ribble Valley Borough Council by 5 p_.m. o n . Tuesday, April 20 th.
' The deadline for new applications to vote by. proxy, except medical emergencies, is 5 p.m. on Tuesday) April 27th.
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; Emergency proiqi votes are available until Election Day for medical reasons only.
" ■ Further details are.available from Ribble'rj,-
' resent Clitheroe Youth in the . North of England final, which will also be played at Preston this Sunday, April 18th.
Fancy a good lifedownon the farm?
IF you have ever wanted to run i your own farm, the BBC wants; to hear from you. : - ‘ It is looking for 10 couples
to feature in a new series for would-be agriculturalists. Over six weeks the chosen :>
couples will learn how to run and manage their own farm, > from harvesting to coping with;^:
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the weather. TTie'winning pair;: 'will get the chance ,to live and -■
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Couples of all ages, who can
.'-Valley Borough Council’s elections team on S" 01200414411.
:be married,
-.sibllngs'or sim-.H' ply'friends, but who'are seri-j ' ous about changing their lives" can apply by e-mail to: farm® :
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