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I Dunsop Bridge ■ Slaidbum LChatburn
A RIBBLE Valley mum aware of the shortage of places for young people to meet in her village has set up a new youth group, aided by council fund
o f the shortage o f places for
ing. Mother-of-two Sally Em
manuel secured a grant for £2,609 from Lancashire County Council to set up the new group, which will meet at Newton-in-Bowland Village Hall every second and- fourth Friday of the month from 6-30 to 8-30 p.m. Ribble Valley Borough Coun
cil has bought the group £1,000 worth of new equipment.. The group caters for young
people aged 10 to 16 who can at tend for just £1-25 a session and enjoy activities such as table ten
Mum launches new I ‘I thought I would village youth group I jie in the quake’
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lage hall. They can also make use of a pool table, football table, two Playstation Connect games, board games or even try their hand at cooking;
full-time mother to a six-year-old son and 11-year-old daughter, re alised from personal.experience with her own children that there was a the lack of “safe” places for young people to meet m the vil lage. “Our aim is to provide a safe
place for children from Newton and the surrounding villages to meet, take part in activities, and make new friends,” she said. Sally added that in order to en
courage personal development, a young persons’ committee has
nis and arts and crafts in the vil se
been formed with a chairperson, secretary, activities organiser and an
tuck shop manager. Sally has been guided in her Newton resident Sally, who is a
efforts by Gaja Gannon, a Lan cashire County Council young people’s worker for Hyndburn and the Riblsle Valley, who cur rently runs a youth group in the village hall in nearby Slaidburn on Wednesday nights from 7 to 9 p.m. The two women arranged to
meet young people from the area to find out if they would like a youth club. “The response was an overwhelming yes and the young people gave us a long list of what they would like to do, from games in the hall to cooking, arts and crafts etc.,” said Sally. Initially the group raised funds
through local events, with £200 raised at last year’s Hodder Val ley Show, but Sally, with support from Gaja, then applied for the funding from Lancashire County Council securing the grant for £2,609. Further help has been given by the village hall commit tee at Newton. It built a storage cupboard for the group.
Val- byPaiza Afzaal Now fully operational, the
youth group has organised a disco on March 18th to celebrate the 90th anniversary of the village hall and will be running the village’s May Queen event in June to raise funds for the youth group. Parents and local residents
who are keen to help support the group and volunteer on a Friday evening, should contact Sally on 07875 786039.
A CLITHEROE woman has spoken of the horrifying moment she thought she was going to die in the powerful earthquake which hit the New Zealand city of Christchurch. Kylie Parsons, who is currently
travelling with her friend Erika Schneider (both 23), witnessed first hand the 6.3-magnitude quake which devastated the city. In an e-mail to her mother, Linda
Dixon, who runs the Tots to Teens children’s shop in Castle Street, Kylie re-lived the ordeal. The former pupil of Ribblesdale
TALENTED local people of all ages delighted an audience for “A Stage Full of Stars” at The King’s Centre, Clitheroe. The show was organised by
Clitheroe Community Church youth leader Trish Clark, who commented: “The original idea was for a'low-key event for the young people, who love the op portunity to perform, but the level of interest was so great that there were 16 acts in the end, including a number of adults.” Friends Bethany Stone and Di
onne Hanna opened the evening with a dance to the Justin Bieber song “Baby”. Along with other contempo
rary dance groups, the line-up of acts also included a live band, vocalists, a variety of instrumen tal performers, a sketch and the traditional recitation “Albert and the Lion”. The youngest performer, two-
year-old Thomas Harris, proved that the event really was open to any age as he joined his four- year-old brother Benjamin and their parents in a song. Trish summed up the evening,
saying: “The atmosphere was great, as the audience seemed to appreciate equally the bravery of the youriger performers and
High School Technology College, wrote: “Tuesday started like any other day. We were sitting around the kitchen table chatting about ran dom things. Usually, on a day like that Erika and I would have defi nitely gone into town and grab lunch or gone to the library.jlt had been raining all morning, and being tired and knowing that I would be work ing late the next night, I told Erika that I would stay in the flat.
KYLIE PARSONS “I had dinner and then I decided
to make lemon bars. I made the crust for my lemon bars and popped it into the oven. I was walking over to the bin and that is when I heard a ‘dum’ and got pushed into the work surface. “The intensity increased dra
matically and knowing that I was upstairs and that it would be safer to stay in the doorway than try and run down the stairs outside, I clung
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on. My friends Erika and Anne were screaming and ran behind be, but then continued to run past me and headed for the stairs. The quake was throwing us about, but I reached out with one arm, the other holding onto the door frame, and grabbed i^ n e ’s arm as her and Erika were about to be thrown down the stairs. “I just tried to press up against the
door as much as possible and could see our fridge cracking and all the contents falling out and all the plates and glasses shooting off the shelves. “It never seemed to stop and at
one point I thought ‘I’m actually go ing to die’. It lasted a few seconds more and then slowly calmed down and stopped. “There was glass everywhere and
you couldn’t see an inch of carpet in our room, as all of our stuff had been pushed out of our cupboards onto the floor. “Qutside we saw lots of people on
the streets. The traffic lights were off and there were people crying. I looked across and saw that the building next to the supermarket that had been fenced off from the last quake had just collapsed and
the roof looked like a slide. The top of the street parallel to us had just crumbled and a man told us that the
■ body of a woman had been pulled out of the rubble. “The sky then turned black as
smoke rose from burning buildings in the city and we started to see pic tures of the cathedral from a guest who had been there. “Power and water was off and we
just sat round as it got darker and darker. . “That night we had such bad after shocks all night and every single time one came I shot up and was ready to run.”
She added: “I feel so sad as quite
a few buildings were badly damaged when we arrived (most of them have completely collapsed now), but we just accepted it as we didn’t experi ence it. But the city is devastated now and a lot of people are home less. We are just lucky to be alive.” Mother-of-four Linda said: “I was
in a state of panic when I couldn’t get through to her because all the phone lines were down, but I am so glad she and Erika are okay. It is such a relief.”
National contest win springs surprise on Autumn
AUTUMN Robinson, a Year 10 pupil at Clitheroe’s Ribblesdale High School, had the surprise of her life on Tuesday when she was unveiled as the winner of npow- er’s nationwide design competition. The competition - launched by celebri
ty stylist Nicky Hambleton-Jones - called for budding young designers to create new uniforms for one ofithe most famous promotional teams in the UK, the npower Girls and Boys.
■ ; Autumn (15) and her schoolfriends had
absolutely no idea she had won until a sur prise presentation was sprung during an assembly at the school. ’ Over the past 10 years, the npower Girls
have become a regular feature at cricket grounds to help cheer on the players dur ing Test matches. Recently they have been
SHOWTIME:^Some of the performers for Clitheroe Community Church’s talent show, “A Stage Full of Stars”.
the polished performances of the more accomplished acts. “We’d also like to express our
gratitude to Archer’s Carpets, who kindly supplied the carpet for the stage free of charge, and
to Chris Clews, whose DVDs of previous events helped provide donations for the stage blocks.”
Katherine wants PAs to join the club
A BUSINESSWQMAN from the Ribble Valley is urging fellow professionals across the area to
join her new club, which is exclu sively for personal assistants. Katherine LaChance says she
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Weekend weather: It will stay settled and largely dry, if sometimes cloudy, and with a risk of frost where skies are clear overnight.
Sunrise: 6-47 a.m. Sunset: 5-54 p.m. Lighting up time: 5-24 p.m.
wants to address the lack of an . effective support network for an ■ occupation that does not always get the recognition it deserves. She is appealing for PAs across the Ribble Valley to join what she believes is the first club of its kind in the North-West. Katherine runs the award-win
are somewhat limited, particu larly if one works in a smaller business without a training or mentoring function. Developing skills, managing one’s executives and growing professionally are all areas of vital interest for PAs, but where do they turn to for advice
. and support? That’s where the PA Club can help.
“I’m convinced that our club
ning Black Bull Country Inn, Rimington, and is also a director of Aptus HR Improvement Serv ices, which she manages with her ' husband; Steve. She said: “Resources for PAs ■
will provide an excellent source of support for PAs across Lan cashire, Yorkshire and further afield.”
clude:
The PA Club meetings will in ■
• Networking to build a group
of contacts that PAs can turn to for advice.
• Knowledce-buildine throuch
guest speakers to discuss topics that affect daily work. • Help with professional
issues, challenges and future needs of PAs in this area.
growth. • Planning sessions to discuss
PA and as director of Aptus now focuses on tran.sforming people and performance. After rejuvenating businesses
Katherine began her career as a
shell to an award-winning French country inti The first meeting of the PA
Club will take place at the Black Bull and will feature guest speak er Karen Donley, from Lytham St Annes, who is a personal coach and development expert. She will talk about personal and profes sional development for PAs. The first meeting of the PA
and business functions in diverse areas such as law firms, missile defence companies, mail de livery, airlines and back office
shared services, Katherine has applied the her business perform ance improvement skill set to the restaurant industry, transform- ina the Black Bull from a derelict
Club is free to attend and Kather ine hopes that if sufficient intei'T esl is generated it can become es tablished on a regular basis with speakers on PA-related topics provided on a monthly basis. Anybody wanting more infor
mation can contact Katherine on 01200 415960 or via e-mail
toklachance@antus-hr.com
joined by the npower Boys, and now the team can be seen showing their support at npower Football League matches, after npower became its official sponsor. Autumn’s designs won judges over with
their perfect mix of creativity and practi cality. Emma Collins, sponsorship man ager at npower, commented: “We are delighted with Autumn’s winning designs and we’re looking forward to seeing them
brought to life for the start of the new 2011/2012 football season in August. The outfits Autumn created are not only stylish but they are practical too - incorporating waterproof materials, pockets and even some fashionable faux fur for warmth!” A flabbergasted Autumn commented:
Bethany’s fund-raiser FROM PAGE ONE
School, Katy set up her own business - designs by Katy Rose - following the birth of Bethany. Well-known locally for her
artistic talents, through this business Katy designed and created personalised can vases and mirrors. She also worked alongside Lizi Both am - CBeebies’ Bizi Lizi - on projects and was instrumental in helping set up Unique and Wooden Toys at Backridge, which later became Wish Gifts.
Katy was also vice-chairman of the Friends of Brookside
. School and helped to organ ise an event at the school to raise awareness about breast, cancer. Katy was diagnosed and
treated for breast cancer in 2006 and, three years later, was re-diagnosed with the same condition. In spite of her failing health, Katy completed the Race for Life for the third time with Bethany in 2009. To support Bethany in her-
challenge to raise £5,000, make a donation at: www.just-
giving.com/Andy-RoseO
“It’s amazing - I just can’t believe my designs were picked. I’ni still in shock as npower surprised me in my school assem bly! Designing clothes is something I do in my spare time at the moment, but I want to pursue a career as a fashion designer, so this will be a brilliant for my portfolio.”
Landlord’s thank you FROM PAGE ONE
day, March 12th, is just a small gesture to show them our ap preciation. " “We are inviting the fire
crews from Clitheroe Fire Station, Ribble Valley Mayor and Clitheroe Mayor, as well as the builders, contractors and traders from the Swan Courtyard. “The fire crews rescued
my family and evacuated the guests and it a privilege for the town of Clitheroe to have them. I just want to say a massive thank you to them
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