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HALL I turn my mobile phone ontoday?v
since Mast switched it on and you never know, soineone might have left a message. Now where did I put it? Some of you reading this will find noth
Be'tter had I suppose... it’s days
ing remotely unusual in it. These will be thoughts; that occassionally enter your own he'ad, inde'ed this might even prompt - you wonder when you last saw your own mobile? But others- an alarming proportion of
others -will think me at best hopelessly outdated and at worst stark staring mad. For I have been left far behind by a soci ety increasingly obsessed by the cult of the mobilephone.,
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; My own daughter, who’turns 11 this' weekend, has just got her first mobile phone. I was going to wait until she moved up to secondary school, but I just couldn’t
lookingback 100 years ago
AT the county police court, a man was charged on remand with stealing a Po meranian puppy: “The evidence said
; that the defendant called at the Dog and ■Partridge; Barrow. The bar man gave the man permission to sing, after which he passed the hat round. When he later left by the back door, the barman saw him stoop down and pick something up between the stable and the tap room window. His suspicion aroused, witness made enquiry about the dog, which was nowhere to be found. He went after the prisoner in the direction of Whalley, but
. could find no trace of him. Returning to Glitheroe, he saw the prisoner leaving The Commercial Inn, with the dog under his coat and called P.C. Brindle.
Clitherge student who queued overnight, for more than 12 hours, to get his hands on the latest generation Apple iPhone, iandpay;£600 for the privilege. And here’s -- me minking students were hard up!
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stand the constant pleas that “all my friends have got one!” (To be fair though, most of them have). Actually I’ve given her my phone, one
that I bought about 12 months ago in a doomed bid to 'get to grips with the mys tical art of “texting”. It has a proper key board on a touch screen so I thought even I might manage, but it’s no good. I just can’t grasp the concept of sending little electronic messages back and forth when a brief conversation will suffice. So I’ve given up to texting and given the
it; maybe if the car breaks down, though 1 often forget to take it with me!
My daughter has had my phone for a
week or so and already it is unrecognisable to me. It has flashy multi-coloured graph ics that move about, it plays pop songs and jingles, it buzzes and vibrates and is alive with texts - if it had an easy life before, it’s paying the price now. On Saturday I took the kids shopping
■ in a toy animal and were, set a task to discover some facts about whichever ani mal they chose. The children loved shar- -
HODDER House, the pre- prep school at Stonyhurst St Mary’s Hall at Hurst Green, celebrated the feast day of their patron saint St Francis of Assisi by find ing out about his special friends - animals.. All the children brought
. girls, in their late teens. As they waited for their food to arrive each sat there with their mobile phone placed squarely on the table in front of them, not talking, not laughing or joking or watching the world go by... just tranfixed by the phone. Every few minutes one would buzz or
and we chose to have lunch in the super market cafe. On the table next to ours were four young people, two boys and two
phone away, retreating to my ancient and laughably basic previous mobile, which tends to stay in my workbag for emergen cies. Because that’s what it is to me - a use ful tool which is there if and when I need
ing the animal facts they had learnt, discovering, for example, that hippos can open their mouths really wide and have their babies under water, and that bears are omnivores. Fr Peter Wilcox, the
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play a tune; a hand would shoot out and grab it and begin frantically pushing but tons. It carried on after their food arrived, fork in one hand, phone in the other. I began to wonderjif they were texting each other. It really was like some bizarre cult. As for me, well. I’ve found my phone, turned it on and no... no messages.
school’s chaplain, -visited to tell the children all about St Francis of Assisi and the children learnt St Francis’ famous prayer, “Make me a channel of your peace”. After a special lunch the
children completed their celebrations with a special cake!
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OVER GO’S OFFER SAINT’S DAY: The children at Hodder House with their cake for St Francis of Assisi. S 50 years ago
TAKING part in the “Young Artists” ra dio programme in the BBC Home Serv ice was I4-year-old violinist Ian Sharp, of 10 Railway View, Clitheroe. Ian, a pupil at the Manchester School of Music, also
played-at several concerts at the Free Trade Hall. • “The Happiest Days of Your Life”
was presented by St Michael’s Players in The Hall, Lowergate. Those taking part were Derrick Hutchinson, Billy Taylor, Tom Cowman, John Turner, Edward Worswick and William Manley. • Five points behindthe winners Mr W.
25 years ago
H. Gastall, of Mossthwaite Farm, Newton, became
reserve.champion in the Golden Fleece National Hill Sheep competition supreme finals in Edinburgh.
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sbme intensely happy, others intensely sad. I have often wondered in a secular age like ours why people still turn to the Church for these rites of passage? Today less than 10% of the population
: These are the keystones of our lives,
N the course of a clergy person’s life in Ministry we are privileged to be a part of many baptisms, wed dings and funerals.
marry in church, there
is.always more depth in their answers than siiiiply.‘Tt’s a lovely building” (although of course if is!). Perhaps it is for the other rites of passage that we get nearer to the answer, “Well, it’s my church”.-1 think it is about a real sense of belonging.
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- We all want to belong. Belong to some one, a family, a lover, a spouse: many want to belong to their community, a street, a village, a market town, an area. Others
attend worship on a regular basis, yet in my 28 years of ministry I have taken hun dreds of baptisms and funerals, as well as a good many weddings. ' When I ask people why they want to
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IT was reported this week that Clitheroe looked certain to be welcoming Hillards superstore to the town: “The build ing will cost millions of pounds and is planned for the prime town centre site in the vicinity or JR’s Snooker Club. If the deal goes ahead, JR’s owner could turn the present premises in King Lane into a £140,00b.entertainment complex, including a cabaret club, snooker hall and a flat green bowling centre. Hillards had confirmed that negotiations were taking place for the purchase of a site for a new store in Clitheroe and that a planning application would be submitted to the borough council by the end of the month. The plan would be for an 18,000 sq. ft. store, with parking for 156 cars.
CLITHEROE Wolves are chasing the top spot this sea son and have kicked off their 2011^012 campaign in style, thanks to a new sponsorship deal with Electricity North West. - The Under-13s football club, which trains at Roefield
Leisure Centre, was runner up in the Cup and the Ac crington and District Football League last season. Thanks to hard training in the season break and the new kits, the team will be in ship shape to go for the number one posi tion this season.
and who works as an engineer at Electricity North West, said: “The players of the Wolves under-13s team are exceptional for their age:so we’re really hoping to bring home some silverware. ' “Support from local businesses like Electricity North
West is vitally important for the quality and success of the club. We are looking to the top result at the end of the season and will be pleased to share our success with the
company.” Electricity North West is the distribution network oper
ator that connects businesses and consumers throughout
Wolves is a great local club in the Lancashire area, where we manage a great deal of work, so when we were ap proached to support the team we jumped at the chance. We wish the team good luck in the league efforts.”
the North West and into Cumbria. Paul Bircham, customer strategy director, said: “The
NEW KIT: Clitheroe Wolves’ players proudly show off their new kits courtesy of sponsor Electricity North West, (s)
want to belong to an organisation, a hob by, a gym, a fishing club, a ramblers asso ciation. And yet others want to hone their talents by singing in a choir, or acting in a dramatic group.
time on this earth is over, we want our fam ily and friends to gather together to see us on our final journey, to celebrate our lives, to give thanks for relationships held dear: and once again many people still come to Church to take their final journey. I have come to realise that for many, tlie Church, encapsulated in the building, remains a sigiiificant part of their lives. We may not /warit tp.worship thefe' eyeiy wee^ but we
Belonging is important. And when our
1 was struck by two individuals - one lady who said: “I don’t go to church but St Nicholas is part of our village, an iconic symbol of our community and we need to keep it”, and a teenage lad who said to me afterwards: “Gill, if the church isn’t here where will I go to get married, and in fu ture years have my children baptised?”
to work together to restore the building.
It’s all about belonging. The Church is part of our community, it
do want it to be there as'part of biir com munity.
cibly with the current closure of the build ing at St Nicholas, Sabden. You will no doubt have read about the ceiling falling in etc. in previous news. At a public meeting where St Nicholas
This has been brought home to me for
Hall was filled to capacity—standing room only - local people expressed their desire
is part of dur cultural heritage. St Nicholas spire, and those of the many churches in our valley, point us upward to the sky, and in doing so point us to something greater and higher than we see on this earth, to God himself.'-
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It generously so that we can all enjoy the beauty of these architectural gems, and
So support your local church, give to
keep them sound for succeeding genera tions.
REV. GILL DYER, St Mary’s Whalley, St Nicholas Sabden and All Saints, Pendleton.
Orphans walked it, rain or shine
ternational Walk to School month, setting out from the head office of Child Action North west on Whalley Road, Wilpshire -7 the original. girls’ orphanage which opened in 1905. Bernard Kennedy, the project co-ordinator from “Living Streets”, explained that the return route would have been walked three times a day as the chil dren came back for lunch at the Orphanage at midday. Children wore Victorian costumes un derneath their waterproof coats and wellingtons and many of them spent the rest of the day in their PE kits as they were so wet! The children are also working on a film recre
DESPITE heavy showers and lots of puddles underfoot, pupils and teachers from Salesbury School stepped back in time to retrace the foot steps of children at Blackburn Orphanage. They took part in a history walk as part of In
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