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100 years ago


THE young ladies of Low Moor Wesley School were to be thoroughly congratu­ lated on the.excellent programme they provided for entertainment in the school room on Wednesday evening. The young ladies opened with the glee “There was an old woman’’ which greatly pleased the audience. ■


• be any repetition of the record for some time at least.”


was reported to the Clitheroe Board of Guardians at their meeting on Monday. The Master (Mr H. Bottomley) stating that during the week ending March 2nd, not a single person was admitted as an in­ mate of the workhouse. If the coal strike continues it is scarcely likely there will


• “A somewhat remarkable event


ers Football Club entered bankruptcy protection last month. Because of this, the club has had to agree various cost-cutting measures, meaning that players such as ' midfielder Steven Davis and keeper Allan McGregor have had their weekly wage of ■around £28,000 slashed to £7,000. ■ Although there is a vast difference be­ tween these two figures, it still means that the players are earning at least £364k per year, more than 16 times the highest sal­ ary in the local ads. Yet,-even these figures are dwarfed by, the salaries of sonie of the ’ ■ world’s highest paid footballers such as .Gristiano Ronaldo who is paid over $38 million per year - a $15.6 million salary


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travel a lot and are role models, but so are lot of other sportsmen and women and


looldngback 50 years ago


ingham Palace the Queen chose Col. Ge­ offrey G. H. Bolton, of Littlemoor House, Clitheroe, as Sheriff of Lancaster for the ensuing year. Col. Bolton received the


MBE in 1946 and was awarded the CBE in 1960.


who had been selected to visit Holland for a week was Miss Marie Holden, elder daughter of Mr and Mrs G. Holden, of Bailey House Farm, Hurst Green. • At the traditional ceremony at Buck­


DANCERS glanced up in surprise when hounds bounded into the Hodder Val­ ley Fox Club annual hunt ball at Newton, but it was all part of the programme. For it had been decided to hold a parade of hounds round the hall as an innovation. • Among a party of young farmers


of money to charity and some run special - trusts, but still there are many who do nothing like this. If not for charity, the money could be put to better use lower­ ing ticket prices for the games, and yet it seems that the sport just wants to squeeze:, as much money as possible out of football fans, who aren’t paid footballers’ wages. . It is argued that the players train hard,


and $22.4 million of other income from advertisement campaigns and sponsorship - that’s more than $700k a week! Who needs and can possibly spend that amount of money? Why isn’t this money being spent on a more worthwhile cause? Admittedly, many-footballers give a lot


• to take a look at recent newspaper head­ lines to be told the opposite. Stories about racism in football have been front page nevys and many players have' been caught up in scandals in the past year. Some play­ ers as ybiing as 19 are earning vast sums


improve all kinds of sporting facilities? As for being foie models we only have


, of money that they don’t know what to do with -The/re^yeif too much money too soon. Inflated wages iiiipact on us all and it’s clear who are the winners and losers.


they don’t get paid even half as much for


. my? What could be done with the money? Hoiv could it be iiivested in the region to


that the money is made through football! be it from ticket sales, merchani’se, spon^ sorship, etc. but, vvith the current econom­ ic climate, shouldn’t it be deemed selfish that footballers and their management aren’t giving enough back into the econo-


from people who genuinely aren’t in it for the money. ' Some people say that this is irrelevant,


the same amount of, and sometimes more work and training. With the Olympics fast approaching the country is looking forward to the displays of skill and talent


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A weekly look at local issues, people and places


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STRONG LOOK: Whalley Juniors are pictured here looking great in their new tracksuits, sponsored by Andy Strong, MD of Strong Construction. He is pictured with manager David Cook and the under-eights squad, who have won 26 of their 28 games while playing indoors through the winter. They are also looking forward to their summer ball on May 5th, with full details on the Whalley Juniors website.


Local duo raising pro­ file of kidney patients


25 years ago


ceived a £300 donation from the town’s French Connection. The money was raised by the group’s New Year’s Day swim. • A Slaidbum farmer stopped by po­


lice travelling through Gisbum was fined a total of £100 by Clitheroe magistrates for five road traffic offences.


“IF you go down to Clitheroe Auction Mpt today, you are sure of a big sur­ prise” - for on the scales, alongside the cattle, was Langho restaurateur and farmer Frank Hargreaves! Generous Frank had decided to trim his cuddly fig­ ure, currently weighing in at more than 20 stones, in aid.of the Rlbble Valley Scanner Appeal. • The Clitheroe Mayor’s fund had re­


JENNY Fleming and Kevin O’Hara of the Lancashire and South Cumbria Kidney Pa­ tient Association, and who represent kidney patients in the Ribble Valley, went to West­ minster for a reception to celebrate World Kidney Day. The theme of this year’s meeting was


lives in Padiham, and Kevin, who lives in Copster Green and received a transplant 16 years ago, felt that they received a sym­ pathetic ear, but acknowledge that more people need to enrol on the organ donation register. Their message is: “If you would ac­ cept an organ in order to save or enhance your life, then you are duty bound to enrol on the donor register.” .


plight of patients awaiting transplants was emphasised. Much more needs to done to encourage organ donations and this was acknowledged by all concerned. A question and answer session ensued, chaired by jour­ nalist and newsreader Nicholas Owen. Both Jenny, who is a dialysis patient and


“transplantation”. Jenny and Kevin met up with several MPs including the Rt Hon. Simon Bums, Minister of State for Health, and both Deputy Speakers of the House of Commons, Nigel Evans MP and Lyndsay Hoyle MP. As well as discussing local issues, the


KIDNEY DAY: Jenny and Kevin with Nigel Evans MP, newsreader Nicholas Owen and Rena Loud, Director of Kidney Alliance.


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|rO many of us, 1985 feels like only yester­


day.-., hard to believe it’s 27 years ago! I Yet the_youngsters pictured here will be mostly in their 30s now and many with families of their own. They were gathered on the village green at Bolton-by-Bowland'. in August 1985 for an annual sports day prganised by the Clitheroe Lady Farmers.


Do you recoOTise any of the eager young faces s h o ^ here, or perhaps some of the ladies? While the children will be grown


_St Paul, visible in the background.


just a drop in the ocean for the beautiful 15m centu^ church tower of St-Peter and


up, the surroundings haven’t changed much, with the passing of almost 30 years


graphs suitable for this slot (as little as 20 years old) please e-mail them to duncan.; smith@eastlancsnews.co.uk or send them to The Clitheroe Advertiser and Times, 3 King Street, Clitheroe, BB7 2EW. Re­ member to include any details you have -gfe.Qut-What or who the photo shows. _1


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were now divorced. I was truly saddened because every­


FATHER whose son’s wed­ ding I had taken three years ago at another of my churches told me the sad news that the cOuple


and recognise a number of couples who are no longer together, but equally I see the names of others - well over half - who are still happily married, probably with a family. Mothering Sunday can be a happy celebration of family life, but it can, for


thing seemed right for the young couple. It’s sometimes said that divorce is too easy today and that cohples don’t try hard enough, but the ones I marry seem com­ mitted to each other, taking their vows seriously. I can go through the marriage registers


' portunity to appreciate again - or for, the first time-that our God is the God of new beginnings, so that a future of fresh possi­ bilities can be created out of the debris of a shattered past. “Past put behind us, for the future take us” is a wonderful line in one of our newer hymns. Others too can find the celebrations painful, such as those who have lost a child or a mother, women- who cannot have children and those who are separated for their mother or child be­ cause of broken relationships. Whenever I see cards or adverts portray- -


some people, be a painful time. For those whose marriage has failed it can be an op-


ing “ideal family life’’-I want to point out that life is so often’not like that. There’s love, fun, home-building and much more, but “the ideal home” in real llfe.doesn’t


Mothering Sunday is to rejoice that along­ side our family celebrations there can also be forgiveness, the healing of past difficul­ ties, the forming of new friendships and the joy of new discoveries. The Christian word for this is redemption - what Christ came to bring. .


was not ideal. His mother may have been a widow. At times she did not understand her son, and certainly Jesus and his sib­ lings were not united over who Jesus was. So perhaps a better way of marking


exist. It is only to be found in heaven. Jesus’s own home, as a matter of fact,


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