r.co.uk Thursday,Junes,2013 * J O - 1 ' CUTHEROEADVERTISERSTIMES ' L"'- Jari will face his fears


' THE'sky’s the lim it for a ;; former Clitheroe Royal Gram- ' marSchool pupil who willface -


■ his greatest fear for a deserv-s ing cause. ; Jan Evans will skydive'oni,


- Saturday to raise money for.; .. TheLegacyRainbowHousein.;: •: Mawdesley, near Chorley, at-,;; tended by his daughter, Weave, r ; The one-year-old suffers


. with cerebral palsy as a result of complications at b i r t h . ■ ; 4 Jan and his wife Maxine,- ,


i who live in Great Harwood, are ; '.both carers for their little girl;. - To say thank you'to the charity that has supportedhis : family, Jan’s parachute jump


: will take place on Saturday in' Cockerham. ■


'' ; ,His fund-raising target is


£4,000 and he has already ; raised £2,000.' Anyone wishing to donate ,


‘ can do so by logging onto: ht- tps://www.justgiving.com/ - teams/neaveevans'


raiMBRIDEiTOrBE ?;'’ ILookmojurther than..-: ->,>


IS new Snapping Rowland with a professional


b u d d in g , photographers.


.'have the chance to shoot bird. „ ------------- -------------- habitatandmeadowflowers


along with their children to learn about the environment, '■ are led by


•with a professional photog- e xp e r ien ced professional rapher this summer as part of the Festival Bowland pro­


gramme. .i'Ablaze of colour in tradi:


tional hay meadows at Bell Sykes, near Slaidburn, is the backdrop, for a morning’s cam-


■ era walk on Tues­ day June 25th. Thehabitatofhen


photographer Veronica Ca- peron. She will be joined at Bell Sykes b y jh e Forest of Bowland Hay Time Project; Officer, and for the Bird Habi-'^


‘The events are • harriers and ring .. ...


ouzels around the Trough of Bowlandwillbetheinspiration


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; St Nicholas's Ross Queen Emily Rickard with her pageboy andattendants.


. THE new rose queen of St Ni-; cholas’s Church in Sabden, Miss Emily Rickard, is pic-


; tured with her attendants ;■ after being crowned at the ; annual church garden party. ;


■ highlightofaspecial weekend, for the church and the garden


i party was followed the next daybyaprocessionroundthe


village led by the Earby Brass ■ Band.' Emily’s brother Harry was one o f her attendants


. along with Galium Dewhurst,- Abigail Dewhurst, Sophie Bettes, Oscar Bailey and Han-., nah Bettes.


. The weekend’s events


raised more than £1,504 for church funds.


■ for the walk planned to take place on Tuesday, July 16th.: .;, : The events are aimed at those with limited or no pho-


. tographic experience, but ■ more advanced photogra- phers are welcome to join bn that basis. They provide useful tips


, on taking pictures with the advice of an expert on hand. There are also family tickets to encourage people to come


tat walk by a RSPB Officer. As well as picking,


aimed atthose with limited or no photo­ graphic experience’


up helpful hints ; and t ip s , .th e ; walkspresentthe;' chance to takei .photographs in a'


relaxed way without friends and relatives getting impatient - while they wait! ■ . Other events in the year in- ■ elude various locations in The Yorkshire Dales and in The Forest of Bowland, such as The: Three Peaks area in summer,; and autumn colours near Settle. • Bookingisessentialforthe;


camera walks - to do so con- tact Veronica Caperon at stu-' dio@veronicasgallery.co.uk; or 01729 824537 for more in-;- formation.


^ ijiu rs d ^ J u n e 6,2013 ,vvww.clitheroeadvertisercouk 'CUTHEROEADVERTISERSTIMES: ; I Well lieyer forget you llncle Jojin Family s emotional visit to the war grave of Halifax bomiDer pilot John Rawcliffe, 70 years on


•. byDuncanSmith duncan.smith1@jpress.co-iTk - Jwe'et;@clithadvertiser. / •:


" loved ones lost in llie Second World War. Forone loeal fam­ ily IhisSpringhas held aspe- cial significance, as they loo' . honoured a family member;


0 who paid the ullimalc price for our freedom. A fewjvceks ago marked the


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. A SUCCESSFUL family-run business is celebrating after reaching the finals of a prestigious: regional competiUon for building a deservmg -village project. -


" A new lease of life has been given to Gnndleton Pavihon thanks, to experienced building ■ contractors, John Moore and Sons, who have finished constructing the community facihty. The ,


• new pavilion,-situated on Sawley Road, comprises changing rooms, showers and the.whole - ' ; buildmg benefits from under-floor heatmg run from sustainable renewable energy.


Thanks to their hard work and dedication in the building of the facility, John Moore and Sons, of / Bolton-by-Bowland, were one of the finahsts m the LABC Building Excellence Awards in the Best Commumty Bmlding category. Grindleton Pavilion was opened in November last year. Fund-. raising started in August 2010 under the direction of the Grmdleton Recreation Ground Charity. /. and over £430,000 was raised in the two years for the outstandmg facihty. . ,


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■The fund-raising campaign.was.led by retired GP Anne Huson, who commented: “We are - dehghted.to be able to reconunendjohn Moore and Sons Ltd. They were selected firom a , very competitive field to build our new pavihon and commumty haU in Grindleton. Building


• -'a commumty facihty is quite an undertaking as there are many opinions and ideas about what iis required and how the job should be done. John, Simon, Matthew and the team dealt with this • i very well and were able to guide us along a path that led to the completion of this outstanding . ; , building.”


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«; The'Grindleton Pavihon project, was nommated by , Chris Shuttleworth, district surveyor for " Ribble.Valley Borough Council. He commented; !T was personally, very pleased to nominate


;>;/and see accepted through mto the regional finals.the Grindleton Pavilion project. 1 take this • ; ■ opporturaty to congratulate the whole team m design, construction and the -village commumty. ■ group for their tireless efforts in fund-raising. The awards are about quahty, effort and attention ■ .- to detail and they are all-valid recipients of my nomination and indeed worthy winners in that - respect"


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'/ •: to work alongside Jeff Marshall the Architect, Anne Huson and the rest of the team, and to say - ' thank you to Chris Shuttleworth for his Nommation. - ^


JOHN MOORE & SONS (BUILDERS) LTD Dugdaies Farm, Bolton by Bowland, Glitheroe, BB7 4TP . / TEL: 01200 44ZZ11 www.john-moore.org


. -A spokesman for the firm said; We were dehghted to be chosen to build the new Pavihon and ■ „


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: ■ 70lli Anniversary of Ihc death of a Kibble Valley man who, as an RAF bomber pilot, was shot down over the German town of Dusseldorf on the night of April 3rd, 1943. Flight Sergeant John


: Rawclilfc was born and bred at Springivood Farm, Lower Hod-


. dcr, Stonyhurst, and was the son o f Henry and Alice Raw- clilfe.


. . Educated in Hurst Green, he was one of a large family, in- cludinga brother, Bemanl,and sislersTeresa,Clarc,Agnesand Mary; John was a keen sports- . man, playing football for local. / teams until hejoined Birniing-


oday,Junc6lh,- ■ . nhirksllicaimi- ;: •versary of D-Day, when many people willrememlier'


: hamCityF’oliee.Duringtliewar he volunteered to assist the al­ lied effort and after flight and


bombertraininginllalifaxNo- va Scotia and Alabama, ho was eventually stationed at RAF Snaith in Yorkshire. As a nieni- ■ berof51 Squadron ofBomber


■ Command, he was a Sergeant : Pilot flying Halifa.\ Bombers. to his flight


^ ..records, Johnfiewseveralniis-


. sions over enemy territory un­ til he and his crew perished togcthcron a bombingniission ■ to the industrial heartland of the German war machine. Sadly, none o f John’s many


siblings were ever able to visit hislastrcstingplaecinthcmost peaceful Rcichwald War Cem­ etery, near to Kleve in Germany,


■ However, to mark the 70lh an­ niversary one of John’s neph-


- cws, John Spencer, arranged a visit for a number of other- ncphewsandnieces.*'';.'


; / A to tal of l2 family members made the four-day trip which, according to Mr Spencer, was


: “a most moving and meniora- ■ bic occasion’’; The seven crew ’ members are buried side by -side and to mark the occasion a red rose was laid on each of


. theirgraves. After a minute’s <


- silence, the familiar “Ode o f " Remembrance” was recited: ■ “They shall grow not old, as we


..lhatareleftgrowold.Ageshall/ .. not weary them, nor the years ' . condemn;At thegoingdown of .~ the sun and in the morning, we -. will remember them.” ... ;. Mr. Spencer said those .- words ring true for him, com-'


i:-: menling: “Although my uncle ■ '. - diedsix years before I was born, -; 1 think ofhimasayoungnian;. -indeed niiicli younger.than'i-


. both of my sons and yet I am A - slowly approaching old age!?. : Pictured on the right are


' the six nephews and nieces who made the trip to Germany. • Their mothers were ail sisters ;; to John Rawcliffe.


' They are, from left to right,' /


John Walker, MichaelEnibeyy, ; Rosemary Bla’nchfield (nee ?;


-. Walker), John Spencer^ Peter Embcry and Christine Dixon .v. (nee Embcry). ,


/ ./ The Embcry family still live In the Clitheroe area, wliileMr;., Spencer and his family lived ■ ./ in Milton Avenue and Linden /: Drive, Clitheroe, formanyyears


■ and now live in Forton, close to - Gars tang.


The sixnephews and nieces atthe grave of their uncle John Rawcliffe


Lyingsidebyside,thesevencrew ; members of the Halifax bomber - '


MORETHAN 12,000 BOMBER COM- MANDAIRCRAFTWERESHOTDOWN DURING WORLD W A R II, AND 55,500 AIRCREWWEREKILLED - THEHIGH- ESTATTRrnONRATEOFANYBRinSH UNIT.


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^Production of the Handley Page - Halifax bomber was centred on < .the company’s base at Sarnies- ■. -


- bury-justafewmilesfromJohn • . Raweliffe’s birthplace - the site . now occupied by BAE Systems.; More than Z^OOO four-engined v- Halifax bombers werejiuilt at. : : Samlesbury during the war.- '


Bomber crews paid the heaviest price of all...


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