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eron regarding the over development of the Kibble Valley. CRAG welcome any efforts to reduce
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AST week it was reported Councillors Ranson and Hill eld a meeting with David Cam
opportunistic money grabbing develop ment schemes, but did a “meeting” take place? It might seem a strange question, but what is a meeting? One dictionary defines a meeting as “a
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gathering of two or more people that has been convened for the purpose of achiev ing a common goal through verbal inter action”. The question is - was a common’goal
achieved? If it was, last week’s article did not tell us. In fact last week’s article gave absolutely no indication of what thoughts the Prime Minister had on the Ribble Val ley housing situation and what he could do to help us. Then again, it’s very doubtful he agreed
■ had been able to report what had been achieved at the meeting. There appears to be an epidemic sweeping the Ribble Val ley. It’s called the “meetings with promi nent people that achieve nothing” syn drome. Not only have our two councillors had a meeting with no reported outcome, our MP suffers from the same problem. My “in box” is full of correspondence
to assist our cause. Recently David Cam eron announced his full support to build on two million acres of our countryside. A few thousand lost acres in the Ribble Val ley will not cause him sleepless nights. Perhaps we were supposed to be im-
between Nigel Evans and myself bn the subject of housing. Unfortunately not much of it contains many answers, but it does eiqjlain the many “meetings” he has held with the PM, Grant Schapps, Eric Pickles, Uncle Tom Cobbley and all. But once again there is no mention of what the meetings achieve. Last October a
100 years ago
was illustrated in a wedding report in the paper this week: “She wore a becom ing dress of French grey, trimmed with cream silk and ornamental embroidery.”
WHEN charged with being drunk and disorderly and asked what he had to say for himself, the prisoner gazed pensively at the magistrate, smoothed down a rem nant of grey hair and remarked: “Your Honour, man’s inhumanity to man tfiakes countless thousands mourn. I am not as debased as Swift, as profligate as Byron, as dis^sted as Poe, as debauched as...” “That will do!” thundered the mag istrate. “Ten days! And officer, take a list of these names and run ‘em in. They’re as bad a lot as he is!” • The typical fashion of a 1913 bride
Painted Furniture Workshops - regular dates throughout the year
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lookingback 50 years ago
WEATHER hit local football clubs mean ing they had another blank day on Satur day when all the games involving local teams were called off due to ice-bound pitches. Clitheroe’s home game with Darwen was postponed on Friday after a inspection of the pitch. At that point, Clit heroe had gone five'weeks without play ing a match. The Reserve side’s match at Clayton with Clayton A was also cancelled and so was the whole of the Clitheroe Amateur League programme. • Primrose Garage at Clitheroe were
selling a 1960 Ford Zephyr, which was in exceptional condition, for £485. • Residents old Christmas cards were
being used'for occupational therapy by the patients at Calderstpnes Hospital.
pressed by the fact that two members of RVBC had met their boss. Personally I would have been more impressed if they
Laura’s 80th ‘present’ for ciSarity
A GREAT-grandmother has celebrated her 80th birthday by raising nearly £1,200 for good causes.
question was asked regarding a developer wanting to triple the size of Barrow with out providing an Environmental Impact Assessment.
do not require an EIA. Greed ridden, op portunistic development applications are still forthcoming. Inspectors still insist we get houses we don’t want... the list is end less. When will we see these meetings re sult in action and not meaningless words?
meeting took place. Nigel Evans made the Secretary of State aware of the anger he and Ribble Valley residents felt regarding large-scale over development of the area. But what has changed? What will change? At present the Barrow developers still
is “in no doubt as to the level of opposi tion amongst residents and the feeling of disenfranchisement from the entire proc ess”. The EIA issue was raised with “the strength of feeling against the applica tion” being put forward by our MP. So a very important high-powered
a “completely private meeting” with the Secretary of State who “listened intently’. He understood the “depth and intensity” of our MP’s feelings regarding “the over development of the Ribble Valley”. He also notes that the Secretary of State
Nigel Evans’ response was that he held
Grove, Clitheroe, held her party at TTie Grand, and asked guests to donate instead of giving presents.
Mrs Laura Bailey-Quintan, of Hazel
be divided equally between the Solomon Project, which provides meals for 6,000 children in Kenya, and the A Soldier’s Journey fund-raising project run by iqiured Ribble Valley serviceman Sgt Rick Clement.
Donations totalled £1,190, which will so generously.”
pected. I was amazed with the total,” said Mrs Bailey-Quinton, who is a volunteer with The Grand, Oxfam and Chernobyl Children. “I want to thank everyone who donated
“We raised much more than I ex
Charity seeks help for another ^lottery win'
25 years ago
• to the Beat of Their Hearts”. The film would be available to cinema-goers for sk days. • Ribble Valley’s Sports and Recrea
CLITHEROE’S Civic Hall was this week showing the “new big success film”. Dirty Dancing, reviewed as “Dancing
tion Association launched its appeal for a new leisure centre. “With Ribble Val ley Borough Council backing to the tune of £50,000 in the form of a grant, the dream of a leisure centre on the Roefield site is about to leave the drawing board and become a reality. The serious busi ness of raising cash must now begin. Or ganisers of a meeting made it clear that it is now up to the residents of the Ribble Valley to actively support the project.”
support our archive project also enabled us to bring back Pound Day as an annual large scale event, to attract the at tention of BBC One’s ‘Inside Out’ team, to recruit two high
Harriet Roberts explained: “The work we did in 2012 around ‘The Hidden History of James Dixon’ marked a sig-' nificant development for Child Action Northwest in using our 120-year history to raise our profile, recruit volunteers and raise funds. “With Heritage Lottery
ate a community film project as a centrepiece for the exhibi tion, using local people to tell the story of James Dixon and linking the work of the found er with the continuing prob lems caused by poverty today. Heritage project manager
ated by its archive project in 2012 and feedback from sup porters the plan is to create a more permanent exhibition areas and visitor facilities with educational opportunities for schools. There is also an idea to cre
LOCAL children’s charity Child Action Northwest is making what it hopes will be another successful bid for National Lottery fund ing to enable more people to continue to discover its history as Blackburn Or phanage. Following the interest cre
HERITAGE: Whalley cou ple Paul and Sheena By-
' rom portrayed the founder of Blackburn Orphanage, James Dixon, and his wife Jane when Child Action North West held its 2012 Heritage Open Day, giving today’s youngsters a unique glimpse into the past.
community, as key stakehold ers, to come along to a consul tation meeting to discuss the plans around the application so far and to contribute ideas.
profile patrons - novelist Jose phine Cox and actress Wendi Peters - and to develop im portant partnerships with or ganisations like Oswaldtwistle Mills, where we now have our first trading opportunity. “We are asking the local
at then charity’s headquarters in Whalley Road, Wilpshire, on Monday, February 4th, at 6-30 p.m. It would be help ful if anyone intending,to go would e-mail hroberts@canw.
org.uk or call 01254 244711.
This forms an important part of a successful bid and feed back is crucial in creating a project that the community truly supports.” That meeting will take place
project featured on the BBC ONE Inside Out programme go to http:/
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Thought For The Week
EW year. Well I know that we are now in the middle of the month of January, but it is still New Year to
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HARVESTED from our own archive, this week’s photographic foray into the past dates from the very end of 1992 and was taken at The Asshetton Arms, in pic
turesque Downham, The event was a party to mark the re
tirement of Mr and Mrs Rumfit form the village Post Office, and there looks to be a
good turnout of friends to raise a glass to them. The retiring couple were no doubt presented with the rustic garden furniture that they are seated on in the photo.
new year. Pack away last year’s troubles and begin afresh.” I know how they feel. And it does give us a chance to reflect, and then, hope
ficult year, with redundancy, ill health, bereavement, the end of a year can be a source of relief. Someone said to me recently: “It’s a
ginnings. I know for some it is simply an other day, no different from the rest, but for me it is a time to look back, reflect, and take stock; What did I achieve last year, and what are my priorities for the next 12 months? Sometimes, if we had a particularly dif
taken down my Christmas decorations: and it is lovely to have that sense of space once more as the Christmas frills, lights and tree get put away for another year. For me. New Year is a time of new be
For various reasons, I have only just
■ to move on. It’s an opportunity to think about time.
fully, having learned from our mistakes,
time means different things. In Chester Cathedral, there is a Victorian poem near an old clock. It goes like this; When as a child, I laughed and wept,
ran. And later as I older grew, timefiew.
time walked When I became a full grown man, time
termine whether we use the time we have fruitfully or not. St Benedict, one of the
Amen (Henry Twells) The way we think about time will de
time gone. Will Christ have saved my soul by then?
Soon I shall find when travelling on,
time crept.. When asayouth, I dreamed and talked,
In our busy lives we barely have time to do what we now see as necessary, so New Year can be an opportunity to take time, to think about time and how we use it. Depending on the time of your life,
for study and time for relaxation, and, of course, time to sleep.
mented, but they were also very produc tive.
in work seemlo do nothing but work, and those out of work can drift aimlessly. So how are you going to use your time
love of family and friends - whatever life brings in 2013. REV. GILL DYER, St Mary and All Saints, Whalley
this year? May you know God’s blessings and the
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