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Last Saturday I feared I might become the most hated man in Gisburn, pursued by an gry villagers with pitchforks and blazing torches like in the
| Frankenstein films. The reason: I’d been asked
I torepresenttheClitheroeAd- I vertiser and act as judge for the village’s first-ever Scare crow Festival (see page n)
| based on children’s stories. ■ I accepted the invita-
I tion, then remembered with some trepidation what village events can be like (I listen to “The Archers” occasionally) with internal politics, alle gations of favouritism and
| claims of “fix!” Gisburn Scarecrow Festi-
I val wasn’t like that -or at least not that I know of!
As I See It... by Er ic Beardsworth
I tootled over to Gisburn,
accompanied by Mrs B, to be greeted at the Festival Hall by theorganiserswithawelcome brew and a choice of lovely home-made cakes. A nice cuppa and a fruit scone with strawberryjam and cream lat er, I set off on the Scarecrow Trail. Before long I was chuck
ling heartily at the wonderful scarecrows lovingly created by village’s children, parents and businesses using straw, old clothes, paint, glue and lots of imagination. There was Mary Poppins,
Humpty Dumpty, Dorothy and friends from “The Wiz ard of Oz”, Red Riding Hood, The Gruffalo, The Very Hun gry Caterpillar, Harry Potter, the Scary Godmother, Ba nanas in
Pyjamas...too many to mention them all but what atremendousshowitwas.and what a great way to get all the village pulling together.. The problem was: How to
pick a winner? We decided it would have to be the best re alisation of a character, plus whether it told some of the story. I took pictures of all the
exhibits on my mobile phone and we discussed them on the way home, looked at the pic tures at home, and went on to t’Internet to look up books
we weren’t familiar with. We discussed them again
before we went to Big Brian’s birthday bash at Padiham then until 2 am after we got home, then again when I woke up on Sunday morning
and remembered something I’d missed. I don’t think judges of old
en days could have deliberated so much, not even before they donned the Black Cap.
Eventually, we picked the
top three, and I can assure the good folk of Gisburn that apart from the Guides, Brown ies and Rainbows - who had labelled theirs - we had abso lutely no idea who had made which scarecrow. So, well done, all ofyou !Just ask some one else next year... please!
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Children from Chernobyl who are staying with families in and around Clitheroe enjoyed the opportunity to meet guide dogsforthe very first time.
The Friends of Chernobyl’s Children and Guide Dogs charities made it possible for the group of youngsters to visit the Guide Dog Training School in Atherton.
The group of 12 children
are from Belarus, which was affected by the Chernobyl nu clear disaster. Each year the Friends of
Chernobyl’s Children charity, based in Clitheroe, organises for children to stay with fami lies in the Ribble Valley. This month away from
home provides great health benefits for the children and helps their bodies to detoxify. They also get many educa
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tional benefits and this time they were lucky enough to vis- itguide dogs. Thechildren and their interpreters were able to learn about puppy walking and how the dogs are trained.
The children from Belarus at the Guide Dogstraining centre in Atherton. They got the opportunity
to meet puppy Fifi with her puppy walker and meet fully qualified guide dog Queenie with her owner. Thechildren also enjoyed some hands-on
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Dogs, said: “It was great hav ing the children visit; they were such an enthusiastic group and we hope they can come and visit Guide Dogs in the future”.
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100 YEARS AGO Royal birthdays
fTHEIR MAJESTIES BIRTHDAYS -a s did those of Villiam IV and his cousin Queen Adelaide- come
[very near together, the King's falling this week. It was celebrated, as was the Queen'sfon May 27th) by i small luncheon party at Buckingham Palace. The King received more than 50,000 birthday letters
from children in elementary schools throughout the country and Queen Mary received on her birthday many congratulations fi~om little children in various
hospitals, whose hours of suffering had been
cheered bypresentsoftoysandfiowerssent to them Iby her Majesty. A rather strenuous month lies before the King and Queen, who will first remain in London fo r the official celebrations of the King’s birthday."
LOOKING BACK 50 YEARS AGO
Work on new school to start soon
“FORMORETHAN 20 years residentsofChatburn have been waiting to hear when the village school
buildings were going to be pulled down so that the road couid be widened. Now Lancashire Highways
and Bridges Committee expect to make a start on the improvement of the Liverpool-Preston-Leeds trunk road from Chatbum Brook to Ribblesdale View, in about 12 months time. This means that '
not only has the new school accommodation to be completed, but the present school and schoolhouse will also have to be demolished. At a meeting on Wednesday, it was said thatthe widening of the
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23 YEARS AGO Crowds roll up
“CLITHEROE’S FIRST AGRICULTUREshowfor
20yearswasgiven the public's seal of approval on Saturday and now the organisers are already
making arrangements for next year's. More than 1,500 people attended the first Ribble Valley Rural
• Fair at the Ribblesdale Centre, despite competition from Otley Agricultural Show and the Cup Rnal
on television. The attendance was large and the sponsors were pleased with the numberoftrade
stands by both small and large businesses and the number of competitors for the various classes' said the centre's commercial manager Mr Robert Parker. 'People are already talking about next year's show ^ and the interest shows that we've been successfur
' / f t • . i v'V . r First beneficiaries receive boost from Town Mayor’s fund
Various local organisations and individuals have benefited from a fund organised by Coun. Kevin Horkin dur ing his year Mayor of Clitheroe, which endedinMay. Coun. Horkin raised in the region of £30,000, with £25,000 set aside as a pot for local voluntary organisations to apply for funding from between May
and October thisyear This year’s town mayor, Coun. Valerie Cooper and Coun. Horkin plus Coun. Mary Robinson, as leader of the town council, presented thefirst cheques, totalling around £
ny in the Mayor’s Parlour. Those receiving funding were: Child Action North West, Ribble Valley Sen
5,ooo, to 12 organisations at a ceremo
iors’ Forum, Julia Billington, Braille-It, 1st Clitheroe Scout Group, Crossroads Care Ribble Valley, Christians Against Poverty, Ribble Valley Talking Newspa per, Life Education Lancashire, Clitheroe YouthForum; Clitheroe
. United Reformed Church, Roefield Leisure Centre, and Clitheroe Civic Society.
Deborah Daly andher son, Lewis, who enjoyed a seaside holiday.
in 2010 by employees of the Principle Healthcare Group, the UK’s leading vitamin pro ducer.
Holiday enjoyed thanks to charity The trustees have raised
sufficient funds to invest in three luxury holiday homes at the Haven Holiday Park at Marton Mere, Blackpool. The homes are provided to
use free of charge for eligible families. Ribblesdale Children's
Centre has so far introduced five families to the Trust. Clitheroe mum Deborah
Daly and her four-year-old son, Lewis, have recently re turned from their holidayand
THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK
through the year. Easter and Ascension Day have gone and Whitsuntide has passed us by. I wonder how many of us
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actually now realise when . Whitsunday (Pentecost) really is, now that we have the fixed bank holidays in May. Whitsuntide has been
called the birthday of the Church. Let us take a look at what it meant for the early Christians. The prayer meeting is a
distinctly Christian institu tion. In many other religions there are great religious festi vals and some hold great assemblies for humiliation
ho would believe it? We are now over halfway
and prayer, but there is noth ing that quite corresponds to the Christian prayer meet ing.
The first real prayer meet
ing was held between the time when Jesus ascended back into heaven and when the Holy Spirit descended. The last words of Jesus be fore he ascended back to His Father were both a promise and a command: “Behold, I send the promise of my Fa ther upon you: tarry in the city until you be clothed with power from on high.” (Acts chiv8) They returned to Jerusa
lem with great joy and with one accord continued stead fast in prayer until the prom ise was fulfilled. The Holy Spirit comes to
inspire and energise us, so that our lives shall be lives of
power. He does not change us into someone else, but He so fills us that each may become the best that we can be. The ascension of Christ
gave a new conception of prayer. In the Old Testament, God was always exalted in majesty. He dwelt in light too dazzling for men to approach. When people prayed they withdrew to a solitary place or bowed down in the dust. In Christ, prayer finds a
new meaning. They spoke to God through Jesus, who they knew and who they had seen ascend to the Father. The Glory of God no long
er filled them with awe and terror, for it was embodied in the Christ whom they knew and loved. The prayer meeting gave a new basis of fellowship. Dur
ing Christ’s earthly ministry the little group of disciples • had been rent with rivalry and strife, but now they were united and continued with one accord in one place. Their divisions were healed in one common fellowship of prayer. The privileges that were
new to them are with us still. We have the same inter cessor at Gods right hand. There is but one mediator between God and man, the Man Christ Jesus. (1 Timothy ch2V5). We have the promise to '
those who pray in His Name - “Ask and you shall receive, seek and you shall find, knock and it shall be opened unto you”. (Mathew ch7V7) FRANK ROBINSON Harrop Christian. | Fellowship
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