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Perhaps you’re one of the people pic-. 9n It) or maybe you recognise


someoneelsewhois? •


.^howsBpwlaridForestYoungFarm- ,era, and was taken to commemorate •


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-' fy^ omp,etitioninMayi956. That was justonehighlightinthelonghistorv ofBowlandForestYoungFarmersand nowformermembersareplannine ^ ” 9I“onat whichmanymoregood


, tunes will no doubt be recalled. ItwiUbe held at The Calf’s Head,


Worston, on Wednesday May 7th, and


aUfomerelubmembersaridinter- ested friends are welcome to go along.


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dOQYEARS AGO teaparty


™ frB^O T™ NM Effrthathadbeengiven mWswe^enjoyedarfheviNage’sannualtea,


Pa^ A(*P.u9h.theweathervvasnot conducive toa: gatf^nng, a very large gathering assembled,


witfi excellent tea provided and full justice done to '


ttbtMliementertainmenfappa^ntlyfollowed - , ' winch gave"Universal satisfecdon'-in fact, it was


Helping local businesses for ° ver 20 years


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hMrton^idesthatitwasthebestenterteinment ^ t^ r rbe?n9,veninthevil,age-Youngsters' entertainmont pieces. r ;


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50 YEARS AGO . Demolition 1


' ' ’ a ^ reveJ'were m the process of being accepted. * >


PIANSTHATJWOULD change the face of Clitheroe - 1 hl?.e buildings which were listedas beinq of


architechiral or historical interest in the borouqb 3


v .yyere to be demolished to make wayfbrpart • - ?' s of Clrtherpe’s internal bypass. Membersofthe if.


DwelopmentandJownPianningeommitteeof ^ Clitheroe Town Council were told that the cottaqes ;


numberodiljgandaonShawbridgeStreetwfre: to be faiocked down by Lancashire Coun^ Council 3


.entitled *Curiy|oci^ .’Apian o d u fet^ ^ ^ -M n h , ' ?x1'T^e-COUn^COIJncbadinft)rmed the Government I N. Yates andR Sta^ i!.


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i- uiinisterfoi^iousing and Local Govemmentof fts^ ^


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25YEARSAGO Sawley speeding fears


-J™ “ E WAS MOUNTING concern at the increasing ' nufberofdnversteavingtheASgciitheroe bypass


" MnfnfinrOauhlI,9th0Vllla9e-OfSaW,eyatSP8edsof . to 6P mph along the narrowmain road. The issue


3t ^ Pansh meetin9’ during which it was


anH ^ 1 n resf ents feared that with new housing andan influx ofyoung children, it would be only a


mater°fnmebeforetherewasasenousaccident , councillors hadbeen asked to intervene and


, Sawley Womens Institute had agreed tio lend it s ,,;.,'


-7:?upP9[tfbra(*'pn.Iterecreteiy,VeraGiles,saidshe^ ' v'? s veiy worried about what she had been told and'


was considering writing to Ribble Valley council to 3 -highlight public concern.'


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"yater, water, < / water. Is


/ ■ / , there ever


W V going to . W W be an end


to what seems to have been the wettest winter in living memory? .. We are all aware of how wa­ ter affects our lives. By far the


?.ni^jority of our mqjor cities “were built on or near a natural -watercourse-theriver.Lon-. don on the Thames, Glasgow ■


. on the Clyde, Newcastle on the Tyne, Liverpool on the Mersey,


, C h es teronth eD ee-n eedI- goon?',


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* ; Even as I sit at my desk, on ^acold, dark, windy Februaiy • ■ • evening, with the rain lashing at the window, I am conscious of Fell Brook,Jess than so ~~ «•-<


yards away, on which the ham­ let of Harrop Fold developed


. from its earliest known ori­ gins in the 12th century. ’


. ' We all need water, but in


the right quantity and under proper control. Too little and 3 we have drought situations, . too much and we have devas- ; taring floods. We ought to be thankful 1


. that in this part ofthe country ' we have been spared the dis- '


. astrous effects of flooding that' • many have encountered in the Somerset Levels, along the • -


. upperreachesoftheThames : and in Cornwall. Our h e a r t s ' go out to those who have been; ;


. ^affected and in some cases lost , much of their possessions. ■; r r v Scientists in America have


on looking for water on Mars, i A few years ago they sent two %


: any water being present at that rime, or any time in the past. « Why did they do this? The _ - 1


robots to collect evidence of - • -<


>


- main reajon for the explora- • tion was to discover if water ^ u was, or ever had been, present 3


■ and to determine if life did, :• 5: or ever could have, existed on > Mars. For life to have existed, T ;


two people set off in search of water. One was a’woman -yo


,, from Samaria and the other : - was a man from Galilee by the ..name of Jesus. They ended ■•:


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: there had to be water. No wa- - :4 ter-nolife.


Two thousand years ago, ?.'■ ■ ■ ■£


the water that He was look­ ing for, and the woman found.'


the water she didn’t know she - needed.


r- We can read the full nar­ rative of this in the Bible in


tiie Gospel of John, chapter 4, verses 5 to 15.


- - Water is essential to both &


physical and spiritual life; - Jesus had a surprise for the ■ woman at the well. He offered • her the Water of Life - Him- self. He only is the refreshing, ■ renewing, “fountain of water springing up into everlasting -. life” (John ch4, V14). •' - -


. . . Are you looking for water? Get to know Jesus, the Living


•• spent vast amounts of money .-p *• met and talked.Jesus found ••• •' ’ Harrop Christian Fellowship WWW.FOOTWEARGALLERV.COUK! ------------— —-----:-----------^____« ~ -


. up meeting by a well near a - ;;j>> town named Sychar. As they ;


FRANK ROBINSON , '


•Water. It’s the greatest discov-' ery of all time.,


' BevPetrossian


11 Why is it that as soon as I hear - >,


about a newtrend, it’s already old hat? '


1 “suchold” . ■ "*


11 ■.■_ Ispeakaboutthelanguage ° f Doge, about which most i: over-6os like myself will have’, heard nothing until Radio 4’s - “Today” programme carried V, an item about it.' In Doge-speak, it left me reeling “much confuse” and 3


_ v


|v swotted up on this strange ^ phenomenon. ^ 3~ Doge is all to do with an internet meme”—amemebe- ■'


I mg “an idea, behaviour, style,-r or usage that spreads from "


person to person within a ■ - cultured


However, being a diligent' •


journalist, always interest-- ^ fd in new usages of English!


As I See I t . . . by Eric Beardsworth


Thanks to trie internet, it


.’spreads like wildfire. ■ • Trie idea is that you down-.


: load a picture of a Shibu Inu, a cute-looking sandy-col-- oured breed of Japanese dog,'


palter it digitally ifyou’re smart. enough, and superimpose


rsome two-word phrases, sup- S posedly to signify what the dog


< is thinking. These have to be ungram­


matical, where the qualifying


.word isn’t what you’d expect. : . Typical examples are “so' chocolate”-“very enjoy” and


. “much funny”. Thenyou add a- “Wow” or two somewhere and


you pass it on by uploading it3 Millions have been foil-,


lowing the Doge.meme forJ months, and the sandy dogha^


pasted on to pictures of cats; f “I can has cheezburger?”


started the worldwide LOE-* cats trend. Somehow, that one; passed me by. - --


Oldies like myself claim''


. that playfully mucking about- with the language for amuse-


- ment is nothing new, as in:' : “‘Twas brillig, and the slithy


•toves did gyre and gimble in the wabe; All mimsy were the borogoves, And the m’ome raths.outgrabe.” (“Jabber- wocky” by Lewis Carroll).


. .. "But back to Doge. Its users


:. taken over from LOLcats, an3 other internet phenomenon’" in.which witty slogans were]


: dan* even agree on how to prof? jounce it. Does it rhyme with I


“


T > ke dohj.- as in the Doges of- .foldVenice?,;..


should it be more • 8 sot


- :;Soitcouldevenberacist. i I -; - • Opinion is split and con-, I ,', 'fr9Xe.rsy-rages, but you can |


, of its cutesy guirkiness,’ and ..some even clairii it takes the - mickey out-of. the broken I English spoken by non-native I speakers,especiallyOrientals,


■ -Many are.already tiring'


3? betyoungpeople will drop the I .f ■


dead Dogeas soon as their par- I


ents try to get trendy byjump- I ingon the bandwagon. ■I


■ „ As the greatBob Dylan said: I I


without me. • •


So I won’t. Just go ahead I I


. Don’tcriticisewhatyoucan’t | understand.”


Itwasaprouddayforretired ; businessman Brian Cushing - when he received his MBE


medaifrom Prince Charlesat the Investiture ceremony at Buckingham Palace.'


Mr Cushing (78), ofWhitea- cre Lane, Barrow, was made an MBE in the Queen’s Birth­ day Honours for services to the community in Lanca- - shire. The award recognised


• activities across East and West Lancashire and the Rib-


- ble Valley. Locally, he is a past chair­


man of Clitheroe Round Ta­ ble, and founder president


of Clitheroe Lions Club, and was executive chairman for 16


; years of Abbeyfield Ribble Val­ ley Society, founder chairman of Carers’ Link (Hyndburn and Ribble Valley) and the Princess Royal Trust.


For more than 10 years he


was involved with and sup­ ported The Women’s Refuge


forEastLancashire.Inthelate 1990s he became a trustee of


the “Glass House Appeal” for the Royal-Preston Hospital


Brian Cushing with his wife Eithne and granddaughters Joanna Dean (left) and Nancy Dean; •


. Neurological Unit fund-rais­ ing programme.


For a number o f years, Mr-


Cushingenjoyedworkingwith Community and Business Partners (Lancashire) men­ toring and helping flegling or


sometimes strugglingcompa-’


nies across the county. One of his favourite fund­


raising memories is the Ribble Valley Milk Roundsmen Col­


lection,which raised near­ ly £20,000 in aid of the MR1 Scanner appeal.


‘ ■ Mr Cushing said: “The


MBE was never something I’d thought about and it was a bit o f a shock when I first got to know about it. It’s a great


honour, and I appreciate the societies, organisations and I individuals who though me deserving of it.”


‘ .


For being a much valued colleague, Rev’s the best


A Horton-in-Craven woman has been named Employee of


the Year ahead of 1,400 work- - ers at one of the area’s top or­ ganisations. .


. Bev Petrossian, leader­


ship and learning manager at- the Skipton Building Society, received the accolade at the organisation’s glitzy annual conference.


- .. Bev, who has been with the


society for two years, won the affection o f her colleagues


because o f the encourage­


ment andmotivationshegives toothers. - The Employee of the Year


Award recognisesherachieve- ments as a role model among


her peers. She said: “I feel really spe­


cial to win this award and I am grateful for all the fantas­


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