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Its that time of year again when we are all planning ahead for our summer holidays. The team just wanted to post a few helpful reminders before you take that well deserved break.
We would like to thank the vigilant members of the public who contaacted us this past weekend with information about these vehicles. Due to your help we have been able to issue Section 59 warnings to the motorists. Should they or anyone else be caught on the same vehicles then we can seize the bikes with the help of AAA and traffic officers.
We are appealling for help from anybody who may be able to identify the riders of two scooters who are using the whitepath as a cut through from Rishton to Great Harwood. One of the vehicles has the registration of NK06 DEC, the other is a green 1960's style scooter.
Well done to Rishton u15's who sealed promotion on the final day of the season in the Accrington & District Junior Football League, with a 7 - 1 win over Haslingden.
Stonehill Garden Centre Sunnybower, who are supporting "Rishton in Bloom", have kindly donated 1400 sunflower seeds. Every primary school child in Rishton was given two sunflower seeds during the first week in April - THIS IS NOT AN APRIL FOOL !!!
Hi all,
as your Neighbourhood Policing Team we just wanted to put up a few pointers regarding Bogus Officials. We hope this helps and would like to remind everybody that our PACT Surgeries are very Monday at the Library on High Street between 17:30 - 18:30 hours.
Children In St Charles School Help Others 6:07pm Sun 16 Mar 08 St Charles School Council voted to do something for Sports Relief. So, on Friday 14th March, the children wore their sports clothes, collected sponsor money from their parents and took part in a run around the yard. Most of the children completed six laps which was 1 mile. Even the teachers and support staff joined in! The total raised was £149.71
The children have been incredibly generous towards charities this Lent holding a Wear What You Want Day for CAFOD and raising £167.51 as well as collecting loose change and contributing to the Catholic Children's Rescue Society. £107.19 has been handed in already.
Many people take great care when securing their homes but pay little attention to the security of their sheds, garages or outbuildings that are often used to store valuable property.
The next meeting of Rishton in Bloom is on the 2nd of April at 7.30pm taking place at St. Peter and St. Paul's Parish Church.
MFI HR Dept 12:40pm Thu 6 Mar 08 Many thanks to MFI for kindly sponsoring some Rainjackets for Rishton Utd U8's Red. With this weather they will get well used!!
An opportunity has arisen for the people of Rishton to help the Rishton PROSPECTS Panel provide seating around the district for ramblers and casual users alike, but we cannot do this alone! We would like as many people as possible to become involved.
'PROSPECTS' was Hyndburn's response to the challenge issued by the largest meeting of world leaders at the time at an Earth Summit in Rio in 1992 when 179 governments agreed an action plan called Agenda 21 to deal with the earth's environmental problems. This recognised the great power of individual and collective group action and the importance of local communities. This is the principle behind the phrase, 'Think globally - act locally.' It led to the setting up of seven PROSPECTS Panels in different districts of Hyndburn , of which the Rishton Panel is one. While the Panels are autonomous, they are now supported by the PROSPECTS Foundation which is a community owned local charity that works for lasting environmental change in Hyndburn. For more information, click on the heading above.
Police Surgery held at the library at High Street Rishton every Monday between 17:30 - 18:30. All welcome. If you have any problems please contact Johanna Bourne, Steven Charnley, Stuart McLaughlin. Tel: 01254 353334
Blackjacks wanted 4:29pm Tue 19 Feb 08 Does anyone out there, know where i can buy blackjacks from?
Sportsman Dinner 12:59pm Fri 25 Jan 08 Andy Payton will be guest speaker at Rishton Utd's Sportsman Dinner, to be held on the 22nd February at Rishton Cricket club. The event is to help fund the U16's end of season trip abroad
Andy Payton played 156 time for Burnley and scored 68 goals for the club before moving on to Blackpool. Got a question for Andy! why not come along on the night and ask him yourself! tickets cost £25.00 (Limited Number) and are available from Dale McVarish 01254 882650 or Adey Cooper 01254 877762. Dale and Adey are also looking for Sponsors for the event, if you can help, you can contact them on the above numbers.
Rishton West Residents' Association, in partnership with Trading Standards, presents a theatre production called 'Stay Safe'. It will take place at St Peter's and St Paul's Church Hall, Rishton, starting at 7.00pm on Tuesday 12 February 2008.
Old Football Boots wanted! 2:01pm Thu 17 Jan 08 Once again Carole and Alan Hindle are of to Gambia, this time they would like to take football boots with them. They would be very grateful for any donations of old pairs of boots, if you have any, please contact me at simon.ocarroll@btinternet.com
Below is an article on their last trip to Gambia.
Well done Norden 12:01pm Thu 10 Jan 08 Well done to everyone at Norden, the pitches look as good as they did during the summer months!
Rishton United U16's 11:42am Wed 19 Dec 07 Rishton Utd U16's recently recieved new Rain Jackets which were kindly funded by J C H Tufting and B & M Building Merchants
St Johns christmas production 2:38pm Mon 10 Dec 07 Went along to see my Childrens Christmas play on Thursday night, what a great job everyone did. The children put in an excellent performance, it was obvious they all put alot of hard work into their performances. Like with any show, you cant be successful if you don't have people working hard behind the stage and in the Schools case they did.
Rain jackets for Rishton 2:17pm Mon 10 Dec 07 Rishton Utd would like to thank Annalene and Angus, Owners of Toppers nursery www.toppersnursery.co.uk,For their kind donation of £250. The money was used to kit out the U8's Blue team with Rain Jackets, the team consists of twelve players and two Coaches. The Jackets came just in time and with the british weather, they will get used on a regular basis!
£1000 Super Draw 11:28am Mon 10 Dec 07 Poor old "Hodgy" he forgot to tick the " I don't want publicity box" when he signed up for Rishton Utd's 200 Club. on Saturday the 8th December, Rishton Utd held its Annual Christmas Disco, which was very weel supported, during the night there was a "200 Club Super Draw" for £1000 and Ian Hodgson was the lucky winner! Speaking this morning Ian said " I am over the moon and i'm going to spend every penny on myself" He also asked the members of the public not to send in "Begging Letters" as they are getting nothing!!!
