Moto in the Community Charity Quiz Night INSIDE in the Burton Memorial Hall Letters Wed 13 May - 7.30 for 8pm start pg 2 Outdoors pg 4 BURTON NEWS THE VILLAGE NEWSLETTER Daffodil Show pg 6 May 2009 Issue 181 Going Green pg 9 Burton Children’s An Opinion Sports Committee pg 10 s 20’ Historical 60’ s Footnote Sports Day pg 14 Church Updates 40’ pg 18 s Monday 25 May 90’s BB Display page 20 Burton Morewood Editorial School Field pg 25 s 10’ 30’ Community Info s 50’s pg 27 What’s On? CarnivalTheme 70’ back page s ‘Decades’ 80’ s s 00’ 1 Dear Burton News, Readers’ Religious Tolerance It would appear from your letters page in the April edition that the Taleban have opened a branch office LETTERS in Burton in Kendal. This is the only logical explanation for the splenetic outburst in response to David Craig's perfectly Dear Editor, reasonable assertion that the Bible is merely a collection of Middle Eastern stories, poems and Ref Quarry article by David Craig cronicals. I really can’t see why there is such a fuss about notices Beware! Religious intolerance seems to be alive and at the quarry. I agree with David that we don’t want living in Burton/Bagdad in Kendal. “over the top” notices but I also think that Richard Davey’s letter was “over the top” in criticising David’s Yours faithfully, article. Denis M Wood, Clawthorpe I think parents should be responsible for young children and would automatically take care when taking them Dear BN, to a place which may be dangerous. Oops! A notice pointing out the dangers should be displayed What a fool I felt when I read my letter about Rainbow at the entrance but not dot them all over the quarry Guides in last months BN and realised that I had named and reserve. the first leader of the Rainbows as a lady I used to work with over 25 years ago (senior moment.....I hope.) No amount of notices will stop accidents or foolhardiness. Surely we should all be able to enjoy The first Rainbow Guides leader in Burton was of the nature on our doorstep without getting hot around course Winn Campbell. So sorry for the mistake. the collar. Alyson Yates, Burton Yes we do acknowledge the owners of the quarry assist the village, but I hope they are more open minded than Richard Davey. IELD GA Yours sincerely, F R S ELMSFIELD PARK A Pauline Walton, Burton M HOLME G L SERVICING - REPAIRS E E PRE-MOTS Please would readers note that letters for these pages must include MOWERS - STRIMMERS - HEDGETRIMMERS - CHAINSAWS a valid name & address. This can be with-held from publication on SERVICED - REPAIRED AND SHARPENED request. We will not publish any anonymous letters, or material which, in the opinion of the Editorial Committee, is of an offensive or RING EDDIE defamatory nature. BN reserves the right to edit letters & articles in TEL / FAX : 015395 64516 the interests of magazine space. MOBILE : 07785 521635 2 Dear Sirs, New Baby News... Tolerance for Children Ray and Paula Firth would like to At last the light nights and good weather is here but it announce the arrival of their grand- has come with its problems. I would request that adults daughter, Ruby Rae, born to Jayne give the children a chance to play and be children and Kev on 5 April 2009, weighing in without being pulled up and told off for the slightest at 7lb 6oz. Thank you for all your cards misdemeanor. and good wishes. The children are not bad at heart and it is becoming increasingly difficult to try and teach them patience, understanding, tolerance of others when their role models (the adults) are showing them none of these Doreen and Bill Highton would like to say a big thank qualities. you to Elspeth Jones and her friend Fiona, who as local passers by, came to the help of Doreen at the If we lose the goodwill of the children because of the time of her recent fall (29 March) and for the many role models then we will have a future generations of good wishes and expressions of kindness received Victor Meldrews and it will be our fault. from so many, it was, and continues to be much appreciated. Remember, we were all children once. Gil Caley wishes to thank all her friends in Burton and Name & address withheld Holme who have sent her cards, flowers or best wishes following her recent accident. How lucky we are to BURTON MEMORIAL HALL live here! 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I was not 'encouraging' barriers that make us afraid or guilty. people to 'venture into Holme Park Quarry'. I was regretting that we do too much to protect people from The whole thing is complicated. We live an hour away risks and not enough to encourage them in from some of the most 'dangerous' places in England, adventurous and enjoyable things. The notices at the e.g. Jack's Rake on Pavey Ark, Sharp Edge on quarry have to be there by law, e.g. at least one notice Saddleback, Lord's Rake on Scafgell, St Bees Head. visible from anywhere on the terrain. My point is to ask No notices there warning us to 'KEEP AWAY'! Accidents whether we need a law which leads to dozens of happen up there quite often. A rescue service is on disfiguring and alarmist notices. standby. Some might argue that the quarry is nearer us than the fells and more likely to be frequented. In What now begins to matter at Holme Park is the near fact about 130,000 climb the likes of Ingleborough and future. We're told that it will close by 2021. Then it will Striding Edge each year. It's true that human hands become a nature reserve. How will access be created quarries, which makes us feel responsible. managed? At a Quarry Liaison Committee at Does this really mean that we should closely control Clawthorpe on March 30 the management told us that the way people clamber over rough ground? and how 'the details of this must now be debated.' There are can it be controlled? two examples nearby - Trowbarrow at Silverdale and Warton Main. Trowbarrow is quite well managed. The Quarry Products Association runs elaborate Play Notices are at a minimum. The information boards are Safe Stay Safe courses and Bardon Aggregate vivid and interesting. The fences that deter (not stop) distributes a sheet about someone almost dying after us from taking the delicious scramble up to the rim tombstoning (jumping from a height) into a water-filled and round the northern and eastern sides strike me as quarry. This same sheet claims that the barriers and unnecessary. signs at the quarry were fully legal and deterrent. So somebody determined to take risks can't really be Warton Main is a horrible mess. Fences stop you from stopped. You can take risks and cope with them or going round the rim. Notices warn you off the rock face, you can knuckle under and become an obese couch where I've spent happy hours climbing routes listed in potato. My stepson was never over-protected by his the Northwest Lancashire guide. 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