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Clubs and Societies ALLSTARS & STRIPES CHEER AND DANCE Mon: P1 - P4, 3.45pm - 4.30pm P5 - above, 4.30pm - 5.30pm Wed: Pre-competition class, P4 above, 4pm - 5.30pm, Eight Acres, Elgin. Teaches "All Star" cheerleading to increase confidence & build friendships.

BUCKIE CHORAL UNION Thurs, 7.30pm - 9.30pm, Buckie North Church Hall. We are a group who enjoy singing a range of choral music in four parts. The ability to read music is helpful ibut not essential as practice recordings are available.

Call Angela Brooks on 07808 738757 or email at a.brooks1623@btinternet.com BUCKIE COMMUNITY CINEMA Sun (monthly), the Assembly Hall, Buckie High School. Run

by Buckie High School, Buckie Regeneration Group & Moray Council. Tickets from Blue Moo, Cullen Ice Cream Shop, Buckie High School & on the night. £6, concs £5. Tuck shop. See Facebook page

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CULLEN ART GROUP Tues, 9am - 1pm, Cullen Community Centre. Friendly & supportive group. New members welcome. £7.50 per month.

Coffee break at 11am. Call Janet Creese on 01542 840228 or at janet.creese38@gmail.com CULLEN SEA SCHOOL Currently being developed into a hub for all things related to small boat sailing & water sports, offering a small boat building/repair workshop, meeting/instruction space & showering/changing facilities with provision for disabled people. Call 01542 840830 or at katalin@cullenseaschool.co.uk FOCHABERS PÉTANQUE CLUB Meets at Fochabers Cricket Club, Fochabers. To play & promote the game of pétanque.

Call MIke Watt on 01542 832591 FRISKIS AND SVETTIS (BUCKIE) Mon, 6pm-7pm, the Baptist Church Hall, Buckie. Originating in Sweden, aiming to get people healthy. Exercise to music, open to all. Call Joan Thain on 01542 832749 or 07970 118647. www.fsaberdeen.co.uk GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND Nairn & Moray Branch are looking for new branch volunteers. Call Anna Temple or Anna Roberts on 01309 694866 KEITH & BUCKIE OVER 5S WALK/JOG GROUP Alternate Thurs, 2pm, Boogie Woogie, Fife Street, Square, Keith. We are a group of over 55s who want to keep as active as we can for as long as we can.

Whatever ability, come along & join us. See Facebook page KEITH AND DISTRICT PARKINSONS SUPPORT GROUP Monthly, 2pm - 4pm, Rathven Church Hall. Come along for a blether & a cuppa. All welcome.

Call 01343 870418 or email at keithanddistrictpsg@gmail.com

KEITH COMMUNITY CENTRE BOWLING CLUB Tues & Thurs afternoons, Keith Community Centre. Call Mr Hugh Edgar on 01542 882586

PORTGORDON VILLAGE HALL Meeting room, large & small hall complete with kitchen facilities for hire. Call Denise Robson on 01542 834401

KEITH FC COMMUNITY WALKING FOOTBALL Fri, 10.45am - 11.45am, Keith Community Centre. Weekly 5-aside for the Over-60s. Call 01343 563374 or email at educationandsocialcare@ moray.gov.uk

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Riverside Church, Buckie. Fun, free, friendly social group for unpaid carers in Moray. Drop in & out as you like. Make friends, glean info, take time out from caring. Call Nuala Lindsay on 01343 556031 or email at carersmoray@quarriers.org.uk

KEITH HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY All welcome. Email at lindamorrison9@sky.com See Facebook page

QUARRIERS UNPAID CARERS CAFE - KEITH 1st Mon of month, 11am -1pm, Keith Community Hub. Fun, free, friendly social group for unpaid carers in Moray. Drop in & out as you like. Make friends, glean info, take time out from caring.

Call Nuala Lindsay on 01343 556031 or email at carersmoray@quarriers.org.uk

KEITH SUPPORTERS CLUB To help bring the community together & get behind the team, management, committee & everyone else involved to help Keith Football Club succeed.

Raising monies for the club by means of increased ticket sales, fund raising events, etc. Email chairman@keithsc.com www.keithsc.com LEAGUE OF FRIENDS OF TURNER MEMORIAL HOSPITAL, KEITH Volunteer entertainers needed For information email at leagueoffriendstmh@gmail.com LIFE CHALIENGE OUTREACH IN BUCKIE Fri, 12pm - 3pm, Newlands Lane, Buckie. A bus goes out to offer help & support to anyone suffering from addictions or in need of any kind. Call 01542 836439 or email at lifechallenge@yahoo.com MULBEN SCOTTISH COUNTRY DANCING 1st & 3rd Wed of month, 7.30pm - 9.30pm, Boharm Public Hall, Mulben. All welcome. Call Margaret Rhynas on 01542 860208 PORTGORDON ART GROUP Fri, 1pm-4pm, Clochan Communtiy Hall. New members welcome. Call Kitty Bell on 01542 850409

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SPEYSIDE COPPER DOGS FLYBALL CLUB Wed, 7pm & Sat, 10am, Keith Show Ground (Summer) & St Thomas' Hall (Winter). Flyball is a fun & inclusive sport for most dog breeds & the only requirements are that your dog needs to be fit, healthy & well socialised. www.facebook.com/ Speyside-Copper-Dogs-FlyballSWRI 3rd Tues of month, 7.30pm, Arradoul SWRI Hall, near Buckie.

For information email pennyshepherd@tiscali.co.uk ST. THOMAS PARENTS AND TODDLERS GROUP Mon (term time only), 9.15am 11am, Chapel Street, Keith, (across from St. Thomas School) Toys, crafts, snacks for infants & toddlers & a cuppa for parents.

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Pastoral Le er & Church Meetings As we reach the month of October, we are filled with the joy of the changing of colour all around us. The purple heather on the mountains has started to lose its colour. The trees are changing from bright green to brown, loosing their leaves (picking them up is not necessarily a breeze – pardon the pun) and all around us we are reminded that autumn has finally arrived. Change is part of our life and the changing of seasons remind us that even in our own lives we are confronted with change.

Sometimes, when we are challenged with change, we go to the well-known position that protects and shields us from change. This was also true for the people in the time of Paul when he was writing to the congregation in his letter to the Ephesians. They were challenged to follow the example of Christ but were yearning the old ways of the world. He explains his argument in Ephesians 4: 25 – 27 as follows: “Therefore, each of you must put off falsehood and speak truthfully to your neighbour, for we are all members of one body. 26“In your anger do not sin”: Do not let the sun go down while you are still angry, (NIV Translation).“

They were challenged to follow the example of Christ as he writes: “Follow God’s example, therefore, as dearly loved children and walk in the way of love, just as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us as a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God. (Ep 5: 1 NIV Translation)”. How does this challenge change our lives?

Someone said to me a while ago, that we are losing our sense of community. That is perhaps the one thing that stands out for me in the towns and villages, the communities that make up the wonderful place we call Moray. Yet, we are sometime so despondent about life and the changes we see around us, that we go back to a position of protecting ourselves by building walls around us. Emotional walls where we would rather be angry and speaking untruthfully, than rather being challenged to love, to care, to show tenderness and mercy to those around us. This is true from our inner circle family to the stranger we see in a car or a queue.

Perhaps, as we see the change of seasons around us, we can follow the example of Christ. As His children we are challenged to change the way we look at life and the people around us.

Holy Trinity Scottish Episcopal Church Seafield Avenue, Keith.

Sunday, Family Eucharist at 11.30am & Wednesday Morning Prayer at 9:30am. Last Thursday of each month a Service of Prayer & Reflection at 7pm. Tel: 01542 882782. Email rev.last@lastrose.uk Keith, Church of Scotland - North, Newmill, Boharm & Rothiemay.

North Church: Sundays 11am. Boharm Church: Mulben Village Hall.

First Sunday of the month at 9.30am. Rothiemay Church: Last Sunday of the month at 9:30am. Rev Alastair H Gray. Call 01542 886390 or visit keithnorthchurches.org Keith, Church of Scotland - St Rufus, Botriphnie, and Grange.

St Rufus Church: Sundays 10.15am. Botriphnie Church: Alternate Sundays 11.45am. Grange Church: Alternate Sundays 11.45am.

Keith, St. Thomas’ Church RC Vigil Mass: Sat 6:30pm. Sunday Mass: 10:30am. Confessions on request. Tel: 01542 882352.

Portessie Methodist Church Portessie, Buckie. Sunday services at 11am & 6pm. Rev. Chris Jackson. Tel: 01542 833765. chris.jackson7@gmail.com Portgordon Community Church Sunday Morning Worship - 11am in the Portgordon Community Centre. Contact Pastor Willie Aitken on

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Perhaps we can be a bit less annoyed and impatient with my spouse, partner, child or family member. Friendlier to the stranger in front of me in a queue. There is a saying that a stranger is a friend not met yet. A bit more relaxed when we drive on the roads this winter, taking time to volunteer or perhaps there is something else you can do. Think of the example of love if we go and visit our neighbour with a plate of food, reading a book for an elderly person in a care home or perhaps helping at your local church or charity shop. We change the world by being the person who allows him or herself to be changed. When we follow the example of Christ in our lives that means that we are also open to change.

Let’s start a new change, or if you would like to call it a season, by walking the way of love in the example of Jesus Christ.

Rev. Deon Oelofse St Giles & St Columba’s Churches Elgin

01542 835007 or visit www.portgrdoncommunitychurch.com Portknockie Church of Christ Sunday 11am: breaking of bread.

6pm: gospel service. Friday 7pm: prayer meeting and Bible study.

Ladies fellowship (September - March) every second Monday 2pm.

Wednesdays 8.30am: prayer breakfast. Contact the leader Mr Stewart Gray on 01542 836007.

Portknockie Church of Scotland Sundays 11.15am. All welcome.

Call Morag Ritchie: 01542 840951 or Heather Reid: 01542 840921.

Rathven Church of Scotland Sunday 9.45am led by the minister Rev Isabel Buchan or an authorised local preacher. Contact Rev Isabel Buchan on 01542 832118 or Ann Grant on 01542 831607.

Riverside Christian Church Buckie. Sundays 10.30am. Tel: 01542 833923. Website: www.riversidechristianchurch.co.uk St Peters Church RC St Andrews Square, Buckie. Saturday Vigil 6.30pm. Sunday Mass 10am. Resident priest: Rev Tad Turski. Tel: 01542 832196.

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Parliament Blog & Tide Times The Tattie Holidays are here and the long, hot summer now seems like a distant memory.

When the temperatures in Moray were higher than we would normally experience on an exotic holiday, you know it has been quite an exceptional year. As autumn is a precursor for long winter months, many people will be concerned about the downgrading of the maternity unit at Dr Gray’s and the mothers who are due to give birth in Moray but now may have to travel to Aberdeen or Inverness to have their child during the winter. There has been a great campaign launched by local people to retain these services but both maternity and paediatric care needs to be returned to Dr Gray’s to the levels we enjoyed before the recent changes. We want to attract people to our area, but as more services are centralised within NHS Grampian, even if just for a limited amount of time, the less appealing Moray becomes for individuals and families.

The professionalism and care offered by staff at Dr Gray’s is second to none, but they need the support of the Health Board and the Scottish Government to ensure the services we need in Moray are delivered in Moray.

I was delighted to celebrate the first anniversary of the Scottish Government’s Baby-box scheme recently. More than 52,000 boxes have been distributed across Scotland and the latest survey showed 100% satisfaction – certainly something to be proud of! The box contains lots of useful items for the new baby’s first weeks of life and it can itself be used as a sleeping space. The boxes are having a real impact on families receiving them, and demonstrate that as a society, we value each and every child. It was great to see the box take its place in history in the Museum of Childhood in Edinburgh and have an opportunity to meet “the Baby box generation” – one of whom was toddling already – time flies!

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Dallas Dhu is spectacular and unique and is Scotland’s only historic distillery with the potential to restart production of a famous whisky at a time when the industry is booming and also to play a wider role in the Scotch whisky sector and tourism.

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October 2018 until 1 monday 3rd findhorn bay festival various events & timings in towns & villages in the findhorn bay area with artists of local, national & international renown. free - £20 call 01309 675333 or at info@findhornbayarts.com autumn speyside whisky festival: a celebration of scotland's culture & its national drink! 4 day event, dufftown area. www.whisky.dufftown.co.uk. facebook @ dufftown whisky festivals

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5 friday banff & moray members' centre (national trust scotland): quiz night. tbc, miltonduff village hall. teams of 6. drinks to purchase, nibbles, tea, coffee, sandwiches, savoury snacks, cakes, etc. call janice oakes on 01309 675224 or email at janiceoakes51@gmail.com red, white & blue day free to register & £1 donation to wear red, white or blue. encouraging schools to host their own ‘street’ party to commemorate 100 years since the end of the first world war. www.redwhiteblueday.co.uk motorheadache@the ironworks, inverness 7.30pm, www.ironworksvenue.com cullen & deskford church present inverurie glee club 7.30pm, hall church, cullen. £5. call isobel addison on 01542 840610 or ian_addison@btinternet.com. www.cullen-deskford-church.org.uk

5 friday - 7 sunday pictish arts society conference: reception on fri, conference on sat, field trip on sun 9am - 5.15pm on sat, elgin museum hall, 1 high street, elgin. £25. call janet trythall on 01343543675 or email at curator@elginmuseum.org.uk

6 saturday proud ness 9am-midnight, inverness city centre & eden court (day), mercure hotel (evening disco) large-scale event for lgbti+ people & allies. parade, stalls, arts & crafts, speakers, entertainment, evening disco. email support@proud-ness.org moray ramblers: boat of garten to grantown on spey 8am, community centre, elgin route via forres bookings essential on wednesday prior to walk. grade: easy/moderate; distance: 11 miles. call donnie mcdonald on 07809 480768 or email at bookings@morayramblers.org.uk badenoch & strathspey ramblers: nairn to cawdor riverside walk 9.30am, burnfield car park, grantown grade: leisurely; distance: 6 miles. call karen murray on 01479 821281

7 sunday homelessness sunday various events throughout moray & the highlands. please check your local press, etc for details

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We live in cool maritime climate, which is ideal for moss to thrive. You cannot change the weather, and you cannot banish moss permanently, but you can control its’ infestation with some basic good husbandry, and a bit of work. I’m talking about scarifying again of course. This will also be featuring in all the TV gardening programmes and magazines about now, and it is what we at GreenThumb spend all winter doing. We will have 3 heavy blade scarifier machines out clearing (at the last count) 1,000 lawns round here. – oh joy!

lawn! An “average” lawn usually takes 2 experienced crew half a day to do with machines and blowers.

The best time to tackle this is either side of Christmas. Scarifying is never recommended in the growing season because the very nature of the exercise is pretty traumatic for the grass, and some recovery time is required, during which time it looks pretty shabby. Doing it off-season allows recovery, then you put on a spring feed, and have a season of decent grass to mow. Enjoy!

Scarifying moss and thatch out is undertaken to clear the lawn surface of all the dead material and moss to allow fresh grass plants to dominate the lawn environment, providing the best conditions for absorbsion of sunlight, moisture and nutrients. If this task is overlooked (or avoided), the following season there is even more build-up, and in no time, the lawn is more moss than grass.

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scottish studies: brochs & iron age society in northern scotland; speaker - dr howie firth 2pm 4pm, elgin library. £3 buckie library afternoon reading group 2pm 3.30pm, buckie library

banffhsire field club: cullen house; speaker - colin shearer 2.15pm - 3.45pm, st rufus church hall, turner street, keith. members: £3; non-members £4. call dr 09/08/2018 09:38 Clan Sept 18 .pdf alistair mason on 01261 8129411 or email at bfc.1880@gmail.com. www.banffshirefieldclub.org.uk

12 friday 13 saturday moray field club: autumn walk through anagach woods, grantown-on-spey 9.30am - 4pm. £10 for bus which leaves from lossie green, elgin at 9.30am. walk from grantown to cromdale through the woods on level paths. call 07840 285438 or email at morayfieldclub@gmail.com harvest banquet 1pm - 3pm, fochabers public institute, high street, fochabers. free. a harvest feast in celebration of god’s blessings. all welcome. please contact to reserve a seat. call 07862 898 939 or email pastor@moraycoastbc.com

CLAN in the community Providing emotional and practical support to people affected by cancer, their family, friends and carers.

14 sunday keith royal british legion tea dance 2pm - 4.30pm, the royal british legion, keith. with the mcbain band. all dances include tea & home bakes (3pm) sunday kids’ club 9.45am, huntly nordic & outdoor centre, hill of haugh, huntly. activity is centred on track skiing, roller skiing & agility. booking essential. call 01466 794428 or email at hnoc@ aberdeenshire.gov.uk

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the highlander museum: ww1 touring exhibition from the highland folk museum 10am - 3.15pm, the highlanders' museum. fort george, ardersier. call 0131 310 8702. www.thehighlandersmuseum.com buckie library evening reading group 6pm - 7pm

15 monday - 16 tuesday

8 monday - 9 tuesday reboot: wide horizons; working in social enterprise 9.30am - 2.30pm, elgin. free but booking essential. refreshments. for anyone looking to enhance their cv, develop their skills & find out about social enterprise. call lorna jamieson on 01463 238088 or email at lorna@socialenterprise.academy

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Wellbeing and support services are freely available to all, from pre-diagnosis and diagnosis through treatment and beyond at support centres across Moray, located in Elgin, Buckie, Forres and Lossiemouth.

the arts society speyside: 'hidden canvases - street art & the city.' lecturer doug gillen lecture starts at 11 am with coffee/tea available from 10.15am, the williamson hall, duff avenue, elgin. new members welcome to join/visitors £7. call the membership secretary on 07789 880481 or email at twelk69@hotmail.com

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19 friday line dancing night 7.30pm - 11.30pm, inchberry hall, orton, fochabers. small club fee. all welcome to join the christmas party night. take along your own refreshments & bits. ’bring a party to a party’. call mahri on 01542 834053 bad touch@the ironworks, inverness, 7.30pm www.ironworksvenue.com

19 friday - 21 sunday loch ness knit fest 2018 various timings, inverness leisure centre. 30+ workshops, main stage entertainment, crafting village & marketplace, etc call 01463 667500

20 saturday the dramathon: the speyside malt whisky marathon 9am, speyside. four races: full marathon, half, 10km & a relay. www.thedramathon.com brew for the crew: rnli lossiemouth fundraising branch 9am - 12pm, town hall, high street, lossiemouth. coffee morning with various stalls souvenirs, cakes, etc. the buckie rnli crew will be in attendance moray fresh start: coffee morning 9.30am - 12.30pm, the williamson hall, elgin (behind st columba’s south church). £2.50. raffle, cake & produce stalls. all proceeds to this local charity which provides household essentials to all those who have been made homeless & moving into a tenancy with little or no possessions badenoch & strathspey ramblers: creag farleitre & creag dhubh 9.15am, community hall car park, kincraig. grade: moderate; distance: c+. call audrey turner on 07450 548862. www.badenochandstrathspeyramblers.org.uk

21 sunday car boot sale: indoor & outdoor stances 8.30am set up, clochan community centre. clochan pancakes £2.50 for 6 to take home, egg & bacon roll, teas, coffees, cold drinks. call christine or pauine on 01542 850416 or 882478

22 monday - 23 tuesday reboot: wide horizons; working in social enterprise 9.30am - 2.30pm, elgin. free but booking essential. refreshments. for anyone looking to enhance their cv, develop their skills & find out about social enterprise. call lorna jamieson on 01463 238088 or email at lorna@socialenterprise.academy

23 tuesday moray road runners: the fochabers monumental challenge 9am - 2pm, christies car park, fochabers trail running. www.morayroadrunners.com

23 tuesday - 25 thursday the 7th highland wheelchair curling triples competition 2018 23rd: 10.30am - 3.45pm; 24th: page 16 - October 2018

10am - 3.15pm, inverness ice centre, bught park, inverness. watch wheelchair curlers from all over scotland & the north of england in action & compete to win the tesco trophy. call mo simpson on 07798 710404 or email highlandwheelchairtriples@ gmail.com

24 wednesday - 4 november soundfestival: a journey of discovery exploring new music in unique & iconic venues across aberdeen & aberdeenshire. call 01330 826526. www.sound-scotland.co.uk

25 thursday turin brakes@the ironworks, inverness, 7.30pm

26 friday halloween special tbc, grampian transport museum, montgarrie road, alford. an afternoon of halloween themed crafts & quizzes. halloween costumes optional but encouraged! call 01975 562292 or email at info@gtm.org.uk. www.gtm.org.uk moray reach out disco 7.30pm - 10pm, elgin exservice men's club. raffles. you must be over 18 unless accompanied by a responsible adult. transport can be arranged by calling. call angela kelly (to arrange transport) on 07951 088184 the arts society speyside: the richest man in scotland; speaker - charles burnett (special interest day) timing & venue tbc. members from the highland society are most welcome. email jennifer.kerr@btinternet.com colonel mustard & the dijon 5@the ironworks, inverness tbc. www.ironworksvenue.com nothing but the 90s 7pm - 11pm, stewart hall, gordon street, huntly. £12.50. licensed, seated table Tick Tock Play Oct 18.pdf 1 05/09/2018 event. booking essential call 01467 537753 or email at info@centeral.co.uk

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