SpotLight on Buckie, Keith & District October 2013

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CLUBS & SOCIETIES 1ST BUCKIE BOYS BRIGADE Mon 6pm: Anchor Boys. Tues 6pm: B and Club. Wed 6:30pm: Gymnastics. Fri 6pm: Juniors.

Fri: 7:20pm: Company. Sun 10am: Bible class. Contact Alan McIntosh 832999.

AL-ANON FAMILY GROUPS Free, confidential help & support to the relatives & friends of problem drinkers. Local weekly groups in Buckie & Keith.

Visit: www.al-anonuk.org.uk Tel: 020 7403 0888.

BANFF, MORAY & NAIRN CANINE CLUB Meets at Spynie Hall, Elgin.

Classes are held in obedience and ringcraft every Monday evening during school terms from 6:30pm. Contact Joanne: 07715 557395.

SPEY BAY COMMUNITY HALL Mon Peak Physique 7pm-7.45pm & 8pm-8-45pm (07973149855).

Tues Indoor Bowls 7-8.30pm (821947) Wed morning BALL (821713). Thurs Mums & Toddlers 1-2.30pm (821162) Badminton 79pm. Fri Peak Physique 10-11am.

Indoor Bowls 7-7.30pm. Call Willie Pirie on 01343 823995 for enquiries

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BANFFSHIRE FIELD CLUB Meets monthly at St Rufus Church Hall, Turner Street, Keith to explore the district, its botany, geology, natural history, archaeology, etc. Contact Mrs K M Hawkes: 840718. www.banffshirefieldclub.org.uk BOHARM BOOTCAMP Meets at Boharm Hall, Mulben.

Monday and Thursday classes 7pm - 8pm. Classes £1.50.

Contact Heather Stephen on 01542 860717 or 07837 279402 CLOCHAN COMMUNITY CENTRE Every Monday 2pm-4pm: art group - £2 per session. Contact Alan: 01542 850493. Every Tuesday 10am-12pm: coffee morning, home bakes and book swap - £2. 1:30pm-4pm: tea dance (old time and popular sequences). Contact Paul or Pauline: 01542 850416.

CULLEN PENSIONERS CLUB Aims to entertain elderly people with concerts and outings. Meets on the first Tuesday of each month from October to April.

Annual subscription £3; social evening levy £1.25 - please bring a cup. Contact Bunty Gardiner (Secretary): 01542 840653

DARNAWAY CURLING CLUB Small, friendly club delighted to welcome new members for the coming season.Come and try a new sport. Contact: evrae@hotmail.com ‘FIT FUN’ FOR TOTS Meets at Portessie Public Hall on Fridays, 10:15am-11:15am.

Active games class for 2-3 year olds. Sessions include movement, ball skills, parachute games and nursery rhymes. Call Kerry Main on 01542 831165 or kerrymain@hotmail.co.uk FOCHABERS PÉTANQUE CLUB Meets at Fochabers Cricket Club, Fochabers. To play and promote the game of pétanque.

Contact MIke Watt: 832591.

ISLA ART AND CRAFTS Meets Monday evenings 7pm 9pm in The Loft Mid Street, Keith. Help, advice and tutorials from 2 professional artists. Call 01542 886070 or 01542 882391 KEITH & DISTRICT RANGER GUIDES (GIRLGUIDING MORAY) Senior Section 14 - 24 yrs. 3 Wednesdays of 4, 5.30pm-7pm.

St Rufus Hall, Keith. Tel: 01542 886422 evenings.

GRANGE BADMINTON CLUB Meets Tuesdays 7pm - 9:30pm at King Memorial Hall, Grange Contact Tamsin Morrison on 870251 or email tamsin.morrison@btinternet.com

KEITH B.A.L.L. GROUP Meet on Wednesdays 10.30am 1pm in St Rufus Hall, Keith.

Contact Evalyne tel: 886913 or Maureen tel: 886020 for details.

THE LOFT YOUTH PROJECT Drop-in sessions for S1 - S6, Fridays 7pm till 10pm. Contact Sharon Duncan tel: 886630

MORTLACH ART GROUP Meets in the Memorial Hall, Albert Place, Dufftown every Thursday 1pm-5pm. £2 per meeting. Tuition available.

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RHYTHYM & RHYME GYM TOTS Wed 9.30 - 10.15am & 10.20 11.05 am. Fun baby & toddler sessions. Movement, music, songs, soft play and healthy snack. Call Wendy tel: 832133

KEITH COMMUNITY CENTRE BOWLING CLUB Tuesday & Thursday afternoons at Keith Community Centre.

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‘NO STRINGS ATTACHED’ CONFIDENTIAL HELPLINE Caring for someone affected by drugs, alcohol or mental health issues and feel that it’s having an impact on you and the rest of your family? Call 01343 555031 Anonymity if required ME MORAY SUPPORT GROUP 2nd Tuesday each month 7pm, Moray Resource Centre, Maisondeu Road, Elgin. Meet with other ME sufferers for support and information. Meetings are free with refreshments provided. www.memoray.org.uk/forum MORAY BURIAL GROUND RESEARCH GROUP (MBGRG) Local heritage group actively researching and recording monumental inscriptions in churchyards & cemeteries in Moray. Contact Helen Mitchell on 01343 546620 or visit www.mbgrg.org NIKKI’S AEROBICS Exercise class at Longmore Hall, Keith on Tuesdays 7pm to 8pm NETMUMS Being a mum can be very isolating so meeting other mums can be a lifeline. Elgin and the surrounding area is such a great community and our mums are very welcoming, so come along and see what we are all about. isit www.netmums.com for details of a local venue, Contact Claire Brenton on 07989135607 PLEASE NOTE: Details of Clubs & Societies are published on a rotational basis.

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As summer draws to a close I think we can generally rejoice in the better than average weather that we have had over the last few months. I understand that during July and August we were often 2 or 3 degrees above average and sometimes as much as 9 degrees above. Perhaps we should be thinking of renaming ourselves the Northern Riviera!

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PASTORAL LETTER & CHURCH MEETINGS

There is a verse in the book of the prophet Amos that I think applies to today in this country. It is in chapter 8: The time is surely coming, says the Lord GOD, when I will send a famine on the land; not a famine of bread, or a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the LORD. I’ve preached on this verse and said that it doesn’t say that there is a famine of preaching, but a famine of hearing, and I’ve asked the question: to what are you listening?

We have plenty of life ‘experts’ on daytime TV who will tell us how to raise our children and what is acceptable in marriage, and even today, how to define marriage. We will hear what these people say, because they tell us what we have been hearing since the 1960s: ‘If it feels good, do it!’ This is a variation on the words of the occultist Aleister Crowley (12 October 1875 – 1 December 1947), who created a law based on ancient Egyptian paganism, summed up in the saying: "Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law".

This goes right back to the Garden

of Eden, when the serpent said to Eve, ‘Did God really say?’

We are still listening to the serpent and he is alive and well on daytime TV. But he still speaks in so many other ways as well. And he is so subtle, as Genesis chapter 3 tells us. He takes the words of the LORD and he adds to them and takes away from them to present a message that sounds very like ‘If it feels good, do it!’ We can see the danger in this approach when we look at the other end of the Bible and find, in the last chapter of the book of Revelation: v18 I warn everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book: if anyone adds to them, God will add to that person the plagues described in this book. So now we go back to Amos and I have to correct my earlier thinking. It isn’t just that we are not listening to the words of the LORD because we are not reading the Bible or listening to sermons, talks or discussions; it is that there is a famine of hearing the words of the LORD. We are not hearing what the LORD is saying because

Keith, Church of Scotland - North, Newmill, Boharm and Rothiemay. North Church: Sundays 11am.

Boharm Church: Mulben village Hall. First Sunday of the month 9.30am.

Rothiemay Church: Sundays 9.30am, except the first Sunday in each month. Contact Rev. Hutton Steel on 01542 882559 / 01542 886390.

Email: knnbrchurch@btconnect.com Keith, Church of Scotland - St Rufus, Botriphnie, and Grange.

St Rufus Church: Sundays 10.15am. Botriphnie Church: Sundays 11.45am (alternate Sundays). Grange Church: Sundays 11.45am (alternate Sundays). Contact Rev. Ranald S.R. Gauld: 01542 882799 or email: kay_gauld@btinternet.com Keith, St. Thomas’ Church RC Vigil Mass: Sat 6:30pm. Sunday Mass: 10:30am. Confessions on request. Tel: 01542 882352.

Portessie Assembly Hall Ogilvie Street. Sunday 6:15pm - Gospel Service.

Portessie Methodist Church Portessie, Buckie. Sundays 11am & 6pm

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we want to hear that we are OK and that God loves us whatever we do and that love is everything and sometimes that is all we hear. We are in a time of famine. We need to get back to the Bible and we need to get back to hearing what the Bible is really saying. I always recommend that we concentrate on the New Testament because people find it too easy to misunderstand the Old Testament.

Look at what Jesus said about the Old Testament and look at what Paul wrote about ethics and morals and raising our children. And look at what Jesus said about marriage: this is how it was in the beginning!

Are you hearing the words of the LORD? It isn’t popular! Amos wasn’t popular!

Jesus wasn’t popular. But they were right!.

Rev. Martin Keenan Moray Coast Methodist Church

Portknockie Church of Christ Sunday 11am breaking of bread. 6pm gospel service. Friday 7pm prayer meeting and Bible study. Ladies fellowship (September - March) every 2nd Monday 7pm. Wednesdays 8am: prayer breakfast. Leader Mr Stewart Gray: 01542 836007.

Portknockie Church of Scotland Sundays 11.15am. All welcome.

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

Rathven Church of Scotland Sunday 9.45am. Contact Moira: 01542 833956 or Ann 01542 831607.

Riverside Christian Church Buckie. Sundays 10.30am. Tel: 01542 833923. Website: www.riversidebuckie.org 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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for 2013/2014 (all dates inclusive) Autumn Term Ends Fri 11th Oct 2013 Autumn Holiday Starts Mon 14th Oct 2013 Autumn Holiday Ends Fri 25th Oct 2013 Winter Term Starts Mon 28th Oct 2013 In-Service Day Mon 18th Nov 2013 In-Service Day Tues 19th Nov 2013 Winter Term Ends Fri 20th Dec 2013 Christmas Holiday Starts Mon 23rd Dec 2013 Christmas Holiday Ends Fri 3rd Jan 2014 Spring Term Starts Mon 6th Jan 2014

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Useful Contacts Police Station ......................................................................101 Buckie Leisure Centre ........................................01542 832841 Keith Community Centre ....................................01542 882222 Keith Swimming Pool ........................................01542 882222 Keith Resource Centre ......................................01542 886174 Keith Library........................................................01542 882223 Keith Sports & Com. Ctr ....................................01542 882222 Moray Council Access Point, Keith ....................01542 885500 Registrar ............................................................01542 885525 Keith Tourist Info. Ctr ..........................................01542 888423 Keith Community Bus ........................................01542 886390 Babs Dial A Bus..................................................01542 835800 Dial ‘M’ For Moray Buses ..................................01343 562533 National Rail Enquiries ......................................08457 484950 Botriphnie Primary School ..................................01542 810207 Cluny Primary School ........................................01542 831417 Crossroads Primary School................................01542 870221 Cullen Primary School ........................................01542 840279 Findochty Primary School ..................................01542 832287 Keith Primary School ..........................................01542 882802 Millbank Primary School ....................................01542 831113 Milne’s Primary School........................................01343 820977 Mosstodloch Primary School ..............................01343 820476 Newmill Primary School ......................................01542 882788 Portessie Primary School ....................................01542 832288 Portgordon Primary School ................................01542 831198 Portknockie Primary School................................01542 840244

SCHOOLS

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Rothiemay Primary School ................................ 01466 711220 St Peters RC Primary School ..............................01542 831339 St Thomas RC Primary School ..........................01542 882256 Buckie High School ............................................01542 832605 Keith Grammar School ........................................01542 882461 Milne’s High School ............................................01343 820611

DOCTORS Ardach Health Centre..........................................01542 831555 Seafield Medical Centre ......................................01542 835577 Seafield & Cullen Medical Group ........................01542 835577 Keith Medical Centre ..........................................01542 882244 Dr Grays Hospital, Elgin ....................................0845 456 6000

DENTISTS The Keith Dental Practice ..................................01542 886251 Buckie Dental Practice ......................................01542 831163

PHARMACIES Bairds Pharmacy, Keith ......................................01542 882512 Clarks Pharmacy, Fife-Keith ..............................01542 882533 Cullen Pharmacy ................................................01542 840220 Listermac Pharmacy, Union St ..........................01542 840268 Listermac Pharmacy, W. Church St....................01542 833321 W.S. Taylor, Buckie ............................................01542 831116 Normac Pharmacy, Buckie ................................01542 831147 If you would like to add a contact or if there are any amendments to be made to existing details, please email tamsyn@spotlighton.co.uk or call 01309 690063

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PARLIAMENT BLOG & TIDE TIMES My joint summer surgery tour around the constituency with Angus Robertson highlighted a number of issues that are of major concern in several communities.

Issues that were brought to my attention or that were further explained included serious water pressure issues for Forres residents and concerns over a planning issue in Portgordon. Alongside well-publicised major issues were a number of small and more personal cases that were of vital importance to those concerned. All of them underlined the importance of surgeries and how they ensure we never lose direct contact with constituents.

Staff at the Moray Constituency Office in Elgin will be happy to discuss requirements and are available from 9am to 5pm Monday to Friday, including most bank holidays â&#x20AC;&#x201C; constituents can call in or telephone 01343 551111. You can also visit us on Twitter at https://twitter.com/MorayParloffice.

It has, for the most part, been a glorious summer here in Moray but now we are turning our attention to the challenges of keeping warm with winter just around the corner.

Energy prices remain an issue that produces a large number of letters from constituents, many of whom are facing the pressure of rising bills. Along with SNP colleagues at the UK Parliament I have been continually arguing the case for a better and fairer deal for rural communities such as ours.

It is good to see then that the UK Government are undertaking a study that could see the 5p a litre fuel in the Highlands and Islands extended to areas such as Moray.

Action is long overdue in the face of energy bills that have increased on average by 61% over the last five years. The Scottish Government are helping as far as they can through measures such as the freeze on council tax, it is about time Westminster recognised the problems we face.

Richard Lochhead MSP

Angus Robertson MP

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music night 8pm - 11pm clochan community centre. open mic, refreshments & raffle at interval. byob £2.50 admission. a moray society lecture 2pm, elgin museum hall the moray society lecture series 2013/14 starts in september with "herring girls" by anne coombs. cinema nairn presents “salmon fishing in the yemen” (12a) 7:30pm at nairn community & arts centre. call 01667 453476 / www.nairncommunitycentre.co.uk

27 friday - 29 sunday abernethy men's weekend fri 6:30pm - sun 3pm. guest speaker angus jamieson (elder at culduthel christian centre). for details call 01479 821279 or email nethybridge@abernethy.org.uk

28 saturday inverness abc boxing tournament north of scotland vs north of england select @ ironworks 7pm. call 0871 7894173 or visit www.ironworksvenue.com music nairn presents ‘beinn artair piano trio’ 7:30pm at nairn community & arts centre. playing haydn, beethoven & mendelssohn. call 01667 453476 or visit www.nairncommunitycentre.co.uk portessie public hall coffee morning 9:30am 11:30am. in aid of macmillan cancer support. entry £2

29 sunday baxters loch ness marathon & festival of running full marathon, river ness 10k &10k corporate challenge, 5k fun run or wee nessie for those with little legs. visit www.lochnessmarathon.com

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rachel hair trio 7:30pm, ogstoun theatre, gordonstoun school, nr elgin. £10/£5. visit www.thegcs.org.uk aly bain & phil cunningham @ universal hall 7:30pm. £14/£12 conc /£10 u16s. call the phoenix stores on 01309 690110 or visit www.universalhall.co.uk

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3 thursday ‘idiot at the wall’ 7pm at portsoy church hall. for more details call helen munro on 01261 842307

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4 friday sigma (moray’s astronomy club): “seas & tickling gods: how space got its names” 7pm for a 7:30pm start. birnie village hall. www.sigma-astro.co.uk

4 friday - 6 sunday wild about the word friday 6pm - sunday 4pm at abernethy adventure centre, nethybridge. explore| discover|live. run by the scottish bible society and abernethy. for details call ellie on 01479 818005 or visit www.abernethy.org.uk

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Sat 26th................................................ Scottish Opera-Rodelinda

7 monday westfield annual fair in aid of children 1st 5pm 8pm, westfield house, nr elgin. early christmas shopping lots of stalls. for details call veronica maclean 01343 547308 or email veronica.maclean@yahoo.co.uk

8 tuesday westfield annual fair in aid of children 1st 10am 3:30pm, westfield house, nr elgin. early christmas shopping lots of stalls. call veronica maclean on 01343 547308 for further details or email veronica.maclean@yahoo.co.uk

Thurs 31st ................................ “Big Walls and High Mountains” Doug Scott & Paul Braithwaite For further details, telephone 01667 453476, e-mail info@nairncc.co.uk or check out our website at www.nairncommunitycentre.co.uk

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9 wednesday scottish national jazz orchestra 7:30pm, st christopher’s chapel, gordonstoun school, nr elgin. performing their latest album ‘in the spirit of duke’. £15 / £7.50. visit www.thegcs.org.uk tickets available from www.hubtickets.co.uk

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