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CLUBS & SOCIETIES ALVES LADIES BOWLING CLUB Monday evenings at 7pm at Alves Hall. Tel: 01343 850264.

BANFF, MORAY & NAIRN CANINE CLUB Monday evenings during school terms at 6:30pm in Spynie Hall, Elgin. Obedience and ringcraft classes. Contact Margaret 01343 542070 or Mary 01542 850262.

BIRNIE INDOOR BOWLING CLUB Come and play on our excellent carpets and enjoy good company. Playing on Monday and Thursday 7pm. Contact Charles Stewart: 543307.

ELGIN AMATEUR ATHLETICS CLUB Coaching in running, jumps, throws, field and track athletics.

Membership fee + £1 a session.

Contact Mr M Archibald 540201 ELGIN COMMUNITY CENTRE BOWLING CLUB Monday, Wednesday & Friday, 1pm - 2:30pm, Elgin Community Centre. 15th Sept - April. Warm welcome to all. For info contact 01343 545579

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ELGIN HIGH CHURCH HIGH SPIRITS CLUB Every Wednesday from 10am to 12pm from September to April.

Speakers or entertainment in the church hall at North Guildry Street, Elgin. Contact May 542120. Open to all.

ELGIN-LANDSHUT TWIN TOWN ASSOCIATION Encourages friendship and exchange visits between Elgin and its twin town in Bavaria.

Contact Alastair Rossiter 542939 www.landshut-elgin.de ELGIN MINIATURE RIFLE CLUB Encourages a responsible attitude towards target shooting in a safe controlled environment.

Mondays 7:15pm Sept - March at Indoor Rifle Range, Pinefield.

Call Athole Manson 07779 710985 or email atholem@aol.com ELGIN ROTARY CLUB Thursdays, 12:15pm for 12:45pm at Eight Acres Hotel, Elgin.

Working with the community for the benefit of the community.

Contact Margaret Stenton, Secretary 01343 551036 FOCHABERS 50+ WALKING GROUP New members are always welcome - do come and join us!

Meets on alternate Mondays and Sundays at The Institute, High Street, Fochabers. Mondays at 10am and Sundays at 1:30pm.

Sundays at 2pm after British Summer Time. For more information, contact the secretary: 01343 870193.

FOCHABERS OVER 60S LUNCH CLUB Meets at Bellie Church Hall, Fochabers on Thursdays, 12noon. Enjoy a home-cooked two-course lunch with tea/coffee & biscuits for £3. Contact: 01343 821300 or 01343 542862.

LGBT MORAY 1st Tuesday each month, 7:30pm at The Mucklecross Pub, Elgin.

18+ only. OR 3rd Saturday at 10:30am at The Mosset Tavern, Forres. Well attended group with mixed ages. For more details visit www.lgbtmoray.co.uk, email lgbtmoray@gmail.com or call 07598 418638

LOSSIEMOUTH BOWLING CLUB St Gerardine’s Road, Lossie. Call 813766 for more information LOSSIEMOUTH CRUISING CLUB Active club with full programme of races & musters. Crews always required. Contact Sally Skalke or John Jones on 07840 198871, visit www.lossiecc.co.uk or email sallyskalke@tiscali.co.uk LOSSIEMOUTH GIRL GUIDING Rainbows for ages 5-7; Brownies for ages 7-10; Guides for ages 10-14; and Senior Section for young women 14-25. An exciting programme with challenges and opportunities for personal development. Call Dawn Coull 810955 for more information LOSSIEMOUTH SENIOR CITIZENS LUNCHEON CLUB Meet Tues & Thurs at the Beach Bar, Lossiemouth. All over 60s welcome to join us for a two course meal & chat. Drivers & Clippies required for both days too. Contact Abbie Riddell (President) or Sylvia Riddell (Secretary) on 01343 814062 MORAY & NAIRN FLORAL ART CLUB Wednesdays, 7.30pm, Ramnee Hotel, Forres. Friendship through flowers. Demonstration exhibits raffled. New members welcome.

Further details contact Chrissie on 01309 673431 or Jean on 673552 MORAY ADVANCE MOTORISTS & MOTORCYCLISTS Reg. Scottish Charity SC 033561 visit www.morayiam.org.uk or call 01309 673954 MORAY COELIAC GROUP Meet 1st Saturday of the month (except Jan & Feb), 10:30am in the cafe at Baxters, Fochabers.

Get together for newly diagnosed and existing members to network, ask questions, share recipes and ideas / information. 'Coffee, Cake and Catch up' sessions. All welcome. For further info email Kirsteen.pyett@btinternet.co.uk

MORAY FREE MINDS Meet 1st Saturday every month, 11am - 12pm at the Mansion House Hotel. Do you question Reality, Society and/or our Social Structures? Come and meet like minded people. For more info call 07766 574687 Michaela.

MORAY SENSORY SERVICE Services for people with sight loss, hearing loss and the Deaf Community in Moray. Contact 0845 271 2345 or write to: Elizabeth House, 10 Victoria Crescent, Elgin IV30 1RQ MORAY THRESHOLD SINGERS Women's choir offers to sing to people who are seriously ill and those approaching the end of life, in their own home, care home or hospital to bring comfort and ease. To request this service or to join call Chloe Greenwood on 07769 796672 www.thresholdchoir.org/moray RTR ASSOCIATION (MORAY FIRTH BRANCH) Meet monthly & arrange dinners and outings for ex-RTR personnel. Contact Peter on 01542 841740 or Clive on 01542 841529 for more info.

WESTERN FRONT ASSOCIATION We hold 9 meetings per year on Saturday afternoons in Elgin Library. Open to anyone with an interest in WW1. Contact Derek Bird on 01343 870562 or email chairman.wfasnb@virgin.net www.wfascotlandnorth.org.uk PLEASE NOTE: Details of Clubs & Societies are published on a rotational basis.

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MORAY FIRTH LADIES CURLING CLUB Tuesdays, 10am - 12noon from September to March. Call Ann Munro on 01309 690332.

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If your New Year resolutions are seldom kept, here is an alternative!

Throughout the year, when something good happens that makes you happy, write it down on a piece of paper and keep it in a jar. The following New Year’s Eve read them all and remember how you felt. I plan to do this and maybe next New Year I will feel thankful instead of disappointed about all those things I didn't do!

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PASTORAL LETTER & CHURCH MEETINGS True knowledge of Jesus must be personal and life transforming Remembering is such an important part of our everyday existence. If we did not have this faculty, we could not even get back home if we left it and walked some distance away. Now getting back home is absolutely important because if we did not, we would feel terribly lost and nothing would make us happy unless we found our way back home.

Living in the world can be like that sometimes - we sometimes feel we are a bit at sea, tossed about and not fully in control of things. We sense we have not got it all worked out, completely and securely, in our present circumstances nor for the future. There is always a sense of mystery about life, some unanswered questions. This can make us a bit restless, prompting us to look for answers or the path to peace and happiness.

Precisely in such our very human situation of questioning and restlessness, Christ offers this awesome, all-embracing and justly- famous statement : ‘I am the way, the truth and the life.’ (John14:6) We can understand ‘the Way’ to mean the way to our real home, ‘the truth’: the truth that gives meaning to life and existence, ‘and life’ - the fullness of life. This is surely an incredibly bold statement in the face of the frailty of life as we know it. It offers the possibility of a satisfying experience

in our life confronted as we are with some fundamental questions. Where did we come from? What is the meaning of life? What comes after death? Where do I find peace? What is true happiness?

Christians believe that in the person and life of Jesus, God has offered the world what a person requires for a fulfilled and fully meaningful life, not without its problems and difficulties, but which not even death can ultimately destroy.

Indeed he has offered the world the basic values that it requires to build a just, peaceful and joyful society.

We have just celebrated Christmas. The decorations have come down, the lovely music and carols have fallen silent for another year. It is good to remember that the root of the Christmas tree and therefore the heart of Christmas, is Jesus, his birth in Bethlehem in Judea, Israel. We celebrate this event every year with joy and with messages and acts of love and peace because we associate Jesus, as many generations have done, with these great virtues that the human spirit seeks so passionately.

Once Jesus asked his disciples, ‘Who do people say the Son of Man is?’ They answered him, ‘Some say, John the Baptist, others Elijah and still others, one of the prophets’’. ‘But you,’ he asked,’ who do you say I am?’ Then Simon Peter said, ’You are the Christ, the Son of the Living God.’ (Matthew 16.13-16).

Moray Grace Fellowship The Warehouse Theatre, Lossie. Sundays 10.30am. Contact Vic Cameron: 07738 260550 Email: vic.cameron2803@btinternet.com.

Website: www.moraygrace.wordpress.com Parish of Duffus, Spynie and Hopeman First Sunday of the month, united service 10.30am. On other Sundays, services are 10am at Hopeman and 11.30am at Duffus or Spynie. Contact Rev. Jenny Adams: 01343 830276. Website: www.duffusparish.co.uk St Andrews-Lhanbryd and Urquhart Parish Church Sundays 11am including young church and crèche. Evening services 7pm on last Sunday of month at St Margaret's Hall, Urquhart. Contact Andrew Robertson: 01343 843765.

St Gerardine’s High Church Lossiemouth. Sunday family worship 11am. Contact Rev. G McKee 01343 208852 (manse).

St Giles and St Columba’s South Elgin. Sunday services 10:30am in January, March, May, July, September, and November in St Giles’ Church, High Street, Elgin. February, April, June, August, October,

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Now when it comes to knowledge of Jesus, there are insiders and outsiders.

True knowledge of Jesus must be personal and life transforming. One’s knowledge of Jesus may have come largely through the media or what one may have heard from some people either for or against him. One may have been disturbed or even scandalised by the deeds of certain Christians today or in history. Or one may feel in this overwhelmingly scientific and technological age that religion and science are incompatible.

All this is looking at Jesus from the outside. But we need to meet him personally ourselves from inside, as an insider. It makes all the difference. We do so in several ways. The Bible is one fantastic way, but we need some guidance to really get into it. A loving welcoming Christian assembly can help us find him. And finding him might just be the start of an exciting ever- changing life in him.

Fr Matthew Edusei St Sylvester's Catholic Church, Elgin

and December in St Columba’s South & The Williamson Hall, Duff Avenue at 10:30am. Wednesdays 6:30pm & Thursdays 12.30pm at St. Giles Church. Minister: Rev Stevie Thomson. Call 01343 551501 or visit www.elginstgileschurch.co.uk St James Church of Scotland Lossiemouth. Sunday family worship 11am including crèche and Sunday school. 6pm: evening service .

7pm: Hands & Feet youth group. Contact Rev. Graham Crawford: 07817 504042.

St Margaret’s Church Lossiemouth. Sunday 9.30am: family Eucharist . Thursdays 10am: Holy Communion. Thursdays 5pm: evening prayer.

St Sylvester's Catholic Church Elgin. Vigil Mass Saturday 7pm.

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USEFUL INFORMATION Local & Bank Holidays and Special Days New Year’s Eve New Year’s Day Scottish Bank Holiday Burns Night Christmas Day Boxing Day Valentine’s Day

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Shrove Tuesday Ash Wednesday Mothering Sunday British Summertime Starts Palm Sunday April Fool’s Day Maundy Thursday

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School Term Dates for 2014/2015 (all dates inclusive) Christmas Holiday Ends Fri 2nd Jan 2015 Spring Term Starts Mon 5th Jan 2015 Occasional Day Elgin Thurs 12th Feb 2015 Mid Term Holiday Fri 13th Feb 2015 Mid Term Holiday Mon 16th Feb 2015 Spring Term Ends Fri 27th Mar 2015 Spring Holiday Starts Mon 30th Mar 2015 Spring Holiday Ends Fri 10th Apr 2015

Summer Term Starts Mon 13th Apr 2015 Occasional Day Lossiemouth Fri 1st May 2015 May Day Holiday Mon 4th May 2015 In-Service Day Thurs 21st May 2015 In-Service Day Fri 22nd May 2015 Summer Term Ends Thurs 2nd Jul 2015 Summer Holiday Starts Fri 3rd Jul 2015 for 2015/2016 (all dates inclusive) Summer Holiday Ends Fri 14th Aug 2015

Useful Contacts Police Station ......................................................................101 Bus Station, Elgin ...............................................01343 544222 Citizens Advice Bureau.......................................01343 550088 Inverness Airport .................................................01667 464000 Dallas Village Hall ...............................................01343 890243 Elgin Town Hall ........................01343 547767/562600-To Book Lossie Town Hall ....................................01343 813327/815309 Pluscarden Village Hall ......................................01343 890412 Moray Council.....................................................01343 543451 National Rail Enquiries........................................08457 484950 Elgin Library ........................................................01343 562600 Lossie Library......................................................01343 813334 Elgin Community Council ..................................01343 540615 Moray Leisure Centre .........................................01343 550033 Lossie Swimming Pool ......................................01343 815299 Moray Cats Protection ........................................07837 342646 Railway Mission ..................................................078419 85768 Dial ‘M’ For Moray Buses ..................................03001 234565 SCHOOLS Alves Primary School ..........................................01343 850247 Bishopmill Primary School ..................................01343 547841 Burghead Primary School ..................................01343 835529 East End Primary School ....................................01343 542381 Greenwards Primary School ..............................01343 541661 Hopeman Primary School ..................................01343 830281 Lhanbryde Primary School..................................01343 842649 Mosstowie Primary School..................................01343 547119 New Elgin Primary School ..................................01343 547587 Seafield Primary School ......................................01343 547792 St Sylvesters R.C. Primary School ......................01343 541453 West End Primary School....................................01343 543161 Elgin Academy ....................................................01343 543485 Elgin High School................................................01343 545181 Hythehill Primary School ....................................01343 812014 St Gerardine Primary School ..............................01343 812251 Lossiemouth High School ..................................01343 812047

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New Year and resolutions time again. I think after last year’s resolutions I have managed to get a little bit fitter and, more importantly, stay a little bit fitter through the year - possibly helped by a lot of tramping the streets during the hard fought referendum campaign.

With the Westminster Election fast approaching in May it is very much a leap from one campaign straight into another but one I relish, as the best part of being a politician is the opportunity to speak to people in the communities I represent around Moray and getting their views first hand. So the New Year’s Resolution is probably covered by more tramping of streets. Look forward to seeing folks out and about in 2015!

As we go out with the old of 2014 and in with the new of 2015 it has been an amazing year in Scotland but much closer to home in the past few weeks it has been great seeing my 2 boys taking part in the Christmas Concert at their school in Elgin. The amount of effort put in by all the children in schools across Moray is fantastic, as is the efforts of the teachers, Classroom Assistants and parents who pull it all together. Next up will be the adults performing and, possibly some children as well, in Burns Supper season, which is always a good night and catch up with friends. A great way to end one year and start the next!

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The former Hibernian and Falkirk manager took over the reigns at the Inverness club a year ago taking over from Terry Butcher and made the move to the Highlands unsure of what to expect in his new surroundings.

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12 monday elgin and district parkinson's support group burns' supper and entertainment 7:30pm - 9:30pm, st sylvester's hall 19 institution road elgin. for more information call gillian gibson (secretary) on 01343 541056 or email elginanddistrictpsg@gmail.com

14 wednesday nadfas fine art lecture - the british on the grand tour. by professor brendan cassidy 11am sherwood suite, eight acres hotel, elgin. visitors welcome, £7 donation.

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evening talk:"nepal - on top of the world" - by steve lovell 8.30pm, grant arms hotel, grantown on spey. for more info visit ww.bwwc.co.uk

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24 saturday burns night doors open 7pm for 7:30pm at the houldsworth institute, dallas. a night of music and entertainment. tickets £10 including supper. byob. contact kathryn 01343 890248

24 saturday - 25 sunday 32nd aviemore sled dog rally two-day timed trials held by the siberian husky club of great britain which take place in aviemore. for more information visit siberianhuskyclub.org.uk

20 tuesday waterstones inverness presents: a talk and book signing with bestselling crime writer peter may @ ironworks 6pm. visit www.ironworksvenue.com

28 wednesday

22 thursday my year in elgin museum : lecture by sue beardmore 2pm, elgin museum hall. sue has spent the past year recording and researching the museum's internationally recognised fossil collection. an introduction to scottish craft ale 7:30pm, the drouthy cobbler. by david macdonald - local brewer of spey valley ales. visit www.thedrouthycobbler.co.uk

do you like jokes? comedy club 7.30pm at the drouthy cobbler. see established acts and spot the next big thing all in the intimate setting of the blue room. visit www.thedrouthycobbler.co.uk

30 friday scottish rock garden club (moray group) members night 7:30pm, new elgin hall annex. for more info call colinne souter (treasurer) on 01340 871504 or netta milne (secretary) on 01340 881558

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Our small team of 4 based here in the Moray Firth, will have a busy year ahead as we will have over 1,000 regular customers presenting us with their lawn problems. Sounds a lot, but we are a pretty small franchise up here though. GreenThumb across the UK will have 500,000 customers this year !

As we will be providing local monthly updates as the season unfolds through the year again in Spotlight Magazine, we thought it might be nice to let you see where we are based.

Although we don’t know exactly what the weather will throw at us this season, we have a fair idea what we will be asked to tackle. Highlights will likely include: Winter Months Moss and thatch; we will be aerating and scarifying all hours of the day to get through everybody before the Spring Weed and Feed Treatments start.

Also look out for leatherjackets emerging (crane fly grubs) and eating lawn roots, sometimes causing devastation.

Spring Months Weedkill and Spring fertiliser; we will want some decent weather to get lawns off to a good start.

Many of you will remember the very late/non-existent Spring in 2013.

Summer Months Mowing; best practice is never cut shorter than 1 inch. Mowing too close is the most destructive thing you can do to a lawn (usually a man-thing) and in particular encourages

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A repeat of last Summer would be good.

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Beef Bourguignon Serves: 4 Preparation time: 15 minutes Cooking time: 2 hours Ingredients 2 tbsp plain flour

75ml brandy

1kg braising steak, cut into 2.5cm dice

750ml red wine

4–5 tbsp olive oil

1 litre beef stock

150g pancetta, cut into small cubes

1 bouquet garni (2 bay leaves, 2 sprigs of thyme,

1 shallot, peeled and finely chopped

2 sprigs of flat-leaf parsley)

2 onions, peeled and sliced

115g baby onions

1 garlic clove, peeled and crushed

25g butter

100 g French beans

Salt and black pepper

Method 1. Season the flour with salt and pepper and toss the beef in it. Place a large, non-stick frying pan over a high heat, add one to two tablespoons of olive oil and fry the beef for one to two minutes in batches, removing each batch from the pan when browned and placing it on a plate while you fry the rest, adding more oil as needed. (Too much meat in the pan at once will mean it takes longer to brown).

2. Add the pancetta and fry for one to two minutes or until golden brown, then tip in the shallot, onions and garlic and fry for a further two to three minutes or until browned. Return the cooked beef to the pan and mix well with the other ingredients.

3. Pour in the brandy and carefully set it alight to burn off the alcohol. Add the wine and stock and bring to a simmer. Add the bouquet garni, then cover and cook on a low heat for two hours or until tender and thickened. Alternatively, cook in the oven at 140°C/gas mark 1, for two hours, or in a slow cooker for three to four hours.

4. Half an hour before the meat is cooked, blanch the baby onions in boiling water for 30 seconds, then peel. Place a separate frying pan over a high heat, add the butter and a little olive oil and fry the onions for two to three minutes or until just golden, then add to the casserole for the last 20 minutes of cooking time.

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Long dark nights…cold…snow on the ground. The comforting smell of holly. Perhaps a log fire with mulled wine wafting from the kitchen, surrounded by the comforting trappings of Christmas. The heating is high, lights are low and life is grand...

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