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CLUBS & SOCIETIES BABY BOP - PARENT & CHILD DANCE & PLAY CLASS Tuesdays , 18months - 3years, 9.30 -10.30am (£2.50) 3months18months, 10.30 -11am (£1.50).

Forres house Community centre Tel: Emma 07973491963 DALLAS PARENT & TODDLERS Every Monday, 2pm - 4pm at Dallas Hall. Come join us for a cuppa & play. Contact Susan 01343 890439 / Emma 01343 890479 or find us on Facebook.

DARNAWAY CURLING CLUB Small, friendly club would be delighted to welcome new members for the coming season.

Why not come and try a new sport. For further details contact evrae@hotmail.com DYKE PARENT & TODDLER GROUP Thursdays 9:30am - 11:30am at Dyke Village Hall. Parent run group, welcomes new members. £2. Call Lex on 07736 936130 FINDHORN VILLAGE CENTRE COFFEE MORNING Wednesdays 10.30 - 11.30am.

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All Welcome. £1 per person. Join us for a chatter, cuppa & some cake! Open to all. Call 01309 692339 1ST KINLOSS SCOUT GROUP Provides Beavers, Cubs, Scouts & Explorer Scouts for girls & boys 6 - 18yrs at Keddie House, Kinloss. Call Steve Ferris 675028 FORRES ARCHERS Wed, juniors 7 - 8.30pm & adults 7 - 10pm, Forres House. Age 10 years up. Call Mike Voyzey on 07812 825427 FORRES BIG CHOIR Every Thursday during term time, 7pm - 9pm at Kinloss Church. A mixed community choir for singers of all levels of experience. No auditions and no need to read music. Call Bill Henderson on 07876 213576 for more details.

FORRES BLUEFINS SWIMMING CLUB Various training sessions for all levels of competitive swimmers.

Regular intakes throughout the year. Call Jayne on 07825 951944. Email: bluefins@hotmail.co.uk FORRES CAMERA CLUB Forres Town Hall. Every Thursday at 7.30pm - 9.30pm from September to Easter and during the summer there are evening and whole day outings.

Come and share our interest in photography. Varied programme of speakers & tuition, including Beginners’ courses. All welcome.

Visit forrescameraclub.co.uk FORRES COMMUNITY WEB To promote Forres on the Internet, Wed 7pm, Community Hub, Tolbooth Street, all levels welcome, aged 18+. Contact: Anthony Bowmer 672244 FORRES COUNTRY MUSIC CLUB 1st Friday each month, Victoria Hotel. Social & line dancing to live bands. Contact Billy 674674 FORRES GYMNASTICS CLUB Training, exercise & fun, through display work &

competitions. Female only up to 18 yrs. Call Patsy FraserMackenzie 673316 FORRES HARD OF HEARING 1st Monday monthly, 2pm3:30pm at Forres Town Hall. To assist the hard of hearing/deaf & tinnitus sufferers. Any age, lipreading classes. Call: 672282/675075.

FORRES OVER 60S LUNCH GROUP Fridays at 12pm, St Leonards Chuch Hall. 3 course meal. £4 per week. For anyone 60+. Call Joan Lobbett on 01309 671150.

FORRES TOASTMASTER CLUB Communication & leadership skills through a structured course of speeches. All abilities and experience welcome. Part of Toastmasters International. Call Paul Harvey 694822 FORRES WELLBEING HUB Monthly pop-up (every 2nd Thurs). 5pm - 9pm in the Community Cafe, Forres. A meeting point for anyone interested in creating change towards mental health. Call Heidi Tweedie on 07989 331651 or moraywellbeinghub.org.uk FORUM FOR MEN Wednesdays, 8pm at Macnabs Bar, Columba Hotel. For gay and bi men. Look for the small red post box on our table. Text 07941 553620, www.gayness.org.uk or e-mail jampa40@yahoo.co.uk GIRLGUIDING MORAY 2 Rainbow units, 4 Brownie units, 4 Guide units and a Senior Section Unit in Forres & Kinloss.

Call Mrs Merlys King (Division Commissioner) on 01343 830316 or email moraymax@tiscali.co.uk KNIT & NATTER Tuesdays 6.30pm - 8.30pm, Findhorn Village Centre. All ages welcome. Join us for some fun and chatter. Call Karin on 01309 692339.

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LADIES BOWLING CLUB Tuesdays from 7pm -10pm in the British Legion Hall, Forres. New members are welcome to come along and join in.

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 MORAY DUO Fridays 2:30pm - 4:30pm at Forres House Community Centre. Provides an accessible, friendly and supportive meeting place for people with physical and sensory disabilities to enable them to live a full life and reduce the barriers that prevent them from doing so. Call Alice Duncan on 01343 551339 for info.

MORAY SANDS 3rd Wednesday every month, 7:30pm at The Ugie House Hotel. Self-help support group, run by bereaved parents for bereaved parents and their families. Informal and confidential. No cost. For more details call or text Beck on 07549 684986 or Karen on 07971 834133 or email moraysands@hotmail.co.uk 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.netland north.org.uk

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We live in uncertain times” - I seem to have heard that refrain quite a lot recently but I do wonder whether there is a temptation to often fear the worst before it has actually happened.

History does of course remind us that times do change and some regimes are worse than others so we can be forgiven for thinking the worst but fortunately this is most often not the norm!

How we deal with the fear of the unknown affects us daily. A healthy degree of caution is always recommended but also is keeping a sense of perspective.

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PASTORAL LETTER & CHURCH MEETINGS Elijah , the raven s an d t he poor widow.

During this time of the year thousands of geese and some swans migrate to the UK and spend some time in Findhorn Bay to rest and feed until they move on. It is true that they do some damage to fields close to the bay. Can we afford it?

There is an interesting story about Elijah in 1 Kings 17: “(2) Then the LORD said to Elijah, (3) "Leave this place and go east and hide yourself near Cherith Brook, east of the Jordan. (4) The brook will supply you with water to drink, and I have commanded ravens to bring you food there." (5) Elijah obeyed the LORD's command, and went and stayed by Cherith Brook. (6) He drank water from the brook, and ravens brought him bread and meat every morning and every evening.”

There was a drought in Israel. Elijah was hiding from King Ahab who wanted to kill him. The Lord sent Elijah to the valley of the Cherith Brook.

There the ravens brought him food to eat. It is a metaphor to remind us that God is always caring for us, and that he is using nature to sustain us.

Should we not reconnect with nature, appreciate the blessing of nature and accept our responsibility to look after

nature? Can we afford it not to?

Like the geese and the swans, there are refugees migrating to our country and other West-European countries. It will have an effect on our infrastructure - can we afford it?

It sometimes causes concern when we are expected to share, as we tend to believe that we have just enough for ourselves. We may find guidence in the same story of Elijah in 1 Kings 17: “(8) Then the LORD said to Elijah, (9) "Now go to the town of Zarephath, near Sidon, and stay there. I have commanded a widow who lives there to feed you." (10) So Elijah went to Zarephath, and as he came to the town gate, he saw a widow gathering firewood. "Please bring me a drink of water," he said to her. (11) And as she was going to get it, he called out, "And please bring me some bread, too."

(12) She answered, "By the living LORD your God I swear that I don't have any bread. All I have is a handful of flour in a bowl and a bit of olive oil in a jar. I came here to gather some firewood to take back home and prepare what little I have for my son and me. That will be our last meal, and then we will starve to death." (13) "Don't worry," Elijah said to her. "Go on and prepare your meal. But first make a small loaf from what you have and bring it to me, and then prepare the

Caroline Street Gospel Hall Gospel Service, Sundays at 12:15pm Tel: 01309 674375. Email: glcinfo@tiscali.co.uk Dyke Church - Church of Scotland Sunday worship 10am.

Family service. Tea/coffee and fellowship after every service.

Contact Mrs Jane Foster on 01309 641257 (Session Clerk) Edinkillie Parish - Church of Scotland Sunday worship 11.30am.

Contact Mrs Panny Laing (Session Clerk): 01309 611278.

Kinloss, Findhorn & Alves Church of Scotland Alternating weekly. Kinloss and Findhorn 10am. Alves first Sunday of each month at 11.30am. Tel: 01309 690931 or 01309 690349.

Lighthouse Baptist Church Clovenside Chapel, Forres. Sunday service 10:30am and 6.30pm. Refreshments served afterwards.

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Rafford Church Family service Sundays at 9.30am. Praise from CH3 and Mission Praise. Enjoy fellowship over a cup of tea and a biscuit. Sunday school with Bible stories, songs, games and crafts. Contact Anne Garrow (session clerk): 01309 672930.

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rest for you and your son. (14) For this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: 'The bowl will not run out of flour or the jar run out of oil before the day that I, the LORD, send rain.' " (15) The widow went and did as Elijah had told her, and all of them had enough food for many days. (16) As the LORD had promised through Elijah, the bowl did not run out of flour nor did the jar run out of oil.”

Elijah went from the Cherith Brook to stay with a poor widow who had a son.

She believed that she could not feed Elijah, as she had just enough flour and oil to bake one last bread for her son and herself. However, once she gave food to Elijah, she found that the bowl did not run out of flour and the jar did not run out of oil.

It sounds like a fairytale, yet it communicates a simple, yet amazing truth: We often believe that we have only enough for ourselves, but when we share, we find that there is no shortage. Somehow, when we share, we do not divide, we multiply.

It sounds incredible, but it is true. Let us share our time, our blessings, our love - we will find that it is multiplied.

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St John the Evangelist Scottish Episcopal Church Sundays 8am: communion. 10am: family communion. Tel: 01309 672856.

Email: stjohnsforres@btinternet.com.

Website: www.stjohnsforres.wordpress.com St Laurence Church Sundays 10am: family service. Tel: 01309 672260. Email: barryj.boydstlaurence@btinternet.com or visit www.stlaurencechurchforres.org.uk St Leonards Church Sundays 10.30am: family service. Tea and coffee served afterwards. For any information call 01309 672380 or visit www.stleonardschurchforres.com St Margaret’s Catholic Church Mass on Tuesday & Thursday at 10am and Sunday 10:30am. Contact Father Colin Stewart on 01343 542280 If you are a member of a church not listed here and would like to be considered for inclusion or if there are any amendments to be made to existing details, please email tamsyn@spotlighton.co.uk

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PARLIAMENT BLOG & TIDE TIMES With the colder winter nights now upon us it’s time keep an eye out for our elderly and more vulnerable neighbours.

With over 13000 households in Moray living in fuel poverty it is important that home owners explore all avenues to upgrade their home heating or insulation, with free advice being available from the Energy Saving Trust (http://www.energysavingtrust.org.uk/scotl and) or by calling 0808 808 2282, calls are free and they are available Monday to Friday from 8am to 8pm, and on Saturday from 9am to 5pm.

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Our health and wellbeing is something often taken for granted but if we take the time to look out for others we can all make the coming new year a happy and prosperous one.

May I extend my warmest greetings for a Merry Christmas and wish everyone a very Happy New Year when it comes.

It’s nearly Christmas and so the first thing to say is all the very best of the season to you and yours! If you have time off at Christmas and New Year with family and friends then make the most of it and use the time well.

If you are working during the holiday period, possibly even on Christmas Day, then a huge thank you whether you are in the emergency services, working in health or social care, hospitality workers serving up Christmas dinners, retail staff dealing with the huge rush of Christmas shopping and Boxing Day sales, farm workers making sure animals are fed and watered in all weathers or road workers out gritting.

Whatever line of work you are in a huge thank you for keeping everything moving!

With Christmas fast approaching and there having been much hype around so-called Black Friday sales and big discounts from online retailers – often to the detriment of local shops – I wanted to take the opportunity to highlight my support for our local businesses.

While I appreciate that household budgets are stretched more than ever at this time of year – we should do everything we can to shop at local businesses which are often at the heart of our communities.

I hope shoppers throughout Moray can find time to support our local, independent businesses when carrying out their Christmas shopping this year. I know that local spending will be very much appreciated by local retailers and their staff.

I would like to wish all readers a very merry Christmas and a happy, prosperous new year. 2017 is another year that holds a lot in store and I hope that whatever you have planned for the coming year works out well for you.

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2 friday cinderella: presented by logie primary school & the highland youth theatre doors open 6.30pm for 7pm, forres town hall. adults £4, children £2 (incl mulled wine & mince pies). contact: logie primary school on 01309 611258. sigma christmas quiz & prize draw 7pm for 7.30pm, birnie village hall, thornhill, elgin. contact: stan barber at stan@sigma-astro.co.uk. visit sigma-astro.co.uk. festive quiz 7.00pm, dyke & district hall. adults £5, kids £2.50. give your brain a workout at our festive quiz. max teams of 5. suitable for p4 age & up. byob & nibbles. contact: claire doughty on 07846 145050

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or email claire@chitchat.scot. visit www.dykevillagehall.co.uk. christmas fayre 4.30pm - 6.30pm, anderson's primary school, forres. outside stallholders, bouncy castle, santa & lots of other interesting things.

3 saturday coffee morning in aid of logie primary school 10am - 12pm, forres town hall. raffle, stalls & homebakes. for saint george: the zeebrugge raid 2.30pm, elgin library. free, but collection for branch funds western front association - speaker: derek bird, branch chairman. contact: derek bird on 01343 870562 or email chairman.wfasnb@virgin.net. visit wfascotlandnorth.org.uk. findhorn village centre christmas bazaar 1pm - 5pm, findhorn village centre. £3 per child for gift & to meet santa. sale of homemade cards, jewellery, other crafts, etc. afternoon teas. sale of produce & cakes. santa visiting from 2pm. contact: karin/justine on 01309 692339. tombola night hosted by elgin youth cafe. 7pm 10pm, elgin youth cafe, francis place, elgin. grandmaster flash@ironworks, inverness 7.30pm. visit www.ironworksvenue.com moray conservative & unionist association christmas coffee morning 10am - 12pm, new hall, st giles church, elgin. adults £3, children free. festive stalls. raffle. all welcome. elgin driving range challenge hosted by moray sports centre 10am, elgin driving range. christmas fayre & festive pancake brunch 10.30am, grantown ymca. lots of great christmas ideas reap scotland: community orchard tree planting 10am - 12pm, cooper park, elgin. join us ro plant more fruit trees in the developing community orchard. tools provided. meet at the play park.

60s, 70s disco in aid of a community accsesible defibrillator for lossiemouth 8pm, lossiemouth sports & social club. £7. all welcome. contact: yvonne murray on 07929 008392 or email muzyvonne@aol.com. annual fireworks display & festive market in aid of aberlour child care trust 3pm - 9pm, the dowans hotel, aberlour. special guests - the military wives choir. join in the festive fun. stars charity (the syncope trust) christmas fayre 10am - 1pm, st john's lodge, forres. celebrate christmas & find your perfect gift. complete with delicious home bakes & refreshments. "the royal burgh of forres" - premier film screening 7.30pm, forres town hall. adults £10, concessions £6. forres community christmas celebration. ronnie thain & friends perform live. forres heritage trust photos, refreshments. st andrew's ceilidh with the dunphail dance band.

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5 monday cinema nairn: the lavender hill mob 2pm, nairn community & arts centre. tickets at door. matinee with tea and bakes. visit www.cinema-nairn.co.uk.

6 tuesday findhorn bay local nature reserve 7.30pm, james milne institute, findhorn. fblnr management committee meeting - includes public session. visit www.fblnr.org. alzheimer scotland cafe at the green 10.30am 12pm, the bowling green pavillion, st catherine's road, forres. all welcome. contact: shirley mackenzie 01343 552080/07584 408209.

7 wednesday friends of grant lodge, agm. 7pm, elgin museum hall speaker, rona walker, historic environment scotland, will talk about the new exhibition in elgin cathedral. rafford s.w.i.: dick whittington panto at eden court theatre. tbc, eden court theatre. december's meeting moray, banff & badenoch decorative & fine arts society (mbbdfas): 'the brilliant british humour in the forgotten art of the picture postcard' - lecture by dr james taylor. 11am, st columba's church, duff avenue, elgin.new members welcome. contact: membership@nadfas-in-elgin.org.uk or visit www.nadfas-in-elgin.org.uk.

7 wednesday - 10 saturday elgin amateur dramatic society: cinderella 7.30pm each evening; sat 10th matinee at 2pm, elgin town hall. ÂŁ11 adult or ÂŁ9 child/concession, 10% discount for parties of 10 people or more. for info visit www.elgindrama.co.uk.

british humour in the forgotten art of the picture postcard 1909-1939 " by mr james taylor. 2.15pm, free church hall, smithton, inverness. non-members ÂŁ8. new members welcome. contact: david martin on 07595 219308 or email davidmartin30@hotmail.com. visit www.hdfas.org.uk

9 friday 2manydjs@ironworks, inverness. tbc. visit www.ironworksvenue.com. martha reeves & the vandellas@ironworks, inverness. 7pm. visit www.ironworksvenue.com. film forres community cinema night 6pm doors open, 6.30pm film starts, forres town hall. adults ÂŁ1, children 50p. new members welcome. new membership cards issued on the night. nairn literary institure : set adrift on the world - the sutherland clearances talk by jim hunter 7.30pm, nairn free church. non-members ÂŁ3. visit www.nairnliterary.org.uk

10 saturday we were giants@mad hatters, inverness. tbc, free let's go back to the 80's@ironworks, inverness. tbc, visit www.ironworksvenue.com. winterslam@ironworks, inverness. 7pm, ironworks, inverness.visit www.ironworksvenue.com. christmas fayre 11am-2pm, dyke & district hall. adults ÂŁ2, kids ÂŁ1. stalls, refreshments, festive music and raffle. contact: claire doughty on 07846145050 claire@chitchat.scot. visit www.dykevillagehall.co.uk inchberry hall folk music christmas concert (idca): emily smith, multi award winning scottish folk singer - folk music band doors open at 7pm for 7.30pm 10pm, inchberry hall. tickets - see website. www.wherecanwego.com. christmas craft fayre & coffee morning 10am - 12pm, rafford village hall. locally grown christmas trees, decorations, unique gifts paintings, textiles, etc. teas & coffees, homebakes. contact: gordon smith on 01309 675949 or raffordvillagehall@yahoo.com.

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14 wednesday annual clic sargent charity carol concert with nhs grampian choir & friends 7.30pm, elgin town hall adults £10, concession £8, u16s £5. tickets from sound & vision, elgin or from choir members. the drouthy cobbler comedy club 8pm. visit www.thedrouthycobbler.co.uk. alzheimer scotland - musical memories 1.30pm 3pm, new elgin & ashgrove hall, land street, elgin

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15 thursday "come for a christmas waltz, but you won't need your dancing shoes!" 11am - 1pm, harvest centre (next door to yeadon's bookshop). harvest centre mah jong club (american rules). come along & give it a try. beginners welcome. for info email hce.roombookings@gmail.com. visit www.spanglefish.com/harvestcentremahjongclub.

16 friday mad ferret band@hootananny, inverness 9.30pm, root system/fighting caravanshootananny, inverness 9.30pm, all welcome. gary beck@ ironworks, inverness 10pm. visit www.ironworksvenue.com. carol concert with out of the box puppet company 6pm, forres town hall. donations at the door. come & enjoy the true meaning of christmas, sing carols & enjoy a christmas puppet show. contact: judith watts on 01309 672418 or judithwatts.outreach@gmail.com.

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£! (incl teas & coffees). an opportunity for anyone with dementia & their carers to meet & share in the enjoyment of music, singing & memories. contact: shirley mackenzie on 01343 552080/07584 408209. frightened rabbit@ironworks, inverness 7pm. visit www.ironworksvenue.com. highland rock garden club: "an erratic journey through the world of plants" - talk by stan da prato.

7.30pm, nairn community & arts centre. £4 (incl refreshments). all welcome. contact: john owen on 01320 366246. elgin writers: christmas pot luck buffet with quiz 7.30pm - 9.30pm, elgin library choice of hearing ian rankin first in the library gallery at 7pm. ticketed. all over 16s welcome. visit www.elgin-writers.moonfruit.com. nairn u3a: pre-christmas social event 1.45pm, nairn community & arts centre. all welcome. contact: pauline on 01667 453537. visit www.nairnu3a.org.uk

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the red hot highland fling 8pm, northern meeting park, inverness. free. legendary family friendly (no tickets required) hogmanay concert. hogmanay dance 9pm - 1am at rothes fc social club. £10. visit rothesfcsocialclub.co.uk.

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18 sunday andrew mill & four fingered fre@hootananny, inverness. 9.30pm celebrate christmas with cantare 7pm, elgin town hall. £8 adults. £4 children. "cantare" - elgin ladies choir - sing songs & carols to celebrate christmas. tickets from cathedral windows elgin city f.c. xmas fayre 2016 hosted by elgin city fc community football 9.30am - 12pm, borough briggs, elgin. £1.50 (incl hot drink & mince pie). various stalls from local groups & businesses, bottle stall, home bake table & raffle. briggsy the badger too.

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We’ve now had it for 6 months and have clocked up over 9000 miles, mainly on short commutes to work and ferrying the kids around. In fuel terms this would have cost us over £900 in our 65mpg Skoda, but has instead it has cost us about £350 in electricity, a saving of over 60%! We are also expecting to make big savings in maintenance because EVs have about 18 moving parts, whereas a typical diesel or petrol car has over 2000. In terms of savings, we think it will pay for itself within 8 years.

The economics of owning an EV really starting to add up, and I hope that continuing improvements will help to make this a “No brainer” for most of us.

Interestingly, it is predicted that most new vehicles will be electric within the next 10 years and other countries such as Japan and Norway are already well ahead of the UK in this respect. So come on Forres, lets not get left behind, start embracing the electric revolution and save yourself a fortune, as well as the planet!

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