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CLUBS & SOCIETIES AJG FORRES AND NAIRN WELFARE FOOTBALL LEAGUE April - September games played in Nairn, Forres, Kinloss and Elgin. Match details available in local press and via the website www.leaguewebsite.co.uk/ forresnairnwfa/Home or via email at forresnairnwfa@hotmail.co.uk CAFE 55 1st or 2nd monday of the month, 10am at Elgin Youth Cafe, Francis Place. A monthly coffee morning for over 55s. With special guests, hot topics and help with technology. Come along for refreshments & homebakes - FREE entry CREATIVE WRITING GROUP Meets Wednesdays, 2pm - 4pm in the Nicholson Gallery, St. Catherine’s Road, Forres.

All welcome. For info call Mandy Wilkinson on 01309 676928 or email solasan@btinternet.com DALLACHY AEROMODELLERS Model aircrafts and helicopter flying at old Dallachy World War 2 airfield. Mainly at weekends.

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DIABETES UK MORAY Support for people with diabetes and their carers. For details visit moray.diabetesukgroup.org or email moraydiabetesukgroup @yahoo.co.uk DYKE & DISTRICT COMMUNITY HALL/ DYKE CHURCH Last Wednesday of every month.

10:30am - 1pm at Dyke Village Hall. Join us for Coffee, Home Baking and Chat. All welcome.

Entry £2. for info email dykevillagehall.co.uk FILM FORRES COMMUNITY CINEMA News of screenings and times on Forres Town Hall window or at www.filmforres.co.uk FINDHORN FLYERS Every Friday, 10:30am - 11:30am in James Milne Institute (Village Hall) Findhorn. Keep fit for the young at heart. £3 per session, includes refreshments. For info call Sue Horn on 01309 691309 FORRES AND DISTRICT PIPE BAND Every Tuesday at 7pm in Forres Town Hall. Adults and children all welcome. For more info email john.channon@hotmail.co.uk FORRES AREA FORUM 2nd Wednesday every month, 7pm-9pm in Forres Community Centre. For everyone who cares about Forres. Call 01309 676964 or email forresareaforum@ googlemail.com

FORRES SMALLBORE RIFLE & PISTOL CLUB Rifle, air rifle & air pistol target shooting. Call Donald MacRae on 01309 675345 for details.

IMPROVER LINE DANCING CLUB FOR OVER 50S Wednesday 2pm, Masonic Hall, Forres. £3.50. Easy routines for fitness and fun Call Jenny Duncan (ukaptd h/c) on 01463 233151 or Jacqui tel: 672019 INVERNESS FIELD ARCHERY CLUB Available to interested parties wishing to take up archery and are located in Nairn, Forres, Elgin and all surrounding areas.

Contact Secretary, Gerry Parks on 01667 462219 (evenings) or 07801 593 637. Visit invernessfieldarcheryclub.webeden.co.uk KINLOSS & FORRES MODEL CLUB 2nd & 4th Friday each month from 6:30pm - 9:30pm at Findhorn Village Centre. Contact Tom Docherty on 01309 675059 LGBT MORAY YOUTH Social networking group online on Facebook at 'LGBT Moray Youth' or contact Katie Quartly at lgbtmorayyouth@gmail.com.

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MACMILLAN CANCER RELIEF (FORRES BRANCH) Contact Sue Hellon, Secretary on 01309 678875

MORAY & NAIRN FLORAL ART CLUB 2nd Wednesday of the month at 7:30pm in The Tolbooth, Forres.

Mar - Jun & Sept - Dec. Annual fee. New members welcome.

Call Jean on 01309 672552 MORAY BRANCH EMBROIDERERS GUILD 3rd Thursday, 7:30pm in the Duffus Village Hall from Sept May. A warm welcome to all who enjoy the company of people who love stitch, textile art, fun and friendship. For more details call Judi O'May on 01309 674845 MORAY CHESS CLUB Every Tuesday 5pm - 7pm at the Costa Cafe in Tesco, Forres.

Looking for players of all ages, beginners welcome. Drop by or contact Brodie on 07745 556690 email atdbrodie@hotmail.co.uk MORAY VETERANS BREAKFAST CLUB 1st Saturday of the month, 11am at the Red Lion, Tolbooth St, Forres. Open to veterans and serving personnel of all services and their friends and families.

Enjoy military banter, get peer support and information on the issues affecting veterans. Find them at MVBC Moray Veterans Breakfast Club on facebook.

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PASTORAL LETTER & CHURCH MEETINGS An invitation.

Imagine you have been given the responsibility to arrange an important banquet. Who do you invite? Each person has to be carefully selected in order to meet the host’s expectations.

Friends, family, work colleagues, a few influential people and others appear on a provisional guest list. Finally, the list of names is narrowed down to a chosen few - those final places being scrutinised like judges in an X factor audition. The hard work has been completed and invitations are sent out – job done.

You wait eagerly for responses to confirm attendance. Surely no one would decline such a generous invitation? Days pass by, but still no response. Then eventually, one-by-one, every person named on your guest list presents you with an excuse declining the invitation. Banquet cancelled – so you might well conclude!

Thinking you have failed miserably in your mission, you approach the expectant host and convey the bad news. Then something unexpected happens. Rather than sending you swiftly on your way with a mouthful of

criticism, the host instructs you to go immediately into the local town and invite those who would be grateful of a good meal in the company of a good and generous host. “Don’t judge anyone,” are the host’s parting words that ring in your ears as you go out and personally distribute each invitation with a far greater sense of purpose than before.

Before long, the banquet hall is full to capacity with thankful guests enjoying a great feast, and the host is very pleased.

You begin to wonder - perhaps the host had known all along those people who would decline and those who would accept the invitation.

What starts out as an ambitious and exiting challenge can often become a heavy burden. A thankless task in facing excuse upon excuse of those who you think would, could or should be thankful.

This is why Jesus reassures all believers – the Christian church - through telling the parable of the ‘Great Feast’ in which we are presented with words of joy: ‘Blessed is the man who will eat at the feast in the Kingdom of God’, and with words that bring the truth to bare: ‘For many are invited, but few are chosen’

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

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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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Many will make their excuses and decline God’s invitation, but some have yet to respond. Some will think they have already been invited, but they couldn’t be further from the truth. Many have known a deep need of Christ – a heart’s desire that only Christ can truly satisfy. A sense of knowing – above all else - we are accepted by Christ just as we are rather than allowing ourselves to be judged by the ever-changing standards of this world. How will you be judged? Today, how will you respond to your invitation to eat at the feast in the Kingdom of God? As for every Christian, we should always persevere as we go about our ‘Great Commission’. Through trial and error we can relate our personal experience to the plight of the person charged with sending out the invitations. No matter what the response we can be encouraged by Jesus’ words telling of what is to come: His ‘house will be full’.

His house will be filled, and we shall look forward to the feast! For this we will be eternally thankful.

Lloyd Gallantree Elder, The Lighthouse Church, Forres

contemporary style act of worship. Contact Anne Garrow (session clerk): 01309 672930.

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 St Leonards Church Sundays 10.30am: family service. Tea and coffee served afterwards. Tel: 01309 672380.

Email: donald.prentice@tesco.net.

Website: www.stleonardschurchforres.com St Margaret’s Catholic Church Mass on Tuesday 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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We have all seen the horrific scenes in recent weeks of the crisis in the Eastern Mediterranean as refugees risk death fleeing war and persecution. Here in Moray I joined with others at Elgin Town Hall all sharing the same concerns about the crisis and determined to work out what we can do to help. With people from the voluntary sector, concerned individuals, church groups and people of different political backgrounds all represented and all working together it was great to see Moray at its best - pulling together to help people who need it the most, regardless of where in the world it is happening.

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A local support group, ‘Affa Sair’, has been set up on Facebook and those who set the group up are doing an incredible job of raising awareness of chronic pain, providing each other with support and campaigning to make sure pain patients in Moray have their voice heard.

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OCTOBER 2015 28 wednesday soup & coffee morning 10.30am - 1pm at dyke & district village hall. all welcome. u3a 1.45pm at nairn community centre. alan michael will give a talk entitled finding purpose in old age: the men's shed movement in the highlands. all welcome. for more information contact pauline on 01667 453537 or www.nairnu3a.org.uk do you like jokes? comedy club 7:30pm the blue room, the drouthy cobbler. top class comedy - every month. laugh out loud for over 2 hours. book in advance. visit www.thedrouthycobbler.co.uk

29 thursday scanning elgin's past 7.30pm, elgin museum hall. a talk by professor richard laing from robert gordon university, on the digital scanning of historic buildings in elgin and how the information can be used. for more info visit www.elginmuseum.org.uk

31 saturday moray ostomates 1pm - 3pm, moray resource centre, elgin. an opportunity for anyone living with an ostomy and their family, carers & friends to meet up with others, share experiences and meet new friends. come along for tea and a chat. call meggie on 01343 552449 or kathleen on 07789 684285 red rox coffee morning 10am - 1pm in the kinloss parish church hall. kids welcome to dress up. lucky dip. proceeds to alila coull foundation. bottle stall crafts & raffle. all donations of home bakes raffles etc gratefully received. contact debbie murdoch for info 07796715378. aleister crowley: a passion for evil @ the drouthy cobbler 7:30pm. visit www.thedrouthycobbler.co.uk let it bleed presents erol alkan + filth djs + fugazy @ ironworks 10:30pm. call 0871 7894173 or visit www.ironworksvenue.com admin@spotlighton.co.uk

NOVEMBER 2015 1 sunday peatbog faeries @ universal hall 7:30pm. for tickets and info visit www.universalhall.co.uk

3 tuesday alzheimer scotland dementia café 10.30am - 12pm at the bowling green pavilion, st catherine’s rd, forres. for anyone with dementia, carers and family to meet up in a relaxed and supportive environment.

4 wednesday blue rose code @ the drouthy cobbler 7:30pm the blue room. visit www.thedrouthycobbler.co.uk

5 thursday nairn & district gardening club - “a busman’s holiday”, an illustrated tour of gardens visited by derek hosie, head gardener at cawdor 7:30pm 9:30pm at nairn community & arts centre. visit www.spanglefish.com/nairnanddistrictgardeningclub bonfire night inverness starts at 7pm. the bonfire is lit at 19:30 and the fireworks starts at approximately 19:50 in bught park, inverness. free entry. an evening with craig russell @ the drouthy cobbler 7pm the blue room. www.thedrouthycobbler.co.uk

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8 sunday an afternoon of classical singing in aid of marie curie 3pm at nairn community & arts centre. with students from royal conservatoire of scotland. tickets £10 available from the community centre or on the door on the evening. orienteering at quarrelwood 10:30am - 12pm at eight acres hotel, elgin. newcomers are welcome at this big autumn event. enjoy the colours while running with your map in the beautiful woodlands alongside the a96. www.moravianorienteering.org

highland rock garden club - patagonia and the falklands: plants and birds - a talk by julia cordon (explorers garden pitlochry) 7.30pm at nairn community & arts centre. £2.50 incl. refreshments. all welcome. call john owen on 01320 366246 moray & nairn floral art club 7.30pm in the old court room, tolbooth, high street, forres. demonstration with raffle of arrangements. visitors £5. for more information contact jean 01309 673552. nairn u3a 1.45pm at nairn community centre. duncan macdonald will give a talk on the wildlife of speyside. all welcome. for more info call pauline on 01667 453537 or visit www.nairnu3a.org.uk

12 thursday nepal : safe water, sanitation and health 7pm - 8pm at forres library. alistair campbell from elgin rotary club, presents an illustrated talk about working with the villagers in some of the most remote and hostile terrain in the world. contact forres library on 01309 672834 forres.library@moray.gov.uk

13 friday rotary of forres children in need quiz 6:45pm for a 7:30pm at the mosset tavern, forres. minimum sponsorship per 4 person team is £100. to register your team email pudsey@forresrotary.co.uk

13 friday - 23 monday nomads tents @ westfield house 10:30am - 5pm, near elgin, iv30 8xl. selling oriental rugs, artifacts, jewellery and crafts. refreshments all day in aid of children 1st.

14 saturday ‘fly cup’ - afternoon tea 2pm - 4pm in findhorn church hall. all welcome! front country @ universal hall 8pm. for tickets and info visit www.universalhall.co.uk edinkillie community association ceilidh at edinkillie hall. £8 entry, includes food. bring your own drink. for further information, see our facebook page.

15 sunday saltfishforty @ the drouthy cobbler 7:30pm the blue room. visit www.thedrouthycobbler.co.uk

18 wednesday glass painting for beginners 7pm - 8:30pm at burghead library. with jane sandell, senior librarian by day, glasspainter by night! bring along flat plastic, acetates or glass shapes to work on. with a raffle to win one of jane’s own creations on the night. booking essential - places are limited. call 01343 830186 or burghead.library@moray.gov.uk page 20 - November 2015

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20 friday film forres film starts 6:15pm, forres town hall. visit www.filmforres.co.uk for films being shown. all ages welcome. come along and join our membership. dominic kirwan & mary duff in concert 7:30pm, elgin town hall. tickets £22 available from box office, elgin library or call 01343 562600 the blockheads @ ironworks 7:30pm. call 0871 7894173 or visit www.ironworksvenue.com

21 saturday christmas fayre @ kinloss parish church 10:30am 1pm. lots of lovely stalls - do all your christmas shopping in one place. featuring the kinloss military wives choir at 12noon. proceeds of the day to the ladybird development group. orienteering - moray saturday series 10am -11am aberlour. come and try orienteering at the latest in moravian's saturday series. includes the moray & nairn schools orienteering league. full details on www.moravianorienteering.org royal british legion scotland forres branch club coffee afternoon 2pm - 4pm, town hall, forres. admission £1.50 schnarff schnarff @ ironworks 8pm. call 0871 7894173 or visit www.ironworksvenue.com

24 tuesday highland literary salon 7.30pm at glen mhor hotel inverness. guest speaker: doug johnstone for further info see www.highlandlitsalon.com

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25 wednesday df concerts presents : idlewild @ ironworks 7pm. call 0871 7894173 or visit www.ironworksvenue.com do you like jokes? comedy club 7:30pm the blue room, the drouthy cobbler. top class comedy - every month. laugh out loud for over 2 hours. book in advance. visit www.thedrouthycobbler.co.uk

27 friday moray swing band & friends concert for children in need 7:30pm, sherwood suite, eight acres hotel, elgin. tickets £5 at the door or from members. raffle & bar. all welcome!

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Arrows is a service for anyone worried about alcohol and drug use, whether their own or a loved one’s. Substance use problems can develop over time, and it is important for individuals to recognise where drugs or alcohol are having an impact on their wellbeing, relationships or lifestyle. Support is available to anyone with concerns, no matter how small.

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by Brian Lockey author of The Path to Cawdor In reality King Duncan was an aggressor who brought an army north to eliminate Macbeth. He arrived at the Moray Firth, sailed up Loch Spynie and did battle with Macbeth's forces at Pitgavney near Elgin. Precise details are not known but a local history claims he was brought injured from the fighting to Elgin Castle where he died. Macbeth, believing he had a genuine claim, then assumed the Scottish crown.

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With the recent release of the movie “Macbeth – All Hail” maybe folk would like to know more about the real Macbeth who was born around AD 1000 and crowned King of Scotland in 1040. Aside from not being the Thane of Cawdor there are many other inaccuracies in the Shakespeare version of his life.

Witches feature in the Scottish Play but they have no part in the true story of Macbeth, Mormaer of Moray. In fact he and his wife Gruoch were both active Christians. However, King James IV of Scotland believed in witches and their evil ways. Shakespeare, ever keen to please James, is said to have included such witches in the play for his benefit. It is quite plausible that the three Forres witches who allegedly made King Duff seriously ill in the 10th century provided a blueprint for the play characters. The fact that both covens were near Forres is unlikely to be co-incidence.

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After meeting the witches in the play Macbeth is welcomed to Forres by King Duncan at his castle. A castle did actually exist at Forres in Macbeth's time. It was sited at a good defensive point where the Thompson monument now stands. However, King Duncan never lived there.

Nor did Macbeth ever stay at an Inverness Castle where, according to the play, he later murders Duncan.

During Macbeth's reign Scotland had a rare period of political and social stability. This allowed him time to enhance the status of Scotland by going on a long pilgrimage to Rome in 1050 where he had an audience with Pope Leo IX. Elgin Castle

Regarding Macbeth's death, a battle did take place in Perthshire, most probably at Dunsinane Hill as Shakespeare wrote. Macbeth defended his position there after being pursued by Northumbrian forces led

by Earl Siward. While defeated in that battle, Macbeth escaped unharmed.

It is argued that Macbeth stood down in favour of his stepson Lulach in 1057. Lulach was also pursued by forces wishing to place Duncan's son Malcolm on the throne. Macbeth came out of retirement after his son died in subsequent fighting. In 1058 a further battle took place at Lumphanan, in modern Aberdeenshire.

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Queen Victoria School

Raising to Distinction Admissions Deadline Fri 15 Jan 2016 Queen Victoria School in Dunblane is a co-educational boarding school for the children of UK Armed Forces personnel who are Scottish, or who have served in Scotland or who have been members of a Scottish regiment. The QVS experience encourages and develops well-rounded, confident individuals in an environment of stability and continuity.

The main entry point is into Primary 7 and all places are fully funded for tuition and boarding by the Ministry of Defence.

Families are welcome to find out more by contacting Admissions on +44 (0) 131 310 2927 to arrange a visit.

Queen Victoria School Dunblane Perthshire FK15 0JY

www.qvs.org.uk

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