SpotLight on Inverness & District - September 2015

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CLUBS & SOCIETIES BALLOCH BOWLING CLUB Tuesdays & Fridays at 7.30pm in Balloch Village Hall from Sept Dec 1st meeting of the season on 15th Sept. New Members welcome. For more info call Secretary 01463 790274 BEAULY BRIDGE CLUB Tuesdays 7.00 - 9.30pm, September to March in Phipps Hall, Beauly. Call Bill Forsyth on 783774.

BEFRIENDERS HIGHLAND Voluntary organisation, coordinating friendships between volunteers and people who have mental health problems & feel lonely or isolated. Email info@ befriendershighland.org.uk or call 01463 712791. Visit the website www.befriendershighland.org.uk CHARLESTON YOUTH THEATRE For ages 12-18, Charleston Academy, Inverness COMMUNITY COFFEE MORNING 3rd Wednesday of every month.

10:30am - 11:30am at Dalneigh Church Hall, St Marys Avenue, Inverness. Whether you are 9 or 90. Everyone Welcome.

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COMUNN GĂ€IDHLIG INBHIR NIS- INVERNESS GAELIC SOCIETY Monthly talks, Fridays at 7.30pm from September to March in the Inverness Gaelic School. For details visit: www.gsi.org.uk or www.facebook.com/ InvernessGaelicSociety CROMARTY CAMERA CLUB Thurs 7.30 - 9.30pm Sept - Apr, Victoria Hall, Cromarty. Digital camera club welcoming all levels of experience. Training in all aspects of photography incl. use of Photoshop. Members able to participate in club competitions and field shoots.

DINGWALL INDOOR BOWLING CLUB Tuesdays 7.30pm &Thursdays 7pm, Dingwall Sports Centre Have fun on dark nights. Bowls are available, however flat soled shoes or slippers are necessary.

FAMILY FIRST A support service for families with at least one child 0-3 yrs old. Tel: 703033 or email: alisonstanley@smoothmail.co.uk FITNESS FRENZY Fitness sessions Thursday lunchtimes at the palace hotel.

Visit www.fitnessfrenzy.co.uk FORTROSE SCOTTISH COUNTRY DANCE CLUB Mondays at 7.30pm (7.00pm for beginners) at Gordon Memorial Hall, Rosemarkie. All welcome.

Contact Susan 01381 610253 HARMONY MUSIC THERAPY SCOTLAND Individual & Group Music Therapy sessions to encourage, enable and empower all ages and abilities through interactive music experiences. Will travel to private homes, facilities and schools. Call Kristen Macleod on 07770 427396.

HIGHLANDS & ISLANDS AUTISM SOCIETY Support group. Last Wednesday of the month in MacKenzie Centre, Culduthel Road, Inverness at 7.30pm. All welcome.

HIGHLAND LGBT FORUM Reg. charity with regular social events in Inverness for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people. Call 07512 231904 or visit www.gay-ness.org.uk HIGHLAND QUILTERS 3rd Tuesday Sept- June (December meeting 2nd Tuesday). Meet in Smithton Free Church Hall at 7.30pm. New members and visitors welcolme.

Contact Alice 234076 for details.

INVERNESS 41 CLUB The Assoc. of Ex-Round Tablers Clubs meets as Inverness 41 Club on last Thursday of the month Sept - May. New exRound Table members most welcome. For details call 01463 223504 or email brielafraser@gmail.com INVERNESS CATHEDRAL SOCIETY OF BELL RINGERS Thursdays 7.30pm - 9pm.

Anyone can be a bell ringer! We ring for Sunday services, weddings and other special occasions. Tel: 01381 610411 or email inverness@sacr.org INVERNESS CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY Music lovers promote concerts of chamber music by professionals in the Town House, Inverness, Sept - April/May. Call Paul Crowe on 221535 or visit www.invernesschambermusic.com 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 INVERNESS GARDENING CLUB 2nd Tuesday, 7:30pm at the Mackenzie Centre, Culduthel Road from Sept - May. Share a common interest in general gardening, meetings are informal, usually with an invited speaker.

Annual Flower Show in August.

New members or visitors are always welcome. For info call Valerie (Sec) on 01456 486656 email v.weir656@btinternet.com

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INVERNESS PARKRUN A free, weekly, 5K timed event that takes place on the Bught Park every Saturday morning at 9.30am. To take part, register at www.parkrun.org.uk and bring along your barcode.

SALVATION ARMY COFFEE MORNING Tuesdays 10am -12pm.

Salvation Army Hall, Tomnahurich Street, Inverness.

All welcome. No charge. Tel: 225276 SALTIRE SOCIETY HIGHLAND BRANCH Saturdays, 6 per annum 12 noon at various venues. To promote Scotland's cultural heritage, arts and imagination through a series of events and awards with local talks and events. for more information contact Convener Jim Miller on 01463 713552 SOUNDS FAMILIAR SINGING GROUP Meets 1st & 3rd Tuesday every month at 2:30pm - 4pm in the Craigmonie Hotel, Annfield Rd, Inverness. For people with dementia & their carers. For details call 01463 233231 or 01463 230803 or email soundsfamiliarmusic@aol.com STARLIGHT MUSICAL THEATRE New amateur musical theatre group. For more information email starlightmusicaltheatre@ live.co.uk with your details.

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The Editor

As we go to press, the news reports are full of stories of displaced people across the globe who appear to be desperate to improve their situation. It to be a genuine appears humanitarian issue with some troubling ramifications if we are unable to respond in a coordinated fashion. Let us hope that ‘the powers that be’ can organise sufficient aid to avoid any loss of life and offer some comfort to those people who have lost or been forced to abandon their homes.

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PASTORAL LETTER & CHURCH MEETINGS be “light for the whole world” Not so very far from where my roots are in Galloway, there is a cave on the seashore. It is not very big and it does not go very far back, but around the entrance there are a number of crosses carved into the rock, some of them very old. Pilgrims still come there and some make and leave their own crosses made from driftwood and things they find on the shore. Some find it a sacred place still because of the cave’s connection with St. Ninian, one of those pioneering celtic saints who first brought Christianity to this country.

This month of September the church remembers and celebrates the courage, faithfulness and compassion of St. Ninian, whose feast day is September 16th. Ninian was born around the year 360 and from an early age expressed a desire to live like Jesus, teaching his message and caring for people. As a

young man he travelled widely in Italy and France, studying and learning more of the gospel. A biographer of the time describes Ninian as a “bright star” someone whose life shone with the light of God’s love “like a city set on a hill”.

Matt 5:14 Ninian set up a community of monks on the Solway coast at Whithorn, close to where that cave on the beach is. His church was built of stone which was unusual at the time and it shone in the sunlight, so that even the building reflected the light of the gospel that he and his followers believed in and he lived his life following his deepest desire to teach the things of Jesus and to care for people. He paved the way for others who came after and spread the message wider and from across the ages. His example is still an encouragement and an inspiration.

We have all heard friends talk about those who light up a room with their

Inshes, Church of Scotland Insches Retail Park, Inverness. Rev. David Scott. Tel: 01463 226727. Website: www.insheschurch.org Inverness Baptist Church 69 Castle Street. Rev. Tom Urquhart. Tel: 01463 223506. Email: tajurquhart@btinernet.com Inverness Bible Fellowship Wyvis Place, Inverness, IV3 8DR. Sundays @ 11:15am, Wednesdays @ 7:30pm, drug and alcohol dependency & addiction support Tuesdays @ 12noon includes lunch, monthly drop-in cafe with value £1 menu every first Saturday of each month. Tel 01463 226776, email leojrose@me.com Inverness Christian Fellowship at Merkinch Community Centre.

Sundays 10.30am. Website: www.icfchurch.co.uk Inverness Church of God Friars Lane. Sunday 10.30am and 6.30pm.

Tel: 01463 241318.

Inverness Crown Church, Church of Scotland 3 Midmills Road. Tel: 01463 230537.

Inverness East Church, Church of Scotland Academy Street.

Contact Rev. Professor ATB McGowan: 01463 236695.

Website: www.invernesseast.com Inverness Greyfriars Stratherrick Free Church Greyfriars at Balloan Road, Inverness, and Stratherrick at Errogie, Stratherrick. Tel: 01463 714085. Website: www.greyfriarschurch.org Inverness Methodist Church Huntly Street, Inverness. Tel: 01463 239784. Website: www.invernessmethodist.org.uk Kiltarlity Church of Scotland Kiltarlity, Inverness-shire. Sundays: 11:15am. Website: www.kiltarlityandkirkhill.org.uk

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presence, encountered people who always seem to be able to bring a sense of light and hope to any situation just by being there. Ninian was clearly one of those kinds of folk.

In Matthew’s Gospel Jesus calls us to be “light for the whole world” ( Matt 5:13) because if “our light shines before people” (Matt 5:16) then they will see God’s light and God’s love alive in the world. Ninian before us, was a “bright star” in this world not because he was famous or had any great fortune, but because he cared for people and brought a little love wherever he went.

Very Rev. Alison J Simpson St. Columba’s Nairn

Kiltarlity Free Church of Scotland Kiltarlity, Invernessshire. Tel: 01463 741729. Email: jfraser@gmail.com Kings Fellowship Meets at Smithton Industrial Estate, Culloden. Tel: 01463 792700. Email: info@thekingsfactory.com Kingsview Christian Centre Balnafettack Road, Inverness, IV3 8TF. Sundays 11.30am and 6pm. Wednesdays 7.30pm. Tel: 01463 716843.

Kinmylies Church of Scotland Kinmylies Way, Inverness. Sundays 10.30am. Tel: 01463 714035. Website: www.kinmylies.co.uk Kirkhill (Wardlaw) Church of Scotland Sundays 10am.

Website: www.kiltarlityandkirkhill.org.uk Knockbain Free Church Ferry Brae, North Kessock. Sunday Services at 12 noon and 6pm. Website: www.knockbainfreechurch.org Maryburgh & Killearnan Free Church Seaforth Place, Maryburgh tel: 01349 863367. Killearnan Manse, Bogroy, Tore - tel: 731369 email: cswan@ctlconnect.co.uk Ness Bank Church of Scotland Inverness. Sundays 11am. Tel: 01463 238409. Email: nessbankchurch@gmail.com • www.nessbank.net New Hope Inverness Church Sundays @ 11am at The IRONWORKS 122B Academy Street Inverness. For info call 07547 955567 or visit www.newhopeinv.org.uk North Kessock, Church of Scotland Main Street, North Kessock. Tel: 01463 731712. Website: www.churchofscotland.org.uk Listed I to N and regularly rotated. If you are a member of a church not listed here and would like to be considered for inclusion or for any amendments to existing details, email tamsyn@spotlighton.co.uk

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28 friday ranger walk - dusk at merkinch local nature reserve 8:30pm - 10pm, meeting place given out at booking. adults £4, conc. £3, family £11. call katy on 01463 255291 or email rangers.inverness@highland.gov.uk highland summer darts challenge @ ironworks 7:30pm. 0871 7894173 • www.ironworksvenue.com

29 saturday inverness ramblers loch clair to easan dorcha. 12 miles. meet 9am highland council car park. for more info call 01463 236204.

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scotland's gardens in moray & nairn: bruntlands bungalow alves, elgin, iv30 8uz, by arrangement: 07999 817715 or buss.shelter@virgin.net

great glen walking club ciste dhubh (hill climb). 7 miles. meet 8:30am highland council car park. call 01463 236204 for further information.

until 31 august scotland's gardens in moray & nairn: castleview auchindoun, dufftown, ab55 4dy by arrangement: 01340 820941 or castleview10@hotmail.com

until 23 september scottish potters association exhibition "from the mountains to the sea" at inchmore gallery. for info visit www.inchmoregallery.co.uk

until 30 september the nelson tower, forres open every day from 2pm 4pm. manned by volunteers and managed by the forres heritage trust.

until 24 october the mixed "autumn exhibition" at inchmore gallery. for info visit www.inchmoregallery.co.uk

SEPTEMBER 2015 1 tuesday - 6 sunday nairn book and arts festival literary talks, musical performances, drama and art exhibitions. for more info visit www.nairnfestival.co.uk

2 wednesday scotland’s salmon film festival 7pm - 10pm, eden court theatre, inverness. tickets £10. for more info visit www.scotlandsalmonfestival.org

AUGUST 2015 25 tuesday infifa ‘daisies’ 7:15pm at eden court cinema and followed by informal post film discussion. for more info visit www.invernessfilmfans.org

27 thursday groam house museum lecture : the enchanted isles: survey, excavation and living with rats on the shiant islands - cathy dagg & janet hooper 7.30pm at seaforth lodge, station square, fortrose. £5 admission • members/students £2.50. for info visit www.groamhouse.org.uk admin@spotlighton.co.uk

"We Do Not Die"

A Findhorn Foundation Conference on Near-Death Experiences and Expanding Consciousness with Dr. Eben Alexander (author of ‘Proof of Heaven’) and Anita Moorjani (Dying to be Me) & others. - September 26th-29th, 2015.

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3 thursday scotland’s salmon festival public lectures 7pm 10pm, eden court theatre, inverness. on salmon, science and society. tickets £10. for more info visit www.scotlandsalmonfestival.org

4 friday scotland’s salmon festival international symposium on “salmon, science and society” 9am - 5pm at inverness college uhi, 1 inverness campus. for info visit www.scotlandsalmonfestival.org

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nairn book & arts festival @ brodie castle 12pm roger hutchinson discusses his new book on st kilda; 2.30pm philip long, director of v&a museum of design, dundee, talks on the plans for the new museum. tickets from www.nairnfestival.co.uk at nairn bookshop and nairn community & arts centre.

4 friday - 5 saturday scotland’s salmon film festival 11am - 4pm at bught park, inverness. alexander grant memorial casting competition at little isle pool, river ness. free entry, visit www.scotlandsalmonfestival.org for info.

5 saturday ranger walk - highland harvest at farr 2pm - 4pm, meeting place given out at booking. adults £4, conc. £3, family £11. call jenny on 01463 255291 or email rangers.inverness@highland.gov.uk inverness farmers’ market 9am - 3:30pm at eastgate precinct. well stocked market with a variety of stalls selling quality, local produce, baking, cheese, fruit, vegetables, meat, eggs as well as crafts and more. for more info visit www.morayfoodnetwork.org.uk

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stalls and food & drink. for info call 07771 914598 or visit www.carvecarrbridge.com blas festival presents: shooglenifty horo niteworks @ ironworks 7:30pm. www.ironworksvenue.com

6 sunday inverness ramblers part of the great glen way. 8.7 miles. meet 9am highland council car park. for more info call 01463 236204. infifa ‘burning bush’ 1pm at eden court cinema and followed by informal post film discussion. part of the made in prague, the new czech cinema uk tour 2015, organised in collaboration with czech centre london and czech film center. visit www.invernessfilmfans.org glen moray marathon, half marathon and 10k starts and finishes at glen moray distillery, elgin. for more info visit www.forresharriers.org.uk ironworks, hyah, feis rois & blas presents: blas youth arts hub event @ ironworks 2pm. call 0871 7894173 or visit www.ironworksvenue.com

8 tuesday infifa ‘into the clouds we gaze’ 8pm at eden court cinema and followed by informal post film discussion. part of the made in prague, the new czech cinema uk tour 2015, organised in collaboration with czech centre london and czech film center. visit www.invernessfilmfans.org highland literary salon 7pm at glen mhor hotel inverness. guest speaker janet paisley. for further info see www.highlandlitsalon.com scottish ornithologists' club: ‘a photographic birdwatching tour of scottish islands in spring’ by marcus conway 7.30pm, culloden library. call 01463 221661 or 01808 511740. £3 members; £4 non members.

10 thursday highland decorative & fine arts society lecture (hdfas) : ‘the art of the vikings’ lecturer dr fenella bazin, rbv grsm (lond.) dip ed lram 2pm - 3.30pm at smithton free church, murray road, inverness. non members £5. new members welcome. email membership sec averillbrodie@ymail.com or chair davidmartin30@hotmail.com (07595 219308) or visit www.hdfas.org.uk

11 friday green velvet @ ironworks 10pm. call 0871 7894173 or visit www.ironworksvenue.com

12 saturday inverness ramblers - walk 1: bla bheinn. 3.7 miles. meet 8am walk 2: mystery walk - route decided on the day. meet 10am highland council car park. for more info call 01463 236204. euan's family bike ride 10am, aldie burn woods, tain.

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LOOS – THE UNWANTED BATTLE A lecture by Willie Coupar

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great glen walking club slattadale to tollie. 10 miles. meet 8:30am highland council car park. call 01463 236204 for further information.

15 tuesday pink castle philosophy club - 'artificial intelligence. threat or boon?' 7:30pm, riverside lounge, glen mhor hotel, ness bank, inverness. lgbt friendly club. for more info visit www.pinkcastle.eu

15 tuesday - 19 saturday spirit of moray book festival 2015 at elgin library. an exciting range of authors will entertain, educate and enthral and who will instil the importance of books and reading for pleasure and learning. for more info call elgin library 01343 562623 or visit www.moray.gov.uk/moraybookfestival

16 wednesday community coffee morning 10:30am - 11:30am in dalneigh church hall, st mary’s avenue. inverness. come along whether you are 9 or 90. all welcome.

18 friday ranger walk - dusk at the river beauly, kilmorack 6:30pm - 9pm, meet at the black bridge, kilmorack. adults £4, conc. £3, family £11. call saranne on 01479 873914 or email saranne.bish@highland.gov.uk

19 saturday great glen walking club coulags - loch an eion. 10 miles. meet 9am highland council car park. call 01463 236204 for further information. music nairn presents: hoot (harp and flute duo) 7.30pm at nairn community and arts centre. a very appealing programme including bach, debussy, piazzolla, bizet. tickets at door or music nairn www.musicnairn.org.uk or call 01667 45570 whole lotta led @ ironworks 7:30pm. call 0871 7894173 or visit www.ironworksvenue.com

20 sunday inverness ramblers boreraig and suisinish skye. 10 miles. meet 8am highland council car park. for more info call 01463 236204. free fiddle masterclass with paul anderson @ brodie castle (intermediate level & up). book in advance and be available to play on 27th sept when a new piece of music, specially written by paul and inspired by rodney's stone, will be premiered. booking essential, call 01309 641 371 or email brodiecastle@nts.org.uk

24 thursday ranger walk - exploring the three glens (3): glen affric 10am - 5pm, meeting place given out at booking. adults £4, conc. £3, family £11. call jenny on 01463 255291 or email rangers.inverness@highland.gov.uk admin@spotlighton.co.uk

groam house museum lecture : inaugural george bain memorial lecture- magnificent obsession: an artist's response to george bain and the book of kells, donncha macgabhann 7.30pm at seaforth lodge, station square, fortrose, iv10 8sz. £5 admission • members/students £2.50. for info visit www.groamhouse.org.uk

26 saturday ranger walk - raigmore cairn discovery day 11am 3:15pm, meeting place given out at booking. adults £4, conc. £3, family £11. call katy on 01463 255291 or email rangers.inverness@highland.gov.uk inverness ramblers path clearance & maintenance. start 9am highland council car park. for more info call jane on 01463 236204. saltire society of scotland, highland branch 12pm at culloden battlefield visitor centre. with support from the national trust, andrew mckenzie will give a talk on the 1715 jacobite rising. all welcome. for more information contact jim miller on 01463 713552 maiden scotland @ ironworks 7pm. call 0871 7894173 or visit www.ironworksvenue.com

27 sunday great glen walking club golspie, ben braggie & dunrobin circular. 8 miles. meet 9am highland council car park. call 01463 236204 for information. river festival and extreme duck race 10am - 4pm on the river findhorn at logie steading. free family activities in and on the river and charity duck race. for info call 01309 611220 or visit www.fnlft.org.uk pict your way to brodie pict inspired family activities incl. storytelling, art activities, a pict trail around the grounds & more. nts archaeologist, shannon fraser, will lead a walk and talk on the rodney stone - 8th c stone carved with enigmatic pictish symbols. £3 children, adults: free. paul anderson and the masterclass participants will perform for the first time at the rodney stone. baxters loch ness marathon & festival of running taking you along the south-eastern shores of loch ness, across the river ness and into the centre of inverness. visit www.lochnessmarathon.com

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“ Parliament Blog ” 2015 is the Year of Food and Drink. Over the summer why not visit the local farmers shows and highland games and game fairs to enjoy the best of Scotland's natural larder, and a glass of something stimulating.The quality of offerings in our restaurants cafes and eateries has I believe been increasing over recent years. Next year is badged the year of Innovation Architecture and Design and 2017 the year of History Heritage and Archeology - with 2018 the year of Young People. Each year aims to highlight different parts of Scotland's many attractions to visitors. If you have suggestions for future themed years beyond 2018 - please let me or Visitscotland know.

It’s been a frenetic start to working as the MP for Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch & Strathspey, with lots of work done on fighting unfair delivery charges, seeking better mobile phone coverage options and dealing with literally hundreds of cases from constituents. Life as an MP is exactly how I expected it to be - incredibly busy and humbling. As much as I relish being in London working on people’s behalf, I just love being home in the constituency. During recess I’m taking every opportunity to get out to events across the area and following up on one of my key commitments during the election, to be accessible. To that end I’m glad to announce we now have a new website www.drewhendrymp.scot which can be visited for news of my activities, information or even to contact me directly.

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