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BEFRIENDERS HIGHLAND Voluntary organisation, which co-ordinates friendships between volunteers and people who have experienced a mental health problem and are lonely or isolated. Contact Heather Forbes 451444 email nairn@befrienders highland.org.uk website www.befrienders highland.org.uk CAWDOR CURLING CLUB Contact 404291 or 07831 760049 or email dave_rob@hotmail.com CROSSROADS Provide and develop, within Nairn & Distict, a high quality, cost effective, domiciliary respite care service for carers. Contact 455369 HIGHLANDS OPEN STUDIOS 60+ artists, makers, designers and galleries throughout the Highlands who host events and 60+ exhibitions throughout the year. Visit the website for details www.highlandsopenstudios.co.uk INVERNESS RACING PIGEON CLUB Currently seeking new members young and old. Are you interested in joining or finding out more about our local clubs. We hold races from Inverness to as far away as France with the North East Federation. All ages welcome, Call for further details 01463 243038.

MORAY ADVANCE MOTORISTS & MOTORCYCLISTS Reg. Scottish Charity (SC 033561) visit www.morayiam.org.uk or 01309 673954 MORAY & NAIRN FLORAL ART CLUB Enjoy flowers? Come and watch talented flower demonstrators at work. Meets 2nd Wednesday each month Applegrove Primary School Contact May Bichan tel: 01343 850634 NAIRN & DISTRICT BEEKEEPERS ASSOCIATION An Association for beekeepers in and around Nairn. We welcome new beekeepers or visitors to join us for our monthly meetings.

Contact tel: 454887 or email jandjburns@hotmail.com NAIRN & DISTRICT PIPE BAND As a Pipe Band our aim is to keep the Traditional Scottish Music alive and to entertain the many visitors during the summer months at Highland Games, Gala''s and Street Performances etc. Also to encourage the youth.

Contact 454645 NAIRN ANGLING ASSOCIATION Contact 459250 or email nairnangling@tiscali.co.uk

NAIRN CEILIDH GROUP Highland Dancers, singers in Gaelic & English, Bagpipes, Poetry, Recitations & lots more.

Dancing to live bands. All monies to local charities. 8pm11pm Thursdays, Highland Hall, Cawdor St. Nairn. £2.50 at the door. www.nairnceilidh group.org.uk or email secretary@nairnceilidh group.org.uk, tel: 452516

NAIRN SYNCHRO SWIMMING CLUB Synchronized swimming - a sport with a difference. Nairn synchro has both international and national swimmers. Contact 454223 or email wyn.mcfadyen@tesco.net

NAIRN COMMUNITY CENTRE Contact Sam Morrison 453476

NAIRN YOUTH CLUB Contact 453476

NAIRN LADIES CURLING CLUB A friendly ladies curling club offering good fun social curling.

New members very welcome.

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NAIRNSHIRE FARMING SOCIETY Contact 01667 452760 or email secretary@nairnshow.org.uk

NAIRN MINIBUS ASSOCIATION Contact 452422 NAIRN SAILING CLUB NSC is a friendly club offering dinghy and cruiser sailing for all levels and ages. Beginners especially welcome. Regular social events and club nights at our clubhouse at Nairn Harbour. For more details visit our website www.nairnsailingclub.co.uk or send us an email at nairnsailingclub@yahoo.co.uk NAIRN SCHOOL OF DANCING Meets Wednesdays at 3.30pm at the BB Hut, Old Parish Chruch.

Contact Mrs Fraser 01463 729477

NAIRN BOWLING CLUB Meets Monday & Wednesday 2pm, Friday 7pm, AprilSeptember, Juniors Sunday.

Contact Mary Pellow 455515.

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NAIRN SOCCER SEVEN'S Qualified SFA coaches provide coaching and games. Mondays

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ROYAL BRITISH LEGION Entertainment and dancing every weekend. Highland Hall function suite available for weddings and parties of all sizes. Contact 453201 SSPCA INVERNESS Contact 455012 TREES FOR LIFE GREEN DAYS OUT Open to everyone living in Moray and Inverness-shire. Spend a day carrying out a variety of different conservation tasks!

Transport, tools and training provided, days are free of charge. Pick ups available. All volunteers must be over 18 with a reasonable level of fitness, running every Wednesday and the last Sunday of the month.

Booking essential. Contact Rosie tel: 01309 691444 or rosie@treesforlife.org.uk

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But when all else is considered, any changed community that seems to be on offer in actuality turns out to be ‘much of a muchness’.

There is however, a real alternative, and a real alternative community. Something which can be life changing and radical! And the message isn’t delivered as a response to someone wanting your vote. This message has been around a long time and you can find it in the world’s most widely

Pastoral letter and Church Meetings published book. The bible. The promises in it are radical indeed and the affect of embracing them profound. Here are just a few of the promises God makes to people: • He has promised to supply every need we have. The Bible says in Philippians chapter 4 verse 19: “But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory

by Christ Jesus”. Notice, God has obligated himself only to the extent of our needs. God doesn’t promise great material wealth, just what we need. That would include food, clothing, shelter, companionship, love, and most importantly salvation through Jesus Christ. If we think about it, the multiplicity of luxuries that we have come to think of as needs, don’t really satisfy. We can end up just wanting more. An even bigger flat screen TV, a better more upmarket newer motor car.

• Sometimes it can seem to us that life just isn’t so good, never mind what the politicians promise or do. But God has promised that all things work together for good to those who love and serve Him faithfully (Romans 8:28). Now there’s an alternative.

It may be difficult for us to see and understand how this is accomplished at times, but God has promised it, and He will deliver for those who love and serve him.

• Another promise God made is that His grace is sufficient for us. (2 Corinthians 12:9). Quite revolutionary isn’t it? Somehow finding in the ‘alternative’ life that while its

Nairn Baptist Church meets in Nairn Community Centre, King St. All welcome 11am every Sunday and 6pm every third Sunday of the month. Contact the Pastor 459672 or visit the website www.nairnbaptistchurch.org.uk Auldearn and Dalmore Parish Church Morning Service 12 noon. Contact Rev. Ricky Reid 451675.

Cawdor Parish Church Morning Service Sunday 10.15am.

Contact Rev. JS Mathieson 493217 Nairn Free Church Morning Service 11am with Sunday School & Creche (Gordon St); Evening Service 6pm (Rosebank Hall); Youth Club for S1 upwards Wednesday 6.30pm (Rosebank Hall); Prayer and Bible Study Thursday 7.30pm (8 George St). Minister Murdo MacLeod 459131.

Nairn Christian Fellowship Sunday Worship 10.30am; Praise and Bible Study Wednesday 7.30pm.

Contact Sandy Shaw 456492.

Old Parish Church meets at 10.30am for morning Worship, Sunday School & Creche. Rev. Ian WF Hamilton. page 16 - June 2011

still pleasant to have ‘nice’ things, they are no longer the driving force and that a real sense of God’s Grace, being sufficient, actually carries real meaning.

•n And that ‘Grace’ includes yet other promises. That those who believe in Jesus and are baptized for the forgiveness of sins will be saved and have eternal life.

Now that’s something the politicians can’t promise. All these promises of God are encapsulated in Jesus Christ. Some say that he was like a good politician, a great man, a great teacher, a man of the highest integrity, but the son of God, no. But Jesus also said of himself “I am the way the truth and the life” .and he made claim to be the son of God through whom the gift of eternal life is given. He can’t have been a great man, and great teacher of the highest integrity and also a liar. We can’t have it both ways.

Many struggle to know the way to live, Jesus says “the way to live is in me”. We look for the ultimate truth, “it's me” he says.

We look for a life worth living with meaning and purpose, again “it's me”. (John 14 v 6).

Here is your true alternative, a new radical life, a promise that can’t be broken, and you’ll find the alternative community that lives that life in any good church near you.

Rev. Tim Power, Nairn Baptist Church

St Ninians Church Morning Worship and Sunday School 10.15am; Prayer Meeting Wednesday 7.30pm.

Rev. Ricky Reid 451675.

St Columba’s Scottish Episcopal Family Worship 10.30am; Evening Prayer 6.30pm.

Rev. Canon Alison Simpson 452458.

St Mary’s Roman Catholic Church Sunday Mass 11.30am; Saturday Vigil 6pm.

United Reformed Church Morning Service with Sunday School and Creche 11am.

Contact Rev. Steven Manders 451443.

The Pentecostal Church of God Nairn Sunday Service 10.30am. Minister: JD Grant 456088. www.churchofgodnairn.org Nairn Joint Service 1st Sunday monthly St Ninians 6.30pm

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25 wednesday session a9, 7.30pm, universal hall, findhorn, £12/£10, tel: 01309 691170 for details friends of highland rheumatology unit AGM, 1.30pm, highland rheumatology unit, ferry road, dingwall, email: friendsofhru@yahoo.co.uk for further details or see our website www.friendsofhru.co.uk

27 friday cinema nairn - ‘bright star’ (pg), 7.30pm, nairn community & arts centre, tel: 453476 jj gilmour, the loft venue, by kinloss, £10/£12, tel: 01343 850111 or visit www.loftgigs.co.uk

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3 friday fiona mackenzie with bosie, 8pm, universal hall, findhorn, £10/£8/£6 u-16, tel: 01309 691170

JJ has built up a staunch fan base across Europe, and is widely recognised as one of Scotland’s most disticntive singer/songwriters.

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28 saturday music nairn presents the young russian prizewinning pianist artem akopyan, 8pm, performing works by beethoven, turina, tchaikovsky, debussy and janacek, nairn community & arts centre, tickets £18/members £14/students £2, tel: 455701

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nairn sailing club open day, 10am-4pm, nairn harbour, dinghy taster sessions, trips on member’s cruisers, parade of boats, RNLI life boat, RNLI teas, coffee and home bakes and more families day (national family week) at brodie castle, 12noon-4pm, join jane sandell, senior librarian at forres, as she reads excerpts from exciting stories for children of 8-12 years, surrounded by over 6000 books in brodie castle's library, castle tours specially for families to enjoy at normal admission prices, entry to library free, contact brodie castle for more details tel: 0844 493 2156

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4 saturday gala day at kirkhill community centre, inverness, 12 noon, many exciting events plus beer tent and champagne and strawberries, info on facebook scottish chamber orchestra, 8pm, universal hall, findhorn, £12/£10/£5, tel: 01309 691170 for details mundole equestrian show jumping, jnr qualifiers for keith & turriff shows, contact tel: 07901 602042 or visit www.mundoleequestrian.com cuban dance workshops with noel hernandez (ukaptd) british open professional salsa champion 2010, 11am - 1pm cuban rueda for beginners £15, 2-4pm cuban rueda for improvers £15. 4-6pm, social dancing £3, elgin city football club, full day pass only £25, for tickets contact helenmustard@hotmail.com or claire on tel: 07795 166433 or email salsa@almacubana.co.uk

8 wednesday clockwork, 7.30pm, universal hall, findhorn, £9/£7/£5, tel: 01309 691170 for details

8 wednesday & 9 thursday stuart townend worship concert, 7.30pm, at culduthel christian centre, inverness, adult, youth and family tickets available from www.alivefestival.co.uk

10 friday charity fun evening, elgin town hall, in aid of the oaks and macmillan, featuring andy layton james, auction, raffle and more, for details contact patricia tel: 07824 700830 or email trish100uk@msn.com

11 saturday and 12 sunday the ‘moray mix’ orienteering weekend, two national league orienteering events where beginners are welcome too, an urban-style competition on saturday at lossiemouth and a more traditional forest event at culbin on sunday www.moravianorienteering.org for more details stained glass weekend at half-a-moon, ardersier, learn how to make a stained glass panel, places are limited, phone 01667 461361 for further details www.halfamoon.co.uk open farm sunday, east grange farm, kinloss, tel: 01343 850111 or visit www.loftgigs.co.uk

Have a day out on the Farm & meet the lambs. Go on the nature treasure trail.

cinema nairn seniors special- ‘the illusionist’ (pg), 10am, nairn community & arts centre, tel: 453476 the pink castle philosophy club - equality, 7.30pm, riverside lounge, glen mhor hotel, ness bank, inverness, for the lesbian, gay, bisexual & transgender community visit www.pinkcastle.eu

15 wednesday an evening with adrian plass concert, 7.30pm, at culduthel christian centre, inverness, adult, youth and family tickets available from www.alivefestival.co.uk

18 saturday badenoch and strathspey tartan army (basta) 10th birthday party, 2pm-10pm, outdoor stage at the cairngorm hotel, aviemore, free!, more details at www.spanglefish.com/basta western front association - success on the somme : 4th army operations 1–4 july 1916 - mike stedman, author and historian, 2.30pm, the gallery, elgin library, contact derek bird tel: 01343 870562, email chairman.wfasnb@virgin.net or visit www.wfascotlandnorth.org.uk ghost train walk, overnight walk from grantown to forres along the dava way, £15 entry fee covers coach from forres and breakfast, entry forms from the hub, tolbooth street or www.davaway.org.uk

19 sunday victorian family fun day at brodie castle, from 1.30pm, try croquet, gird and cleek, quoits, family races, lots of fun stalls, meet errol and hedwig, the harry potter owls, afternoon entertainment programme from 1.30pm, children free, adults £2, contact brodie castle for details tel: 0844 493 2156

24 friday cinema nairn - ‘das boot’ (12), introduced by commander tim honnor, rn ret’d, 7.30pm, nairn community & arts centre, tel: 453476

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mundole equestrian british dressage and unaffiliated dressage, closing date 3rd june, contact 07901 602042 or visit www.mundoleequestrian.com

highland salsa weekend - cuban dance workshops with noel hernandez (UKAPTD) british open professional salsa champion 2010, eden court theatre, inverness including a salsa cruise down loch ness, numerous one hour classes and cuban dance styles to choose from, only £6 per class, for full details go to www.almacubana.co.uk, or cruise tickets contact helenmustard@hotmail.com or claire on 07795 166433 salsa@almacubana.co.uk

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Cinema listings June 2011 Eden Court Theatre, Inverness Water For Elephnats (12a) plus many others

Vue Cinema, Inverness

Visit www.eden-court.co.uk or call 01463 234234 for details

From Friday 27th May The Hangover 2 (15) Diary of a Wimpy Kid 2 (U) From Friday 3rd June X-Men : First Class (tbc) JLS : Eyes Wide Open 3D (tbc) From Friday 10th June Kung Fu Panda 2 3D/2D (tbc) Honey 2 (12a) From Friday 17th June The Green Lantern 3D (tbc) Life In A Day (tbc) From Friday 24th June Bad Teacher (15) Bridesmaids (15) Mr Popper’s Penguins 9tbc)

Portessie Public Hall

Regular films including Saturday matinees.

For further details email portessiepublichall@hotmail.co.uk

Moray Playhouse, Elgin

New Screenings begin on Fridays Call 01343 542680 or visit www.morayplayhouse.co.uk

KidsAM Every Saturday & Sunday at 10.15am Tickets £1 / VIP Tickets £2.50 Teen Screens (13-18 years) Every Thursday & Friday afternoon Tickets £2 / VIP Tickets £3.50 Senior Screenings Every Tuesday lunchtime Tickets £3.05 / VIP Tickets £4.55

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Monthly screenings of uplifting and inspiring films that inform, enlighten and entertain.

For further details please visit www.highlandspiritualcinema.net or telephone 01463 237452

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Universal Hall, Findhorn

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25 saturday ‘the forres big choir’ in concert, 7.30pm, inspirational songs from around the world, all welcome, st johns episcopalian church, forres, £5 music nairn presents richard jenkinson (cello) and ben frith (piano) perform works by stravinsky, shostakovich and rachmaninov, 8pm, tickets £18/members £14/students £2, tel: 455701

26 sunday mundole equestrian show jumping, jnr qualifiers for keith & turriff shows, contact tel: 07901 602042 or visit www.mundoleequestrian.com

29 wednesday pinocchio outdoor theatre by heartbreak productions at brodie castle, 6.30pm, the story of the wood carver’s puppet’s quest to become a real boy, book before 24 june for discounted prices, contact brodie castle for more details tel: 0844 493 2156

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3 sunday mundole equestrian british dressage and unaffiliated dressage, closing date 24th june, contact 07901 602042 or visit www.mundoleequestrian.com 9 saturday western front association - firing and hiring on the western front - dr john bourne, former director of centre for first world war studies, university of birmingham, 2.30pm, the gallery, elgin library, contact derek bird tel: 01343 870562, email chairman.wfasnb@virgin.net or visit www.wfascotlandnorth.org.uk 9 saturday and 10 sunday mundole equestrian summer show, closing date 24th june, BSPS, NPS,CHAPS (UK), veterans, blair WH, clydesdale, JWH, exracers, bright stars, junior qualifiers for turriff show, contact 07901 602042 or visit www.mundoleequestrian.com 12 tuesday the pink castle philosophy club - human rights, 7.30pm, riverside lounge, glen mhor hotel, ness bank, inverness, for the lesbian, gay, bisexual & transgender community visit www.pinkcastle.eu 29 friday cinema nairn - ‘the smallest show on earth’ (u), 7.30pm, nairn community & arts centre, tel: 453476 31 sunday dougie maclean, 8pm, universal hall, findhorn, £16/£14, tel: 01309 691170 for details

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I may never meet you personally, but there is something I want to tell you.

It is of such importance that I would be unkind if I didn’t let you know: yet it is so simple that you can read it in a few minutes.

It is so vital that it may change your entire future: yet it is available to you at no cost whatever.

It is a message that you may not like: yet you will never be able to forget it.

And whether you believe it or not, it will affect you in life and in death.

First of all let me emphasise that this message is absolutely true, because it is God who said it. When God makes a statement you can afford to accept it, because He cannot lie. When God makes a promise, you can rest upon it, because His promises can never fail. God will not make you believe this message – that is your choice – but He will hold you responsible for having heard it.

Then let me tell you that this is a personal message to you.

You cannot escape it. It brings you to the place of decision.

You must either accept it or reject it. You must either say “I will” or “I will not”. You cannot be neutral.

Here, then, is the message. It is an exact quotation from God’s Word, the Holy Bible:

“For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life. (John3:16) Now, did you ever hear such wonderful words as these before? Are they not amazing? Just think for a moment what they say! They reveal three marvellous and thrilling facts.

First, “GOD SO LOVED THE WORLD!” since you are in the world, it means that He loved you. If that does not startle you, remember that when God loved you, He loved a sinner, because that is what you are.

The bible says that you are a sinner (Romans 3:23), and if you are honest you will agree. Now, although God loves you. He hates your sin. Sins will keep you out of Heaven, because God is holy and He must punish sin.

Thus a holy God must find a holy way of saving sinners.

Otherwise the sinner must pay for his sins, and that would mean spending eternity in Hell.

The second great fact is this: “HE GAVE HIS ONLY BEGOTTEN SON”. The first statement tells you that God loved you. This statement tells you how much He loved you. He loved you so much He gave His only begotten Son! Do you know what that means? It means that the Lord Jesus Christ suffered on the cross of Calvary so that you might be saved. He shed His blood so that your sins might be put away. He died for you so that you might live in Heaven forever. You see – someone must pay the penalty for sin, either you or a sinless substitute. God gave His Son so that He could be your sinless substitute.

And now for the third tremendous fact: “WHOSOEVER BELIEVETH IN HIM SHOULD NOT PERISH BUT HAVE EVERLASTING LIFE”.

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To To many people, wildlife watching is about the “sexy” species – Deer Deer,, eagles, dolphins, squirrels squirrels etc. However, look a little closer and you will find many equally fascinating creatures which ar e often overlooked. In particular, creatures particular I look forward to the are late spring when the first dragonflies and damselflies are on the wing.

After spending the winter months in the nymph stage feeding voraciously at the bottom of a eam, they climb up a pond or str stream, convenient stalk of grass, shed their outer skin or exuvia and emerge as the magnificent insects emerge ound our rivers we see hovering ar around and str streams.

From eams. Fr om the spectacular gold ringed dragonfly with it's bright yellow and black rings to the beautiful gr greens eens of the elegant emerald damselfly, watching these amazing insects in flight is one of the most fascinating Gold-Ringed Dragonfly Nymph experiences in the natural world.

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You'll dragonflies and Y ou'll find d ragonflies damselflies almost anywhere anywher there great is water but a gr eat place locally is Affric.

Glen Af fric. Park at the Forestry Commissions Dog Falls car park and take a walk to the beautiful Coire Coir e Loch (about half an hour) where wher e you will find a number species of both dragons and damsels. Species to look out for Common Blue Damselfly here elsewhere both her e and elsewher e in the area are ar ea ar e gold ringed, common hawker, four spotted chaser, black darter and highland darter dragonflies, and large red, common blue and emerald damselflies. A spectacular sight on a warm summers day is a large large hatch of the common blues as the air is filled with flashes of a beautiful electric blue.

For more www.british-more information information on dragonflies, go to www.british dragonflies.org.uk Forestry dragonflies.org.uk . Also, the For estry commission run events led by a creatures. ranger which give a fascinating insight into the lives of these cr eatures.

Since my last report, report, the Scoters have rreturned eturned to Loch Garry, with rafts birds ospreys are of 12 bir ds being seen on the loch and the Loch Lochy ospr eys ar e constantly on the nest and hopefully sitting on eggs.

Remember,, if you have any stories or sightings you'd like to share, Remember share, drop please dr op me an e-mail at ian@www.wildwestsafari.co.uk .

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