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CROSSROADS Provide and develop a high quality, cost effective, domiciliary respite care service for carers within Nairn & Distict. Contact 455369

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DALLACHY AERO MODELLERS Model aircrafts & helicopter flying at old Dallachy World War 2 airfield. Mainly at weekends.

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BLAZIN NEEDLES Tuesdays from 1:30pm - 3:30pm at The Bike Shed, Grant Street, Inverness. A friendly drop-in group for anyone interested in working with wool or textiles. A beginner looking for a hand or an experienced knitter looking for company this is the group for you. Donations for room hire and teas and coffees.

CAKE WALK & STORY GROUP Regular walks for all ages. For more details call Guy on 07724 992790 / www.guyandjocelyn.org CAWDOR BOWLING CLUB Provides a six rink green where club and open competitions are played. Spoon competition Friday’s 7pm. Coaching for learners on a Tuesday evening.

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FAMILY FIRST (BADENOCH, STRATHSPEY & NAIRN) Support service via home based volunteer support and or group support for families with a child under 4. Contact Lynne 452865 FÈIS INBHIR NARAINN Reg. Charity No. SC038460.

Weekly traditional music classes in guitar, fiddle, whistle, chanter, accordion, keyboard & bodhran.

Any ability from age 8. Instrument hire available. Tel: 462681 or visit www.spanglefish.com/inbhirnarainn 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.gay-ness.org.uk or e-mail jampa40@yahoo.co.uk LEARN GAELIC IN NAIRN Weekly classes during school terms. Tuesdays & Thursdays 9:30am - 11:30am. Wednesdays 7:30pm - 9:30pm. Beginners to Intermediate. Contact Lorraine McBeath on 01667 451291 for further information.

HARMONY MUSIC THERAPY SCOTLAND Individual and 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 07770427396.

HIGHLAND HISTORICAL SEARCH SOCIETY Inverness based metal detecting club. Free equipment loan, tuition and regular places to detect. Beginners & new members welcome. Contact Len tel: 01808 521340 anytime 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 INVERNESS ADVANCED MOTORISTS 5 Tuesdays from 22nd April, 7:30pm, Holiday Inn Express, Inverness. Improve your driving with the Inverness branch of the IAM - lectures and practical tuition to bring you up to the IAM test standard. For details email info@inverness-iam.org INVERNESS CHORAL SOCIETY Mondays, 7:30pm (except summer holidays) at Smithton Free Church, Inverness. The largest choir in the Highlands, performing two classical concerts a year at Eden Court Theatre. New members welcome in Jan & Aug. For details visit www.invernesschoral.org.uk 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 NAIRN ARTS SOCIETY We meet in the Laing Hall, Fishertown. Regular exhibitions, demonstrations & sales of art works. Groups meet daily at various times. for Information call Frances Hendry (secretary) on 01667 454653 or visit www.nairnarts.co.uk

NAIRN COUNTY CRICKET CLUB Friendly & eager to involve all ages in cricket. Games on Saturdays. Practice night Tuesday at Nairn Links NAIRN DOMINO LEAGUE Contact 452496 NAIRN FRIENDSHIP CLUB Tuesdays, 2pm - 4pm in Nairn Community & Arts Centre. For over 16s, retired, disabled. Bring family & friends for an afternoon of entertainment. Tea, coffee & biscuits served. Entry £3. All welcome. Entertainers & volunteers needed. Call Moira on 01667 455011 or 07716 183466 NAIRN LACE GROUP Self-help lace group meets Thursdays from 7pm - 9.30 pm in Nairn Community Centre, Contact number 01667 453521 NAIRN SWIMMING CLUB (NDASC) Swimmers aged 7 & up. Trained to compete and for fitness & fun. www.ndasc.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.net www.wfascotlandnorth.org.uk PLEASE NOTE: Details of Clubs & Societies are published on a rotational basis.

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You too may have a steel bar in your garage and at first sight you may look at it and see nothing to it. Others may see your steel bar as having a limited use at best. A blacksmith sees this as a £5 horseshoe. A manufacturer sees this as £200 worth of sewing needles.

A watch maker can turn this into springs for a £2000 Rolex Watch. It depends whose eyes behold it and whose hands touch it.

Others may sometimes look at us like the steel bar; limited use at best…

BUT God sees this as an unlimited piece of material that can be used to be anything and or make anything.

The only limits are the ones we place on God. Look at King David in the Old Testament. Before he became King, David’s family saw him as a bar of steel and nothing more. They never saw him more than a little brother, a

sheep herder, a pretty boy, the youngest, the smallest. David’s father overlooked him, His brothers overlooked him. Prophet Samuel overlooked him. Goliath overlooked him. They saw him as a cheap bar of steel at best. BUT God saw more than that. He saw character, integrity, humility. He saw heart!

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Others can overlook or overstate your importance, not Jesus. The Lord knows your life. He has seen what you have been through, things others may never know. He has seen your heart when others would not look at you. Others saw David and may see you as a finished project; God saw David “as being under construction”!

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Auldearn and Dalmore Parish Church Sundays 12noon.

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Cawdor Parish Church Sunday 10.15am. Contact Rev. JS Mathieson: 01667 493217.

Nairn Baptist Church Nairn Community Centre. Sundays 11am. Contact the Pastor: 01667 452764 or Secretary 01667 452351 or visit www.nairnbaptistchurch.org.uk Nairn Christian Fellowship Sundays 10.30am. Wednesday 7.30pm: praise and Bible study. Contact Sandy Shaw: 01667 456492.

Nairn Free Church Sundays 11am with Sunday school and crèche. Evening 6pm - both Gordon St. Youth club for S1 up on Wednesday at 6.30pm (Rosebank Hall). Prayer and Bible study Thursday 11am or 7:30pm on alternate weeks (Gordon Street). Contact Minister Murdo MacLeod: 01667 459131.

Nairn Old Parish Church 10.30am: holiday worship and crèche. Contact Rev. Alistair S. Younger on 01463 242873

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pliable, workable, obedient, submissive. God wants to fashion our lives according to his image, power, and purpose. We will never be who we are supposed to be without Christ.

Some say: “I’m who I am because of hard work, dedication, education, experience. Truth is, Jesus can use these things in our life, but He is the one that moulds us, and shapes us.

Family, friends, co-workers may say ‘you can’t do it, and never can’. Thank God, He says ‘you can’! AND He created us, so He should have the final say!

I’ve seen these letters “PBPGINFWMY” on badges. It means : Please Be Patient God Is Not Finished With Me Yet. God sees us as being ‘under construction’ …. Let’s see each other in this way and encourage each other as we grow into what God wants us to become.

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St. Ninian’s Church Sunday services and Sunday school: 10.15am. Contact Revd. Thomas M Bryson on 01667 451675.

St Columba’s Scottish Episcopal Family Eucharist on Sundays at 10.30am. Holy Communion on Wednesdays at 10.30am. Contact Rev. Dean Alison J Simpson 01667 452458 St Mary’s Catholic Church IV12 4RJ. Saturday Vigil 6pm.

Sunday Mass 10am. Tel: 01667 453323.

United Reformed Church Sunday services and Sunday School with crèche 11am. Contact Rev. Steven Manders: 01667 451443.

The Pentecostal Church of God Nairn Sundays 10.30am.

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streets will be closed and spectators can follow the race from vantage points throughout the town. with giant screens in the arena showing the action as well as race commentary and live gps. www.woc2015.org

2 sunday - 8 saturday the scottish 6 days orienteering event The biggest mass-participation sporting event ever staged in the area. aims to appeal to all ages and skill levels, from elite athletes to newcomers. based around inverness, with three of the days in moray and the other three in the glens sw of inverness. for details of the events visit www.scottish6days.com/2015

4 tuesday world orienteering championships - middle-distance final 11am - 5pm, darnaway castle - the "forest" stages. full arena coverage plus a full programme of non-orienteering entertainment for all ages at the "highland o fest". www.woc2015.org

5 wednesday ‘big game’ - tiger tails! 10am - 12pm, falconer museum, forres. free family drop-in in celebration of our ‘scots safari / safari scots’ exhibition. archaeology finds handling session 11am - 2pm at elgin museum. handling finds from archaeological digs and discovering information about them. for all the family. visit www.elginmuseum.org.uk world orienteering championships - forest relay 2pm - 6pm, darnaway castle. big-screen coverage. visit www.woc2015.org

6 thursday ceilidh with inver-ross fiddle & accordion group 8pm at royal british legion, nairn. entry ÂŁ3. dig boxes 11am - 2pm, elgin museum. drop in craft session to make boxes to hold your archaeological finds. visit www.elginmuseum.org.uk

6 thursday - 16 sunday art festival @ the bike shed 12pm - 4pm daily and thursday 6pm - 8pm, grant street, inverness. various activities during the day. for more information visit www.artsinmerkinch.org.uk or call 01463 719712

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the lantern of the north present : the vigo thieves 7.30pm at the bishopmill hall, elgin. support from local lads edgar road. tickets ÂŁ8 from sound & vision and online from skiddle.com for more info see www.facebook.com/lanternofnorth world orienteering championships - long-distance race 10am - 4pm, glen affric. last race of woc2015. watch on giant screens in the arena and see the runners live as they pass through the spectator section and the finish area. www.woc2015.org

8 saturday nairn & district gardening club - visit to poyntzfield herb nursery 3pm meet at nairn bus station at 2pm for more information visit www.spanglefish.com /nairnanddistrictgardeningclub

9 sunday historic wheels vintage car day @ brodie castle 1pm a fantastic family day out with the rare opportunity to see motors from throughout the decades lined up together and talk to the owners. entry to grounds is applicable. adult: ÂŁ6 child: ÂŁ2 conc: ÂŁ4 family: ÂŁ15 lazy sunday jazz cafĂŠ @ the drouthy cobbler 2:30pm in the blue room. an afternoon with trombonist brian keddie & band. visit www.thedrouthycobbler.co.uk

12 wednesday fur n feather hats! 10am - 12pm, falconer museum, forres. free family drop-in in celebration of our ‘scots safari / safari scots’ exhibition. ww1 day 11am - 2pm at elgin museum. a drop in session to see the museum's wwi display and share family stories about the war. elginmuseum.org.uk

13 thursday create wwi biplanes 11am - 2pm, elgin museum. drop in craft session, for kids and their adults, to make the early type of biplanes used in wwi. visit www.elginmuseum.org.uk nairn ceilidh band 8pm at royal british legion, nairn. entry ÂŁ3.

14 friday ranger walk - nairn bat walk 7pm - 9pm, meeting place given out at booking. adults ÂŁ4, conc. ÂŁ3, family ÂŁ11. call john on 01463 255291 or email rangers.inverness@highland.gov.uk

15 saturday scotland's gardens in moray & nairn: haugh garden college of roseisle, iv30 5ye. 2pm - 5pm, teas, home baking & plant stall. dyke & edinkille parish churches family day 10:30am - 1pm at brodie castle. join us for a woods and wellies walk. meet in castle car park. lunch provided. for catering & dietary requirements call 07789 404794. donations welcome.

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nairn men’s breakfast 9.45am for 10am at nairn dunbar golf club. testimony by gordon mcintosh. share food and fellowship and hear what god is doing in other men's lives. contact campbell on 01667 455149 by 6.30pm fri 14th to book a place. nairn half marathon start time 12:30pm part of the nairn highland games. starting and finishing within the games arena. a souvenir, medal and goody bag are provided for all finishers. for more details visit www.nairnroadrunners.co.uk the macallan nairn highland games 11.30am - 5pm. the links, marine rd. traditional highland games with many activities and entertainment, incl. highland dancing, pipe contests, heavy events and track and field. www.nairnhighlandgames.co.uk

18 tuesday highland literary salon 7pm at glen mhor hotel inverness. guest speaker: michael elcock. for more info visit www.highlandlitsalon.com

20 thursday inver-ross fiddle & accordion group 8pm at royal british legion, nairn. entry £3. pinot noir varietal tasting @ the drouthy cobbler 7:30pm. visit www.thedrouthycobbler.co.uk

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22 saturday kick start your creativity 10am - 3.30pm. findhorn village centre. with local artist moragbsmith and local writer mairi sutherland. for more info or to book call morag on 07901 045520, mairi on 07510 654208 or email moragbsmith@gmail.com

23 sunday ranger walk - whiteness head & back 11am - 3pm, meeting place given out at booking. adults £8, conc. £4, family £20. call john on 01463 255291 or email rangers.inverness@highland.gov.uk

26 wednesday do you like jokes? comedy club 7:30pm the blue room, drouthy cobbler. www.thedrouthycobbler.co.uk soup & coffee morning 10am - 1pm at dyke & district village hall. all welcome.

27 thursday andy mccormack trio 8pm at royal british legion, nairn. entry £3.

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PARLIAMENT BLOG & TIDE TIMES Marine tourism has been growing in Scotland.

Marinas have sprung up around the coast with busy berths at Inverness and Nairn.

Sailing has become more popular as has cruise liners with nearly half a million passengers enjoying voyages round Scotlands coast stopping off at places such as Kirkwall, Invergordon and Stornoway. The Caledonian Canal is a world class attraction and being developed further

by Scottish Canals and successful businesses.

It was fitting that in Holyrood before the summer recess, we debated the new Marine Tourism strategy. This seeks to make the most of our sparkling seas beautiful coastline and attract to Scotland more visitors in various niche markets.

Whether it is sailing, yachting, swimming, diving, canoeing, kayaking or just sitting in a cosy corner watching the sea perhaps with a wee glass of vino - the sea has a certain pull for us all and so it is right that we make the most of it for our tourism sector.

Firstly I would like to take this opportunity, in my first blog post, to thank the people of Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch & Strathspey for their overwhelming support during the election. Although I received over 50% of the vote, I am determined to work for everyone in the constituency. I’m already working to deliver on my election commitments and supporting people who need my help in this constituency.

Some of the early work has involved getting a fairer deal on mobile coverage and progressing further investment in this area. Getting a team together and an office set up has been a real priority since my election. During my campaign I talked about being an accessible MP and I absolutely want to deliver on that promise. I am already holding surgeries across the constituency and look forward to meeting many more constituents over the summer break.

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