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CLUBS & SOCIETIES 1068 AIR CADETS Tues & Thurs, 7:15pm - 9:30pm, 2 Firth Street, Nairn. Activities ranging from flying to RAF Station visits. Ages 13 - 20. For details contact Fl. Lt. Andy Hartnell on 01667 453232 or email 1068@aircadets.org AL-ANON FAMILY GROUPS Free, confidential help & support to the relatives & friends of problem drinkers. Local weekly groups in Highland area. Call 020 7403 0888 for a local contact number for your area or visit www.al-anonuk.org.uk BEFRIENDERS HIGHLAND Voluntary organisation, coordinating friendships between volunteers and people who have mental health problems and feel lonely or isolated. Contact Heather Forbes 451444 or email nairn@befriendershighland.org.uk www.befriendershighland.org.uk CROSSROADS Provide and develop a high quality, cost effective, domiciliary respite care service for carers within Nairn & Distict. Contact 455369

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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.

Contact 453698 CROSSROADS Provide and develop a high quality, cost effective, domiciliary respite care service for carers within Nairn & Distict. Contact 455369 CULBIN SINGERS Regular Thursday evening practice sessions take place in St Leonard's Church Hall in Forres. New members welcome. alasdair@manachie.eclipse.co.uk 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 FREE SOCIAL GROUP Last Thursday every month 7pm Muckle Cross, Elgin. For over 21s in Moray Walking group, weekends away, attending music, theatre & cinema events.

New members always welcome.

HIGHLAND SPIRITUAL CINEMA Last Wednesday each month at Highland Rail House, Inverness.

Film group screening uplifting & inspiring films. Members can also use our postal service to borrow films for home viewing.

Call 01463 237452 or visit www.highlandspiritualcinema.net INVERNESS CANOE CLUB Inland, sea and surf kayaks, open canoe SCA affiliated club.

SCA Coaches provide in club training and courses. Pool lessons throughout the year.

Contact Emma Garden pinkpaddler@yahoo.co.uk www.invernesscc.org.uk INVERNESS RACING PIGEON CLUB Seeking new members young and old. Races held from Inverness to as far away as France with the North East Federation. All ages welcome.

Call 01463 243038.

LEAGUE OF FRIENDS OF NAIRN HOSPITAL Our charity raises funds to provide extra comforts for staff and patients at Nairn Town County Hospital and also provide equipment for the hospital. Contact 452243 MUSIC NAIRN Charitable organisation to promote about seasonal events.

Classical and chamber music of the highest quality chamber opera, poetry. Contact Nairn Community Centre 453476 NAIRN & DISTRICT BEEKEEPERS ASSOCIATION New beekeepers or visitors welcome at our monthly meetings. Call 454887 or email jandjburns@hotmail.com NAIRN COMMUNITY CENTRE Contact Sam Morrison 453476 NAIRN COMMUNITY TRANSPORT Call 01667 459337 or email nairncommunitytransport@googl email.com NAIRN COUNTY CRICKET CLUB Friendly & eager to involve all ages in cricket. Games on Saturdays. Practice night Tuesday at Nairn Links NAIRN COUNTY FOOTBALL CLUB LTD Contact 453286 NAIRN DISABLED SPORTS CLUB We cater for bowlers and athletes who have a disability.

Contact 07766 952477 NAIRN DOMINO LEAGUE Contact 452496 NAIRN DRAMA CLUB Mondays from 7:30pm, The Little Theatre in Nairn. Amateur drama club open to everyone, whatever your interest in theatre. Visit www.nairndrama.org.uk, email enquiries@nairndrama.org.uk or phone Helen Wright tel: 452505

NAIRN GAELIC CHOIR Gaelic and other choral music, promoting the Gaelic language.

Contact 452584 or email christinagillies@hotmail.co.uk NAIRN LADIES CURLING CLUB Friendly club offering good fun social curling. New members welcome. Contact 404256 NAIRN SPORTS CLUB Fitness classes, Gym, Tennis, Squash & Badminton Courts, Sauna, Non-members welcome.

Contact 454523 or email info@nairnsportsclub.co.uk RIDING FOR THE DISABLED Opportunities to ride and give therapeutic benefit to disabled children in the Forres and Nairn area. Call Mrs P. Christie 0845 241 5301 for details.

SPEAKERS CLUB Leisure pursuit encourages & develops proficiency in public speaking. Training manual is available & new speakers follow a 10 speak programme. Contact 453373 THE ACCIDENTALS Nairn’s Community Choir.

Practices every Wed, 7.30 9.30pm, St Columba’s church hall, Queen Street. Sing a cappella in four-part harmony.

New members welcome. Call 453838 or just come along.

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PASTORAL LETTER & CHURCH MEETINGS

Have you ever thought about the fact that we have to tackle a number of years simultaneously?

There’s the school year, the financial year, the shopping year with summer and winter sales and the poor neglected church year. In a sense, we live in all of them and keeping our feet planted in each reality is no easy thing. All too often we only remember that the church has a year when we look at the order of service on Sunday and try to figure where we are - whether it’s Easter, Remembrance, Advent or Christmas Advent, which starts at the end of November, is the beginning of the Church year and yet, to my mind at least and despite an array of advent calendars on sale, the Christian year presents the greatest challenge because it reminds us that we are citizens of another place and that we owe our allegiance to another ruler. And this poses a problem and a challenge.

Think about it, there is little doubt that, in an era of secularism, people of faith can perhaps be regarded as rather eccentric. But we do have a

faith to proclaim and it is no private, personal thing and because we are citizens of the kingdom of God we would want to love and care for those around us for Christ’s sake.

We want to let the world know that, through Advent, we look forward to Christmas because we are remembering the coming of Jesus as the greatest gift to the world.

Advent then is a time to be subversive because we work and pray to transform what is into what shall be. Advent sets our sights on the miracle of Christ’s birth, that God came to us as a helpless child.

This vulnerable God walks with us, transforms our humanity and gives us the hope of resurrected life in a new heaven and a new earth.

In the weeks that lie ahead, when our credit cards are stretched to the max, our feet exhausted with shopping, our over fed tummies cured with gaviscon and alka seltzer and our nerves frayed with visits to relatives and friends, then perhaps we can rise to the challenge of Advent. We can be subversive by quietly taking a few minutes each day in holy

Ardersier with Petty Parish Church, Church of Scotland Sundays 10.15am. Petty Sundays 12 noon.Tel: 01667 462224.

Nairn Baptist Church Nairn Community Centre. Sundays 11am. Contact the pastor: 01667 459672 or secretary 01667 452351 or visit www.nairnbaptistchurch.org.uk Auldearn and Dalmore Parish Church Sundays 12noon.

Contact Rev. Ricky Reid: 01667 451675.

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

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

Nairn Christian Fellowship Sundays 10.30am. Wednesday 7.30pm: praise & Bible study. Sandy Shaw: 01667 456492.

Old Parish Church 10.30am: holiday worship and crèche.

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preparation. We can keep the spirit of Christmas by speaking the whispers of faith that come through the loving service of those around us; by taking a minute to say a prayer for those we love; by quietly sharing what we have with those who are needy and by cherishing our own. And you know if we do this, if we a take a couple of minutes each day to remember the baby who is King, then I know our lives will seem different and our hearts will find the hope that never ends and the love that never fails Have a blessed Advent and Happy Christmas

Rev Steven Manders Nairn United Reformed Church

St Ninians Church Sunday services and Sunday school: 10.15am. Wednesday 7.30pm: prayer meeting. Contact Rev. Ricky Reid: 01667 451675.

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

Sunday Mass 11.30am. 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.

Contact Minister JD Grant: 01667 456088.

Website: www.churchofgodnairn.org Nairn Joint Service St Ninians. 1st Sunday monthly, 6:30pm.

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Useful Contacts SCHOOLS Auldearn Primary School ............................(01667) 452118 Cawdor Primary School ..............................(01667) 402460 Millbank Primary School..............................(01667) 452240 Rosebank Primary School ..........................(01667) 454090 Nairn Academy ............................................(01667) 453700 Moray College Nairn Learning ....................(01667) 456759 DOCTORS Nairn Hospital A&E .....................................(01667) 452101 Nairn Healthcare Group ..............................(01667) 452096 Ardersier Medical Practice ..........................(01667) 462240 Nairn Sports Medicine Clinic ......................(01667) 454523 DENTISTS Jones Jones & Behrendt ............................(01667) 453189 RM Donald & Associates ............................(01667) 454603 Dental Unit at Nairn Hospital ......................(01667) 422722 PHARMACIES Lloyds Pharmacy ........................................(01667) 453100 Boots The Chemist ......................................(01667) 453169 page 8 - December 2013

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I was delighted to be able to open the terrific new courts at Inverness Tennis and Squash Club, this Autumn.

The work that members of the club have done to attract £104,000 worth of funding from various bodies, to replace the old worn out courts, deserves great credit. Remarkably, £70,000 of the money raised was gathered together by contributions from the 450 members alone.

With the popularity of tennis on the rise, thanks to icons like Andy Murray, the new courts will be very well used and of great benefit to the area.

Although my tennis isn’t of the highest quality, on the day of the opening I very much enjoyed a brief match with some of the club’s youngest members. I look forward to seeing the facility help many young tennis players reach their potential with the help of the club and contribute to the future health of the game.

It's fantastic to see our local sports clubs going from strength to strength.

2013 has seen Scotland voted the best country in the world to visit - by the news organisation CNN. 2014 will see Scotland on the world stage hosting the Commonwealth Games and the Ryder Cup. Never have we hosted larger events, nor will there be more people watching us.

An estimated 500 Million will watch the golf and 70 countries take part in the games. They are, of course, for young people particularly, so it was a great pleasure once again to judge the Millburn Academy Public Speaking competition and see so many articulate young people take part.

2014 I hope, for Scotland, will be a year of aspiration.

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We see in the Bible that we are all unclean in God’s sight because of our sins. You may not think that you are a hell-deserving sinner, but God is Holy and He hates sin. Sin will keep you from being with God in heaven for eternity and damn you to Hell, unless you receive God’s forgiveness for sin which is found only in His Son Jesus Christ.

God’s word reveals that if you die in an unclean & unforgiven state, because of your own choice, you’ll go to hell with all the other people who refused God’s mercy.

There are many people, and you may be one of them, who believe that life should be one never ending party; friends to meet, places to go, and things to get and do, seeking constant amusement in the pursuit of happiness, needing non-stop activity to fill the emptiness inside, to fight the boredom that surrounds them.

You may think. “That’s okay - all my party friends will be there too!” Yes, sadly they will be there too if they too reject Christ, but the thick blackness of “outer darkness” will separate you from each other.

It is a place of torment, never ending fear and punishment and you’ll be there on your own.

Right now you are without God in this world and have no hope, but in Christ Jesus you, who are far off, can be brought near by the blood of Christ; He Drugs, alcohol, immoral relationships, money can be your peace. You can know that when you and music are some of the most popular die (and you will die) you will be in Heaven, not choices in this party called life. We don’t want Hell. to think about the fact the party will end.

However there is an enemy to all this pleasure- Take a moment, please consider and underseeking excitement. It is death. We all have an stand God’s love for you in giving His Son, the Wonderful Lord Jesus Christ to die for your sin on appointment with death and eternity.

The Cross of Calvary and then three days later to You have a God-given eternal soul and the rise again from the dead. He can be your Saviour.

Bible makes it clear that you will spend You must call upon the name of the Lord, acknowleternity somewhere when the party is over. edging and turning from your sins and trusting Where you will be in eternity may not matter to Him, and only Him, to save you. you right now. The thought of facing a sin-hating, Holy God or talk of His dear Son the For God so loved the world that he gave his only Lord Jesus Christ are subjects you probably begotten Son, that whosoever believeth on Him should not perish, but have everlasting life. He avoid at all costs. that believeth on him is not condemned: but he The Lord is trying to reach you now, because that believeth not is condemned already, because once your “party” is over it will be too late. he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God (John 3:16,18)

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INGREDIENTS 12 Mandarin oranges Grated zest of 1 lemon 2 Fresh lemon thyme sprigs 4 Large fresh mint leaves 1 Quantity pâte á bombe 1 Quantity Italian meringue 300ml double cream

Pâte á bombe 100ml Water 150g Caster sugar 5 Large free-range egg yolks Put water and sugar in a small heavy pot and slowly dissolve. Turn up the heat and boil for 5 to 7 minutes to 120°C.Whisk the yolks until pale. Continue whisking and slowly add the sugar syrup until it’s a thick foam.

Italian meringue 120g Caster sugar 2 Tablespoons water 2 Large free-range egg whites Use the same method as pâte á bombe taking the egg whites to soft peak stage before adding the syrup. Whisk for about 5 minutes.

For the mousse Grate the zest from 4 of the mandarins and lemon then reserve. Half all the fruit and squeeze the juice. You should have 500ml.

Pour the juice into a sauce pan and add the thyme and mint, boil to reduce to 200ml Make the pâte á bombe and meringue and cool both.

Strain the infused fruit juice through a fine sieve into a bowl.

Stir the mandarin juice into the pâte á bombe until smooth and then fold in the meringue. Finally whip the cream until softly stiff and fold into the mousse. Divide between individual dishes or spoon into one large bowl chill until softly set.

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Decorating the tree is the most important part. I tend to keep it light and simple, with my Christmas colours being silver and white and add lots of fairy lights, to give it that extra special Christmas twinkle. You can add pussy willow to all the branches which make them fan out.

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One of the main things I associate with Christmas is scents and fragrance. The addition of scented Christmas candles is vital. Place them throughout the house so that you are constantly reminded what time of year it is.

When you are sitting down to eat Christmas dinner, you want your guests to feel as though they are in a enchanted Christmas home. Use big bold accessories on the dining table to help create this atmosphere. I use big chunky napkin rings on simple linen napkins or and a large centre piece for the table. If you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want to put all your xmas cards up, get a big bowl and throw the rest into it.

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