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CLUBS & SOCIETIES NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF DECORATIVE AND FINE ARTS SOCIETIES (MORAY, BANFF AND BADENOCH BRANCH) Meets 2nd Wednesday of the month at 11am in the Sherwood Suite at the Eight Acres Hotel, Elgin. Monthly lectures on a variety of arts related subjects delivered by experts from across the UK. New members always welcome. For more details, contact Sarah Fennings-Mills on 01343 831002 or www.nadfas.org.uk FORUM FOR MEN Social group for gay, bi and T-men. Meets at Macnabs Bar, 8pm. Look for the red post box!

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LGBT 5K RUNNING GROUP Meets every Wednesday at Inverness Leisure at 6.30pm.

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Midweek training most mornings. Summer Tuesday evening race/social league for all ages. Races from May to September. To be the next Wiggins or Hoy, contact club secretary Alan White on 01309 674698 or alan.white.245@btinternet.com www.forrescyclingclub.co.uk RIDING FOR THE DISABLED (FORRES, NAIRN & DISTRICT) 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.

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 Laurence Church, Forres.

New members welcome. Email: alasdair@manachie.eclipse.co.uk DALLACHY AEROMODELLERS Holds model aircrafts and helicopter flying at old Dallachy World War 2 airfield. Mainly at weekends. Offers training on dual control. www.dallachyaeromodellers.org.uk GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND New branch volunteers needed at Nairn & Moray Branch. Call Anna Temple or Anna Roberts tel: 01309 694866 HIGHLAND HISTORICAL SEARCH SOCIETY Inverness based metal detecting club. Free equipment loan, tuition and regular places to detect. Beginners & new members welcome. Contact Len: 01808 521340.

INVERNESS HOSPITAL RADIO Email requests to be played for someone in Raigmore Hospital, Inverness to: requests@invernes shospitalradio.co.uk. We are looking for ward visitors and technical team members. Email: enquiry@invernesshospitalradio .co.uk Contact Mr Atholl Menzies tel: 704500/704501 MEN’S CHOIR Alternate Tuesdays 7.30pm9.30pm at St. John’s Church, Forres. All kinds of music. No experience necessary. Contact Bill 01309 672951 for more details.

MORAY & NAIRN FLORAL ART CLUB Come and watch talented flower demonstrators at work. Contact 01309 673431 or 673552.

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 ANGLING ASSOCIATION Contact 459250 or email nairnangling@tiscali.co.uk NAIRN ARTS SOCIETY We meet in the Laing Hall, Fishertown. Regular demonstrations, exhibitions & sales of art works. Groups meet daily at various times. Contact Secretary Hazel Cullen: 456159 or visit www.nairnarts.co.uk NAIRN BAPTIST CHURCH KRAFT CLUB Meets alternate Thursdays form 2-4pm at Blossoms Cafe on the Brae. Contact number 01667 453289 NAIRN HYDROTHERAPY POOL Monday - Saturday from 9.30am.

For general health and well-being.

Helps all ages & many mobility problems. Contact 455351

SEAFORTH CLUB Private members club, welcoming guests & visitors to a warm, comfortable & friendly environment. Weekend entertainment incl. bingo.

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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.

ARENA96 BUSINESS NETWORK GROUP Meets on the last Thursday of every month. The next meeting is on 25 April at 7pm-9pm.

Friendly networking group for business people along the A96 corridor. No ongoing commitment or membership fees. £15 includes a meal & opportunity to meet other business owners and customers.

Book at www.arena96.com BEFRIENDERS HIGHLAND Voluntary organisation coordinating friendships between volunteers and people who have mental health problems & feel lonely or isolated. Contact Heather Forbes 451444. Email: nairn@befriendershighland.org.uk www.befriendershighland.org.uk PLEASE NOTE: The deadline for inclusion in June’s Clubs & Societies page is Friday 3rd May, 4pm.

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We hope you like the front cover image this month. It is a painting taken from an exhibition of Fostered Children’s artwork. The competition rules asked the children to draw something close to their hearts and this was one of the category winners. It probably reinforces our own awareness of the importance of home and family.

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PASTORAL LETTER & CHURCH MEETINGS In late July 1941, a prisoner at Auschwitz concentration camp went missing and could not be found. Karl Fritzsch, the deputy commandant, announced a terrible reprisal against those who remained. Ten men from the fugitive’s bunker were to be locked up without food or water until all were dead.

As the ten were selected at random, one of them, Franciszek Gajowniczek, cried out: “My wife! My children! What will they do?” Fritzsch was uninterested in the man’s anguish, but what happened next took him completely by surprise. Another prisoner stepped quietly forward from the crowd, removed his cap and said: “Let me take his place. I am old. He has a wife and children.”

The man’s name was Maximilian Kolbe, a Catholic priest from Poland. After a moment’s hesitation, Fritzsch accepted his offer and Kolbe was condemned to die in Gajowniczek’s place. The ten men were thrown down the stairs of the starvation bunker and left to die.

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weeks singing, praying and encouraging the other men. By the end of the fortnight, Kolbe alone was still alive, and his captors, requiring the bunker for new atrocities, ended his life with a fatal injection of phenol.

Imagine for a moment how it would feel to be Franciszek Gajowniczek, sentenced to death and then suddenly reprieved by the sacrifice of another.

Your gratitude to Maximilian Kolbe would be overwhelming. Gajowniczek lived for 53 years after the day his life was saved.

He never forgot what Kolbe had done and never ceased to express his gratitude to the man who had died on his behalf.

The amazing reality is that we all have a reason for such gratitude. Every person on this planet has been served with a spiritual death sentence which cuts us off from God. None of us can reach God based on our own merits, no matter how hard we try. Two thousand years ago, a man stepped forward from the crowd and offered to die in our place. His name

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. Every third Sunday monthly 6pm. Contact the pastor: 01667 459672. Website: 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 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 (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). Contact Minister Murdo MacLeod: 01667 459131.

Nairn Joint Service St Ninians. First Sunday monthly 6.30pm.

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was Jesus. The Bible puts it like this: “But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.” (Romans 5:8) Love in this context is not a feeling or an emotion, but a selfless action on behalf of another person. Love is Maximilian Kolbe stepping forward to die in place of his fellow prisoner. And love is Jesus stepping forward to die in place of you and me.

This leaves each of us with a decision to make, whether to accept God’s offer to cancel the death sentence hanging over our lives. Many years ago, I reached a turning point in my life and decided to choose God’s way. Although life as a believer is not always easy, I am certain that I made the right choice.

Owen Morris, CityLife Church Inverness Due to circumstances outwith our control, we are unable to place a pastoral letter from the Nairn area.

Old Parish Church 10.30am: holiday worship and crèche.

Contact Rev. Alistair S Younger: 01463 242873.

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 10.30am: family worship.

6.30pm: evening prayer. Contact Rev. Canon Alison 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.

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COMMUNITY COUNCIL NEWS ExTrACTS FroM ThE MinuTES oF ThE MEETing oF 25Th FEbruAry 2013 oF nAirn WEST CoMMuniTy CounCil

4. POLICE REPORT RY welcomed Sgt Allan Ross to the NWCC meeting. A new Chief Inspector had been appointed, Chief Inspector Mairi Grant who will take up the post in the next few weeks.

Cllr MacA commented that CI Mairi Grant held a meeting on 9 January to pull together views from various sectors in Nairn [Note: as it was convened at short notice, NWCC had not been informed and thus did not attend].

The meeting gave community representatives an opportunity to directly influence how policing is carried out in the local area during the forthcoming year.

Local priorities for Nairn will include antisocial behaviour, drugs and road safety.

Plans will be available on the new Police Scotland website from 1 April 2013.

Sgt Ross drew attention to several house/shop break ins, bicycle theft and items taken from unlocked vehicles. He emphasised the importance of locking/securing doors, bikes, and cars to prevent opportunist theft. Plant theft in rural areas has been happening in Aviemore/Strathspey areas but the police have farm watch in place.

Sgt Ross also commented on the criticism levelled at local police for not showing support for altered traffic management plans or speed limits on the A96 at the west side of the town. The Inspector wished to clarify that Nairn Police have had no approach or correspondence from BEAR Scotland regarding supplying statistics about this area of concern. Inspector Bryce has raised this inaccuracy with BEAR Scotland.

Sgt Ross added that detection rates had dropped slightly from 69.7% in December to 68% in January mainly due to plant theft from Badenoch/Strathspey area. Sgt James Taylor recently started at Nairn Police Station. The staffing at Nairn Police Station will remain the same.

(Full Police report attached with Minutes) GK asked if litter came under antisocial behaviour and whether Nairn Police would become more active in this regard. Sgt Ross encouraged the public to report littering. RY commented that NWCC had always stressed the importance of litter being picked up to keep Nairn a desirable tourist destination.

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dog fouling which has been particularly noticeable during this mild February weather. Sgt Ross commented that they had been in touch with Highland Council and were going on patrol to try to do something about this problem. Des Scholes commented and members agreed, that more action regarding fining of individuals caught not picking up after their dog could act as a deterrent, but that fines should be increased as at present, persons caught dog fouling can only be fined £40. Des Scholes had researched and found that there had been no fines for dog fouling in Nairn in the past five years.

There are no specific dog wardens, two posts costing £70,000 per year cover many duties but last financial year only £560 fines came in. MP’s and local Councillors need to look at this and do more. RY highlighted that Nairn beach had been nominated by Trip Advisor as the best beach in Scotland.

Sgt Ross said that there is a specific officer who liaises with the Council on this particular problem, he will follow up.

Sgt Ross stressed that continued cooperation between the community and police will assist in keeping a high detection rate and to contact Police if there are any concerns.

ACTION: Sgt Ross to follow up with Highland Council about action on dog-fouling

5. TREASURERS REPORT GM (Treasurer) stated that the expenditure since our last report has been the usual cost of advertising our CC meetings in the Nairnshire Telegraph, and the hire of the venue. In addition to these costs, there was a contribution of £500 to NICE and £100 to Highland Council towards the cost of turning on Nairn’s Christmas lights and associated activities. That left the current NWCC balance at £2,082.74.

6. ROLE OF COMMUNITY COUNCILS Highland Council is conducting a review after the first year of the new Community Council scheme. A questionnaire had been issued to all Community Councils for completion by April 2013.

The questionnaire seeks views on various minor changes which had been suggested to the current rules for conduct and activity.

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BS felt that such a review should also look at the current and future role of the Nairnshire Partnership and the Ward Forum, both of which involved Community Councils. BS added that CC’s should have more effective influence on what happens in the town, rather than only being able to react to plans and proposals after they were submitted.

ACTION: Brian Stewart/Graham Kerr to complete questionnaire on behalf of NWCC.

8. BYPASS AND TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT RY mentioned the problems of traffic on the A96 at the weekend. Cllr MacA reported that a sensor at the Lochloy junction had failed and later been fixed. Ralph Newlands of BEAR Scotland had invited Community Councillors to contact him by email if any similar problems arose in future. GK emphasised again the need to keep up the pressure for a bypass by writing to Fergus Ewing MSP and Scottish Transport Minister Keith Brown. BS mentioned that a detailed letter about the A96 and the bypass had already been sent to Transport Scotland following up the meeting with them on 12 December 2012. A reply was still awaited.

9. ANY OTHER BUSINESS WASTEBUSTERS BS suggested that NWCC should express support for the initiative taken by Nairn River CC in setting up a working group to create an organisation in Nairn similar to Moray Wastebusters. This would reuse more materials, furniture, bicycles, paving slabs, etc rather than disposing in landfill, which would benefit the local community and create employment. RY agreed to write a letter of support to River CC regarding this worthwhile project.

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Congratulations to everyone involved and thank you to the teachers and pupils for a thrilling afternoon. Hopefully I will get to visit many more of our schools, organisations and businesses this spring and summer as I extend my regular surgeries to include additional events for constituents in the smaller communities of Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey.

The Convention of the Highlands and Islands is a meeting between the Scottish Government and Highlands and Islands councils, health, enterprise, environment and skills leaders. Writing this from Lerwick, where the Convention has just met, we have just had a day of discussions on health, community planning, youth employment and energy. We have also had a beautifully sunny day and, reputedly at least, the weather here was the best in Scotland!

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by Ministers in Edinburgh or, for that matter, London. And it is a means of ensuring that Ministers can discuss with Council leaders matters of concern and importance. In addition to attending the Convention and during the three day visit, I met the local Port Authority in Lerwick, who are very busy and looking to be able to carry out the work needed to decommission oil rigs. In addition, I visited Sullom Voe and also met with local campaigners on a variety of issues. We have, in my party, always supported the idea that the Islands should enjoy the power to control their own future - and that we should work with them in partnership. The only way to do that is to have regular meetings - which we do every six months. There is no shortcut or substitute in politics and in government in spending the necessary time to listen and learn - it is time well spent.

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APRIL 23 tuesday - 28 sunday the sleeping beauty on ice @ eden court various times. 01463 234234. www.eden-court.co.uk

24 wednesday alejandro ziegler 7:30pm. universal hall, findhorn. ÂŁ12/ÂŁ10 concs/ÂŁ8 u16s. tel: 01309 691170. www.universalhall.co.uk

25 thursday tullamore 7:30pm. nairn community & arts centre. tel: 01667 453476. www.nairncommunitycentre.co.uk an audience with richard gordon 7:30pm. the little theatre, king st, nairn. tickets (£6) from uncle bob’s bar, westerlea or donald graham.

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MAY EVENTS Sun 5th ......................................Black Isle Jazz - 2pm-4pm Fri 10th ..................Phil Cunningham & Aly Bain - 7:30pm Sat 18th ...................... Donnie Munro in Concert - 7:30pm Fri 24th ..............................................................Music Nairn: Song Studio from RCS Vocalists “Magic, Myth and Legend�

Fri 31st............................................................Cinema Nairn: “The Angel’s Share� (15) - 7:30pm For further details, telephone 01667 453476, e-mail info@nairncc.co.uk or check out our website at www.nairncommunitycentre.co.uk

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family ceilidh nairn community & arts centre. tel: 01667 453476. www.nairncommunitycentre.co.uk annual spring flower show and plant sale (highland rock garden club) opens 10.30am. nairn community centre. show exhibits available to view from 12noon. contact john owen: 01320 366246. albert lee @ ironworks 7pm. 0871 7894173. www.ironworksvenue.com comann nam pĂ rant inbhir narann spring fling family ceilidh 7:30pm. nairn community & arts centre. contact 01667 453068 or arteze@excite.com page 14 - May 2013

music nairn: arta arnicane - piano 7:30pm. nairn community & arts centre. tel: 01667 453476. www.nairncommunitycentre.co.uk

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7 tuesday macs moray area cancer support 2pm-4pm. moray coast medical practice, lossiemouth. call 07516 219151 for info. sounds familiar singing group for people with dementia & their carers 2:30pm-4pm. craigmonie hotel, inverness. for info and reservations, contact 01463 233231. wordpress meetups 7pm. forres. friendly networking group to support users & those interested in wordpress. booking essential at wpscotland.org lucy rose @ ironworks 7:30pm. standing. 14+. 0871 7894173. www.ironworksvenue.com

8 wednesday nadfas fine art lecture: ‘a family affair: florence & the house of medici’ by jo walton 11am. sherwood suite, eight acres hotel, elgin. visitors welcome. orienteering event fundraiser for andersons primary school’s p7 year group 6pm-8pm. grant park, forres. moray and nairn floral art club 7:30pm. ramnee hotel, forres. all welcome. for information, contact 01309 673431 or 673552.

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10 friday national trust of scotland (nts) & brodie castle collections 10:30am. talk with nts experts. book at 0844 4932156 or www.nts.org.uk/events colin macleod @ ironworks 7:30pm. 0871 7894173. www.ironworksvenue.com phil cunningham & aly bain 7.30pm. nairn community & arts centre. 01667 453476. www.nairncommunitycentre.co.uk camille o’sullivan @ eden court 8pm. 01463 234234. www.eden-court.co.uk

11 saturday macmillan 5k mini mudder, grantown on spey £10 registration per person. contact 01479 870320 or 01479 872872. www.macmudders.co.uk the western front association: “ladies from hell? morale in the highland battalions 1914 -1918” 2:30pm. elgin library. chairman.wfasnb@virgin.net cinema nairn: ‘life is beautiful’ (pg) 7:30pm. nairn community & arts centre. tel: 01667 453476. tickets at door. for further info: cinemanairn.blogspot.co.uk the culbin singers’ spring concert 7.30pm. st laurence church forres. music by jenkins & others. www.manachie.eclipse.co.uk/culbinsingers/culbinsingers.htm

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12 sunday buckie classic car show 10:30am. linzee gordon park. 07831 263915. www.buckieclassiccarshow.org enquiries@buckieclassiccarshow.org bl’azz: “blue and sentimental” @ maclean room, eden court 2:30pm. tickets £8 from eden court box office. 01463 234234. loudon wainwright lll (music) @ eden court 8pm.

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14 tuesday the pink castle philosophy club - your fun & friendly ‘thinking lgbt club’ 7.30pm. riverside lounge, glen mhor hotel. www.pinkcastle.eu

15 wednesday a conversation with carmel 7:30pm. universal hall, findhorn. £10/£8 concs/£6 u16s. tel: 01309 691170.

16 thursday heroic arias – reno and gail troillus + guests showstopperz and troillus ensemble @ eden court 7:30pm. 01463 234234. www.eden-court.co.uk souledout! ecstatic dance for mind, body, spirit 7:45pm. £3. text/call: 07745 930383.

18 saturday world whisky day 2013 various venues around speyside, dufftown. 01340 881616. nairn men’s breakfast 9:45am for 10am. dunbar golf club, nairn. speaker: alasdair moodie. phone campbell (01667 455149) by fri 17th to book a place. cawdor parish church grand plant sale, coffee morning & various stalls 10am-12pm. cawdor community centre. entry £3 including refreshments. craft fair to raise funds for cystic fibrosis 10am-1pm. croy village hall. the doors alive @ ironworks 7:30pm. 0871 7894173. www.ironworksvenue.com inverness choral society spring concert @ eden court 7:30pm. orff carmina burana & beethoven mass in c.

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donnie munro in concert 7:30pm. nairn community & arts centre. 01667 453476. info@nairncc.co.uk www.nairncommunitycentre.co.uk

19 sunday gordon castle highland games and country fair 11am-5pm. fochabers. all day fun for all the family. new concert corner, gordon setter parade & dog show, air display, traditional events, massed bands, sporting activities, highland dancing, solo piping, masses of shopping & lots of food and drink. more details at www.gordoncastle.co.uk/highland-games contact events@gordoncastle.co.uk or 07500 879687. be silent or be killed universal hall, findhorn.

7:30pm. £10/£8 concs/£6 u16s. tel: 01309 691170. www.universalhall.co.uk

21 tuesday sounds familiar singing group for people with dementia & their carers 2:30pm. craigmonie hotel, inverness. for info & reservations, call 01463 233231.

22 wednesday rachel sermanni @ ironworks 7pm. 0871 7894173. www.ironworksvenue.com blazin’ fiddles 7:30pm. universal hall, findhorn. £14/£12 concs/£10 u16s. tel: 01309 691170. www.universalhall.co.uk

24 friday red hot chilli pipers @ ironworks 7:30pm. 0871 7894173. www.ironworksvenue.com music nairn: song studio from rcs vocalists “magic, myth and legend” nairn community & arts centre.

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From their main base at Inverness, Hawco Volkswagen has busy branches at Elgin and Peterhead with a strong presence in Fort William.

At Elgin under the management of Ken Hammond the main dealership at Wards Road has recently added a large Volkswagen Approved Used Car Centre operating just a few hundred metres away on Edgar Road where some of the finest pre-owned cars in the area are now on display.

Another top choice is the latest Polo.

Costing from just £10,490 it is available with 12 month’s free insurance for over 21-yearolds and a finance deal that includes a £1000 deposit contribution from Volkswagen and a three-year/30,000-mile servicing package for only £249.

The Golf Plus from Hawco Volkswagen comes with a £1500 discount.

To celebrate their 60th anniversary everyone who buys a new or used car from any Hawco Volkswagen branch this year will be automatically entered into a draw and could win a brand new Volkswagen Beetle.

Hawco has represented the Volkswagen brand in Elgin since 1953. Today the wider Hawco Group employs more than 150 people at various locations and retails cars and commercials throughout Scotland.

The Elgin branch is fully equipped to sell and service all Volkswagen models and are prepared for the arrival of summer with some outstanding Spring offers covering favourites from the range, including the compact Tiguan SUV and Touran MPV. The new Golf Plus is available on a hire purchase offer with zero per cent finance until June 30. It’s a great deal for a spacious five-door that can also be driven away on a retail cash deal with a £1500 discount.

The finance offer means that a high-efficiency 1.2 TSI in S trim costing £16,310 can be delivered for a deposit of £6626 followed by 36 equal payments of £269.

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MOSS – last chance saloon (for this year) Scarifying the winter moss and thatch needs done now, either with a spring rake, an electric scarifier (if you have one), or hiring a big scarifier (or getting us to do it). Spring is very late this year and Easter passed with very few lawns needing their first cut. Scarifying is done outwith the growing season (usually at the very end, or the very beginning of the season). Why not scarify in the summer when the weather is better some of you will ask? There are at least 3 good reasons: 1 Scarifying is very traumatic for the grass and new growing grass is too fragile to survive a rigorous scarifying, it will be ripped out.

2 Most scarified lawns look pretty poorly until they recover, Winter doesn’t matter so much, but most people want to enjoy their gardens in the Summer.

3 Putting on a feed and then trashing the grass is rather counterproductive, not to mention a bit of a waste of your money.

We had a lot of pretty horrified feedback from the scarifying photo in last month’s Spotlight Magazine, so I’ve put it in again as a reminder!

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Do you know why Jesus died? If not, I believe God has sent me across your path to tell you.

Sin Brings Death In God’s Word, the Bible, we learn that death came into the world because of sin. “Wherefore … by one man [Adam] sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned” (Romans 5:12). “The wages of sin is death” (Romans 6:23). You and I die because we are sinners; we have forfeited our right to live on the earth. “All have sinned, and come short of the glory of God” (Romans 3:23).

Jesus Died For Us Did Jesus die because He had sinned? No. Listen to the inspired Word of God: “In Him is no sin” (1 John 3:5); “Who did no sin” (1 Peter 2:22); “Who knew no sin” (2 Corinthians 5:21). Therefore, death had no claim upon Him. But, blessed be His Name, He “gave Himself for our sins” (Galatians 1:4). It was love to you and me that caused the Lord Jesus Christ to come down from heaven and die on Calvary’s cross. It was love to us that held Him on that shameful cross until He had finished the work of atonement to the glory of God. A holy, righteous, just God cannot let sin go unpunished. On the cross the Lord Jesus bore God’s judgment against sin in our stead, as our substitute; and now God is offering not only forgiveness, but also justification to the repentant sinner who believes in Jesus. He is “just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus” (Romans 3:26). God showed His approval of that mighty work by raising the Lord Jesus from among the dead and seating Him at His own right hand in heaven (Mark 16:19).

Jesus Is The Way There is no other way you can be saved but through the atoning death of the Lord Jesus. He says : “I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by Me” (John 14:6). “Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved” (Acts 4:12).

Why did Jesus die? Have you ever realized that it was your sins that caused Him to die upon the cross, or ever felt your need of Him as your personal Saviour? As you read this little message, He looks down from heaven upon you, and He reads the thoughts and intents of your heart. He knows your attitude toward your sins, as well as your attitude toward the One who wants to be your Saviour. If you don’t know the forgiveness of sins, there is only one person in the world to blame and that is yourself. God is ready to forgive you, if only you are ready to turn from your sins and be forgiven.

Turn To Him Today God knows all about you. I urge you not to lay aside this opportunity until you have settled this great question of your sin and eternity and have received the Lord Jesus Christ as your personal Saviour. Once you see the seriousness of your sinful condition before God, you will never get rest of conscience and heart until you have trusted the Saviour of sinners. He made “peace through the blood of His cross” (Colossians 1:20). We are “reconciled to God by the death of His Son” (Romans 5:10).

If you do not trust Him now as your Saviour, you will meet Him in eternity as your Judge. For God “hath appointed a day, in the which He will judge the world in righteousness by that Man whom He hath ordained; whereof He hath given assurance unto all men, in that He hath raised Him from the dead” (Acts 17:31).

Won’t you flee to Him now for refuge while it is the day of salvation? He will be your shelter. “We pray you in Christ’s stead, be ye reconciled to God” (2 Corinthians 5:20). “Dost thou believe on the Son of God?”( John 9:35) Have faith and doubt not.

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