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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 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.

Contact 453698 CROSSROADS Provide and develop a high quality, cost effective, domiciliary respite care service for carers within Nairn & Distict. Contact 455369 for more info.

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

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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 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.

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Senior Training 6.30pm - 8pm Tuesdays and Thursdays Junior Training 6pm - 7pm Tuesdays at Nairn Links New & social members are all welcome Contact Kim Neill 01667 455486 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 MORAY ADVANCE MOTORISTS & MOTORCYCLISTS Reg. Scottish Charity SC 033561 visit www.morayiam.org.uk or call 01309 673954 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

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All welcome. Entertainers & volunteers needed. Call Moira on 01667 455011 or 07716 183466 NAIRN ROAD RUNNERS Thursdays, 7.30pm club night at the Maggot. Small, friendly club catering for all running abilities.

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A sobering thought and makes me wonder why we are often so convinced of our own correctness when we can’t even rely on “known” facts. I shall try hard not to insist on me being right all the time in future!!

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PASTORAL LETTER & CHURCH MEETINGS Call in the true Expert When Forrest Gump told us that ‘Life is like a box of chocolates - you never know what you’re going to get’, he didn’t say that the chocolates were called ‘Scottish Weather’. A month ago we were all out in our T-shirts; today, as I write, I’ve just driven back from Inverness through snow and sleet and my T-shirt is somewhere beneath my shirt, my jumper and my jacket! How lovely it was to come home to a nice warm house!

And that’s another story - over this last weekend our boiler was broken and the house, without the central-heating on, was freezing cold. (Ok, I’m exaggerating, but that’s how it felt!) I guess today’s snow was preparing its visit. Many of us get so wimpy these days as we take for granted the gadgets and luxuries our grandparents, and maybe even our parents, couldn’t have imagined.

We had a couple of stand-alone heaters going and they did a not-bad job in the rooms they were in, but temperatures in the rest of the house were perishing.

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previously been given a couple of things to try and do to get the boiler going again - these techniques had worked other times, but not this time. All my efforts to get the place warmed up were in vain.

So I called in help. Not wanting to involve a working tradesman if I didn’t have to, I contacted a friend who’s always helpful and extremely competent too. He tried a good many more tricks than I knew of and even phoned his other contacts to tap into their knowledge, but the result was the same - no improvement, no success, and no warmth.

So Monday morning it was time to forget about the cost and call in an expert on this type of boiler. Within a few minutes he’d worked out the problem, got the necessary spare-part from his van, and got the boiler firing on all cylinders again.

‘If only all my jobs were so easy!’, he said cheerily as he left.

When I got the chance to think about all this later on, it struck me that there was a bit of a gospel parallel about it all.

Spiritually speaking, we human beings are cold and lifeless without God’s fire and warmth in our lives. All our own

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

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efforts at self-help and self-improvement are as futile in finding God as my useless efforts to get the boiler on. Even turning to other people, for all their kindness and goodwill, gets us nowhere if all they can offer is good guess-work and some theoretical knowledge – many have looked for God and failed by turning to false teaching, false religions and false prophets with no correct answers.

Only when you call in the true Expert, Jesus Christ, can you find true help, true life and true spiritual warmth. He alone has the ‘spare part’ that changes everything - the new heart that he gives to all who simply come to the right place and ask. ‘Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened’, says Jesus, ‘and you will find rest for your souls’ Matthew 11:28-29. No job is too difficult or too complicated or too far gone for him – and that’s good news for all of us!

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St Ninians Church Sunday services and Sunday school: 10.15am. Contact Fraser Turner (interim moderator) on 01463 794004 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 10am. Tel: 01667 453323.

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

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Rolling Event 30 april - 4 may spirit of speyside festival an annual celebration of scotland’s national drink. a wide range of whiskyinspired events including distillery visits, tastings and the new music event, the spirit of speyside sessions. visit www.spiritofspeyside.com

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2 saturday - 3 sunday brew at the bog bogbain farm nr. inverness scotland’s best new music festival full of emerging musical talent, craft beer and street food. for more info visit www.brewatthebog.com

3 sunday lazy sunday jazz cafe 2.30pm in the blue room @ the drouthy cobbler. £5. thedrouthycobbler.co.uk the pictish trail & rozi plain 10pm in the blue room @ the drouthy cobbler. £10. thedrouthycobbler.co.uk inverness choral society perform handel’s ‘messiah’ 7:30 pm in eden court theatre. 15th time they have performed this since 1945 - this time is that it will be be the biggest choir ever to perform this work in inverness with around 150 choir members. wow!

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7 thursday nairn & district gardening club - hanging basket session with greens nurseries 7:30pm at nairn community & arts centre. www.spanglefish.com/ nairnanddistrictgardeningclub book launch – “aliment for my child” by ian gordon brodie 7pm at brodie castle. call 01309 641371

8 friday jazz nairn presents ‘rossano sportiello trio’ 8pm at nairn community and arts centre. featuring steve brown on drums and dave green on bass. tickets from jazz nairn committee or from the community centre box office 01667 453476 netsounds presents: unknown pleasures acoustic @ ironworks 8pm. for info call 0871 7894173 or visit www.ironworksvenue.com

9 saturday benromach 10k 2.30pm, race begins and ends at benromach distillery. individual and team prizes available to be won and all finishers receive a medal. entires may be accepted on the day. info and entry forms at www.forresharriers.org.uk/races.htm an evening of thanks and praise hosted by elgin street pastors 7pm in harvest centre, greyfrairs street, elgin. with the contemporary praise band from aberdeen, ranan. call sarah johnson on 07818 841074, email elgin@streetpastors.org.uk or see facebook elgin street pastors. funeral for a friend + garden of elks @ ironworks 7:30pm. 0871 7894173 or www.ironworksvenue.com

12 tuesday pink castle philosophy club - 'celebrities and sex crimes. what's going on?' 7:30pm, riverside lounge, glen mhor hotel, ness bank, inverness. lgbt friendly club. www.pinkcastle.eu julian cope @ ironworks 7:30pm. call 0871 7894173 or visit www.ironworksvenue.com

15 friday cinema nairn: 'brighton rock' (15) 7:30pm at nairn community and arts centre. tickets at the door. for more information visit cinemanairn.blogspot.co.uk

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17 sunday gordon castle highland games and country fair 10.30am - 5pm. free parking. discounted tickets online. attractions include joseph peace's fire stunt spectacular, terrier racing, falconry, concert corner, highland dancing & solo piping competition, heavy events, massed bands, tug of war, shopping, food court and lots more. fun for all the family. visit www.gordoncastlehighlandgames.co.uk 2010 events presents: the winter tradition @ ironworks 7:30pm. call 0871 7894173 or visit www.ironworksvenue.com

19 tuesday john langan band 8pm in the blue room @ the drouthy cobbler. £12. www.thedrouthycobbler.co.uk highland literary salon 7:30pm at glen mhor hotel, inverness. guest speakers lin anderson, marc sherland and etta dunn. for more info visit www.highlandlitsalon.com

20 wednesday 2010 events presents: red kites, autumn sun, neon knights @ ironworks 7:30pm. call 0871 7894173 or visit www.ironworksvenue.com

21 thursday seth lakeman @ ironworks 7:30pm. for tickets or info call 0871 7894173 or visit www.ironworksvenue.com

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music nairn presents ‘the pomegranate piano trio’ 7:30pm at nairn community and arts centre. a beautiful programme of mozart, faure and brahms. tickets at door or call music nairn on 01667 455701 www.musicnairn.org.uk one night of queen @ ironworks 7:30pm. call 0871 7894173 or visit www.ironworksvenue.com

23 saturday highland wool festival 9:30am - 4pm at dingwall auction mart. celebrates everything that is woolly and showcases the talented and passionate craftspeople involved. eat, have a cuppa and socialise in the excellent cafe and listen to live music - and all for charity. www.highlandwoolfest.co.uk huntly live events presents: simple minded @ ironworks 7pm. for info call 0871 7894173 or visit www.ironworksvenue.com

24 sunday scotland's gardens: newbold house 11am - 4pm, st. leonard’s road, forres, iv36 2re. garden tours & light refreshments. for info visit www.newboldhouse.org or www.scotlandsgardens.org closing date for marafun team entries to download a form and for more info visit www.elginrotary.co.uk

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29 friday while she sleeps @ ironworks 7:30pm. for info call 0871 7894173 or visit www.ironworksvenue.com

30 saturday nairn & district gardening club - coffee morning and plant sale 10am - 12pm at at the royal legion hall, nairn. with other stalls. www.spanglefish.com/ nairnanddistrictgardeningclub ‘rapid departure’ - comedy by right lines productions 7.30pm at rafford village hall. buy tickets in advance - adults £8 & children £4 from the hub, tolbooth st, forres, email ruth@acorneventsscotland.co.uk or call 01309 673990. entrance by pre-paid ticket only. scotland’s gardens : carestown steading 10am 4pm, deskford, buckie, ab56 5tr. teas, home baking & plant stall. visit www.scotlandsgardens.org for more info. inverness abc boxing @ ironworks 7pm. for info call 0871 7894173 or visit www.ironworksvenue.com

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