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CLUBS & SOCIETIES ABERLOUR BRIDGE CLUB Wednesday nights 6.30pm for a 6.45pm start at The Aberlour Hotel (Sept - April) Secretary Audrey Gammack Tel: 07855 087984. To book your seat call Jenny on 01340 871647 ALVIE STABLES Small friendly stables offering all abilities the chance to ride.

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BADENOCH GARDENING CLUB Meet on the 3rd or 4th Wed each month in Newtonmore Village Hall (Lesser Hall) starting at 7.30 pm. Annual membership £10.00. Meetings free for members. £2.50 for visitors, who are most welcome. Call Beth Adler on 01540 673213 or email badenochgardeningclub@gmail. com.

BOAT OF GARTEN HEALTH WALK GROUP Meets every Wednesday by the Boat Hotel @ 1.30 pm. Contact Anne on 01479 831562 for info.

CAIRNGORM RUNNERS Monday and Wednesday club nights we meet at, The Fun House rear car park (next to Hilton Coylumbridge Hotel on the Ski Road) Email enquiries@ cairngormrunners.org or visit www.cairngormrunners.org COMMUNITY CAFE Fridays, 10am - 2pm at Grantown YMCA Community Centre. Tasty homemade soup with fresh homemade bread, teas, coffees & cakes. All welcome. Call 01479 872262 or email grantowncommunitycentre@gm ail.com.

DIABETES UK MORAY Support for people with diabetes and their carers. For details visit moray.diabetesukgroup.org or email moraydiabetesukgroup @yahoo.co.uk DISABILITY SNOW SPORTS UK Glenmore Lodge Grounds, Queens Houses, Glenmore, PH22 1QU. Call 0845 521 9338.

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KNOCKANDO CRAFT GROUP General interest group. Tuesdays 6:30pm-8:30pm. £2 per session.

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LGBT MORAY 1st Tuesday each month, 7:30pm at The Mucklecross Pub, Elgin. 18+ only. OR 3rd Saturday at 10:30am at The Mosset Tavern, Forres. Well attended group with mixed ages.

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STRATHSPEY RUGBY FOOTBALL CLUB Poll Creagan, Newtonmore.

Contact the secretary Ian Chadburn on 01540 673686 T-EXCHANGE MAKERSPACE Make things, build things and exchange ideas. Third Friday of every month 7:30pm at Findhorn Village Centre. Details on www.t-exchange.net or contact Bill on 07925 551191.

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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. If you would like your details to be included in this section please email linda@winterburnmedia.co.uk

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Every January the USA celebrates Martin Luther King Day. Although most are familiar with him and his "I have a Dream" speech, I doubt many of us know what his dream was or whether it came true. He actually spoke about several dreams in that speech (which I would recommend you watch or listen to) but they were all based around a central theme - that all people are created equal. Is that something that we recognise in modern society? Despite the tireless efforts of thousands of individuals like King who have and continue to work for equality, we still encounter racism, gender bias, and many other 'phobias' and prejudices.

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Like lots of others, I’ve been mourning the passing of Leonard Cohen. His use of words, the images he painted with them, and his observations of humanity in all its colour and brokenness….all of that combined to make a great poet and song writer whose words seem almost timeless.

One of my favourite lines is from his song “Anthem”: “There is a crack, a crack in everything; that's how the light gets in.”

New Year brings lists of new year’s resolutions and often a sense that we need to make ourselves better. The 30 day abs challenge, giving up smoking, January detox. All those sorts of things are popular this month!

Maybe the excesses of the holidays make us even more aware than usual that we’re not as perfect as we’d want to be.

Leonard Cohen knew that we weren’t perfect. But his sense that we need to stop trying is liberating. Indeed, our beauty is

more than on the surface. Paul, in his second letter to the church in Corinth, talks about us having the light of Jesus in our hearts, held in clay jars: “For it is the God who said, ‘Let light shine out of darkness’, who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

But we have this treasure in clay jars, so that it may be made clear that this extraordinary power belongs to God and does not come from us.” (2 Corinthians 4: 6-7, NRSV).

In a lot of ways, it’s the same idea as Cohen. Clay is brittle and easily broken. So are we.

Rather than being perfect, maybe embracing the flaws is the way to go. Chasing after an impossible dream, we miss today, and all its possibilities.

Maybe, just maybe, it’s through our flaws and our broken bits, that our real beauty lies and God finds a way of speaking to us, and using us?

Abernethy Parish Church Family worship service on Sunday at 9:30am, followed by refreshments. More traditional worship service at 11:45am. Contact: Rev. Donald Walker. Tel: 01479 831252.

Aberlour Parish Church The Square, Aberlour. Sunday 11.15am.

Alvie & Insh Church of Scotland Our services are at 9:30am each Sunday in Kincraig (Church beside Loch Insh). The first Sunday of the month is the All-Age interactive service, also 9:30am, held in Kincraig Church Hall beside the Cairngorms Christian Centre. Please ring 01540 661918 for details.

Badenoch Free Church Ruthven Road, Kingussie. Sundays 11am and evening service 6pm.

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Longing for perfection is a bit of a human flaw. And this time of year, more so than ever. For many, it’s a darkness that creeps over us...never being good enough, comparing ourselves to others, longing to be something more than we are. But into that darkness, I think God comes.

Into our brokenness, Jesus shines a light: a beacon of hope and transformation. Sometimes it’s our very imperfections that gives God the room to move and show us his love and we find our own beauty.

So, this new year, “Ring the bells that still can ring. Forget your perfect offering. There is a crack, a crack in everything; that's how the light gets in.”

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Duthil Parish Church Carrbridge. Sunday morning service at 11.30am. Contact Rev. Donald Walker Tel: 01479 831252.

Free Church: Dufftown monthly service, second Sunday of each month (except September) 6.30pm at the Memorial Hall, Albert Place. Contact Colin Morison on 01343 542196 Grantown Baptist Church High Street, Grantown-on-Spey.

Sundays 11am and evening service at 6pm. All welcome. Contact Rev. Rick Moeller: 01479 873125.

Inverallan Parish Church Church of Scotland. Grantown-onSpey. Sundays 10.30am with crèche. All welcome. Rev. Gordon Strang 01479 872084. www.inverallanparishchurch.org.uk Inveravon Church of Scotland Sunday morning service 9.30am.

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2 monday hangover hike 11am, glenmore visitor centre. a helping hand to get your new year off to a healthy, active start. booking not required.

3 tuesday new year bird count 2017: in your own backyard or anywhere in the highlands start anytime, finish 3.30pm. the highlands rspb highland group annual bird count. see as many species as you can.

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chinese new year crafts for children with earthtime in keith library 4pm - 5pm, keith library. free but booking essential. u7s to be accompanied by an adult. contact: 01542 882223.

21 saturday british ski mountaineering championships 12pm, glenshee ski centre. a 13 km course with over 1200m of ascent & descent will see racers travel all 3 valleys of glenshee ski centre. visit www.skimoscotland.co.uk/races/glenshee. burns' supper 7pm for 7.30pm, glenrinnes community centre. all welcome. contact: 01340 820821. quattro macjazz concert: evening of gospel & hot jazz from the dixieland jazz era 7.30pm, boat of garten community hall. ÂŁ12 toms members, ÂŁ14 non-members, ÂŁ5 students. contact: ann napier on 01479 831213 or ann.nap@btinternet.com.

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king creosote 8pm, bogbain farm. for info call 01463 772800. visit www.bogbainfarm.com. highland decorative & fine arts society: "tea with mackintosh: the glasgow tearoom phenomenomâ&#x20AC;? by evelyn silber. 2pm, free church hall, smithton, inverness. visitors ÂŁ8. new members welcome. contact: averill brodie on 01463 790904 or averillbrodie@ymail.com. visit www.hdfas.org.uk.

orienteering by head torch: how good's your night navigation? find out at this event for all ages by moravian orienteers 5.45pm - 7pm, forres golf club. ÂŁ7 adults ÂŁ4 u21s.(ÂŁ1 less for members). contact: lil lenyon on 07596 867797 or email kenyonp@pobroadband.com. visit www.moravianorienteering.org. the drouthy cobbler comedy club@the drouthy cobbler 7.30pm. visit www.thedrouthycobbler.co.uk

13 friday tunna tunes@the drouthy cobbler 8pm - 10pm visit www.thedrouthycobbler.co.uk.

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the strathpuffer: 12th annual 24 hour mountain bike endurance event 10am - 11am (sun), strathpeffer. the event is open to solos, pairs, teams of four, teams of eight for schools, &teams of ten. visit www.strathpuffer.co.uk.

26 thursday elgin museum fund raiser 7.30pm - 10pm, elgin museum hall. ÂŁ3 (incl refreshments). volunteers

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27 friday torridon@ironworks, inverness. tbc. visit www.ironworksvenue.com. where 2 today music afternoon tea dance/ceilidh 2pm - 4pm, aviemore legion. £2.50 for fabulous afternoon tea, music, dancing, singing & raffle. all welcome. contact: ros munro on 01479 810004 or ros@ct4u.co.uk. visit www.ct4u.co.uk.

28 saturday moray conservative & unionist association burns supper 7pm at lossiemouth f c. £20. contact: maureen mcleod on 01343 850237 or mcleodmaureen811@gmail.com. visit www.morayconservatives.org.uk. mumbai science@ironworks, inverness 10.30pm, over 18s. visit www.ironworksvenue.com. single by sunday@ironworks, inverness 7pm, over 14s (u§6s with an adult). visit www.ironworksvenue.com.

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28 saturday - 29 sunday aviemore sled dog rally 9am - 5pm (sun), glenmore, aviemore. the race features teams of between two & eight dogs pulling their musher on a sled around a four to seven mile trail. contact: 0871 277 6783 or enquiry@siberianhuskyclub.org.uk. visit www.siberianhuskyclub.org.uk.

29 sunday birds, seed & soup 11am, osprey centre, loch garten £3 per adult, £5 per family. be part of the rspb’s big garden bird watch while sipping soup at loch garten. take home free bags of bird seed.

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Our small team of 4 based here in the Moray Firth, will no doubt have a busy year ahead.as usual. I should also give a mention to Susie, the springer spaniel, who I don’t think has been properly introduced. Many of you will have met her though, as she goes everywhere with us – mad as a box of frogs !

Summer Months Mowing; best practice is never cut shorter than 1”. Mowing too close is the most destructive thing you can do to a lawn (usually a man-thing) and in particular encourages moss to flourish ! June is when we will likely see the first signs of Red Thread fungal disease damage (wet summers are the worst). Lets hope we get away without a repeat of last summer’s wash out.

Autumn Months

Although we don’t know exactly what the weather will throw at us this season, we have a fair idea what we will be asked to tackle. Highlights will likely include: Winter Months Moss and thatch; we will be aerating and scarifying all hours of the day to get through everybody before the Spring Weed and Feed Treatments start. Also look out for leatherjackets emerging (crane fly grubs) and eating lawn roots, can cause devastation.

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21st Jan (A) Stirling Albion

Elgin City

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7th Jan (A) Montrose

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Drew Hendry MP The most telling comment that I have every heard about the purpose of education was from the great Irish poet, William Butler Yeats. He said that the aim is "not to fill a bucket but to light a fire."

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In my own role as MSP this year I hope to continue to work to see the new Justice Campus created, to see a good location identified and agreed for a new Prison replacing Porterfield, and to continue working with The Highland Council, in but a few years, to transform Inverness Castle into a major visitor attraction.

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I grew up in Ullapool and worked in Inverness as a mental health pharmacist for 20 years before entering politics.

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