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Clubs and Societies ANAGACH WOODS TRUST WORK PARTY Last Sun of month, 10am, one to three hours weather permitting.

Meets Forest Road car park, top of General Wade's Road. Bring your gardening gloves & a hot drink. Help restore our community woodland & get fit!

Call Hilary Swift on 01479 872261 or email at hilaryandpete@gmail.com Anagach Woods Trust Facebook page.

AVIEMORE & ABERNETHY ANGLING ASSOCIATION Season: Feb to Sept (no Sun fishing) Fishing for salmon, sea trout & brown trout from the 11th Feb to 30th Sept. Call Alan Riach (Sec) on 01479 831105 or email allan220@hotmail.co.uk BOAT OF GARTEN COMMUNITY COMPANY Boat of Garten Community Company is a charity which acts as an umbrella organisation to support local village groups, organise community events & manage projects within the village. Call Heather Goodall on

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01479 831653 or email at heather.com83c@yahoo.co.uk BOAT OF GARTEN HEALTH WALK GROUP Wed, 1.30 pm, the Boat Hotel Call Anne on 01479 831562 f

GRANTOWN ON SPEY LAWN TENNIS CLUB Junior & adult coaching is run throughout the year. The club also participates in the Highland District Leagues. Call 01479 873120

CAIRNGORM RUNNERS Mon & Wed club nights, The Fun House rear car park (next to Hilton Coylumbridge Hotel on the Ski Road). Email at secretary.cairngormrunners@ gmail.com www.cairngormrunners.org

GRANTOWN PARENT, BABY AND TODDLER GROUP Twice weekly at Inverallan Church Hall for fun & play for children & parents/carers alike.

All welcome to pop in for a chat & a coffee. Call Simone on 01479 873922

CARRON CREATES CRAFT GROUP Mon, 2pm-4pm. £2 per session.

General interest group.Guest instructors. Meets at Carron Village Hall. Call Jenny on 01340 810506.

GRANTOWN SENIOR YOUTH CLUB Tues (term time), 7pm - 9pm, Grantown YMCA Community Centre. For S1 & S2 pupils, £1 per session. Come along & join in the fun! Call Heather Fraser (Centre Co-ordinator) on 01479 872262 or email at grantowncommunitycentre@ gmail.com

CRAIGELLACHIE REAL ALE CLUB 1st Wed of month at 7.30pm. All welcome. Call 01340 881446 DISABILITY SNOW SPORTS UK Glenmore Lodge Grounds, Queens Houses, Glenmore. Call 0845 521 9338. www.disabilitysnowsport.org.uk DUFFTOWN B.A.L.L GROUP Tues, 9.45am - 11.45am, Dufftown & Sports Community Centre. A group supporting older people in & around Dufftown to live healthier & more independent. We meet on for music, yoga, crafts & interesting talks. Call Margaret Forrest on 01340 820515 or email at CWDevelopmentTeam@ moray.gov.uk EDINVILLIE BADMINTON CLUB Thurs, Edinvillie Hall. Junior section: 6pm - 7.30pm. Junior coaching for attendees only from 7.30pm - 8pm. ALL juniors MUST be accompanied by an adult.

Adult section: 8pm until late. Call Paula Roberts on 01340 810620.

For the Junior Club call Andrea Fuller on 01340 871745.

INVERLLAN OLD TYME DANCING 2nd Tues of month, 7.30pm 10pm, Inverallan Church Hall, Grantown-on-Spey. Mixed old tyme & country dancing to live music. No partner required. £3 incl. tea & biscuits. Call Jane Mackintosh on 01479 851353 or jane.mackintosh.01@ btinternet.com KINGUSSIE SCOTTISH COUNTRY DANCE CLUB Wed (Sept - Mar), 7.30pm 9.30pm, Tala na Ros, King Street, Kingussie from New members and visitors welcome.

Call 01540 662060 / 01540 661772.

KINGUSSIE SWRI 2nd Tues of month (Sept - Apr), 7.30pm, Tala nan Ros, King Street, Kingussie. Visitors most welcome. Speaker & home baking tea.

POKER TOURNAMENT Tues, 7.30pm, Claymore Bar, Grantown on Spey. Texas hold ‘em poker tournament. £5 to buy

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in. Over 18s only. Email at y.woolley@btinternet.com ROYAL BRITISH LEGION DUFFTOWN Mondays, 7.30pm Stramash Traditional Scottish Music 3rd Sat of month is cinema day.

Children in the afternoon & adults in the evening. 50 Balvenie Street, Dufftown. Call 01340 820711 STRATHSPEY BRANCH CLUB LEGION SCOTLAND 31 The Square Grantown-onSpey. Call 01479 872212 or 01479 873690 STRATHSPEY HIGHLAND PONY CENTRE Open daily from Easter to the end of Oct, 9.30am - 5.30pm.

Winter opening by appointment only. Pre-booking essential.

Call 01479 812345 (daytime) or 07884 276368 (evening) STRATHSPEY PROBUS CLUB 1st Thurs of month, 10am 12pm, Grant Arms Hotel, Grantown on Spey. We start with tea or coffee & biscuits with an opportunity to chat to friends old & new. Followed by a short business meeting prior to a presentation by a guest speaker.

Email Bill Steele (Sec) at secretary@strathspey probus.org.uk STRATHSPEY RUGBY FOOTBALL CLUB Wed, 7.30pm, Aviemore Primary School. Players of all levels & experience welcome. Call Ian Chadburn on 01540 673686 www.strathspeyrugby.com/

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For many, the prospect of a New Year can be daunting sometimes but I recently came across this quote which I quite liked:

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The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes. Unless a particular man made New Year resolutions, he would make no resolutions. Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective.

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Reader, God never holds anyone responsible for not doing that which they cannot do. If He did, that would make God unrighteous. If you have not received God’s Salvation, found alone in His Son Jesus Christ, it is not because you cannot, but because you will not! If you confess your sins to the Lord Jesus Christ He is faithful and just to forgive you your sins, and to cleanse you from all unrighteousness. Christ died for the ungodly!

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Pastoral Le er & Church Meetings ‘Happy New Year!’ It’s the phrase we’ve all heard and/or said many, many times by the time you read this piece as we leave 2017 behind and step into 2018. We are now officially in a ‘new’ year.

We often plan ‘new’ things for a new year. Even when we’re up to our eyes preparing for Christmas, which is becoming increasingly frantic and frenetic, most of us also have on our horizons plans of one kind or another for 2018. The topic of conversations around the kitchen table, on the sofa in front of the TV or when out with friends socialising revolves around or touches on what we hope to do when the New Year comes. What new thing will we do? What will we aspire to?

What do we hope for when the New Year arrives?

So now that it’s here, what new thing are you looking for in 2018? It might be a new car. The one you have is either coming to that stage where you’re spending more on repairs and maintenance than it’s worth or your finance deal for paying it off is coming to an end; but either way, you are going to get a new car.

Or maybe the time for renewing your car, home or energy insurance is approaching and you’re planning on getting a better new deal. If we’re to believe the TV advert, then you just need to ‘GoCompare’ and ‘when your choices are many you can save a pretty penny, when you go online to Go Compare’.

Or maybe you’re planning on entering a new chapter in a special relationship you have, and you’re new thing will be to get engaged or married to show that one special person in your life just how much you mean it when you say ‘I love you’.

We all want to do a new thing.

God also wants to do new things. He says in Isaiah 43.19, ‘Look, I am doing a new thing….I will make a pathway through the wilderness and make streams in the desert’. The new thing God talks about impacts and influences every aspect of our lives and isn’t confined to any one particular area. He says he will give clear direction and purpose to our lives, like a pathway through a wilderness, and provide fulfillment and pleasure in our lives, like a

Kingussie Parish Church Sundays 11am. All welcome. www.kingussieparishchurch.org.uk Knockando, Elchies & Archiestown Parish Church of Scotland Sundays 10am. Contact Rev Robert M Anderson 01340 831381.

Mortlach & Cabrach Church Dufftown. Sundays at 10.30am Tea & Coffee after. 01340 820049 (session clerk). All welcome.

Rothes Parish Church Sundays 11.30am. Contact Rev Robert M Anderson 01340 831381.

Rothiemurchus & Aviemore Church of Scotland St Andrews Church, Grampian Road, Aviemore. Sundays 11.15am. Website: www.standrews-aviemore.org.uk Sacred Heart RC Church Chapel Terrace, Aberlour, AB38 9LL Vigil Mass alternate Saturdays at 5pm. Tel 01340 810442 St Columba Episcopal Church High Street, Grantown.

Sundays 10.30am: Holy Communion. Ven. Richard Gillings: richard.gillings698@btinternet.com or phone 01479 831365.

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stream in a desert. When we trust our lives to Jesus Christ, whose death on the Cross reconciles us to God, we embark on a journey that has direction and purpose, and which brings fulfillment and pleasure.

This is the new thing from God that we can embrace and enjoy. Our lives then have a new look, a new purpose, a new pleasure which will never grow old, never wear out, and will never have to be renewed or replaced! No need to ‘GoCompare’ to find the best deal. We can trust the God who made us and who loves us and wants the very best for us.

God is the God of new things. I hope 2018 will be the year that this new thing becomes your new thing!

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Followed by refreshments in the church hall. Email: blessings@stjohns-rothiemurchus.co.uk St Mary’s RC Church Fife Street, Dufftown, AB55 4AP Vigil Mass alternate Saturdays at 5pm. Tel 01340 810442 St Michael Episcopal Church St Michael's Episcopal Church, Conval Street, Dufftown. Family Eucharist every Sunday at 11 am. All welcome. Tel: 01466 793841.

St Margaret of Scotland, Episcopal Church High Street, Aberlour, AB38 9QD. Sundays 10am: Eucharist. Website: www.stmargaretsaberlour.co.uk Tomintoul Church of Scotland Sunday morning service 11.15am All welcome.

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Parliament Blog In the run up to Christmas, my colleague Richard Lochhead MSP has launched a campaign to end the rip-off delivery surcharges across Scotland.

The problem of high delivery charges for consumers in remote or rural areas continues to cause hardship for many of my constituents and businesses in the Highlands and Islands – an area that is impacted more than any other part of the UK. As someone who has lived and grown up in the Highlands, I have always thought that it is completely unfair that consumers in rural and remote areas pay more for delivery than anywhere else in the UK. Please support the campaign by singing the petition and if you have a story to tell please share it with us: www.fairdeliverycharges.scot/

I used the opportunity of Small business Saturday to stop off at one of our local butchers to partake of their excellent range of high quality butcher meat and many other mouth-watering attractions.

Small Business Saturday is now an annual event but perhaps should feature more as an all year round resolution. I have a specific interest in championing Scotland’s excellent food and drink offer – of which there is plenty in the Highlands. Scotch beef, Scotch lamb, specially selected pork, Scottish salmon and of course, Scotch whisky are some of the better known ones that we produce which are enjoyed at home and internationally.

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At this time of year, you can’t help but think back over and reflect on the highlights and challenges of the preceding year. We are all well used to a whole year being cut into bite size clips on our tv screens on the year in review programmes.

My 2017 ‘montage’ would of course have to include the unexpected general election, but the day to day work of helping people is the real highlight of being an MP. Over the past year I have seen first hand the great work being undertaken in our communities by organisations and volunteers such as the Merkinch Community Centre and Badenoch and Strathspey Community Transport.

In parliament, I was proud to be able to stand up and give a voice to those struggling under the Universal Credit system by sharing their experiences.

I look forward to the challenge of continuing this work in the coming year and wish all spotlight readers the very best for 2018.

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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, sometimes causing devastation.

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round the horn: africa's endemic hotspot: speaker nigel redman. the horn of africa is an extraordinarily rich area for birds with more than 1000 species 8.30pm, grant arms hotel, grantown on spey

nverness orienteering club: northern night cup (nnc; round 4; craig leach. registration from 5.45pm, nnc is 100% powered by local orienteering volunteers. www.invoc.org.uk the arts society speyside lecture: vivaldi in venice: with a live musical performance explores the amazing world of vivaldi's music 11 am - coffee & tea served from 10.15am, the williamson hall, duff avenue, elgin. £7 for visitors/new members welcome call membership secretary on 07789 880481. www.theartssociety.org/speyside alvie & insh church winter talks in aid of kiwoko hospital, uganda: the big picture; speaker - peter cairns 7.30pm, cairngorm christian centre, the brae, kincraig. admission free, donations to kiwoko hosp www.kiwokohospital.org

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rspb 2018 new year bird count join in & count the birds in your garden black, white grey & gold in finland: speaker graham lenton 8.30pm, grant arms hotel, grantown on spey

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the arts society highland: vivaldi in venice - vivaldi`s music transports its listeners to the heart of 18th century venice; speaker - peter medhurst 2.15pm, smithton culloden free church. non-members welcome £8. email averill brodie at averillbrodie@ymail.com. www.hdfas.org.uk

federation of holistic therapists (fht): skincare; speaker - donna melvin, unique skin clinics, gives us an insight into her work. help & advice for acne, rosacea, skin tags, etc 6.30pm - 8.30pm, the inkwell, francis place, elgin. fht members £5, non fht members £8. call sandra ream on 07751 316663 or sandra@willowbankholisticmassagemoray.co.uk strathspey probus: the ghosts of culloden; speaker hugh allinson 10.30am, grant arms hotel, grantown on spey

13 saturday

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14 sunday

moray typhoons vs kilmarnock storm (away game) tbc, galleon centre, kilmarnock. all welcome www.moraytyphoons.co.uk great glen walking club: tore/alcaig & round & about 9am (please arrive 15 mins earlier), uhi car park, ness walk, inverness. grade: c; distance: 8 miles www.greatglen.org

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moray typhoons vs kilmarnock junior ice hockey team (away game) 7.30pm, galleon centre, kilmarnock. www.moraytyphoons.co.uk moravian orienteering: saturday & moray & nairn schools league; ardgye tbc, all welcome. www.moravianorienteering.org polar wildlife: an introduction to the animals & plants of the arctic & antarctic; speaker - james fenton 8.30pm, grant arms hotel, grantown on spey great glen walking club: docharn woods & beyond 9am (please arrive 15 mins earlier), uhi car park, ness walk, inverness. grade: c+; distance: 6 miles www.greatglen.org

15 monday rsgs lecture: the ice age in scotland: speaker - prof colin ballantyne 7.30pm - 9pm, highland council chamber, glenurquhart road, inverness. £10

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16 tuesday blood donors 5.15pm - 8.15pm, craig maclean leisure centre, grantown on spey. all welcome. please book an appointment. call 0345 301 7270 or email nss.snbtsenquiry@nhs.net

17 wednesday moravian orienteering: northern night cup; round 5; culbin registration from 5.45pm, nnc is 100% powered by local orienteering volunteers. www.orienteering.scot/northern-night-cup

18 thursday skomer island: from a warden's perspective; speaker - ed stubbings. skomer is home to the largest colony of manx shearwaters on earth as well as other seabirds 8.30pm, grant arms hotel, grantown on spey

20 saturday moray typhoons vs aberdeen lynx (snl sot/cup) 6pm, ice rink, moray leisure centre, elgin. all welcome. www.moraytyphoons.co.uk theo kottis + clyde rouge + ethan french @ironworks, inverness 10.30pm, over 18s only. www.ironworksvenue.com the manx shearwater: basic history & lifestyle of the species; speaker - ed stubbings 8.30pm, grant arms hotel, grantown on spey great glen walking club: glen mazeran to millennium bothy 9am (please arrive 15 mins earlier), uhi car park, ness walk, inverness. grade: c; distance: 6 miles. www.greatglen.org

20 saturday - 21 sunday sssa: gordon skiers open tbc, lecht ski school, strathdon, aberdeenshire. call 0131 625 4405 or email info@snowsportscotland.org

northern night cup (nnc) round 6; aviemore golf club registration from 5.45pm,nnc is 100% powered by local orienteering volunteers www.orienteering.scot/northern-night-cup

24 wednesday - 26 friday the brodie burns experience in association with lossie entertainment academy brodie castle. musical by tish tindall based on an idea by david gest & the life & works of burns. school workshops & performances. see www.nts.org.uk for details

25 thursday - 27 saturday big burns stramash 2018: highland schools hoolie 11am & 2pm (on 27th), eden court, inverness a variety of different events to get the national year of young people off to a bang in the highlands!

26 friday james brown is annie@the drouthy cobbler, elgin 9pm - 11pm. www.thedrouthycobbler.co.uk

27 saturday moray rock garden club: members' afternoon 3.30pm, new elgin hall annex, land street, elgin. short talks on plants, flowers & gardens, plus a quiz call alan souter (convener) on 01340 871504 torridon: burns night special@ironworks, inverness 8pm. www.ironworksvenue.com moray typhoons vs aberdeen lynx (away game): snl scot/cup 7.15pm, linx ice arena, aberdeen. all welcome. ww.moraytyphoons.co.uk

27 saturday - 28 sunday sled dog rally 9am - 5pm (on 28th jan), glenmore, aviemore. two-day timed trials held by the siberian husky club of great britain which take place each year in aviemore. call 0871 277 6783 or email at enquiry@siberianhuskyclub.org.uk www.siberianhuskyclub.org.uk

28 sunday

21 sunday the legends of american country tribute show 7pm doors open for 7.30pm, elgin town hall. ÂŁ19.50. tickets from elgin library. call 01345 562600

great glen walking club: inverfarigaig to foyers circuit 9am (please arrive 15 mins earlier), uhi car park, ness walk, inverness. grade: c+; distance: 6.5 miles. www.greatglen.org

23 tuesday

29 monday

grantown u3a: st kilda; speaker - susan bain 2pm, grant arms hotel, grantown on spey. talk followed by refreshments

tales of damsels & dragons: the lives of damselflies & dragonflies; speaker - richard pegler 8.30pm, grant arms hotel, grantown on spey

24 wednesday badenoch & strathspey orienteering club (basoc): admin@winterburnmedia.co.uk

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29 monday - 30 tuesday lossie entertainment academy open day: free ollege taster event - musical theatre, sound production, audition & interview technique, etc 10am - 3pm, lossie entertainment academy, high sreet, lossiemouth. free. call tish tindall on 01343 813111 or email at hello@lossieea.co.uk

Words by the Wayside “the rich man also died, and was buried; And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments...”

31 wednesday sssa alpine series primary qualifier: three venues cairngorm mountain; nevis range & glencoe mountain resort tbc, call 0131 625 4405 or email at info@snowsportscotland.org

February 2018 3 february the 25th anniversary dance of sold on soul on behalf of moray unicef - tickets going fast! doors open 7.30pm, band starts 8.30pm, elgin town hall. bar & raffle. over 18s only. tickets from sound & vision & a&i supplies or call 01343 543092. call irene easton on 01343 544600 or irene_easton@hotmail.com Winterburn HP.pdf

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