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AVIEMORE JUNIOR YOUTH CLUB Tuesdays, 6:30 - 8:30pm. Call Vicki Gosling on 01479 810 071 for more information. AVIEMORE TINY TOTS Fridays 9:30am - 11:30am (except Christmas Holidays) at the Hub (above the Red Cross Shop) in Aviemore. For u3 and their Parents or Carers. Play, do crafts, music, outings, parties and snacks. For info email aviemoretinytots@hotmail.co.uk BADENOCH & STRATHSPEY PIPE BAND Novice Juvenille Pipe Band practice at Macdonald Aviemore resort 7pm - 9pm on Mondays and 6.30pm - 7.30pm Tuesdays. Grade 3A band practice is on a Tuesday at 7.30pm-9.30pm. BUCCANEER THEATRE CLUB Club nights are Monday, 7pm at RAF Lossiemouth. New members interested in both onstage and back-stage activities welcome. For more info call Chris on 07789 552968 or Ally on 07887 513915. DUFFTOWN OVER SIXTIES Meet first Wednesday monthly 2pm - 4pm in Back Hall of Memorial Hall. Entertainment including tea/coffee. All are welcome and Membership fee is £10 per annum. Annual summer bus outing. Tel: 01340 820388, 01340 820582, or 01340 820264. EDINVILLIE BADMINTON CLUB Meets Thursdays at the Hall. There is a junior section which starts at 6pm until 7.30pm. Junior coaching for attendees only from 7.30pm - 8pm. ALL juniors MUST be accompanied by an adult. Adult section starts at 8.00pm until late. Call Paula Roberts on 01340 810620 or for the Junior Club Andrea Fuller on 01340 871745. GRANTOWN & DISTRICT BILLIARDS & SNOOKER CLUB Meets on Monday, Wednesday, Fridays and Saturdays 7pm 10pm at Old Church Hall in Dulnain Bridge, near Grantown-

indoor meetings per year. The aim of Moray Field Club is to stimulate an interest in and further the study of antiquities, local and natural history, geology and landscape of Northern Scotland.. Call Lynda Anderson (Secretary) on 07990 600499 for more information.

on-Spey. HELGIN ROLLER DERBY Saturdays, 12pm - 2pm in Elgin Community Centre and Thursdays, 6:30pm - 8pm in Forres House Community Centre. Learn to roller skate with the newly formed Elgin Roller Derby team and find out more about how you can get involved. Beginners welcome. Open to males and females 16+. Find us on Facebook for more details.

MORAY GIRLS FOOTBALL CLUB Meets at Elgin Academy Games Hall (Mon, Tues & Wed evenings). For timings & age groups please see Contact. Welcoming girls from throughout Moray & Speyside. If you are aged between 9-14yrs & have played football or are keen to play, why not come along to one of our sessions? We are especially keen to recruit goalkeepers for our under 13s teams, even if you've not tried it before! Sessions are weekly. Phone Shona on 07723769076 or send a message via our facebook page, Moray Girls Football Club.

HIGHLAND DECORATIVE & FINE ARTS SOCIETY (HDFAS) 2nd Thursday of the month, 2pm, at Smithton Free Church, Inverness. Want to learn more about art? Encourage Young Artists? Volunteer to record Churches for posterity? £8 per monthly lecture. Contact 07595 219308 • hdfas.org.uk • averillbrodie@ymail.com or davidmartin30@hotmail.com. IYENGAR YOGA Tues 10am - 11.30am & Thurs 6pm - 7pm at Glenlivet Hall, Ballindalloch.Concentrates on postural alignment & body awareness & classes are sequenced to promote health in the body & stablity in the mind, making you feel good! For info call Jo Macdonald on 07722 594966 or email johanne.macdonald@tescp.net LONG DISTANCE WALKERS ASSOCIATION (NORTH WEST GRAMPIAN LDWA) For all who enjoy the outdoors combined with cake. Centred on Moray but covering Thurso to Pitlochry and even the islands. A varied programme of walks is planned to attract a wide range of people with shorter options for families when possible. For more info visit www.ldwa.org.uk KINGUSSIE CAMANACHD CLUB (SHINTY) Highland sports club. Games played March to September normally Saturdays. For more information call 01540 661 886 MORAY FIELD CLUB Regular walks, not strenuous from April - Oct, plus three

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I don’t know about you but I am getting a bit tired of all the politics just now. It does just seem to go on and on sometimes and I wonder if we will ever get back to just complaining about road and rail like the good old days! I am a sport fan myself and love to dwell on the success or otherwise of sporting endeavour. There is something pure and uncomplicated about winning or losing (or even just competing) in sport which seems to appeal to me. Maybe it’s because there is normally always a result and politics just seems often just to roll on and on - ah well - Hey Ho.

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The Free Community Information website - Free to view and Free to upload your listings. View our entire database of Clubs and Societies, Trades Listings, What’s On Diary, Restaurants, Reviews and articles, Schools, Holidays Tides, Useful Numbers and more... PASTORAL LETTER & CHURCH MEETINGS A peculiar interloper came into our world one cold winter night when our deep sleep was interrupted by mournful sounds coming from one of the large trees in our front yard. So, I left my warm blankets to don my wellies and a jacket and with a trusty torch I trudged through the snow to check up in the top of all of the trees. Two glowing eyes revealed the presence of the trespasser. I called out in my best whisper for that hour of the night, “Kitty, kitty, kitty . . . come down kitty!” There was no response to my coaxing except the continued belligerent “meowing”. After a few minutes in the freezing cold, I decided to let nature take her course and assumed that the animal would get tired and would remember how to climb down. Our morning was interrupted by the doorbell as some pedestrians walking down the street thoughtfully enquired, "Did you know that there is a cat in your tree?" My blurry eyes saw a concerned group that had formed, staring up our tree. One of our neighbours (who had once had 14 cats living with her in her small flat) called out, “You must do something about this immediately!” “But, it isn’t even my cat.” “Yes, but it is your tree and, therefore, your responsibility!” Not being familiar with the laws in Britain

concerning stray cat endangerment, I began to rehearse my options: I could get the hosepipe and squirt the cat, which would then get disgusted, and jump out of the tree. (None of the unofficial “neighbourhood watch” thought that this was a good plan.) I could cut off the branch upon which the cat was sitting. (That was also struck down vehemently.) I could even cut down the whole tree (but was informed that I must have permission from Cairngorm National Park.) When I had totally run out of ideas, I phoned the RSPCA. They helpfully advised me to heat up a tin of tuna and place it under the tree. The hungry intruder would smell it, and suddenly remember how to climb down. I did heat up the tuna, and the house smelled of it for several days, but Kitty just stared at me and meowed even more mournfully. The neighbors were horrified, "Oh, the dear cat is just frightened . . . just call out to him . . . " So, in my most dignified of tones, I pleadingly called: "Here kitty, kitty, kitty . . . PLEASE kitty!" I felt like the neighbours were branding me, as some sort of criminal, for having a tree in my yard that a poor little innocent kitty could climb into. All we needed was our name in the local newspaper as "those awful people who

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. Boat of Garten Parish Church, St Columba's Boat of Garten. Sunday service 10am. Evening worship at Kincardine Church, 6pm the 2nd Sunday of most months: check the weekly press. Contact: Rev. Donald Walker Tel: 01479 831252. Craigellachie Church Victoria Street. Sundays 9.45am. Cromdale and Advie Church, Church of Scotland Services page 6 - March 2017

left a poor defenseless beast in a tree to freeze to death". Soon, the Animal Cruelty people would be protesting in our front yard as international news reports would roll with live pictures of the poor malnourished feline. When I was at the end of my rope, a young volunteer from the RSPCA arrived on the scene, with the most rickety ladder that could be imagined. The young girl gingerly climbed the wobbly thing and with long leather gloves up to her elbows reached out for our trespasser. He climbed higher, but, finally, after much coaxing, she "catwhispered" him down. Have you ever felt like that cat (or ME!): Hopeless, not knowing what to do about the bitter situations that you are facing in your life? Jesus gives us the answer in Matthew 11:28, He says: “Come unto me, all of you who are weary and carry heavy burdens, and I will give you rest.” Jesus, just like that dedicated RSPCA volunteer, can whisper you down. Don’t climb higher . . . give Him a chance!

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21 tuesday

sophie ellis-bextor@ironworks, inverness tbc. visit www.ironworksvenue.com

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the drouthy cobbler comedy club@the drouthy cobbler, elgin 8pm - 10pm. £12.50. visit www.thedrouthycobbler.co.uk

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still life studio winter exhibition@still life studio, aberlour 10am - 5pm (mon - sat), free, all welcome

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ehs student photography exhibition 9am till 5pm , the gallery, moray college, elgin. free. photos will be on sale diverse collection of photographs from students at elgin high school email jess.standfast2@moray-edunet.gov.uk

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scottish opera highlights 7.30pm, nairn community & arts centre. music nairn performance. visit www.musicnairn.org.uk

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living in antartica a film-maker's tale of life on the land of snow & ice by kirk watson. 7.30pm, boat of garten community hall.

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moray women's aid masquerade ball 6.30pm 12.30am at elgin town hall. £75 per person or table of 10 discount - raising funds for moray women's aid. ticket sales close at noon on 19th february 2017. contact: elle johnston 01343 548549 or email ellejo@mwaelgin.co.uk

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thursday open mic night copper dog pub, the craigellachie hotel 7.30pm - 10.30pm, free entry time acoustic music sessions hosted by max mcpherson. book a slot or come along and listen. please book if dining. contact: lesley ann parker on 07887 846495 or email lesley@leap-scotland.com. visit www.facebook.com/musicnightscraigellachie

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north sea gas @hootannay, inverness 9.30pm

4 saturday

vitalic @ironworks, inverness, tbc. visit www.ironworksvenue.com sing-along-a-swing @mad hatters, inverness, 7pm

5 sunday

nairn 10k 2017 nairn community centre: 2pm, registration from 1.30pm, entry on the day only. fun run min. age 8. all entrants aged 8 & 9 must be accompanied by adult. www.nairnroadrunners.co.uk

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black star riders + gun + the amorettes@ironworks, inverness, tbc, www.ironworksvenue.com. scottish ornithologists’ club highland: “red breasted geese in bulgaria” by bob swann 7.30pm at culloden library. £3 members, £4 non-members. for info call 01463 772539 or 01808 511740,

8 wednesday

moray, banff & badenoch decorative & fine arts society (mbbdfas): fizz & crackle the williamson hall, duff avenue, elgin, 11am, exploring the inventiveness & technical brilliance of john singer sargent's work. speaker: mary alexander contact: membership@nadfas-in-elgin.org.uk www.nadfas-inelgin.org.uk

11 saturday

lee scratch perry @ironworks, inverness, 7.30pm, www.ironworksvenue.com scottish park & pipe slopestyle open tbc, cairngorm mountain. the third & final event of the 16-17 scottish park & pipe triple crown. contact: 01479 861261.

12 sunday

the inverness ½ marathon & 5k fun run inverness, 12.30pm, open to all ages & abilities, 01463 667500 dougal's jumper @hootannay, inverness 9.30pm. big breakfast 10am - 12pm at glenrines community centre. all welcome.

13 monday

light & life 7-9pm, costa coffee, 66 high st. elgin. free spiritual readings, dream interpretation, spiritual art, personality styles, massage, healing, nail art, music. contact: alyson sim on 07733127539 or at malalysim@lightlife.org.uk. visit www.lightlife.org.uk

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nethy bridge annual charity shop mon 10am - 4pm & 6.30pm - 8pm; tues to friday 10am - 2pm & sat 10am - noon at church hall, dell road, nethybridge. selling clothes, books, furniture, bric-a-brac anything & everything. tea, coffee & home baking will be served throughout the week. Goods can be dropped off in the Church Hall the week before. No electricals, video cassettes or books please. A bag collection will be organised in due course so start clearing out all unwanted items now!

16 thursday

the temperance movement@ironworks, inverness, tbc. www.ironworksvenue.com

17 friday

st patrick's day party @ironworks, inverness, tbc www.ironworksvenue.com. lional supported by cold years @the drouthy cobbler 8pm - 11pm. www.thedrouthycobbler.co.uk

18 saturday

international women's day (one day late): the bevvy sisters & the miss's 8.30pm, old bridge inn, aviemore. all welcome.

stiff little fingers @ironworks, inverness, 7pm www.ironworksvenue.com lost in the riots @mad hatters, inverness, 9.30pm schiehallio@hootananny, inverness, 9.30pm. moravian orienteering club mayne wood, elgin, 10.15am www.moravianorienteering.org

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aviemore adventure festival exciting programme of outdoor activities, taster sessions, in-store gear testing events, workshops, film screenings, etc. visit www.aviemoreadventure.org

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newtonmore 10 mile road race tbc, newtonmore the weekend also includes a 2 mile fun run, entertainment on the Saturday night & the "Hangover Mile" race on Sunday. visit www.newtonmore.com. highland forum: drop in sessions sat 18th 9am 5.30pm; sun 19th 11am - 5pm, outside 'waterstone's', eastgate centre, inverness. free all welcome. come & explore the website. contact: david gordon on 07953 222222 or email 2hiforum1@gmail.com

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2017 ssafa lossiemouth masquerade ball (black tie) 6.30pm - 12am, the laichmoray hotel, elgin. £40 dress to impress, enjoy a fabulous meal, dance to live music, have a great night & support a local charity. email annemariessafa@hotmail.com

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