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Clubs and Societies ABERLOUR HAE A NEWS!: FOR ANYONE LIVING WITH DEMENTIA 2nd Tues of month, 10am 11.30am, Conval Court Sheltered Housing, Conval Drive, Aberlour. Have a cuppa & a news. Quizzes, dominoes, bingo, crafts, gentle exercises, etc. Call Sharon FInlay (Community Activities Organiser) on 07584 408209 or email at sfinlay@alzscot.org ABERLOUR TENNIS CLUB Come & play tennis on our two clay courts. Beginner or experienced, social or competitive, it's here for you in the heart of Aberlour. New members welcome as well as visitors. Call Graham Pook on 01309 611358 ANAGACH WOODS TRUST WORK PARTY Last Sun of the month, 10am, Forest Road car park, top of General Wade's Road. Bring your gardening gloves & a hot drink. One to three hours weather permitting. Help restore our community woodland & get fit! Call Hilary Swift on 01479

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872261 or email at hilaryandpete@gmail.com See Facebook page. AVIEMORE ART ASSOCIATION Thurs (term time only), 2pm 4pm, St, Andrew's Church Hall, Grampian Road, Aviemore. AVIEMORE COMMUNITY CAFE Wed, 10am - 4pm, St Andrew's Church Hall. Delicious home baked cakes & hearty soups served as well as tea & coffee. Come & enjoy a cuppa & a blether with our friendly customers & volunteers. Call Barbara Aarden (Sec) on 01479 811245. AVIEMORE JUNIOR YOUTH CLUB Tues, 6.30pm - 8.30pm. Call Vicki Gosling on 01479 810071 BEADING & JEWLLERY MAKING WORKSHOPS The Imagination Workshop, Inverdruie, Aviemore. Learn how to use beads & wire to make your own amazing jewellery. Call Gayle Penney on 01479 812111 DUFFTOWN OVER SIXTIES 1st Wed of month, 2pm - 4pm, Back Hall of Memorial Hall, Dufftown. Entertainment including tea/coffee. All are welcome & Membership fee is £10 per annum. Annual summer bus outing. Call 01340 820388, 01340 820582, or 01340 820264 EDINVILLIE CRAFT CLUB Tues, 2pm - 4pm,Edinvillie Hall, (Oct - Apr). Tea & coffee available. There is also a visiting 'mobile craft shop', Lauraine's Crafts from Buckie, who calls every Tues afternoon where you can buy yarn, patterns, etc. Everyone welcome. Call Ina Whyte on 01340 871665 FRIENDS OF CRAIGELLACHIE BRIDGE A Scottish Registered Charity with the objectives of promoting & stimulating the general knowledge of the Craigellachie Bridge & its surrounding area, along with providing information about the history, culture &

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GRANTOWN ON SPEY BRIDGE CLUB Mon (Oct - Apr), 7pm, Grantown’s Episcopal Church Hall. Visitors & new members are welcome. Call 01479 872672 GRANTOWN ON SPEY U3A Every two weeks (Oct - Apr), Grant Arms Hotel, Grantown on Spey. www.grantownu3a.co.uk GRANTOWN YWCA COMMUNITY CENTRE Fri, 10am - 2pm: Homemade soup, bread & cakes. 1st Sat of month, 10.30am 12.30pm: Pancake Brunch Call 01479 872262 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 email at jane.mackintosh.01@ btinternet.com QI GONG GROUP Thurs, 10.30am - 12.30pm, the Memorial Hall Dufftown. £4 for charities. Qualified instructor. Call Hilary Christie on 01807 590 434 or email at christiehilary@talktalk.net QUARRIERS UNPAID CARERS CAFE - ABERLOUR 4th Thurs of month, 11am - 1pm. Station Tearooms, Aberlour. Fun, free, friendly social group for unpaid carers in Moray. Drop in & out as you like. Make friends, glean info, take time out from caring. Call Nuala Lindsay on 01343 556031 or email. at carersmoray@quarriers.org.uk ROTHES BABY & TODDLER GROUP Tues, 9.30am - 11.30am, Upstairs Hall, Grant Hall, Rothes. Friendly welcome, songs & stories, toys, snack time - please

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SPEYSIDE GYMNASTICS CLUB Mon, 4.15pm - 6pm (£7.50); Tues 4.45pm - 7pm (£7.50); Thurs 4.15pm - 6.15pm (£7.50); Fri 4pm - 5.30pm (£6) & 5.30pm - 7.30pm (£7.50). Grant Hall, Rothes. We offer gymnastics for girls & boys aged 5+. All fees paid termly. Call Tim Lyon (Head Coach) on 01340 810665 or email at speysidegc@gmail.com SPEYSIDE LEG CLUB, ABERLOUR Thurs, 10.30am - 12.30pm, 'The Bungalow,' next to Fleming Hospital, Queens Road, Aberlour. If you have any problems with your lower legs, like ulcers, swollen legs or eczema, come along. No appointment necessary! Call 07591 693520 SPEYSIDE SCOTTISH COUNTRY DANCING Mon (term time only), 7.30pm 8.30pm, Performance Area, Speyside Sports & Community Centre, Aberlour. For P5 & over, young people & adult beginners. £1. Primary children should be accompanied by an adult. Please wear soft shoes. All welcome. Call Bill or Rosemary Legge on 01340 810304. STRATHSPEY WINDS Mon, 2pm, Boat of Garten Hall. Email at info@boathall.org.uk Y-ENGAGE Fri (term time only), 7pm - 9pm Grantown YMCA Community Centre. For S3 to S6 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 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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Pastoral Le er & Church Meetings I’m not sure whether it’s good news or bad to loose one’s diary. A couple of years ago I managed to gift mine to a London Underground train. Not surprisingly it never turned up. The panic was considerable… not least because I wasn’t sure how much personal information I’d written in the back! Had I put any of my passwords there? Luckily I’d managed to have sufficient information on my phone to reassemble my diary dates!. However, another part of me said ‘great news’ I’ve lost my diary; good news because a quick glance would have told me that it was manic. All action and little time for me to pause and reflect. Of course a full diary may be quite convenient. It’s the perfect excuse for not having to respond positively to requests for help. ‘So sorry, I would love to help but my diary is just too full (in reality with much less pressing things!!)! It is no accident that in the Biblical account of the Creation, God ‘rested on the seventh day. God blessed the seventh day and set it apart as special. The six- one cycle was firmly established. Around 2000 years ago with Jesus’s life, death and resurrection the world was in for a change again. One of the most powerful testimonies to

the Risen Christ was that Christians moved the ‘special ‘day to Sunday, the day of Resurrection. On that day Christian communities gathered together for the Breaking of Bread, for teaching, fellowship and prayer. The principle is retained as a special day once week which should have a different pace from the rest. Thirty years ago I found myself working as a chaplain to two large retail stores on Merseyside. This was the time when stores were going over to Sunday opening. A number of stores were very reluctant but they felt they had no choice if their competitors were doing it. The staff were mostly very unhappy and saw it as a disruption to family life. The arguments were not really about Sabbaterianism… It was about every day simply being the same - the rhythm of life being lost. Well that was thirty years ago and for many people every day has just become another day. I don’t believe it was accidental that God rested on the seventh day. There’s a recognition that we need a life balance between activity and leisure, between giving out and taking in. Read the Gospels and you’re given a pretty clear picture of Jesus’ amazing work rate. It’s also clear that he often

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struggled with the need to stand back, pause and reflect. Just before the feeding of the Five Thousand He sought to take a break with his disciples. “Let us go off by ourselves to some place where we will be alone and you can rest awhile. “(Mark CH6 v31) We all need to achieve a right balance in life. A crammed diary or a life of frenzied activity is no guarantee of fulfilment. It certainly is no guarantee that our priorities are right. Human relationships need working at, that means time. Above all else our relationship with God needs constant nurturing. God's pattern for the world is surely no acciden. He recognises the need for balance, for activity and for reflection; for work and leisure. Even the preacher needs to remember that she or he can’t give out if they don’t take in!! What’s you’re model for life?!!!

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richard.gillings698@btinternet.com or phone 01479 831365. St John Episcopal Church Sunday 10.30am: Eucharist. 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. Listed from K - T & regularly rotated. If you are a member of a church not listed here or if there are any amendments to existing details, please email linda@winterburn.co.uk

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1 monday - 2 tuesday reboot: wide horizons; working in social enterprise 9.30am - 2.30pm, elgin. free but booking essential. refreshments. for anyone looking to enhance their cv, develop their skills & find out about social enterprise. call lorna jamieson on 01463 238088 or email at lorna@socialenterprise.academy

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until 7 sunday futureproof: a mile in my shoes (findhorn bay festival) secret locations in moray - see website for details. visitors to the giant shoe box will walk a mile in the shoes of a young local stranger whilst listening to their story. www.nationaltheatre scotland.com/productions/a-mile-in-my-shoes

until 31 wednesday the highlands supports refugees (formerly moray supports refugees). for collection points see facebook page, for collection points see facebook page. appeal for warm clothing, toiletries, camping equipment & toys. volunteers, transport & cash donations welcome. www.facebook.com/moraycalaid

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The Moss Season Approaches! We live in cool maritime climate, which is ideal for moss to thrive. You cannot change the weather, and you cannot banish moss permanently, but you can control its’ infestation with some basic good husbandry, and a bit of work. I’m talking about scarifying again of course. This will also be featuring in all the TV gardening programmes and magazines about now, and it is what we at GreenThumb spend all winter doing. We will have 3 heavy blade scarifier machines out clearing (at the last count) 1,000 lawns round here. – oh joy!

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4 thursday elgin library afternoon reading group 2.30pm 3.30pm, elgin library. all welcome m forster heddle - minerologist & mountaineer; speaker - hamish johnston, descendent & author 7.30pm, elgin museum hall, 1 high street, elgin £3, £2 for moray society members, £1.50. call janet trythall on 01343 543675 or email at curator@elginmuseum.org.uk www.elginmuseum.org.uk

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5 friday banff & moray members' centre (national trust scotland): quiz night. tbc, miltonduff village hall. teams of 6. drinks to purchase, nibbles, tea, coffee, sandwiches, savoury snacks, cakes, etc. call janice oakes on 01309 675224 or email at janiceoakes51@gmail.com red, white & blue day free to register & £1 donation to wear red, white or blue. encouraging schools to host their own ‘street’ party to commemorate 100 years since the end of the first world war. www.redwhiteblueday.co.uk motorheadache@the ironworks, inverness 7.30pm, www.ironworksvenue.com gaelic society of inverness: obair a’ chlò mhòir san là-an-diugh; speaker - donald martin 7.30pm, sgl room, eden court theatre, inverness the bevvy sisters 8.30pm, the tipi, dell of abernethy monarchs of the glen: witness the wonder of the annual red deer rut where the males show off their funky moves & loud bellows 4pm - 7pm, meeting place to be given out after booking. donations welcome. booking essential by 4th oct. call saranne bish on 01479 874696 or email at saranne.bish@highlifehighland.com

5 friday - 7 sunday pictish arts society conference: reception on fri, conference on sat, field trip on sun 9am - 5.15pm on sat, elgin museum hall, 1 high street, elgin. £25. call janet trythall on 01343543675 or email at curator@elginmuseum.org.uk www.thepictishartssociety.org.uk

7 sunday homelessness sunday various events throughout moray & the highlands. please check your local press, etc for details steam@alford tbc, grampian transport museum, montgarrie road, alford. adult: £8; concession: £6; child: £1. a real steam party with local & visiting engines giving rides, demonstrations & arena activities. call 01975 562292 or email at info@gtm.org.uk. www.gtm.org.uk great glen walking club: glen livet circuit 8am (early start) please arrive 15 mins , uhi car park, ness walk, inverness. grade: b; distance: 12 miles. www.greatglen.org garden open day: glenkyllachy 2pm, glenkyllachy, tomatin. all welcome. www.scotlandsgardens.org rsgs lecture: sir john lister-kaye – a natural life 7.30pm – 9pm, highland council chamber, glenurquhart road, inverness. £10; tiso card £8; students, u18s free. email robert preece at rpreece@onetel.com. www.rsgs.org crafternoon session 1pm, knockando woolmill. £2 to book a place. suitable for all skills - knitting, sewing, spinning, painting, etc. please book on website www.kwc.co.uk/collections/craft-workshops

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6 saturday proud ness 9am-midnight, inverness city centre & eden court (day), mercure hotel (evening disco) large-scale event for lgbti+ people & allies. parade, stalls, arts & crafts, speakers, entertainment, evening disco. email support@proud-ness.org page 14 - October 2018

www.proud-ness.org moray ramblers: boat of garten to grantown on spey 8am, community centre, elgin route via forres bookings essential on wednesday prior to walk. grade: easy/moderate; distance: 11 miles. call donnie mcdonald on 07809 480768 or email at bookings@morayramblers.org.uk www.morayramblers.org.uk happy mums' market: indoor pre-loved market dedicated to baby & children's items, from birth to 10 years 10am - 12pm, inverness leisure centre. £1 adult; children - free. www.happymumsmarket.co.uk ira class of '68: school reunion 7pm, craigmonie hotel, inverness. email iraacademy68@mail.com www.facebook.com scottish spca: highland ladies ' lunch 12pm - 6pm, macdonald drumossie hotel, inverness £35 (early bird). book online. call 03000 999 999 (option 4). www.scottishspca.org/ladieslunch proud ness after-event party by lgbt forum 7pm, mercure hotel, inverness. dj coe. over 18s only badenoch & strathspey ramblers: nairn to cawdor riverside walk 9.30am, burnfield car park, grantown grade: leisurely; distance: 6 miles. call karen murray 01479 821281. www.badenochandstrathspey ramblers.org.uk

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11 thursday scottish studies: brochs & iron age society in northern scotland; speaker - dr howie firth 2pm 4pm, elgin library. £3 the arts society highland: hidden canvases; street art & the city; speaker - doug gillen on the key stages in street art's growth, examining the different elements & styles 2.15pm, the free church hall, smithton, inverness. email at info@theartssocietyhighland.org.uk www.theartssocietyhighland.org.uk

12 friday uk foo fighters@the ironworks, inverness, 7pm www.ironworksvenue.com neolithic stargazing in arbriachan forest; speaker stephen mackintosh 8pm, arbriachan forest admission free for u16s. lecture in forest classroom if inclement. booking essential. call 01463 861236 or email at arbriachanforest@gmail.com

13 saturday moray field club: autumn walk through anagach woods, grantown-on-spey 9.30am - 4pm. £10 for bus which leaves from lossie green, elgin at 9.30am. walk from grantown to cromdale through the woods on level paths. call 07840 285438 or email at morayfieldclub@gmail.com great glen walking club: kincraig to aviemore 9am (please arrive 15 mins earlier), uhi car park, ness walk, inverness. grade: c; distance: 8 miles. www.greatglen.org

15 monday the highlander museum: ww1 touring exhibition from the highland folk museum 10am - 3.15pm, the highlanders' museum. fort george, ardersier. call 0131 310 8702. www.thehighlandersmuseum.com

15 monday - 16 tuesday reboot: wide horizons; working in social enterprise 9.30am - 2.30pm, elgin. free but booking essential. refreshments. for anyone looking to enhance their cv, develop their skills & find out about social enterprise. call lorna jamieson on 01463 238088 or page 16 - October 2018

clan coffee morning 10.30am - 2pm, the clan cancer support centre, 227 high street, elgin. open to anyone affected by cancer with information & support available. guest speakers.all welcome. call julie on 01343 544132 ranger ramble: aviemore 11am, aviemore. meeting place to be given out after booking. donations welcome. booking essential by 17th oct. aimed at those wanting to start walking for health or social reasons. distance: 1km/0.6mi. call saranne bish on 01479 874696 or email at saranne.bish@highlifehighland.com sean mcgowan 7.30pm, the old bridge inn, aviemore. all welcome

19 friday line dancing night 7.30pm - 11.30pm, inchberry hall, orton, fochabers. small club fee. all welcome to join the christmas party night. take along your own refreshments & bits. ’bring a party to a party’. call mahri on 01542 834053 bad touch@the ironworks, inverness, 7.30pm

19 friday - 21 sunday loch ness knit fest 2018 various timings, inverness leisure centre. 30+ workshops, main stage entertainment, crafting village & marketplace, etc call 01463 667500

20 saturday the dramathon: the speyside malt whisky marathon 9am, speyside. four races: full marathon, half, 10km & a relay. www.thedramathon.com moray fresh start: coffee morning 9.30am - 12.30pm, the williamson hall, elgin (behind st columba’s south church). £2.50. raffle, cake & produce stalls. all proceeds to this local charity which provides household essentials to all those who have been made homeless & moving into a tenancy with little or no possessions badenoch & strathspey ramblers: creag farleitre & creag dhubh 9.15am, community hall car park, kincraig. grade: moderate; distance: c+ call audrey turner on 07450 548862 or email at www.badenochandstrathspeyramblers.org.uk stories in the landscape: fionn mac cumhail & other heroic figures; speaker - roddy maclean 2pm - 4pm, highland folk museum, kingussie road, newtonmore. free but ticketed. call 01540 673551 or email at highland.folk@highlifehighland.com

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21 sunday great glen walking club: aonach odhar from glen kyllachy 9am (please arrive 15 mins earlier), uhi car park, ness walk, inverness. grade: c+; distance: 8 miles. www.greatglen.org

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23 tuesday - 25 thursday the 7th highland wheelchair curling triples competition 2018 23rd: 10.30am - 3.45pm; 24th: 10am - 3.15pm, inverness ice centre, bught park, inverness. watch wheelchair curlers from all over scotland & the north of england in action & compete to win the tesco trophy. call mo simpson on 07798 710404 or email highlandwheelchairtriples@ gmail.com

24 wednesday badenoch gardening club: branklyn gardens; speaker - jim jermyn 7.30pm, newtonmore lesser village hall. free for members, ÂŁ2.50 for guests (incl refreshments). call kathryn main on 01540 673360 or email at badenochgardeningclub@gmail.com

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28 sunday moravian orienteering: scottish orienteering league: roseisle courses all day. fochabers hill walking & rambling club: the great glen way; fort augustus to invermoriston (loch ness) 7am, fochabers. bus will pick up in other locations depending on route. call 01343 209001 or email at veronica@glenlivet.org moray ramblers: troup head 8am, elgin community centre route via fochabers. grade: moderate; distance: 8 miles. bookings essential by wednesday prior to walk. call ann hewawitharana on 01340 821242 or email at bookings@morayramblers.org.uk wishbone ash@ the ironworks, inverness, 7.30pm meet & greet evening with the banff & moray members' centre nts 6.30pm - 8.30pm, playful garden cafe. find out what we do to help local nts properties & have fun as we do it! call janice oakes on 01309 675224 or at janiceoakes51@gmail.com

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31 wednesday tiny terrors: hallowe'en for wee ones! 11am & 2pm, highland folk museum, kingussie road, newtonmore small charge will apply for activities. call 01540 673551 or email highland.folk@highlifehighland.com spooky halloween tea time! 4pm - 6pm, glenmore visitor centre. ÂŁ6 per child includes halloween buffet. a scary mini woodland trail & some halloween themed activities. all children must be accompanied by a responsible adult. call saranne bish on 01479 874696 or email saranne.bish@highlifehighland.com

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High Quality Dental Care for the Whole Family We are Still Registering New NHS Patients Call 01479 810301 to Register We are Open Late Every Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday Until 8pm for Your Convenience.

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Fed up with poorly fitting dentures or that unsightly gap? Dental Implants may offer the Gold Standard Solution to Transform your Smile and Self Confidence. Our implants are only placed by one of Scotlands Leading Dental Implantologists: Dr Bruce Strickland BDS DipImpDent RCS (Eng)

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"My experience of this practice was excellent from the receptionist who took my initial phone call to the dentist I was seen by. The care I received as a very anxious patient for a last minute appointment was exceptional" "You have a lovely practice and great staff"

*with the exception of hygienist scalings and fissure sealant treatments