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CLUBS & SOCIETIES AL-ANON FAMILY GROUPS Local weekly groups in Highland area. Call 020 7403 0888 for a local contact for your area or visit www.al-anonuk.org.uk ALVIE STABLES Small friendly stables for all abilities. Mini treks for 20 mins or 1 hour trails. Children's riding lessons are also available. For info call 07831 495397 or email info@alvie-estate.co.uk ART IN STRATHDEARN Every Thursday from 2pm - 4pm in Tomatin village Hall during term time. Guest tutors and annual exhibition.

AVIEMORE ART ASSOCIATION Every Thursday 2pm - 4pm in St, Andrew's Church Hall, Grampian Road, Aviemore. Throughout the year (not during school holidays)

BADENOCH GARDENING CLUB 3rd or 4th Wed each month in Newtonmore Village Hall (Lesser Hall) starting at 7.30 pm. Annual membership £10. Meetings free for members. £2.50 for visitors, who are most welcome.

BADENOCH & STRATHSPEY RAMBLERS Alternate weekends, mostly Saturdays. Contact Ann Hadley 01479 873806 or email bands.ramblers@live.co.uk for more info. Visitors are welcome to join us for up to three walks before joining the Ramblers.

BOAT OF GARTEN HEALTH WALK GROUP Meets every Wednesday by the Boat Hotel @ 1.30 pm. Contact Mina 01479 831502 for info.

A Warm Welcome Freshly Prepared Food Relaxing Rural Location Cantray Park Café is set in a rural location perfect for a leisurely lunch or a quick coffee and cake break. Ask about our daily specials and don’t forget to visit our Aviary (2-4 Wed to Fri).

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CAIRNGORM BRIDGE CLUB Meets most Tuesday evenings, arrive by 6:45pm for a prompt start, at St John's Church Hall, Rothiemurchus (opposite tennis courts, on the ski road). All welcome. It would be helpful if visitors could contact Ian on 01479 821075 to let us know.

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 CAKE WALK & STORY GROUP Regular walks for all ages. For more details call Guy on 07724 992790 / www.guyandjocelyn.org COIRE CHORISTERS Meets Thursdays, 7:15pm at St John's Church Hall, Rothiemurchus. All members of the community welcome. For more info call Carolyn Turner on 01540 662294.

COMMUNITY CAFE Fridays, 10am - 2pm at Grantown YMCA Community Centre. Teas & coffees with shortbread or chocolate biscuit £1. Homemade scones or pancakes and homemade cakes 50p. 12noon2pm soup and homemade bread or oatcakes £1.50 DISABILITY SNOW SPORTS UK Glenmore Lodge Grounds, Glenmore, PH22 1QU. Call 01479 861 272. For info visit www.disabilitysnowsport.org.uk FITNESS CLASSES AT BADENOCH CENTRE Spey Street, Kingussie. Variety of aerobic classes including aerobics, body blast, piyo, turbo kick, boxercise, circuits. Call Donna Reilly on 01540 662485 GRANTOWN ON SPEY U3A Meets every two weeks from October to April at Grant Arms Hotel, Grantown on Spey. See website for details: www.grantownu3a.co.uk

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GRANTOWN ON SPEY BRIDGE CLUB Mondays, 7pm in Grantown’s Episcopal Church Hall (Oct Apr) Visitors and new members are welcome. Call 01479 872672 INVERNESS FIELD ARCHERY CLUB Available to interested parties wishing to take up archery and are located in Nairn, Forres, Grantown, Elgin and all surrounding areas. Contact Secretary, Gerry Parks on 01667 462219 (evenings) or 07801 593 637. Visit invernessfieldarcheryclub.webeden.co.uk LINEDANCE Wednesday evenings from 7pm 9pm at Inverallen church hall, Grantown-on-Spey. £3 per session.All welcome. For info call Lorna on 07541 372524 QUASAR HOCKEY CLUB Wednesdays, 6pm - 9pm at Elgin Academy. P4-7 6pm 7.30pm; S1 - Adults 7pm - 9pm.

Training is open to male and female of any ability. For more information email Pete Bavidge at kqcoach@aol.com or visit www.quasarhockeyclub.co.uk ROTHES BABY & TODDLER GROUP Open year round on Tues & Fri, 9.15am - 11.15am term time & 10.00am - 12pm school holidays & in-service days. £2 entrance fee per family, includes snack & drinks for children & parents.

ROYAL BRITISH LEGION DUFFTOWN Meets 3rd Tuesday every month, at 7pm, 50 Balvenie Street, Dufftown. On Mondays, 7:30pm Stramash - Traditional Scottish Music. Call 01340 820 514 STRATHSPEY DRAUGHTS ASSOCIATION Games on the Outdoor Draughts Board at The Square, Grantownon-Spey. Strathspey residents of all ages, are Members of the SDA. Games played from the day prior to Good Friday until end of the second week in September. Call 01479 873814 or email grantownenterprisesltd @live.co.uk for details.

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I guess we all could all do with more wisdom!

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It strikes me that everyone has a story – everyone has a past. Some created the problems of their own past by their wild and reckless lifestyle – others had no say in the horrors of what was inflicted on them in their youth or infancy yet were left to suffer years of hurt, anger and bitterness. But each of the men described above, and many others like them, is a trophy of God’s grace – a living, breathing proof of the power of God to rescue, restore and transform broken human lives.

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somebody telling them it was time to get their act together. It wasn’t a new resolve or a determination to take back charge of their own lives and be a better person. Only an encounter with Jesus Christ as he is revealed in the Bible was sufficient to turn these men into what they have become today.

There’s nothing new in that - the Bible itself contains stories of hurt, broken, damaged men and women who turned to God and found their lives changed completely. We read in there about people like Moses who committed murder in an angry moment, David whose sexual weakness led him to an extramarital affair and the coldlycalculated death of the woman’s husband, Rahab who ran a house of ill-repute until she realised her people were the enemies of God’s people and that she needed to get on the winning side, Zacchaeus who robbed and cheated his own countrymen in collaboration with the occupying Roman authorities, Paul who would have ethnically-cleansed the world of all traces of Christianity

Kingussie Parish Church Sundays 11am. All welcome. www.kingussieparishchurch.org.uk Knockando, Elchies & Archiestown Parish Church of Scotland Sundays 10am. Tel : 01340 831381.

Mortlach Parish Church Sundays at 10.30am Tel: 01340 820049 (session clerk). All welcome.

Rothes Parish Church Sundays 11.30am. Tel: 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.

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if he’d got the opportunity… and many others too.

All these found a new beginning when they turned to the Lord in confession and repentance. God’s promise is still the same for those who do likewise – all are welcome to come to him and to find a new life, a new start…loved, forgiven, washed, saved.

Many yearn for the chance in life to start again, to have the slate wiped clean and to experience a new beginning – Jesus describes it as getting born again! And it’s the very thing that the Lord promises us in his word: If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness (1 John 1: 9). If it’s true, and it is, that every saint has a past, then it’s also true that in Jesus Christ, as a wise man once said, every sinner can have a future – and that’s great news for every imperfect person!

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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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We do not accept submissions for classes, courses or workshops.

Contact venues & organisers first as there may be changes to events.

5 monday - 9 friday lunchtime talks 12.30pm - 1pm at elgin museum. part of the highland archaeology festival. call 01343 543675 or email curator@elginmuseum.org.uk or visit www.elginmuseum.org.uk

7 wednesday aberlour orphanage memories illustrated talk 7pm 8pm at aberlour library. talk and display by ron aitchison. free event. all welcome. for info call 01340 871693 or email aberlour.library@moray.gov.uk

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OCTOBER 2015 1 thursday the unwanted battle @ the highlanders museum 2pm - 3pm. scottish battalions at the battle of loos a lecture by willie coupar. includes preview of the battle of loos exhibition, and light refreshments. booking essential. for more information visit www.thehighlandersmuseum.com

3 saturday local tales & scottish stories with ben hinnie 10:30am - 11.30am, aberlour library. interactive storytelling for ages 5-12 years. for information call 01340 871693 or email aberlour.library@moray.gov.uk orienteering at brodie castle 10am -11am. discover parts the castle grounds you never knew existed in moravian orienteers popular saturday series. more info at www.moravianorienteering.org abc boxing tournament @ ironworks 7pm. call 0871 7894173 or visit www.ironworksvenue.com

kathryn roberts & sean lakeman @ the drouthy cobbler 7:30pm in the blue room. for tickets and information visit www.thedrouthycobbler.co.uk light and the winter blues 2pm - 3pm & 7pm - 8pm, forres library. dr chloe greenwood discusses the winter blues, seasonal affective disorder & therapies available, including light therapy. a talk, discussion and poetry sharing as therapy. call forres library on 01309 672834 forres.library@moray.gov.uk shedding light on our emotional health with moray samaritans during library opening hours at dufftown library. samaritans elgin celebrate national poetry day’s theme of light with an uplifting information and poetry exhibition. call dufftown library on 01340 820272 or email dufftown.library@moray.gov.uk

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Lessons covering the sciences and humanities are taught by specialist teachers. Academic study is enhanced and balanced by movement, music and artistic work, with crafts, environmental and outdoor activities part of the weekly timetable.

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10 saturday 22nd annual world porridge making championship carrbridge in cairngorms national park. competitors from around the globe compete for the coveted golden spurtle trophy and title of “world porridge making champion”. www.goldenspurtle.com close-up magician lewis barlow @ the drouthy cobbler 3pm. visit www.thedrouthycobbler.co.uk the shires @ ironworks 7:30pm. call 0871 7894173 or visit www.ironworksvenue.com

10 saturday - 11 sunday moktoberfest sat session 1•11am - 5pm, session 2• 6pm - midnight. sun session 1•12pm - 6pm at elgin town hall. a charity fundraising beer festival featuring scottish craft ales. £15 entry incl. a moktoberfest glass and £10 beer tokens.

inverallan old tyme dancing 7:30pm - 10pm at inverallan church hall, grantown-on-spey. mixed old tyme and country dancing to live music. no partner required. £3 incl. tea and biscuits. call 01479 851353 or email: jane.mackintosh.01@btinternet.com highland literary salon 7pm at glen mhor hotel inverness. guest speaker nick thorpe. for more info visit www.highlandlitsalon.com df concerts presents johnny marr @ ironworks 7pm. call 0871 7894173 or visit www.ironworksvenue.com

14 wednesday wildlife warriors - wildlife kid’s club! 2pm - 4pm at the scottish dolphin centre. for children aged 4 - 10. £2 per child. must be accompanied by an adult. booking is essential. early booking is recommended. call 01343 820 339 for more information. all aboard for the keith to dufftown railway talk 3pm 4pm at keith library. illustrated talk by ian mckenzie & alistair coull. all welcome. call 01542 882223 or email keith.library@moray.gov.uk highland rock garden club - central asia: afghanistan, tajikistan, kyrgyzstan and uzbekistan a talk by john mitchell (royal botanic gardens edinburgh) 7.30pm nairn community & arts centre. £2.50 refreshments incl. all welcome. call john owen on 01320 366246 hockey taster session at milne's high school p4-7 from 6pm - 7.30pm and s1-adult from 7pm - 9pm. free and open to males and females of any ability. email pete bavidge at kqcoach@aol.com or visit www.quasarhockeyclub.co.uk for more info.

15 thursday strathspey railway steamin’ soup and sandwich marie curie lunch special train departs aviemore at 12:30pm arriving back at 2:05pm. £15 per adult, £10 per child - includes return journey rail travel and a soup and sandwich lunch served on board. tickets must be purchased in advance. there will also be a raffle held on the day with some fantastic prizes up for grabs. proceeds from the event to the marie curie highland unit. www.strathspeyrailway.co.uk. eaves @ the drouthy cobbler 7:30pm. for details visit www.thedrouthycobbler.co.uk regular music present hayseed dixie @ ironworks 7pm. 0871 7894173 or www.ironworksvenue.com

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scanning elgin's past 7.30pm, elgin museum hall. a talk by professor richard laing from robert gordon university, on the digital scanning of historic buildings in elgin and how the information can be used. for more info visit www.elginmuseum.org.uk

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24 saturday alzheimer scotland elgin branch coffee morning 10am - 12pm in the williamson hall, duff ave, elgin. pancakes, home baking, raffle & usual stalls. £2. baby show north 10am - 4pm elgin town hall. the biggest pregnancy, baby & toddler event in the north east. information & advice, freebies & interactive taster sessions. tickets £5 per adult, children go free. info@happymumsmarket.co.uk the take that experience @ ironworks 7:30pm. call 0871 7894173 or visit www.ironworksvenue.com

community car scheme music event - ceilidh, cake and raffle 2pm - 4pm at kincraig community hall. transport from £4 per person (must be booked in advance) £2 per person covers the cost of tea and cake. call 01479 810004 for more info.

31 saturday halloween @ the dolphin centre 6pm - 7:30pm. ghastly ghouls, devilish demons & spooky spectres await you in the icehouse. with games, music, fancy dress and pumpkin soup! £2 per child. must be accompanied by an adult. booking is essential. aleister crowley: a passion for evil @ the drouthy cobbler 7:30pm. visit www.thedrouthycobbler.co.uk

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Two of the events being held this month at Elgin's The Drouthy Cobbler will be of particular local interest - Lewis Barlow (Close-Up Magician, 10th October, 3pm) and Siobhan Wilson (16th October, 7.30pm) both spent much of their formative years at Elgin Academy and have gone on to carve out successful international performing careers.

Lewis’s multi-award winning and astonishing close-up magic has earned him an international reputation amongst magicians.

Lewis recalls that his fascination with close-up magic began by watching a Bunco Booth operator when he was just five years old. His passion for the art led him to develop his own magical effects and techniques, gaining him the confidence of some of the world’s greatest magicians.

Learning and developing magic at an accelerated pace led to Lewis becoming the youngest President of the Edinburgh Magic Circle. The winner of several national magic awards and a regular performer at exclusive private functions across Europe, Lewis’s recent shows at the Edinburgh Fringe were also sell-out successes. Renowned for the purity of his magical effects, he regularly provides his expertise to stage and screen productions at the highest level.

After studying and performing magic for over twenty years, Lewis’s appearance at The Drouthy Cobbler is not to be missed. It includes his latest and most astonishing magical effects, from psychological manipulation to extraordinary card control. You will not have seen such phenomenal magic at such close-range before.

Whether or not you believe in real magic, this is likely to be as close as you can get...

“A masterclass for other magicians. It’s the difference between knowing how to read music and hearing a virtuoso wring all the emotion out of Beethoven” The List

“A scintillating display. Barlow provides a great mixture of simplicity and style in his magic.

He had the crowd in the palm of his hands.”

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Siobhan Wilson Acclaimed singer- songwriter Siobhan Wilson will be performing songs from her new 7 track EP 'Say it's True'. Released at the end of June, the EP was preceded a busy summer including supporting Roddy Frame at the Kelvingrove Bandstand, Glasgow and the new Mugstock Festival.

Echoes of great artists such as Joni Mitchell, Kate Bush and Nina Simone can be heard in Siobhan’s songs. Siobhan says of her own distinct style ‘I use my voice differently to many other artists, I'm no that interested in fashion and am more timeless.’

Siobhan spent several years studying Classical music and composition in Edinburgh then Paris, where she immersed herself in jazz and "chanson française", listening to the music of Ella Fitzgerald and Jacques Brel. Fascinated by the complexities and organisation of sound Siobhan believes her training helps her to develop songs with unlimited possibilities of arrangement.

Siobhan has been making waves on the indie-folk scene for a couple of years having played to packed venues such as Edinburgh’s Queens Hall and Glasgow’s Royal Concert Hall; played several major festivals (Cambridge Folk Festival, Wickerman, Belladrum, Celtic Connections), and supported the likes of Ben E King, Justin Currie, Eddie Reader, Sophie Ellis Bextor, and Idlewild.

Siobhan has built up a strong fan base, her song ‘All Dressed Up’ was downloaded more than 50k times on the Pop Cop website.

Her music has already taken her to Europe and America, and been featured in a French television advert for the charity Secours Catholique. Her BBC Radio Scotland sessions have gained her high praise. Last summer Siobhan was featured on BBC 6Music Lauren Laverne’s ‘Headphone Moments’.

“Smooth, controlled and yet passionate voice; personal, touching lyrics; and swoonsome, jazz-inflected melodies in abundance."

Vic Galloway, BBC Radio Scotland “We played this very track on Monday and, to be honest, the reaction to it was huge.

Her voice, that instrumentation, those melodies!”

Lauren Laverne’s BBC 6Music Blog As always, tickets are available from www.thedrouthycobbler.co.uk or use the opportunity to pop into the venue and try out something from their new menu – locally sourced and freshly prepared food is now served from 8am until 8pm all week.

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PARLIAMENT BLOG I’ve been back in the constituency every week since I was elected but one of the great benefits to Parliamentary recess is the prolonged period it gives you back home. It’s allowed me to visit lots of businesses and to take in a wide range of events. Whilst it has been a pleasure to spend time with some of the incredible companies in our constituency, it also makes me more determined to do what I can to improve digital and infrastructure connectivity for the area. It is important that Highland businesses are not left behind and are given the same opportunity to flourish as other areas. This includes continuing to push for the £300 million Regional City Deal which will enable us to bring forward truly transformational projects to create jobs and opportunities as well as enhancing the experience for visitors and people who live and work here.

The Nessies - It's not every day one is asked to "christen" a new vessel. So I had the honour of upending the contents of the Quaich upon the "Jacobite Rebel", the latest addition to the Jacobite fleet which provides cruises on Loch Ness. A terrific attraction enjoyed by visitors from all over the globe. Freda Newton and her team have increased the numbers enjoying the cruises from 35,000 to 175,000 a year. Thoroughly recommended. After the official trip, I took my own "crew" for a trip - a marvellous day - with scenery, sunshine and mystery of Nessie's precise whereabouts. Thanks to the generosity of Loch Ness by Jacobite, our daughter is now the proud owner of three versions of the coy but lovable monster - dollies in traditional green , tartan and purple. Natasha, (7) calls them "The Nessies" and assures me that they share with her gossip about their adventures in the Loch.

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The Open Market Shared Equity budget, for our area for financial year 2015/16 has been set at ÂŁ6.3million which gives the potential for an additional 150 homes to be purchased. This is the biggest budget for our area since the introduction of the scheme.

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