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Clubs and Societies ACTIVE BOXING Fri, 6.15pm - 7pm, Turriff Sports Centre. Call 01888 563800 or email at turriff.sports@ aberdeenshire.gov.uk ART - INTERESTED? Tues, 10am - 12pm, Strathbogie Church Hall. Informal group - all welcome. Call Ian Laing on 01466 792788 or tsrbroadband5369@ btinternet.com BRANDER LIBRARY READING GROUP 1st Wed of month, 11am, Huntly Library. New members welcome!

Call 1466 792179 CRAFTY WEDNESDAYS Wed, 1.30pm - 3.30pm, The Royal Oak, Turriff. £2. Call Mary Martin on 01888 563954 or email marymartin1953@btinternet.com DEVERON, BOGIE & ISLA RIVERS CHARITABLE TRUST The Trust's objectives are to conserve, protect & rehabilitate salmon, sea-trout & trout & other indigenous wildlife. Call 01466 711388 or email at office@deveron.org

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HUNTLY ASDITUDE Support, events & activities for parents, carers & children affected by Autism, AD(H)D & other related conditions, in & around the Huntly area. 21 Main Street, Huntly. Call 07903 304384 or email at huntly_asditude@outlook.com www.huntlyasditude.btck.co.uk HUNTLY BREASTFEEDING BUDDIES Fri, 9.30am - 11am, the Deveron Room, the Linden Centre. A group for breastfeeding families, potential, current or past. Come along & support other breastfeeding families & enjoy a hot drink & biscuit too.

HUNTLY CHEST HEART & STROKE CLUB Tues, 9.30am - 11.45am, Huntly Health Centre. Call Isabel McGregor or Kathleen McPherson on 01466 792949 or 01466 794971 HUNTLY COMMUNITY CYCLING A group of individuals promoting cycling for everybody in & around the Huntly area. Email at huntlycycling@hotmail.co.uk HUNTLY FOOTBALL CLUB Christie Park Call 07776 398837 or email at huntlyfc@highlandleague.com HUNTLY NORDIC SKI CLUB Thurs, 7.30pm, Huntly Nordic & Outdoor Centre. Call Sandy Thom on 01464 831429 HUNTLY OVER 50S' CLUB Thurs (fortnightly). Guest speakers & demonstrations Call Betty Morrison on 01466 792946 HUNTLY RUGBY CLUB Tues, 6.30pm - 8pm & Sat, 10am - 12pm (Training), the Gordon Schools pitches. Email at james@huntlyrfc.com or secretary@huntlyrfc.com HUNTLY SMALL-BORE RIFLE CLUB Leagues, comps, coaching, safety training. Reference &

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October 2018 1 monday

insch museum talks: aberdeen bodies; speaker - dr dee hoole on the dissection of pauper bodies at the medical schools of aberdeen, 1831 - 1902 7.30pm, insch parish church hall. £4. call 07532 223824 or email at insch.museum@gmail.com

1 monday - 6 saturday

the scottish diaspora tapestry exhibition 10am - 4pm (open tues - sat & closed sun), garioch heritage centre, loco works road, inverurie01467 621855 £2. call 01467 621855. www.gariochheritage.co.uk

3 wednesday

brander library reading group 11am, huntly library

4 thursday

have a go with lego 3.30pm - 5pm, huntly library clan cancer drop ins 10am - 4pm, turriff library

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 cullen & deskford church present inverurie glee club in the hall church at 7.30pm, £5. call isobel addison admin@winterburnmedia.co.uk

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2 tuesday

alvah & forglen arts group present "the great caberet safari" 7.30pm, alvah hall. please book in advance for age 12+. www.alvahandforglenartsgroup. wordpress.com/events turriff & district u3a: colonial africa in the late 50s; speaker - callum christie 2pm, st ninian's church, gladstone terrace, turriff

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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

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huntly farmers' market 9am - 1pm, the square, huntly. selling produce grown, reared, made or caught by small producers in the north-east. hot food & drinks. email at huntlyherbs@hotmail.com lego club 2pm - 4pm, turriff library 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,

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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!

lawn! An “average” lawn usually takes 2 experienced crew half a day to do with machines and blowers.

The best time to tackle this is either side of Christmas. Scarifying is never recommended in the growing season because the very nature of the exercise is pretty traumatic for the grass, and some recovery time is required, during which time it looks pretty shabby. Doing it off-season allows recovery, then you put on a spring feed, and have a season of decent grass to mow. Enjoy!

Scarifying moss and thatch out is undertaken to clear the lawn surface of all the dead material and moss to allow fresh grass plants to dominate the lawn environment, providing the best conditions for absorbsion of sunlight, moisture and nutrients. If this task is overlooked (or avoided), the following season there is even more build-up, and in no time, the lawn is more moss than grass.

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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 banffhsire field club: cullen house; speaker - colin shearer 2.15pm - 3.45pm, st rufus church hall, turner street, keith. members: £3; non-members £4. call dr alistair mason on 01261 812941 or email at bfc.1880@gmail.com. www.banffshirefieldclub.org.uk

9 tuesday

turriff u3a: family history group: open session 10.15am - 11.45am, turriff library

11 thursday

have a go with lego 3.30pm - 5pm, huntly library clan cancer drop ins 10am - 4pm, turriff library

12 friday

doric/gaelic/english bookbug sessions 10am 10.30am, huntly library. pre-school age wordzworthies: reading & creative writing group 2.30pm - 3.30pm, turriff library

13 saturday

coffee for cancer in aid of macmillan cancer support & friends of anchor 10am - 2pm, royal british legion turriff. adults - £2.50; children - £1. raffles, homebakes, tombola & kids' crafts

14 sunday

keith royal british legion tea dance 2pm - 4.30pm, the royal british legion, keith. with the mcbain band. all dances include tea & home bakes (3pm) sunday kids’ club 9.45am, huntly nordic & outdoor centre, hill of haugh, huntly. activity is centred on track skiing, roller skiing & agility. booking essential. call 01466 794428 or email at hnoc@ aberdeenshire.gov.uk

17 wednesday

children's walk: simply squirrels 10.30am - 12pm, fyvie castle. £5 (booking essential. could you find food, a good place to live & build your own drey? age 5+. call 01330 844910. www.nts.org.uk

18 thursday

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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 - 4 november

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19 friday

lego club 2pm - 3pm, turriff library

soundfestival: a journey of discovery exploring new music in unique & iconic venues across aberdeen & aberdeenshire. call 01330 826526. www.sound-scotland.co.uk

25 thursday

tin hut accoustic music sessions 8pm - 11pm, tin hut, gartly. drop in sessions for musicians & listeners. call fraser wilson on 01466 720247 or email at fraser444@yahoo.co.uk have a go with lego 3.30pm - 5pm, huntly library clan cancer drop ins 10am - 4pm, turriff library

26 friday

halloween special tbc, grampian transport museum, montgarrie road, alford. an afternoon of halloween themed crafts & quizzes. halloween costumes optional but encouraged! call 01975 562292 or email at info@gtm.org.uk. www.gtm.org.uk nothing but the 90s 7pm - 11pm, stewart hall, gordon street, huntly. £12.50. licensed, seated table event. booking essential call 01467 537753 or email at info@centeral.co.uk doric/gaelic/english bookbug sessions 10am 10.30am, huntly library. pre-school age turriff & district u3a geology: elgin museum?

10.30am - 11.30am, turriff library. call kathleen smith 01261 851752 or 07840 624580. www.u3asites.org.uk/turriff

27 saturday

fireworks against cancer spectacular in aid of ucan 8pm - 11pm, turriff showground, queens road, turriff hosted by buchan community radio with support from aberdeen fire spinners, fairground rides, food, toy & sweetie stalls. call 07590 848911 or 01888 544261 or email at info@fireworksagainstcancer.org www.fireworksagainstcancer.org.uk

29 monday

huntly tea dance 1pm - 4pm, stewart hall, gordon street, huntly. £3. call 01466 793732 or email at fiona@networksofwellbeing.org

30 tuesday

linedance social evening 8pm - 11.30pm, commercial hotel, south street, aberchirder. £3.50. all levels of dancers & non-dancers welcome. call 01466 780787 or email info@thecommercialhotel.net

31 wednesday

bookbug rhymetime 10am - 10.30am, huntly library

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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

Gordon Presbytery Email gordoncoscotland.org.uk. www.presbyteryofgordon.org.uk All Saints Episcopal Church, Woodhead of Fyvie 2nd Sunday of the month: Holy Communion 10.15am (unless notified locally).

Rev Alastair MacDonald Tel: 01464 820477. Email macinsch@gmail.com. www.allsaintswoodhead.aodiocese.org.uk Auchterless Church Rev Stephen J Potts Tel: 01888 511058.

Christ Church, Provost Street, Huntly. Rev. Michael Last.

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pretty clear picture of Jesus’ amazing work rate. It’s also clear that he often 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?!!!

Rev RIchard Gillings St Columba’s Episcopal Church Grantown on Spey

St Andrew’s Church, Turriff. Sunday 11.15am. Tel: 01888 560304.

Email jcook@churcchofscotland.org.uk St Congan’s Church, Turriff. First & second Sunday of month: Holy Communion, 10.30am; third Sunday of month: Morning Prayer/Family Service, 10.30am; fourth & fifth Sundays of month: Holy Communion, 10.30am. Gordon Brown, Lay Reader Tel: 01345 518411. Email gordon@derbyhall.plus.com St Kanes Church, New Deer Sunday service 11.30am. Currently seeking new minister. Tel: 01771 644097. Email web@stkanes.org.uk St Margaret's Catholic Church, Huntly. Sunday Mass 9am St Marnan, Aberchirder. Rev Michael Last St Ninian’s & Forglen Church, Turriff. Rev Kevin Gruer Tel: 01888 563850 or email minister@stniniansandforglen.org.uk Strathbogie Drumblade, Huntly Tel: 01466 792702 St Peter’s Church, Fyvie - See Fyvie & Rothienorman Parish Church.

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Written by Lee Cooper, an award winning young writer from Turriff, these two books form part of an intended trilogy which chronicles the life of a man in Tillydrone facing his demons from different characters' perspectives.

In “Granite Grit” a young family man, Joe is haunted by demons from a childhood blighted by his father, a notorious criminal and brutal street fighter. When Joe loses his job and spirals into debt, he turns to what he knows: Boxing. He's forced into the clutches of criminal Mr Dean, and the brutal world of unlicensed boxing.

“Right Hand Man” delves into the life of Joe's father, Davie Rhodes, from a grim childhood in the Glasgow Gorbals slums, to working for The Godfather, then gunrunning for the IRA. On the run, he finds himself on “Europe's Most Wanted List” he's a survivor, but can he outrun his past?

When Harriet Westaway receives an unexpected letter telling her she's inherited a substantial bequest from her Cornish grandmother, it seems like the answer to her prayers. There's just one problem - Hal's real grandparents died more than twenty years ago. The letter has been sent to the wrong person. But Hal knows that the cold-reading techniques she's honed as a seaside fortune teller could help her con her way to getting the money. Once she embarks on her deception, there is no going back. She must keep going or risk losing everything,

Granite Grit / The Right Man

Junior Fiction

The Creakers

By Tom Flecther What would you do if you woke up to find all the grown-ups had disappeared? If you're like Lucy Dungston, you'll do anything to get to the bottom of it. With no grown-ups, chaos descends on Lucy's town. Kids are running wild, building roads of trampolines and eating cereal for every meal - but Lucy wants her mum back, and nothing is going to stop her. Not even the monsters who live in the upside-down world beneath her bed...

The Death of Mrs Westaway

Younge Adult Fiction

Secrets of Dragonia

By Dave Allan Daye Allan (16 years old) was born in Inverness and educated at Fortrose Academy.

As the future Queen of Dragonia, the world expects everything from Clare Silverhart. Instead, the wild-hearted Princess is out searching for a chance to change her fate. So when Clare awakens on her fifteenth birthday to find her kingdom being attacked and parents captured by enemy realm, Shaidania, her bravery is put to the test.With the help of Kilah, her white tiger, she embarks on a quest through the realms of her world to find her parents. Along the way Clare is forced to team up with mysterious and inseparable Shaidanian soldiers Arwin and Tajo who she must decide if she can trust.

Can a friendship be formed between destined enemies?

And what price will they pay for freedom?

Junior Non-Fiction

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