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Clubs and Societies ABERCHIRDER DANCING CLASSES All welcome. Call Beverly Walker on 07795 0748878

ABERCHIRDER GUIDES FOR GIRLS Wed, 6pm - 6.30pm, Marnoch Church Hall (basement). For girls aged 10 - 14yrs. Call Elaine Robertson on 07773 267445 ADDICTION HELPLINE Non-profit addiction treatment provider offering free 24 HR access in Turriff to fully trained alcohol addiction treatment mentors. Call 0808 163 9632

ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, HUNTLY 7.30pm, Linden Community Centre, Castle Park Road, Huntly www.alcoholics- anonymous.org.uk

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textile & related crafts. Call Elaine Harding on 01466 711363 GORDON RURAL ACTION (GRA) - HUNTLY ADVICE CENTRE Provides free, independent, confidential & impartial advice on a range of issues including benefits, debt, housing, employment & consumer problems. Call 01466 793 676 or enquiries@gordonrural.org.uk

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HUNTLY COMMUNITIY ADVICE CENTRE Mon - Fri, 9.15am - 4.15pm, 143 Main Street, Huntly. Non-profit organisation, helping people with any queries & difficulties.

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HUNTLY NETBALL CLUB Wed, 8pm - 9pm, the Gordon Schools Sports Hall. Email at huntlynetballclub@gmail.com

HUNTLY TEA DANCE Mon (Monthly),1pm - 2pm (lesson) & 2pm - 4pm (Dance), Stewart Hall, Huntly. £3. Before every tea dance there are free dance lessons for people attending the afternoon. Call 01466 793732 or email at fiona@networksofwellbeing.org JOG SCOTLAND INTERMEDIATE LEVEL Tues, 6.30pm, Turriff Sports Centre & Wed, 6.15 - 7.15pm, Turriff Library LADIES BADMINTON Held weekly at Stewarts Hall, Huntly. Call Marlo Luedi on 01466 793154

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ROCK SOLID YOUTH GROUP 1st Fri of month, 7pm - 9pm & once a month on a Sun, St Ninian’s Church, Turriff. Rock Solid is a youth group within the church & is open to anyone between the ages of S1 - S6. Email at rocksolid@ stniniansandforglen.org.uk

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SCOTTISH COUNTRY DANCING Tues, 7.30pm - 9.30pm. No experience needed. Call Irene Morrison on 01888 562557

SLIMMING WORLD TURRIFF Wed, 3.30pm, 5.30pm & 7.30pm & Thurs, 9.30am, Baden Powell Centre, Turriff. Lose weight with our friendly group. Call Lindsay Jackson on 07815 995968 or at lindsay.marie.jackson07@ aberdeen.ac.uk www.slimmingworld.co.uk

TIN HUT MUSIC OPEN SESSIONS Last Thurs of month, 8pm - 11pm, The Tin Hut, Gartly, near Huntly.

Hosts open acoustic music sessions. Entry is by donation to cover hall hire costs. All welcome to play, sing or just listen to both modern & traditional music.

Call Fraser Wilson (Open Sessions) on 01466 720247 & Chas Ford (Concerts) on 01466 720234. Email at fraser444@yahoo.co.uk or chas@myticefarm.co.uk TURRIFF & DISTRICT ACCORDION CLUNB The playing & appreciation of traditional Scottish music particulary accordion & fiddle

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TURRIFF ROTARY CLUB Tues, 6pm for 6.30pm, The Kastille, 10 Castle Street. Call for more details. Call 01888 563838

TURRIFFIC ARTS - CREATIVE WORKSHOP DAYS 1st Sat of month, 10am - 3pm. Call 07936 124298 or email at turriffic.arts@hotmail.co.uk U3A GENERAL MEETING 1st Tues of month, 2pm, St Ninian's Church, Turriff. A chance to get to know members & see whats on offer.

WEE TOOTS: BABIES & TODDLERS (0 - 5 Years) Wed: 1.15pm - 3pm & Fri: 9.15am - 11.25am, the Linden Centre, Castle Street, Huntly. £1.50 per child plus 50p each extra sibling.

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YVONNE MILNE DANCE SCHOOL Boggieshalloch, Turriff Call 01888 563563 or 07711 526043. Email at yvonne.milne@btinternet.com

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Pastoral Le er & Church Meetings Most people reading this article will be familiar with the famous photograph, Lunch atop a Skyscraper, taken in New York City in 1932 (look it up on Google Images if not!). It shows eleven men sitting on a girder eating, smoking and reading, during the building of the Rockefeller Centre, their legs dangling in fresh air some 800 feet above the streets below. They seem to be at complete ease, apparently oblivious to their terrifying location. Even though it was probably a posed picture, the reality was that this was indeed their working environment, and many people lost their lives in the construction of these gigantic skyscrapers.

Sir Alex Ferguson kept a copy of this picture on the wall in his office and used it to inspire his players about the value of teamwork. Conveniently, there are eleven men sitting on the girder, the same number as there is in a football team.

Manchester United players weren’t ever going to be in such potentially-fatal situations in the course of a mere football match, but Sir Alex wanted to instil in his players a sense of mutual dependence, success or failure hinging on every man watching out for one another, pulling his weight, and helping one another to do the job they are being paid to do.

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France triumph in the end and be declared world champions again. No team ever wins anything without a good work ethic and without a sense of interdependence. The strikers need to be scoring goals up front, while trusting the defenders to keep their opponents out at the back. At the same time they know that neither of them are likely to åwin the game based on their own skills alone if the goalkeeper behind them is carelessly allowing the ball to slip through his fingers into the net.

That same strength of teamwork was wonderfully in evidence as the world held its breath and prayed for the successful rescue of another football team – the young lads and their coach trapped in a cave in Thailand with time, opportunity and oxygen fast running out. What skill and dedication was shown by the rescuers as they battled against the overwhelming odds to achieve the nearlyimpossible escape. Sadly, the mission cost one man his life as he sacrificed his own safety for the sake of thirteen young strangers – a tragic loss for him and his family, yet not enough to prevent the rest of the rescue-team from seeing their mission through to the miraculous end.

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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).

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

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ordinary day in present-day Scotland, it is unlikely that any of us will be asked to make the ultimate sacrifice. In other places, as many as two hundred countries throughout the world, persecution and death are commonplace for Christian believers. Every Sunday somebody dies in a church in Nigeria at the hands of militant terrorists, yet every week the faithful believers continue to meet there to worship Jesus, bonded together in a determination to live for him and to serve as part of his team on earth.

The challenges we face here are minor in comparison, though we all know our present liberties cannot be taken for granted. May the Lord help us to keep the faith and to fight the good fight, as a Christian team should – loving and supporting one another, holding closely to our Manager’s every instruction, and following our Captain as he leads his heaven-bound team of millions and millions, (though there’s still room for more on this team!), to ultimate victory and to eternal glory.

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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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huntly room to run festival 10am - 1pm, huntly all welcome. hosted by huntly sports hub. www.roomtorun.uk mams darts memorial 3pm - 11.45pm, the royal oak, deveron street, turriff. £5. all monies from entries goes back out in prizes. donations for raffles greatly appreciated. contact jonno williamson or hayley williamson gung-ho! in aid of children in need 9am - 3pm, castle fraser, sauchen, inverurie. do the 5k & take on ten of the greatest inflatable obstacles on the planet! www.eventbrite.co.uk/gung-ho carve carrbridge 2018 tbc, sports field, carrbridge adults - £6; u16s - £3 & u3s - free. top chainsaw carvers both from the uk & around the world compete for the magnificent claymore trophy & prize money. call 01479 841300 or email at info@carvecarrbridge.com. www.carvecarrbridge.com beast of loch ness 2018 in aid of chest heart & stroke scotland 9am 5pm, aldourie castle grounds, dores. 10k obstacle challenge. www.eventbrite.co.uk wolfstock music festival 11am - midnight, banff castle. £10. music from over 20 musicians/bands, various food vendors, a licenced bar & bouncy fun run, helter skelter, etc call 07488 280146 or email at elenarory3128@gmail.com

1 saturday - 2 sunday

huntly hairst: the food festival variety of events - craft fair, coffee morning, children's themed tea party, beer festival & barn dance, etc see website www.huntlyhairst.co.uk

2 sunday

introduction to policing programme: encouraging people from minority ethnic communities in the ne to consider a career in policing tbc, nelson street police office, aberdeen. for more info & to book a place please email recruitmentpositive actionteam@scotland.pnn.police.uk scotland's gardens scheme 2018: gordonstoun 2pm - 4pm, gordonstoun school, duffus. £5. teas. grantown on spey motor mania tbc, the square, grantown on spey. the largest display in the north of vintage, specialist & unusual vehicles of all kinds from sports cars to trucks, etc admin@winterburnmedia.co.uk

brander library reading group 11am, huntly library

6 thursday

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

7 friday

deveron projects: friday lunch - people's act; meals & movies; clyde williamson on exploring democratic citizenship today for young people, through the sharing of food & film 1pm - 2pm, brander kitchen, huntly. www.deveron-projects.com

7 friday - 9 sunday

cuminestown m.c.c.: highlander rally 2018 email cuminestownmcc@hotmail.com for information

8 saturday

banffshire field club: scottish rights of way & access 2.15pm - 3.45pm (refreshments), st rufus church hall, turner street, keith. visitors £4. call dr alistair mason on 01261 812941 or email at bfc.1880@gmail.com. www.banffshirefieldclub.org.uk happy mums' market 10am - 12pm, elgin town hall £1, u16s - free. indoor pre-loved market dedicated to baby & children's items, from birth to 10yrs. www.happymumsmarket.co.uk simple minds & the pretenders tbc, northern meeting park, inverness 2018 critter tour by the critter keeper 11.45am - 12.45pm, newmill village hall, keith. £5; u3s free. all children to be accompanied. booking essential at www.paypal.me/thecritterkeeper schiehallion tbc, the royal british legion, keith £12. call muriel on 07751 880385 0r 01463 225451 tin hut supper tbc, tin hut, gartly booking essential via email at emmaplumpton@hotmail.com www.huntlyhairst.co.uk lego club 2pm - 3pm, turriff library

8 saturday - 16 sunday

north east open studios (neos) various timings & events. neos is a 9 day event run for artists/makers based all over the northeast of scotland to showcase their wares north east open studios (neos): delgatie castle 10am - 4pm, delgatie castle, turriff. artists/makers based all over the ne of scotland showcase their wares

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9 sunday

grampian motorcycle convention 11am - 4pm, grampian transport museum, montgarrie road, alford. vintage & classic bikes, parades & demonstrations, live music, refreshments, children's play area, etc. call 01975 562292 or email at info@gtm.org.uk. www.gtm.org.uk

11 tuesday

turriff u3a family history group 10.15am - 11.45am, turriff library

13 thursday

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

14 friday

tom urie & friends: songs, laughs & magic. guests include ashley storrie, darren connell & dean spruce doors open 7pm, huntly fc social club. £13.50 from huntly fc, rizzas or carpet depot wordzworthies: reading & creative writing group 2.30pm - 3.30pm, turriff library deveron projects: friday lunch - gardening knowledge shared through self-developed community databases; speaker david foubister 1pm - 2pm, brander kitchen, huntly. www.deveron-projects.com

15 saturday - 16 sunday

the end of an era: the downfall of the gordons 9.30am - 5.30pm, huntly castle, huntly. call 0131 668 8885 or email events@hes.scot. meet the soldiers & hear the story of huntly castle

16 sunday

royal british legion keith tea dance with s simpson 2pm 4.30pm, the royal british legion, keith. includes tea & homebakes

20 thursday 21 friday

the keith silver band 7pm, st margaret's church, aberlour. £10 (incl refreshments); children - free turriff & district u3a geology 10.30am - 11.30am, turriff library deveron projects: friday lunch - the politics of europe; speaker - lauren dixon on the nationwide discussion of brexit & its repercussions in the form of a documentary 1pm - 2pm, brander kitchen, huntly. www.deveron-projects.com rock & roll bingo in aid of turriff christmas lights group 6.30pm - 1am, the kastille, turriff keepsmyelin ms autumn fair 10am - 12pm, north church hall, keith. stalls, teas & coffees, pancakes, music & entertainment. raffle. www.facebook.com/events/2026119384272634 architectural heritage society of scotland: visit to craigston castle 2pm, craigston castle. £12. page 12 - September 2018

23 sunday

autumn autojumble & car auction 9am - 3pm, grampian transport museum, montgarrie road, alford. over 100 stalls selling everything from spares, auto-memorabilia & much more. pre-booking of pitches essential. call 01975 562292 or email at info@gtm.org.uk. www.gtm.org.uk baxters loch ness marathon & festival of running 2018 10am 4pm, bught park, inverness. featuring the loch ness marathon, river ness 10k, corporate challenge, 5k & wee nessie. www.lochnessmarathon.com the big buchan bridal bash 11am - 4pm, north east college, fraserburgh campus, henderson road, fraserburgh. tickets from www.eventbrite.co.uk. bands & entertainment, amazing raffle prizes, live demonstration & a fashion show. all welcome blood donors: keith 10.30am - 12.30pm & 2pm - 4pm, keith grammar school, banff road, keith. to book an appointment please call 0345 90 90 999 or email nss.snbtsenquiry@nhs.net huntly aquabike 2018 10am - 3pm, huntly swimming pool, queens street, huntly. tickets from website low-impact option for people who can't or won't run or new to multisport events & think a triathlon is to0 daunting. www.online.aberdeenshire.gov.uk

26 wednesday

bookbug rhymetime 10am - 10.30am, huntly library

27 thursday

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

22 saturday

scots renaissance house dating from 1604 & extended by william adam & then john smith. call amanda booth (sec) on 07773 162896 or 01224 325764 or email at ajb@amandabooth.co.uk lego club 2pm - 3pm , turriff library craft fair 10am - 3pm, insch church hall, insch free. a wide variety of hand crafted items & gift ideas for all ages. tea & coffee available. www.abcrafters.org.uk

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

28 friday

turriff & district u3a geology: lecht mine tbc. all welcome. call kathleen smith on 01261 851752 or 07840 624580. www.u3asites.org.uk/turriff deveron projects: friday lunch - tatties for social engagement; beatrice charnley on the potato as a catalyst for active community participation, discussion & creative engagement 1pm - 2pm, brander kitchen, huntly. www.deveronprojects.com

29 saturday

alvah & forglen arts group present ‘martha’ 2pm, forglen hall. suitable for ages 4+. to book please see www.alvahandforglenartsgroup. wordpress.com/events

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