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EDINVILLIE DARTS CLUB Meets Wednesdays from 7pm in the Edinvillie Hall. Anyone 13 years and over is welcome whatever your ability! Call Heather on 01340 871322 GRANTOWN ON SPEY BOWLING CLUB Monday (Club night) or Thursday evenings and Tuesday & Thursday afternoons. May - Sept.

Free equipment and coaching. All welcome. Call Chris Waterson on 01479 870003 for details or see the poster at the clubhouse.

GRANTOWN’S THURSDAY CLUB FOR THE OVER 50S Thursdays, 2pm - 4pm at the Grantown YMCA Community Centre. Friendly, welcoming group with a regular programme of events including guest speakers, demonstrations, bingo. £2 per week incl. refreshments.

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HIGHLAND SPIRITUAL CINEMA Last Wednesday each month at Highland Rail House, Inverness.

Film group screening uplifting & inspiring films. Members can also use our postal service to borrow films for home viewing.

For details call 01463 237452 or www.highlandspiritualcinema.net INVERALLAN OLD TYME DANCING 2nd Tuesday of the month from 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 KINGUSSIE BOWLING CLUB Daily, May - Sept. Spey Street, Kingussie. Bowls and footwear available. Club nights Mon & Thurs 6:45pm for 7pm. New members & visitors welcome.

Call Campbell on 01540 662476 for info or email kingussiebowlingclub@hotmail.co.uk KINGUSSIE PARENT, BABY & TODDLER GROUP Thursdays 9.15am - 11.30am, Badenoch Centre, Spey Centre, Kingussie. Call 01540 662485 for more information.

KINGUSSIE SCOTTISH COUNTRY DANCE CLUB Wednesdays, 7:30pm - 9:30pm in Tala na Ros, King Street, Kingussie from September to March. New members and visitors welcome. Contact 01540 662060 / 01540 661772.

KINGUSSIE TENNIS CLUB Coaching available for members and non-members. New members welcome. For info call Moira Webster on 01540 661484.

KNOCKANDO CRAFT GROUP General interest group. Tuesdays 6:30pm-8:30pm. £2 per session.

Meets at Margach Hall, Knockando. Contact Lucy: 01340 810229.

MACS MORAY AREA CANCER SUPPORT A support group which provides both practical and emotional support for anyone, of any age, affected by Cancer within Moray.

New members welcome. For more details call our Help Line on 07516 21915, e-mail us on : info@macsuk.org or visit us at www.macsuk.org or Facebook.

MORAY COELIAC GROUP Meet 1st Saturday of the month (except Jan & Feb), 10:30am in the cafe at Baxters, Fochabers.

Get together for newly diagnosed and existing members to network, ask questions, share recipes and ideas / information. 'Coffee, Cake and Catch up' sessions. All welcome. For further info email Kirsteen.pyett@btinternet.co.uk MORAY FLYING CLUB 7 days a week. Also offering courses for people to become leisure pilots, all the way up to professional ratings. Kinloss barracks, IV36 3UH. For details please call 01309 617361 and visit www.morayflyingclub.com MORAY SANDS 3rd Wednesday every month, 7:30pm at The Ugie House Hotel. Self-help support group, run by bereaved parents for bereaved parents and their families. Informal and confidential.

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MORTLACH ART GROUP Meets in the Memorial Hall, Albert Place, Dufftown every Thursday 1pm-5pm. £2 per meeting. Tuition available.

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NETHY BRIDGE HEALTH WALK GROUP Meets every Tuesday at the Community Centre @ 1 pm.

Contact Jane on 07519 569005 RTR ASSOCIATION (MORAY FIRTH BRANCH) Meet monthly & arrange dinners and outings for ex-RTR personnel. Contact Peter on 01542 841740 or Clive on 01542 841529 for more info.

SCOTTISH WOMENS RURAL INSTITUTE 3rd Wednesday of the month, 7:30pm at St. Andrew’s Church Hall, Aviemore. Find friendship, support, fun and laughter in this unique organisation. Call SWRI headquarters on 0131 225 1724 for more info.

SJÖGREN'S SYNDROME AND LUPUS SUPPORT GROUP Meetings arranged on an adhoc basis. For more information call Sheena on 01343 820635 or Susan on 01343 842656 SPEY ART GROUP, GRANTOWN ON SPEY Wednesdays 7pm - 9pm at Grantown Grammar School.

Friendly group that welcomes new members. Tuition provided.

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We live in hope; that people will understand responsibility and not just rights; that people will express restraint and not just outrage; that people will choose to give others the benefit of the doubt rather than to jump to conclusions; that we will focus on wisdom and not just intelligence and that we will turn to joy rather than just happiness.

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PASTORAL LETTER & CHURCH MEETINGS Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed! (John 20:29) “Seeing is believing,” the saying goes! A little scepticism can be healthy but equally doubts and temptations can paralyse us and cause us to forfeit lasting joy. In the 19thC the Actress Frances Kemble wrote: “Better to trust all and be deceived, and weep that trust and that deceiving, than doubt one heart that if believed, had blessed one’s life with true believing.” In John 20:30 it is written “Jesus did many other miraculous signs in the presence of his disciples, which are not recorded in this book. But these are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name.” Believe in Jesus and your life will be blessed with true believing!

To find the source of doubt and temptation we must go right back to the beginning of creation (Genesis Chapter 2) when God made Adam (Genesis 2:78, 15-17) and Eve (Genesis 2:18-23.)

The Garden of Eden was beautiful and Adam and Eve wanted for nothing, their

lives were bliss. They could eat the fruit of any tree in the garden, except one the tree of the knowledge of good and evil (v.16-17.)

Then appears the serpent, the craftiest of the wild animals God had made, representing Satan or the enemy of God, (Genesis Chapter 3.) sowing seeds of doubt and temptation. “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden’?” Actually they were barred from eating only the fruit of the tree in the middle of the garden, or they would die.

The serpent next suggests that God was untruthful and he just did not want Adam and Eve to realise they could be as powerful as Him – which of course was a lie. (Genesis 3:2-3.)

How quickly the minds of Adam and Eve were corrupted. Suddenly they seem to have forgotten all the amazing good things that they had, and began to long for the one thing they may not have - equality with God! How often do we take for granted all the joys and genuine goodness of life and strive for something which looks better but is actually an illusion?

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 9:15am. Contact Rev Gordon Strang: 01479 872084. page 6 - May 2016

There are many examples of those who encountered the imposters of doubt and temptation in the Bible, but let us come now to the resurrection appearance of Jesus to his disciples (John chapter 20.)

The first time the Lord appears Thomas was absent but the other disciples told him they had seen the Lord (John 20:25.) Thomas replied “Unless I see the nail marks in his hands and put my finger where the nails were, and put my hand into his side, I will not believe it.”

One week later Jesus appeared again and doubting Thomas immediately made his confession “My Lord and my God!” (v.28). Thomas believed because he saw. Jesus said, “Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.” (v.29) We can know Jesus, the Son of God, in prayer, in reading the Bible, in song and in gracious acts of service. Dare to believe in Him and his teaching and your life will be blessed with true believing!

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Dulnain Bridge, Church of Scotland Sunday services 12noon.

All welcome. Contact Rev. Gordon Strang 01479 872084.

Duthil Parish Church Carrbridge. Sunday morning service at 11.30am. Contact Rev. Donald Walker Tel: 01479 831252.

Free Church: Dufftown monthly service, second Sunday of each month (except September) 6.30pm at the Memorial Hall, Albert Place. Contact Colin Morison on 01343 542196 Grantown Baptist Church High Street, Grantown-on-Spey.

Sundays 11am and evening service at 6pm. All welcome.

Contact Rev. Rick Moeller: 01479 873125.

Inverallan Parish Church Church of Scotland. Grantown-onSpey. Sundays 10.30am with crèche. All welcome. Rev. Gordon Strang 01479 872084. www.inverallanparishchurch.org.uk Inveravon Church of Scotland Sunday morning service 9.30am. All welcome.

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Rolling Event 9 april - 8 may photofest 2016 12pm - 5pm (closed tues & thurs) at abernethy old kirk, nethybridge (on b970, adjacent to castle roy). contact olwen 07934 413063 or oldkirk@nethybridge.com.

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28 thursday fan evening with the mates of the whisky museum 7.30pm - 9.30pm the memorial hall, dufftown. free. reading group for adults 6.30pm at fochabers library. all welcome. for info call 01343 821434.

28 thursday - 29 friday glenfiddich garden walk 10am - 11am at the glenfiddich ditstillery, dufftown. horticultural tour of the distillery grounds. free. aultmore distillery tour 10am - 10.45am at keith. free boormalt buckie maltings guided tour 10.30am 12pm, 2.30pm - 4pm. free. rotary whisky collectables ‘pop up’ shop 10am 6pm in dufftown. free.

23 april - 7 may spey art group annual exhibition 2016 10am - 5pm at grantown on spey museum. free entry. for info visit speyartgroup.wordpress.com or call carol-anne on 01479 873534.

28 april - 2 may whisky browse ‘n’ taste 10am - 5pm at logie steading whisky shop.

29 april - 1 may coleburn dunnage warehouse tour 11am - 12pm, 1pm - 2pm, 3pm - 4pm at coleburn distillery, elgin. free. the great highland bagpipes 9.30pm - 10.30pm at the mash tun, aberlour. free.

28 april - 14 may whisky festival art & craft exhibition 9am - 6pm (Thurs - Sat); 12pm - 5pm (Sun) & 9am - 5pm (Mon) at still life studio & gallery, aberlour. free.

29 april - 7 may inverness science festival various events. for info on activities isf@uhi.ac.uk.

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where 2 today? music afternoon & ceilidh 2pm 4pm at aviemore legion. £2 for afternoon tea with homebaking. music/dancing/raffle. all welcome. transport can be arranged. call 01479 810004. glenfiddich gallery experience 11am - 12pm, 3pm 4pm at the glenfiddich distillery, dufftown. free. live music 9.30pm - 1.30am at the stuart arms, dufftown. free. in-store extravaganza: uisge source 12pm - 5pm at the whisky shop, dufftown. free. whisky tasting with carn mor’s peter mackay 10.30am - 5pm at the whisky castle, tomintoul. free.

really wild festival - annual family fun day 10.30am 4.30pm at the scottish dolphin centre. dolphin watching, outdoor ‘rockwall’, face painting, etc. free. stramash 7.30pm - 10pm at the royal british legion, dufftown. free.

29 thursday - 30 saturday whisky flavoured foods 11am - 4pm at the spey larder, aberlour. free. live music 9.30pm - 1.30am at the stuart arms, dufftown. free.

30 saturday scottish theme day 10am - 5pm at elgin plainstones (city centre). free. dufftown and district pipe band 1pm - 1.30pm at dufftown clock tower. free. whisky & antiques valuation day 1pm - 6pm at mansefield hotel, elgin. free. in-store extravaganza: wemyss malts 12pm - 5pm at the whisky shop, dufftown. free. whisky tasting with gordon & macphail 10.30am 5pm at the whisky castle, tomintoul. free. technique@ ironworks 8pm. call 0871 7894173 or visit www.ironworksvenue.com. junior highland games@gordonstoun 11am - 5pm free entry. lords of the dance, glen feshie (grade a) 5am - 7am. booking essential. £4.50, conc £3.50, family £15. call saranne bish 01479 873914 or saranne.bish@highland.gov.uk. donald robertson is not a stand up @ the drouthy cobbler 8:30pm. for info call 01343 596000 or visit www.thedrouthycobbler.co.uk

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4 wednesday blue rose code trio @ the drouthy cobbler 7:30pm. call 01343 596000 • www.thedrouthycobbler.co.uk. “highland scientists” - a talk by anne fraser, family historian, highland archive service 2pm - 3pm at the spectrum centre, inverness. small charge for nonmembers of inverness local history forum. for info genealogy@highlifehighland.com or 01463 256433. essential skills: the roadshow 2.30pm - 3.30pm at dufftown library. presentation on the need for adult literacies in scotland & how it works in moray with joan scott. for info call 01343 562617.

5 thursday glenn wool: creator, i am but a pawn @ the drouthy cobbler 7.15pm. www.thedrouthycobbler.co.uk. aberlour library storytime 2pm. for info call 10340 871693.

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27 friday where 2 today? music afternoon & ceilidh 2pm 4pm at grantown legion. ÂŁ2 for afternoon tea with homebaking. music/dancing/raffle. all welcome. transport can be arranged. call 01479 810004 for more details. book club for 10 - 12yrs 3.30pm at keith library. all welcome. call 01542 882223. elvana@ironworks 7.30pm. call 0871 7894173 or visit www.ironworksvenue.com.

28 saturday ladies’ greensomes open at abernethy golf club, nethy bridge. for info call 01479 821305 or info@abernethygolfclub.com.

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19 thursday the burning hell@the drouthy cobbler 7.30pm. call 01343 596000 or visit www.thedrouthycobbler.co.uk.

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Once again The Drouthy Cobbler is heavily involved in the Spirit of Speyside Whisky Festival both as a venue and as the festival information point in Elgin.

A highlight of the weekend will undoubtedly be the seven course tasting dinner with whisky paired and introduced by whisky legend Charles MacLean.

Saturday the 30th of April will see the staging of “Donald Robertson is not a stand up comedian” which grew out of the National Theatre of Scotland's Auteurs project. This theatre piece is a darkly comic coming of age story that explores the need to belong and deconstructs the brutal role that humour can play in society.

‘As a blend of jokes and theatre, it works beautifully, and McNair delivers real insight along with the laughs. A gem of a show.’ The Telegraph There is music with Sunday lunchtime Jazz and on Thursday 28th April a hotly anticipated return visit from McKerron, Brechin, and Ó hEadhra.

We also have two cocktail sessions with the author Ruth Ball and a tutored tasting of Gordon & Macphail's Connoisseurs Choice range.

Glenn Wool Comedian, Thurs 5th May

Closing our programme of events on Sunday the 1st of May is a whisky themed pub quiz. Many of our events are already fully sold out but please check our web site – www.drouthycobbler.co.uk – to see what is still available.

Throughout May we have loads of live entertainment including Blue Rose Code Trio, Canadian comedian Glenn Wool, trad superstars Session A9 as well as theatre and our monthly comedy club. See the advert for our full event listings.

Our beer garden has just undergone a complete refurbishment and opens in time for the whisky festival, and we hope the start of summer. Weather permitting we will soon be enjoying al fresco dining - taking full advantage of our famous micro-climate...

Saturday evening dining in the upstairs venue has proven extremely popular. To guarantee a great evening we encourage you to book tables in our intimate first floor pop-up restaurant, online or by calling 01343 596000.

Informal dining in the ground floor bar continues to be on a first come, first served basis.

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Finally! It's finished! Not my political campaigning, but the bookshelves I've been building over the last few weeks! There's been some trial and error and some mildly frustrated grumbling on occasions but to have them up and holding books and even, if I do say so myself, looking pretty good is really satisfying. DIY in the house has usually been something that has been a necessity but on this occasion it was more of a planned project and something I found quite relaxing and completely different from day-to-day work. It's not everyone's cup of tea but I'd recommend giving it a go. While that has been going the puppy has grown quite substantially in the last few months and she's now at the stage of persistently chewing her sister's ears. The older one seems to have the patience for the puppy though and walking them both around Moray is a great way to see the countryside.

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