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AUGUST
30 - Exercise class for over 60s, Wharncliffe Hall, Newtyle, 10am, £4. 30 - Craft n Craic monthly craft meeting, St Catharine’s Hall, George Street, Blairgowrie, 7-9pm. Meet other crafters, get help with a project or enjoy crafty chat over a cuppa. Everyone welcome. £2. 30 - Blairgowrie Town Hall Association AGM, 7.30pm in the Town Hall. All welcome. 31 - Exercise class for over 60s, Blairgowrie Town Hall, 11.15am, £3.50.
SEPTEMBER
1-3 - Blairgowrie and District Ramblers weekend away, Strathpeffer. 1 - Alyth Youth Partnership (AYP) fundraising race night, Geo’s Bar, Airlie Street, 7.30pm. Everyone welcome. Sponsor a race for £20 and name a horse for £5. Prizes for the owners of the winning horses. Donations of prizes welcome. Please contact youth worker George Annan on 07702780489 or pop into the AYP hub on Airlie Street for more information. 2-10 - Perthshire Open Studios, various locations. Artists, designers and crafts people across east Perthshire open their doors to chat to members of the public and showcase their work. For more information, including which artists and studios are taking part, visit www. perthshireopenstudios.com. 2 - Coffee morning, Blairgowrie branch of Macmillan Cancer Support, Blairgowrie Town Hall, 10am to 11.45am. All welcome. 2 - Braemar Day, 1pm-9pm, Wellmeadow. See page 6 for more details. 3 - Blairgowrie and Rattray Highland Games, Bogle’s Field, Essendy Road, Blairgowrie. Gates open 10am. See page 7 for more details. 3 - Lisa McHugh, Blairgowrie Town Hall, with spcial guest Gary Gamble. Tickets available from Mitchell’s Newsagents, Blairgowrie High Street or from www.ticketsource.com or telephone 07751 434296. 4 - Riverside Methodist Church (Blairgowrie and Rattray) monthly coffee morning, Wellmeadow Cafe, Gas Brae, 10-11.30am. All welcome. 5 - St Anne’s Ecumenical Lunch Club, noon, Church Hall, Coupar Angus. Soup, toasties, cheese, biscuits, tea and coffee. £2.50. 5 - Special meeting of Blair in Bloom, 7.30pm, Blairgowrie Fire Station meeting room. All interested parties are welcome to attend. The normal monthly committee meeting will follow on from this. Anyone interested in volunteering their services to the group is asked to email blairinbloom@aol.com for further information. 5 - Special Treats Lunch Club, Royal Hotel, noon. Contact Shonaidh Beattie on 01250 870525 or email shocarjen@btinternet.com for more information. 5 - Growbiz enterprise support Women’s Enterprise Network meeting, Cargill’s Bistro, Blairgowrie, 6pm to 8.30pm, For more information or to book, see the website at www.growbiz.co.uk 6 - Blethers meeting, 10am to noon, the Royal Hotel, Blairgowrie. A chance to look at old photographs of the area and chat over a cuppa. 6 - Exercise class for over 60s, Wharncliffe Hall, Newtyle, 10am, £4. 6 - Growbiz enterprise support learning session ‘Creating Email Newsletters in Mailchimp’. Rattray Community connect, 6.30pm to 8.30pm, For more information or to book, see the website at www. growbiz.co.uk 6 - Alyth Community Development Trust meeting, Alyth Museum, 7pm. 6 - Bingo tea, Blairgowrie Town Hall, 7pm, in aid of the Balhousie Care Home in Coupar Angus residents’ comfort fund. Raffle. Please bring own cup. 7 - Exercise class for over 60s, Blairgowrie Town Hall, 11.15am, £3.50. 7 - Alyth Parish Church Guild, dedications service, Alyth Parish Church (Lower Hall), 2pm. All welcome. 7 - Blairgowrie RDA AGM, 7-9pm, Royal Hotel, Blairgowrie. As well as the formal business, the meeting will also feature a talk from Mark Hackland, a barefoot specialist. Tea and coffee and an opportunity to find out more about the work of the group. 8 - Blairgowrie Players present murder mystery The Curse of the Willoughby Diamond, Blairgowrie Town Hall. 7.30pm. Light refreshments and a glass of wine included in the ticket price of £10. Tickets available from The Card Gallery, Allan Street, Blairgowrie, 01250 876444 or at the door. 8 - Silent auction in aid of Kirkmichael and Glenshee Church, Blackwater Hall, 7pm. Raffle, cake and candy sales table. Entry £2 per person, includes tea and coffee. 9 - Alyth Senior Citizens’ Lunch and Socialising Club, coffee morning, Airlie St Hall, 10am to noon. 9 - BOOKMARK festival fringe event featuring journalist, author and ‘Moonwalker’ mountaineer, Alan Rowan. Straloch Garden Studio, Enochdhu, 3pm. Tickets available now from Blairgowrie Library, telephone 01250 871305, Waterstones in Perth, telephone 01738 630013 or online at www.bookmarkblair.com. 9-10 - Alyth Family History Project public exhibition, Alyth Parish Church. Open 9am to 4pm on Saturday and 2pm to 4pm on Sunday. Extensive photographic display of school, wedding, baby, events, businesses, and views, along with two projector slideshows of photos with captions. Opportunity to browse Old Parish Records, burial records, baptism and marriage records, newspapers, maps, publications. Free entry but donations to the church ‘Stop the Rot’ fund appreciated. Refreshments and home baking. 9 - Caputh and Clunie Church annual coffee morning and sale of work for church funds, Caputh Village Hall, 10.30am-noon. Sales tables include cake and candy, produce, flowers and plants, bottle stall, craft stalls, raffle and picnic hamper raffle. The hall will be open on Friday evening, 7-8pm, to set up and to receive goods for sale. Everyone welcome. 10 - Glenshee and Strathardle Tourist Association family fun day, Drumfork, Blacklunans, 12–4pm. Free entry. Bouncy Castle and games for kids, duck race, fishing in stocked loch (own rod), meet the Ecocamp llamas, local gin and mead bar and barbecue. £2 to sponsor a duck with £100 first prize and £50 second prize. For more information email pmsimpson@drumfork.co.uk 11-22 - Blairgowrie and Alyth Adult Education Association, exhibition of autumn classes at Create@Nest, Reform Street, Blairgowrie. 12 - Special Treats Lunch Club, Royal Hotel, noon. Contact Shonaidh Beattie on 01250 870525 or email shocarjen@btinternet.com for more information. 13 - Exercise class for over 60s, Wharncliffe Hall, Newtyle, 10am, £4. 14 - Exercise class for over 60s, Blairgowrie Town Hall, 11.15am, £3.50. 14 - Blairgowrie and Rattray Community Council meeting, 7pm, small hall, Rattray Hall, Balmoral Road. Everyone welcome. 14 - Growbiz enterprise support learning session ‘Introduction to Blogging and Newsletters’. Rattray Community Connect, 6.30pm–8.30pm. For more information or to book, see the website at www.growbiz.co.uk 15-17 - Blairgowrie and District Hillwalking Club, autumn weekend, Skye. See the website at www.bdhc.org.uk for more information or contact meet secretary on email meets@bdhc.org.uk to confirm attendance. 16 - Blairgowrie and District Ramblers, Drumsuldry Wood and Mackenzie Meridian, Newtyle, eight miles, Grade C+. For more information telephone 01250872648. 17 - Ceilidh at the Royal Hotel, Blairgowrie, 2-5pm. Music by Gordon
Pattullo and friends. Entry £5 including stovies. For more information call 01250 872226. 18 - Climate Cafe, 7pm, Wellmeadow Cafe, Gas Brae, Blairgowrie. All welcome. 18 - Rattray and District SWI, Rattray Halls, Balmoral Road. 7pm for 7.15pm start. Secrets of the Stage with Drew Scott from Pitlochry Festival Theatre. Competitions – theatre memorabilia, jar of raspberry jam and flower of the month. For further information please contact Pat Richards on email pat_richards2007@yahoo.com or telephone 01250 871122. 19 - Special Treats Lunch Club, Royal Hotel, noon. Contact Shonaidh Beattie on 01250 870525 or email shocarjen@btinternet.com for more information. 19 - St Anne’s Ecumenical Lunch Club, noon, Church Hall, Coupar Angus. Soup, toasties, cheese, biscuits, tea and coffee. £2.50. 20 - Exercise class for over 60s, Wharncliffe Hall, Newtyle, 10am, £4. 20 - Clunie Hall Knit and Natter, Clunie Hall, 2-4pm. All welcome. 21 - Exercise class for over 60s, Blairgowrie Town Hall, 11.15am, £3.50. 22 - Ericht Scottish Country Dance Group Charity Dance in aid of the Freedom Coach Association, 7.30pm, Blairgowrie Town Hall. Music by Frank Thomson. Tickets £6 which includes supper. Contact Jan McHugh on 01250 870975 for more information. 23 - Blairgowrie Community Market, Wellmeadow, 10am - 3pm. Local arts and crafts and producers. Information stand. For information or to book a stall, contact Sue Cole on email sue@nscdesign.com or 01828 640764 or see www. strathmoreglens.org
25 - Alyth Senior Citizens’ Lunch and Socialising Club, lunch, Airlie St Hall, 12.30pm. 26 - Special Treats Lunch Club, Royal Hotel, noon. Contact Shonaidh Beattie on 01250 870525 or email shocarjen@btinternet.com for more information. 26 - Blairgowrie High School parent council meeting, Blairgowrie High School, Beeches Road, 6pm. All parents and carers of learners attending Blairgowrie High School welcome to attend. 27 - Exercise class for over 60s, Wharncliffe Hall, Newtyle, 10am, £4. 27 - Craft n Craic monthly craft meeting, St Catharine’s Hall, George Street, Blairgowrie, 7-9pm. Meet other crafters, get help with a project or enjoy crafty chat over a cuppa. Everyone welcome. £2. 28 - Exercise class for over 60s, Blairgowrie Town Hall, 11.15am, £3.50. 29 - Blairgowrie and Rattray Time Bank, 10am to 11.30am, Rattray Community Connect. Come along and find out more about getting involved with the time bank or how its volunteers can help you. 30 - Blairgowrie and District Ramblers, Balmuick and Braefordie, Comrie, nine miles, Grade B. For more information telephone 01250872005.
OCTOBER
2 - Riverside Methodist Church (Blairgowrie and Rattray) monthly coffee morning, Wellmeadow Cafe, Gas Brae, 10-11.30am. All welcome. 3 - Special Treats Lunch Club, Royal Hotel, noon. Contact Shonaidh Beattie on 01250 870525 or email shocarjen@btinternet.com for more information. 3 - St Anne’s Ecumenical Lunch Club, noon, Church Hall, Coupar Angus.
Soup, toasties, cheese, biscuits, tea and coffee. £2.50. 4 - Blethers meeting, 10am to noon, the Royal Hotel, Blairgowrie. A chance to look at old photographs of the area and chat over a cuppa. 4 - Exercise class for over 60s, Wharncliffe Hall, Newtyle, 10am, £4.
5 - Exercise class for over 60s, Blairgowrie Town Hall, 11.15am, £3.50.
5 - Alyth Parish Church Guild ‘Travel Films to Make you Go’ by Ken and Jean McRonald, Alyth Parish Church (Lower Hall). 2pm. All welcome. 6 - Blairgowrie and District Hillwalking Club, slide night, Blairgowrie Golf Club. See the website at www.bdhc.org.uk for more information or contact meet secretary on email meets@bdhc.org.uk to confirm attendance. 6 - Clunie Hall Association, whist drive, Clunie Hall. 7.30pm. All welcome. 6-7 - BOOKMARK Festival, Blairgowrie Community Campus. Featuring awardwinning novelists Christopher Brookmyre and Rachel Crowther, Bloody Scotland crime writing festival co-founder Lin Anderson, former MP Alan Johnson, Great British Bake Off contestant Flora Shedden, Martin Bell OBE and former Edinburgh Makar Ron Butlin. Tickets available now from Blairgowrie Library, telephone 01250 871305, Waterstones in Perth, telephone 01738 630013 or online at www.bookmarkblair.com. 8 - Ceilidh at the Royal Hotel, Blairgowrie, 2-5pm. Music by Gordon Pattullo and friends. Entry £5 inc stovies. For more information call 01250 872226. 8 - Blairgowrie Players present The Arrow, a play by Robert Mercer Nairne that tells the story of the Rattray Silver Arrow and its rescue from being auctioned and the subsequent controversy over its ownership. Part of the Bookmark Festival. Blairgowrie Town Hall. Doors open 1.30pm. Tickets £10 which includes afternoon tea. 9-15 - BRAW, Blairgowrie and Rattray Arts Week. Arts and crafts workshops at various locations and two day art exhibition at Rattray Hall, Balmoral Road. Further details to follow. 10 - Special Treats Lunch Club, Royal Hotel, noon. Contact Shonaidh Beattie on 01250 870525 or email shocarjen@btinternet.com for more information. 11 - Exercise class for over 60s, Wharncliffe Hall, Newtyle, 10am, £4.
12 - Exercise class for over 60s, Blairgowrie Town Hall, 11.15am, £3.50. 12 - Blairgowrie and Rattray Community Council meeting, 7pm, Adult Resource Centre, Jessie Street. Everyone welcome. 16 - Rattray and District SWI, Rattray Halls, Balmoral Road. 7pm for 7.15pm start. Handbags and the Glad rags with Irene Kirkwood. Open night, all welcome. Competitions - sewn tote bag, three decorated cup-cakes and flower of the month. For further information please contact Pat Richards on email pat_richards2007@yahoo.com or telephone 01250 871122. 17 - Special Treats Lunch Club, Royal Hotel, noon. Contact Shonaidh Beattie on 01250 870525 or email shocarjen@btinternet.com for more information. 17 - St Anne’s Ecumenical Lunch Club, noon, Church Hall, Coupar Angus. Soup, toasties, cheese, biscuits, tea and coffee. £2.50. 18 - Exercise class for over 60s, Wharncliffe Hall, Newtyle, 10am, £4. 18 - Clunie Hall Knit and Natter, Clunie Hall, 2-4pm. All welcome. 19 - Exercise class for over 60s, Blairgowrie Town Hall, 11.15am, £3.50. 22 - Blairgowrie and District Hillwalking Club meal, 2pm, Little’s Restaurant. See the website at www. bdhc.org.uk for more information or contact meet secretary on email meets@bdhc.org.uk to confirm attendance. 22 - Fun Box present Highland Fling, Blairgowrie Town Hall, 2pm. Tickets £10 from Mitchell’s Newsagents, Blairgowrie High Street. For details contact 01250 874230.