\Menstrie

Caldwell. The Dunblane branch of the Scottish Bible Society is holding a coffee morning in St Blane’s Hall on Saturday, April 21, from 10am-noon. Tickets, costing £2, are available from Heather Booth or Liz Reid. Donations of home baking are welcome. The deadline for the next issue of Chronicles is Saturday, April 28. Cathedral Midweek service will be held tomorrow (Thursday) at 11am. On Saturday, April 21, there will be a coffee morning in the hall from 10am-noon organised by the local Strathcarron Hospice committee. Sunday worship will be a family service, when those added recently to the cradle roll and new members will be especially welcome. Cathedral Kids return after the school holidays. At 3pm there will be another in the series of quiet afternoons, focusing on Earth Day. The meeting will take place in the halls. On Monday, April 23, the Guild meets at Westlands Hotel at 11am for its AGM, followed by lunch. On Tuesday, April 24, at 7pm, there will be a meeting of the pastoral care group, focusing on helping people with mobility problems. . There will also be an opportunity to meet volunteers and find out more about the group’s activities.

\Fallin

Fallin Information Exchange Support and advice on alternate Wednesdays 9.30am-noon in Fallin Library. Local office The office is open on Fridays in the library between 101pm and 2-5pm to pay rent/council tax and receive help and advice. An office is also available for private meetings. Councillor’s surgery Councillor Maureen Bennison will be in the library tomorrow (Thursday) at 10.30am.

\Fishcross

Wee County Walkers Walks every Tuesday, meet 2pm at Cats Protection League premises. See www. weecountywalkers.wordpress. Gaelic Parent and Child Group For children aged up to five meets on Tuesdays 10am-noon in Menstrie Parish Church Hall. The cost is £1.50. Wee County Walkers Meet on Sundays at 2pm in Dumyat Centre car park for walk with trained leaders. See www.weecountywalkers.wordpress.com. Blairlogie SWI At the April meeting Margaret Crawford showed how to make embroidered chocolates from cloth and there was a hilarious time with threads, beads and cloth trying to create chocolates. The results were varied but everybody went home with a box containing two chocolates. Competition results: Pancakes - 1 Evelyn Dickson, Decorated wooden spoon - 1 Shona Storer; 2 Barbara Waugh; 3 Alice Kilgour. The annual coffee morning is on Saturday, April 21, in the Scout Hall from 10am-noon There will be the usual stalls for cake and candy, tombola, garden plants and a raffle. Pensioners Association The meeting tonight (Wednesday) is a dominoes night in the church hall. The summer outing on Saturday, May 12, is to Aberdeen. Cost to members £15, non-members £20. Numbers and payments to be made at the meeting on April 18 or phone Edna on 01259 761616. Menstrie Parish Church T in 2 on Wednesdays from 10.30-11.30am. At Music on Thursday at 2pm Les Sawers is holding a film show on old Menstrie. Coffee morning on Saturresidents day, April 28 from 10am–noon. On Sunday at 11am Rev Paul Sewell will preach. The church has a website at www.menstrieparishchurch.co.uk. Menstrie UF Church Sunday worship at 10am will be conducted by Rev Jason Lingiah, studying 1 Timothy. Congregational board and kirk session meet in the manse today (Wednesday) at 10.30am. Prayer meeting and bible study will take place in the church on Wednesday, April 25, at 10.30am. The minister can be contacted on 01259 215278. More information can be found on Facebook @menstrieufchurch.

\Plean

Library Bookbug sessions every other Monday, 11.15-11.45am for babies and pre-school children. Parkrun Meet on Saturdays, 9.20am at former house in Plean Country Park. See parkrun.org.uk/plean for more details.

\Raploch

Ochil Centre Monday 10.30am to noon, Messy Mondays toddlers playgroup. The Tuesday Club for over-60s noon-2pm, lunch with tea/coffee free. Wednesday 11am-noon, Stay and Play parent toddler group. Bingo Wednesday and Sunday, 8pm. Call 01786 450011. Credit union The office is open from 11.30am-2pm every Tuesday and Thursday in the Raploch Campus. St Mark’s Parish Church The Young@Heart Ladies summer programme begins today (Wednesday) with a daffodil tea at 2pm. Super Group (youth club) resumes activities in the large hall at 6.30pm tonight for youngsters aged P3-P7. On Saturday, April 21, there is a Big Sing with the of Forthbank Care Home, the aim being that at 11am everyone will sing ‘You Are My Sunshine’ with all other care homes in the country. The next meeting for those involved in the Holiday Club is at 2pm on Tuesday, April 24. Communion cards and Link magazines are ready for uplifting in the session room. Sunday services begin at 10.50am with reading of the intimations followed by worship at 11am. Evening praise and prayer is in the side aisle of the church at 6pm.

\Riverside

Parant is Paiste Gaelic parent and child group for children up to age five meets on Mondays from 10am-noon in Riverside Primary School. £1.50 (includes snack). Call 07805 704884. Bowling Club The opening day is Saturday, April 21, and members who are playing are asked to be there for 1.45pm. All new members or interested members welcome. President Dick Cairns will open the green for season 2018.

\St Ninians

Walking group Free health walk with trained leaders, Thursdays from 11am, meeting at Battle of Bannockburn Centre, Glasgow Road. Contact walking@activestirling.org.uk. Civil Defence Club Two sessions of bingo every Wednesday and Sunday from 8pm. Entertainment on Saturday by Billy Hammond plus bingo. The hall can be hired for free on Friday nights. St Ninians Community Church Sunday service will take place at 10.30am in the Mayfield Centre. St Ninians Old Parish Church The service on Sunday at 10.30am will be conducted by Rev Gary McIntyre. Sunday Club will meet and there will be a baptism. On Sunday there will be a service in Eccles Court at 1.15pm and in Westerlands Care Home at 2pm. The hall management committee will meet on Tuesday at 12.30pm and the pastoral care group will meet at the church that day at 7pm. Councillor’s surgery Councillor Christine Simpson will be in Borestone Primary School tonight (Wednesday) at 6.30pm. St Ninians UF Church Sunday service at 11am will be conducted by Rev Martin Keane. Children’s activities will take place at the same time. Evening service at 7pm will be conducted by Mr Keane. On Tuesdays at 6.30pm XTB Club for those in primary school will be held.

\Throsk

Community centre Cash bingo takes place every Wednesday at 7.30pm.

\Tillicoultry

Wee County Walkers Meet on Saturdays, 10.30am, near the Nike outlet at Sterling Mills in Cochrane Hall car park. See www.weecountywalkers. wordpress.com.

\Tullibody

History Group Next monthly talk in the Heritage Centre is on Thursday, April 26, at 7.30pm when Robert Thomson will give a talk on shopping in Alloa in the 50s, 60s and beyond. Entry £1 for members and £1.50 nonmembers. Tea and coffee available. SWI The meeting at the Congregational Church on May 3 at 7.15pm is the AGM and members night. Take a little something to eat.