\Fishcross

be in the church hall today (Wednesday), tomorrow (Thursday), Friday and Saturday. Opening till Friday is 10am-8pm and Saturday from 10am5pm. The church hall is available for hire. Please contact shaws1@talktalk. net for more information. Church of the Holy Rude Today (Wednesday), Director of Music Ian Boulter will give an organ recital at 3pm. This recital is free and donations will go to the Organ Restoration Fund. All welcome. Sunday service at 10 am will be conducted by Mr Derek Neilson. Councillor’s surgery Councillor Ross Oxburgh will be in the Tolbooth tomorrow (Thursday) at 6.30pm. Holy Trinity Episcopal Church On Friday, August 10, Holy Communion will take place at 11am and on Sunday at 8.30am followed by Sung Eucharist at 10.30am. Sacred Music Study Week in Stirling 2018 is a week on church music and prayerful response to sacred art, focussing on Holy Trinity’s 20th century stained glass windows by Margaret Chilton in the side aisles. On Wednesday, August 15 at 8pm there is a reflective session exploring some strands around imagining, sounding and voicing the Invisible. The session ends with Compline. The church hall is available for hire. Please contact shaws1@talktalk.net for more information. Website: www.holytrinitystirling.org.

\Clackmannan

Clackmannan Development Trust (CDT) Monthly meeting takes place in the CDT office at the town hall tomorrow (Thursday) at 6.30pm. All welcome. Come and see what the trust is trying to achieve and give us your ideas on how to make Clackmannan a better place to live and work.

\Cowie

One O’Clock Gang Lunch club in the Miners Welfare Club, Mondays, 1pm. Community council Meets in the community centre on the last Monday of the month. The next meeting will be on Monday, August 27.

\Cornton

Credit union Cornton and District Credit Union is open every Monday from 9am-3pm and Fridays 4pm6pm in the community centre. Needles and Pins The knitting and sewing group is on its summer break and will resume in September. Cornton Baptist Church Tomorrow (Thursday) 7.30pm Praise, Prayer and Pastries. Sunday services at 11am and 6.30pm Rev Hamish Wishart. From August 13-17 Children’s holiday Club meets from 2-4pm.

\Dollar

Wee County Walkers Meet every Thursday at 10am beside the health centre. See www.weecountywalkers. wordpress.com.

\Dunblane

Walking group Free health walk with trained leaders every Wednesday from 10.30am. Meet in front of Dunblane Cathedral. Contact walking@activestirling.org.uk. Free Church Sunday’s services are at 11.30am with Kidz Club and creche plus evening service at 6.30pm. Prayer and Bible study meet on Thursdays at 7.30pm. More info from Innes Macleod on 01259 760566. Men’s breakfast at Choices coffee shop is held on the third Saturday of every month at 8am. Call Alasdair Lunan 07886 216593. Dunblane Christian Fellowship Service every Sunday at 10.30am with Kids Church and creche available. Chatty Crafters club every Tuesday 10am-1pm; cafe is open WednesdayFriday 2-5pm during August. Call Duncan Strathdee on 07789 912259. Senior citizens The next coach trip is to Ayr on Tuesday, August 28, leaving Dunblane at 10am with the usual pick-up points arriving the Toll, St Ninians for 10.30am. To reserve a seat phone 01786 821128 or leave a message. More info on the group is on Facebook. Young at Heart Low-impact dance fitness classes for ages 50-plus are on Tuesdays in the Victoria Hall from 12.15-1pm, starting August 7. For more information call Janice on 07565 182259. St Blane’s Church Sunday service and summer Sunday school will be at 10am. Creche available and tea/ coffee will be served in the hall afterwards to which all are welcome. The joint evening service with Dunblane Free Church will be held in St Blane’s at 6.30pm. Volunteers are needed for Radio Rainbow, held in the last week of the school holidays (August 13-17). Please speak to Rev Gary Caldwell if you are interested. Whist club Meetings resume weekly Thursdays from August 16 at 1.303.30pm in Lesser Hall, Victoria Hall. New players welcome with tuition available if required. Further information Dolly Gemmell 01786 822387. Dunblane Cathedral Midweek service takes place tomorrow (Thursday) at 11am. All are welcome to this short service in the Choir area. The next recital in the Music at Midday series will be given by organist Hannah Gibson from Worcestershire. Her programme will include works by Bach, Buxtehude, Pachelbel and others. Admission is free, with a retiring collection. There is also the opportunity for a light soup lunch in the hall after the concert. All proceeds from the lunch go to the work of Strathcarron Hospice. On Sunday, there are two services in the morning - the family service at 9.15am and morning worship at 10.30am. This will be followed by Prayers for Wholeness and Healing. Please meet in the choir area. Sunday is also St Blane’s Day. To mark this, Dunblane Churches Together have organised a Safari Service, setting out from the Church of the Holy Family at 2.30pm. This Safari Service is based on the idea of a Safari Supper: it is one act of worship hosted and led by different congregations in the town to celebrate our patron saint and the reconstituting of our ecumenical organisation “Dunblane Churches Together”. The service will conclude with refreshments in the Cathedral Hall. From Monday to Friday next week, Radio Rainbow, the Dunblane Churches Holiday Club, will be hosted in the Cathedral Halls. The group meets between 10am and noon each morning.

\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 10-1pm and 2-5pm to pay rent/council tax and receive help and advice. An office is also available for private meetings. Wee County Walkers Walks every Tuesday, meet 2pm at Cats Protection League premises. See www. weecountywalkers.wordpress.

\Menstrie

Wee County Walkers Meet on Sundays at 2pm in Dumyat Centre car park for walk with trained leaders. See www.weecountywalkers. Menstrie Parish Church Preachers for next few weeks will be Rev Dennis Rose (August 12); Mrs Sandie Kerr (August 19 and 26). An updated amount raised at the last table top sale is £305.65. The next sale will take place on Saturay, August 25 from 10am-noon. A short meeting of the kirk session will take place after the service on Sunday, August 12. Tea in Two will start again on Wednesday, September 5 at 10.30am and the next Music on Thursday will be Thursday, September 6. Worship on Sunday is at 11am, all welcome. Website: www. menstrieparishchurch.co.uk Menstrie UF Church Sunday worship at 10am will be conducted by Rev Jason Lingiah, continuing a new study in Habakkuk. Donations for The Gate Foodbank can be handed into the church. The minister can be contacted at the manse 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. Councillor’s surgery Alasdair MacPherson will be in the Balfour Centre on Monday, August 13 at 6pm.

\Raploch

Credit union The office is open from 11.30am-2pm every Tuesday and Thursday in the Raploch Campus. Any member who needs advice outwith these hours can contact the main office in Cornton Community Centre on Monday from 9am-3pm and Friday from 4-6pm. St Mark’s Church Sunday worship begins at 10.50am with the intimations, followed by worship at 11am.

\Riverside

Bowling Club The gents’ next friendly at Riverside will be on Saturday, August 11 at 2pm against Polmaise. Coaching still on every Wednesday, last week’s session was cancelled due to the weather. Spaces still available for the Invitation Triples to be held on Sunday, August 19 from 9.30am. If interested contact John Millar 07709 058642.

\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. St Ninians Community Church Sunday service is Church Around The Meal Table at 4.30pm at the Mayfield Centre, Re:fresh Cafe is closed for the summer and reopens on September 7. Civil Defence Club Two sessions of bingo every Wednesday and Sunday. Eyes down 8pm. Also entertainment on Saturday with Terry Moore plus bingo. The club can be hired for free on Fridays. Carpet bowls Over 60s are invited along to play carpet bowls in the Mayfield Centre from 2-4pm on Mondays and Thursdays (Mondays only until August 20). Tea and biscuits provided at half time. Councillors’ surgeries Councillor Neil Benny will be in Borestone Primary School on Wednesday, August 15 at 6.30pm. Councillor Alison Laurie will be in the Mayfield Centre on Wednesday, August 15 at 6.30pm. St Ninians Old Parish Church Service on Sunday at 10.30am will be conducted by Rev Agnes Moore. All welcome. Articles for The Parishioner should be submitted by Sunday at the latest. There will be a joint church friendship lunch in St Columba’s Church on Monday, August 13 at noon. St Ninians UF Church Sunday’s 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.

\Throsk

Community centre Cash bingo every Wednesday at 7.30pm.

\Tillicoultry

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