Christmas in Glasshouse Country & Maleny - 2018

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Christmas events – this week Get a selfie with Santa - Beerwah

Where: Beerwah Marketplace When: Thursday, December 13, 4–6pm and Saturday, December 15, 9am–12noon Cost: Free Keep an eye out for Santa and get a free selfie with him

Christmas Lights Guide

Maleny Christmas Festival and Street Party

Thanks to the locals who have set up Christmas lights and advised GC&M News that they are happy to share their displays with the rest of the community to enjoy.

Where: Maple Street, Maleny Including the Maleny RSL, the Riverside Centre and Maleny Community Centre, on Saturday, December 15 from 6–10pm. See story page 26.

Christmas concert – Maleny Singers

Where: Maleny RSL Time: 6.30pm Cost: Free, but donations to charity welcomed

Carols by candlelight – Combined Churches Choir

Where: Maleny Community Centre Time: 6–7 pm Cost: Free

Maple Street outside IGA 7pm – Unusual Suspects

Live music program

Where: Maleny Community Centre 7.30pm – Sweet Chilli Choir 7.55pm – Jem Dunlop & Jenny Fitz 8.20pm – Jevan Cole 8.45pm – Tom Richter & Ian Belcher 9.10pm – Hayden Hack 9.35pm – Murray Wall and Natalie Richy Duo

Mooloolah – Four Seasons Christmas markets

Where: Mooloolah Public Hall, 42 Bray Road, Mooloolah When: Saturday, December 15 from 8am–1pm Info: Contact Lesley 5494 7822 or info@mooloolahcommunitycentre.org

Beerwah – Glasshouse Community Christmas Carols

When: Saturday, December 15 Where: Beerwah Sportsgrounds from 4–8.30pm See ad page 25, story page 26

Christmas events – the week before Christmas

19 Wednesday – 24 Monday Maleny - Christmas Tree Festival Where: Maleny Uniting Church 1290 Landsborough/Maleny Road Info: Maleny Uniting Church The church building will be filled with more than 40 trees and displays all depicting this year’s theme of Christmas growing up 19 Wednesday Witta - Carols by candlelight Where: Good Shepherd Lutheran Church 295 Witta Rd, Witta Time: 7-8 pm Bring your own candles/light, chair or rug. If wet weather it will be held inside the small church building 21 Friday Mooloolah - Christmas carols in the hall Where: Mooloolah Public Hall Time: 7pm Info: Phone 5494 7793 An evening of song, laughter and community spirit 22

21 Friday Peachester - Community Christmas barbeque Where: Peachester Hall Time: 6.30pm Cost: Adults $16, kids $6, under school age free Drinks will be on sale.

All welcome to this annual event.

It is a great opportunity to meet up with friends and neighbours and share the Christmas spirit 23 Sunday Peachester - Community Christmas Carols Where: Peachester Hall Time: 6pm Cost: Free The Glasshouse Country Uniting Church will host community Christmas carols with refreshments to follow

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Gold coin fundraiser for Illuka Centacare Caloundra for the intellectually and physically challenged. Sausage sizzle on Friday, Saturday and Sundays.

Glass House Christmas Lights.

Landsborough 4 Layt Court 14 William Street

Peachester 487 Commissioners Flat Road Maleny 3 Lawrence Place Easton Lawyers, 62 Maple Street Conondale Conondale General Store, 1711 Maleny-Kenilworth Road Montville Montville Christmas Wonderland 15 Narrows Road

Open until December 23 on Fridays 2-5pm, Saturdays 2-5pm and 7-9pm, and Sundays 2-5pm. Entry $5 adults, $2 children or $12 a family.

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GC&M News was recently chatting to our awardwinning local food blogger Amanda Smyth, better known as the Cooker and a Looker.

We asked Amanda for a Christmas cooking suggestion for our readers.

Once again she has come up with something that could be mastered by just about all of our readers – what she describes as the world’s simplest Christmas cake.

Amanda first heard of this method of making Christmas cake from Kim McCosker’s (‘4 Ingredients’ fame) mum, who told her it’s a recipe from her neighbour.

Amanda made a couple of slight adaptions, one is the two-thirds cup of grog, which Amanda suggests is optional, and a cup of almonds, which she uses to decorate the cake, so that’s all about the presentation.

There’s no (additional) sugar in the recipe so it’s diabetes friendly and is also dairy-free.

However, dietary considerations aside, the real reason why Amanda loves this cake so much is that it’s ridiculously easy.

Photography by Emma Ruddle from Maleny

The world's easiest Christmas cake

Amanda Smyth | Cooker and a Looker Prep: 10 mins Cook: 2 hours, 30 mins Inactive: 12 hours Total: 14 hours, 40 mins Ingredients 1kg dried mixed fruit 3 cups orange juice 2/3 cup grog (rum, whiskey, whatever floats your sleigh) 3 cups self-raising flour 1 cup blanched almonds to decorate Instructions In a large bowl combine the mixed fruit, orange juice and booze. Cover and allow to soak overnight.

Preheat oven to 150C and prepare a 22cm cake tin. Stir flour into the soaked fruit and mix well. Spoon mixture into the cake tin and bake for 2½ hours in the bottom of the oven or until cooked through.

Remove from tin and leave to cool.

Wrap in foil or place in an air tight container where this cake will keep nicely for 3-4 weeks.

If you would like some additional inspiration for your festive cooking this month, head over to Amanda’s website www.cookerandalooker.com and download her free ‘12 Days of Christmas Cookbook’ which has some great, easy recipes.

Christmas Tree Festival A display of Creative Christmas Trees.

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Christmas VIEW

Contributed by Janet Kitchin Glasshouse Country VIEW Club enjoyed its recent Christmas Party and fun was had by all. Our first event in the New Year will be morning tea on January 2 at 10am at Vianta Café in Simpson Street, Beerwah.

Custom Made Christmas Gifts and Redesigns Range of Affordable Jewellery Pieces in stock Spoil someone special this Christmas!

Anyone interested in joining us would be most welcome. For more information about our club please speak to Trish on 5493 0026 or Lynda on 5494 7875.

Pop up Shop open Saturdays 9am – 12pm

Sells a variety of things from sculptures / gowns / books / steelwork, tools.

Contact Shop to find out what is featuring Saturday.

VIEW Clubs raise money for the Smith Family and Learning for Life Program at all their events. Our club supports five Learning for Life students.

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Books4Kids Christmas book drive

You can give the gift of literacy this festive season by buying a new children’s book and dropping it in to the Beerwah or Maleny Libraries before Monday, December 17.

Sunshine Coast Libraries and the Salvation Army have joined forces once again for the annual Books4Kids Christmas book drive.

The Salvation Army will distribute the books to less fortunate children in time for Christmas.

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Free Christmas brunch - Landsborough

The Landsborough Seventh-day Adventist Church will provide a free Christmas Day brunch for members of the community from 9-11am at the Adventist Community Centre, 27 Maleny Street, Landsborough.

Lots of delicious food, drinks and a special gift will be provided to everyone who attends.

The church’s catering team, led by Beth Beaden and Brenda Smart (pictured), recognises that some people may not have the opportunity to enjoy a family meal together at Christmas or financial circumstances may make it hard to provide a meal and gifts for their families.

If you are interested in attending or know an individual or family who would like to attend, contact Brenda on 0408 770 744 by December 14.

If you require transport, contact 0407 142 962.

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Christmas breakfast in Maleny

There are still a number of vacancies on the volunteer's roster for the Maleny Neighbourhood Centre’s Christmas breakfast.

Shifts are for two hours starting from 6am and finishing at 1pm. Volunteers are also needed on Christmas Eve to set up and on Christmas Day for tasks including barbeque/food preparation, cereals/cold breakfast as well as table serving, cleaning up and hosting duties.

To volunteer call the Maleny Neighbourhood Centre on 5499 9345 or come in and place your name on the roster.

Christmas Tree Festival

Each year as part of Maleny Uniting Church’s Christmas Tree Festival, which runs from Wednesday, December 19 to Christmas Eve, December 24, a charity is nominated to receive funds raised from the event.

This year they have chosen the Maleny Neighbourhood Centre as the beneficiary.

To support this great initiative the Neighbourhood Centre is asking for volunteers to be available for two-hour shifts at the entrance desk for the festival at the Uniting Church.

There are three shifts per day - 2-4pm, 4-6 pm and 6-8 pm - on most days. If you can help, give the Neighbourhood Centre a call on 5499 9345.

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Christmas Events ...

12th day before Maleny ... Christmas this week Traditionally the Maleny Christmas Festival and Street Party is held on the last day of the school term, which this year is Friday, December 14.

This means the event is the 12th day before Christmas, which will be the theme of this year’s competition for kids. They will need to find the ‘12 signs of Christmas’ within the town centre, hidden in the front windows of 12 participating shops.

The competition will open the week before the event and will be concluded on the night with a random drawn for the prize of a kid’s pass to Australia Zoo. Santa (and Mrs Claus) will be in attendance for kids to meet. Santa photos will be a gold coin donation for parents to take with their own phones or cameras. Money raised goes to Greyhound Rescue.

Maleny Community Centre will once again be the main music hub with Christmas carols from 6-7pm, followed by live music by talented local musicians from 7.30-9.30pm. The hall’s bar will be open and run by Community Centre volunteers.

Local children’s dance groups will be performing outside MCU from 6–7pm and The Unusual Suspects will have everyone dancing in the street outside IGA at 7pm.

This year’s free kids activities will include laser tag in Cooke Park, sponsored

by Andrew Powell, as well as face painting and kids activities in the hall provided by Maleny Neighbourhood Centre.

Some shops will extend trading hours to join in the fun with 26 stalls down the centre of the road to encourage movement in and out of shops. These will include lots of delicious food stalls and community groups. There will be more action at the Riverside Centre where they will have stalls, music and food. The event is on from 6–10pm.

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dance demos from local groups 6-7pm

Stalls, Santa photos, face-painting, rides

Main Music Hub Maleny Community Centre Carols 6-7pm Music concert 7.30- 9.30pm

Unusual Suspects will have everyone dancing in the street outside IGA at 7pm.

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As the countdown draws closer to the 2018 Glasshouse Country Christmas Carols, to be held at the Beerwah Sportsground this Saturday night, those involved are getting pretty excited.

This free, family–friendly gathering offers something for the whole community and is a wonderful mix of familiar songs and traditional interactive carols by candelight.

Everyone is welcome, so come and sing-a-long and share the community Christmas spirit.

There will be great local acts, musicians and three wonderful choirs to enjoy.

Don’t forget to bring your appetite as there will be an awesome array of food and drinks, as well as plenty of activities for the kids. Get your family photo taken in the giant Snow Globe.

The carols are organised by the Landsborough School of the Arts Memorial Hall, with a highlight for the night being internationally renowned vocal conductor Brian Martin on centre stage.

Entertainment starts at 4.30pm with musicians and dance, then the carols stage show starts at 6.30pm, with the grand finale leading into the fireworks at 8.15pm.

And don’t forget to bring your blankets and camp chairs so you can get comfy and enjoy!

Laser Tag in Cooke Park

Proudly supported by the Sunshine Coast Council’s Grants Program and Andrew Powell.

Thanks also to Maleny Community Centre, and Glasshouse Country & Maleny News.

Full details of other supporters on the Maleny Commerce website.

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Christmas News

Libraryland Village comes to Maleny High Students entering the school library on the first Monday of December were entranced by the arrival of the Libraryland Christmas ginger bread village.

The Christmas fantasy land was the result of many extra hours of creative work and inspiration by librarian Desley Newsham.

A number of students helped create components of the decorations but had no idea of the extent of the final creation.

Desley said that what started as an idea for a small cabinet display just grew and grew. So when students arrived Monday morning they were wowed by the extent of the display.

The display is made from recycled cardboard and paper, which fits with the school’s environment committee recycling activities.

Environment committee teacher Amanda Edwards said the Libraryland display has been an inspirational kick start for students to make creations with a Christmas theme from recycled materials as part of the alternate program activities in the final week of school.

To add some extra interest a number of staff have been ‘elfed’ and cleverly incorporated into the displays as elves in various poses. It is a bit like ‘Where’s Wally’ for elves.

Students have just loved the fun atmosphere the display has created with students coming to take photos and using the village as a backdrop for filming assessment pieces.

Well done to Desley Newsham and Sharon O’Farrell and their band of helpers from Ms Rigg’s year 7 enterprise and Ms Collis’s year 9 humanities classes for making Maleny State High School a fun place to work Teachers Isabel Riggs and Natasha Collis with the Year 7 and learn.

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Year 9 Humanities students Angelina Goulton, Lucy Dodd and Gabrielle Lehman

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Santa drops in to Downtown Caloundra

A special guest from the North Pole has confirmed the reindeers are bringing him to Downtown Caloundra on Saturday, December 15.

Everyone is invited to this free event to kick start the Christmas celebrations on Bulcock Street and to officially welcome Santa to Caloundra.

Bulcock Street will be transformed into a Christmas wonderland, with roving entertainers, live music, face painting and sausage sizzles, along with free Santa photos.

Adding to the celebration will be the special release of the Caloundra song and poem, which has been created to celebrate all things Caloundra.

The gifts continue with free parking in the CBD throughout the Christmas period.

The official celebrations of Christmas in Caloundra will start at 8.30am on Saturday, December 15 with Santa to arrive at 9.15am.

For more details visit the Facebook event page at Welcome to Santa – Downtown Caloundra.

An inspirational Christmas concert – Maleny

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Maleny-based community choir Inspiration Choir presents its Christmas concert conducted by Kim Kirkman. The performance will feature a wide variety of jolly and sacred Christmas carols and songs for all to enjoy at the Maleny Primary School Hall on Sunday, December 16 from 2pm.

Tickets are $15 and will be available at the door, or you can book online at www.trybooking.com/ZCTH. For more information contact 0411 425 793.

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