THE new Buderim Village Park stage will come alive with Christmas music and light for the annual Buderim Community Carols on Sunday, 10th December from 6.30pm.

The first event to be staged on the new stage, to be officially opened on 1st December, the Buderim Community Carols, will be again hosted by the BWMCA and Buderim Bendigo Community Bank and is shaping up to be the best event yet.

BWMCA Carols organiser Andrew Butterworth said the Buderim Community Christmas Carols would this year feature the Suzie Keenan and Friends trio, Buderim Youth Theatre of Excellence (BYTES) with special guest Buderim’s own stage star Eva Murawski, who played the lead in Tim Minchin’s adaptation of Roald Dahl’s Matilda.

“With the fantastic new stage, we are even more excited about this year’s Buderim Community Carols which for the local community really heralds the beginning of the Christmas season,” Mr Butterworth said.

John Dahl of Buderim was 44 years old and let it be known when he signed up for the Australian army in 1916 that he was disappointed that the younger generation were obviously “…too scared and not patriotic enough“ to join the fight.

His life, and death, in action will be recalled at this year’s Buderim Remembrance Day commemoration on November 11.

Each year the Buderim War Memorial Community Association’s ANZAC and Remembrance Day Committee chooses a Buderim Hero to be remembered along with over 60,000 of his comrades who died in World War 1.

Buderim’s first annual Lunch en Blanc will be held at Bloomhill Function Centre on Sunday 19 November from 12pm and you’re invited to help raise money for the Foundations’ community investment fund.

Foundation Event Committee chair, Lloyd Edwards said the luncheon was inspired by the original Parisian picnic, Lunch en Blanc which bears a rich European history.

“With attendees invited to dress in white, those with a penchant for the finer things in life will come together, equipped with a bountiful picnic basket for an afternoon of fine food and great company,” Mr Edwards said.