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🗒 Sunday to-do list
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SUNDAY 10 AND 17 DECEMBER
🤶🏻 Mooloolaba Beach Markets
Mooloolaba Esplanade (Surf Club end)
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FRIDAY 1 DECEMBER
🤶🏻 *Mooloolaba Rotary Club's Annual Senior Christmas Party
Lake Kawana Commun... [more]
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🎅🏻 FRIDAY 1 DECEMBER 2017
🎄 Event: Lighting Up Cooroy
Where: Cooroy, QLD
Time: 6.... [more]
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🎄 Lighting Up Cooroy
Friday 1 December 2017
6.45pm to 9.30pm
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Oh gosh, Sunny Coasters are we in for a treat! Well, actually not one, but three, event treats!
Cheese Therapy,... [more]
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