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How will you spend Christmas?

Fun and feasting on Christmas
The staff at Rococo Bistro and Bar Noosa in Hastings Street want to come to work on Christmas Day and who could blame them.
General manager Brett Lane said everyone wanted to work on Christmas.
“It’s very pleasant to work Christmas. A lot of people are here on holidays. They choose to be here and enjoy Christmas lunch.
“The owner comes here with his family.”
On the menu at Rococo’s will be a special six-course Christmas lunch, part traditional and part Australian.
And what will the staff be eating?
“They will have a Christmas lunch – whatever the chef has prepared,” Brett said.

Firies hope for calm
Like other emergency services workers, Noosa firefighters will be on watch on Christmas Day.
Noosa Heads station officer Brian Riley said the A shift of Tom O’Connell, Andrew Bear and Colin Dick and himself would be on duty at Noosa Heads fire station.
“Historically it’s a quiet day,” he said.
“But there are often small traffic crashes when people are moving from lunches to dinners.”
The officers will be self-catering on the day with each member of the team bringing in their contribution to a communal lunch, if all goes well.

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