Healesville Chamber of Commerce & Industry

Tonight I was a guest speaker at the Healesville Chamber of Commerce and Industry. It was a good opportunity to connect with a different section of the community - and an important sector, the businesses who help keep the economy going!

I asked those present what they knew about the Salvos, then shared a sentence summary of our history, as well as a bit more information about Healesville Salvos' history. In prep I was doing some riffling through our filing cabinet, and I found a copy of the deed to our land, from 1921, with James Hay's signature on it! It has the land on the corner of Harker St & Castella St. Now...Castella St doesn't exist now - it's known as Maroondah Highway! It's also interesting to note that 'Nicholson Street' is actually the local name for Maroondah Highway as it passes through town. There's a new push for businesses to use Nicholson instead of Maroondah Highway, recreating ownership of the town. Anyway, I digress...

Thank you to Joanne Tate, President, for the invite to share tonight - it was good! And let me also say that the plate of food was amazing! Again, the local produce makes life tough here!