Maleny Commerce

By Spencer Shaw Maleny Commerce President

, our July joint networking breakfast with the Montville Chamber of Commerce was a jam-packed event at Tranquil Park, with the spectacular views of the Glasshouse Mountains as a backdrop to this busy morning.

Glasshouse AGM announced

GLASSHOUSE Country Chamber of Commerce is gearing up for its annual general meeting on Tuesday, August 15.

The event is set to once again showcase the best of Glasshouse Country’s fine food producers with a menu brimming with local fare.

The AGM will be held on August 15 at the Mooloolah Valley Country Club, with tickets now available for purchase online at getasafeticket.com.au/peeqw.

The chamber held its latest Before Hours networking breakfast at the Beerwah Hotel on Tuesday July 25. Guest speaker, Wishlist Sunshine Coast CEO Lisa Rowe spoke about the incredible work her organisation does supporting the needs of hospital patients and their families in the region. wishlist.org.au

Thank you, Andrew Wallace our Federal member of parliament, for your Federal Government activity updates and introduction to our local Telstra team of May Boisen - Regional General Manager at Telstra and Matt Thornton Regional Engagement Manager Telstra SE QLD, who discussed and hopefully listened to our concerns with regards the recent Telstra service outages and steadily decreasing quality of service we have been receiving (not receiving) on the range over the last few years.

Matt from Telstra has offered to catch up with us again in 2 months, to assess how the system is functioning after the recent upgrades, so for all our Maleny business’s please let us know if your having ongoing issues, so we can communicate this to Telstra.

A big takeaway message from this meeting was that we shouldn’t rely only on mobile phone networks for communications and internet access... Which is a bit tricky given that our culture and economy has been encouraged and guided to become increasingly reliant on these services.

I don’t think this issue is going away in any hurry, so stay tuned and we’ll be gathering and sharing more info on how to best negotiate this situation.

We also had Gretchen Kealty, President of Arts Connect discussing the upcoming Sculpture on the Edge 19th November to 4th December, an iconic Arts events that runs across the Blackall Range.

Thank you, Cr. Winston Johnston for bringing Debra Robinson – Group Executive Customer & Planning Services, Sunshine Coast Council to discuss SCC’s plans to address affordable Housing and Multiple Temporary Dwellings.

No, big solutions yet, but as this is a society wide problem something we need to all be aware of and working to address on so many levels.

Our next networking breakfast is on August 8th, keep up the good business Maleny.