By JESSE GRAHAM
HEALESVILLE Hospital campaigners have been pushed closer to their funding goals, following a $5000 donation earlier this week.
The Victorian Forests Contractor’s Association (VFCA) handed the Save Healesville Hospital Action Group (SHHAG) a cheque for $5677 on Wednesday 27 November.
The donation came after Friends of Forestry (FoF) and VFCA members donated more than $500,000 in machinery and labour to help remove pine trees from along the Yarra Valley Railway’s lines.
Some of the removed trees were sold on from the timber groups, with all of the money from the sale going to the hospital group.
SHHAG members Kersten Gentle and Peter Carruthers accepted the cheque from Friends of Forestry president Brett Robins in a ceremony at Healesville Railway Station and Ms Gentle praised the community efforts to help the group.
She said the money would go to a $100,000 case study, which would assess the Healesville Hospital’s capacity to become an independent body.
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