By Dongyun Kwon
Healesville elves have started their job to bring the Christmas vibe into the town.
Recently, Santa Claus received a request from the Rotary Club of Healesville as the Rotarians needed assistance to refresh and decorate the town with Christmas wreaths.
After Santa received the request, he recruited 10 local elves to help him with this request.
Healesville Rotary Club president Sally Piper said the Rotary Club purchased 12 new wreaths, which were added to 24 older wreaths, with the help of the Healesville Lions Club.
“They were naked, just fresh greenery, so now the elves are decorating them with baubles,” she said.
“These will all be installed in December. The wreaths will be put at the base of the lamps and then a crew, come along from the shire, will put the Christmas wreaths up on the lamps.
“We’ll have a grand unveiling with Santa in the first week of December.”
This is another project that two local community groups, Healesville Rotary Club and Healeville Lions Club, put their hands together for the benefit of the local community.
Sally thanked the Lions Club for the help.
“When we put out the call that we were trying to maintain our old wreaths and to purchase the new wreaths, which was another edition of 12, the Lions Club put their hand up straight away to help us with the bauble,” she said.
“We could do the refreshing of the old ones and are able to decorate all the new ones as well.
“They have been an amazing help. We love working together with another service group in our town because we all love Healesville.”
A Rotarian couple, Chippy and Cheryl, have been designated as Christmas wreath guardians by Santa and they have stored the Christmas wreaths for about 15 years in Santa’s secret vault, where no one can find them.
The president is calling for help from the local community.
“If anyone would love to support us in growing our Christmas decorations in our main street, all they have to do is contact the Rotary Club via email (secretary@rotaryhealesville.org),” Sally said.
“Any donation, whether it’s large or small, helps us put another bauble on another little Christmas tree.
“Our goal is every lamp in our street would have a Christmas wreath decoration.”
