Belonging to community in Maleny

We have lived in Maleny for just over three years now and have made an effort to become part of the community by: buying local, joining a couple of interest and community service organisations, including COMA, and taking on roles on a couple of committees.

When we walk down the main street there is always someone we stop and yarn to – people know people in Maleny. On Sunday morning we stopped and talked to three tables of people on the footpath outside Monica’s on our way in to have a coffee. Peter, one of the baristas from Monica’s, came out onto the footpath and said: “Hurry up you two your coffees are made.” He had seen us outside and had made our coffees in anticipation. As ‘ordered’ we went inside and paid for our coffees – and upstairs on the table we often frequent there were our steaming coffees – and of course Peter had said Barry’s skinny has the spoon thru the handle. We just had a good chuckle to ourselves and said well you know there is a sense of community when that happens; and you feel part of it.