Pegasus Post: September 30, 2021

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 2021 

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Chance meeting 

leads to 60 years 

of marriage 

• By John Cosgrove 

A COUPLE who celebrated their 

diamond wedding anniversary on 

September 20, recall vividly the 

moment they first met. 

John Jackson (then 18) was driving 

his ’34 Chevy Junior coupe sedately 

along Cashel St one April evening in 

1959, when he caught sight of a young 

girl running towards him, her face 

streaked with tears. 

Sue Cann (then 16) had just broken 

up with a boyfriend and was running 

away from him when John spotted her. 

“She looked upset and cute so I 

quickly pulled over and asked if I 

could help her. 

• Turn to page 4 

TOGETHER: John and Sue Jackson of New Brighton, celebrated their 60th wedding 

anniversary with family and friends on September 20. PHOTO: JOHN COSGROVE 

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what’s on 

this week 

Mugford Reserve planting 

Friday, 9.30am-12.30pm 

Mugford Reserve, Anzac Drive. 

Opposite Wetlands Grove 

Conservation Volunteers are working 

at the Mugford Reserve in Bexley as 

part of an exciting new restoration 

project in the red zone. Working in 

partnership with the Avon-Heathcote 

Estuary Ihutai Trust and the city 

council, they will be helping with 

maintenance of plantings that their 

volunteers assisted with in 2020 – 

releasing and mulching. Gloves, tools 

and morning tea will be provided. 

Wear sturdy, closed-toe footwear, 

a sunhat, and take a water bottle. 

Lightweight long sleeves and trousers 

are recommened as protection from 

the sun and vegetation. Email Donna 

Zdlusby@cvnz.org.nz) or phone 021 

457 568 for more information. Free. 

Dallington Landing 

Community Tree planting 

Saturday, 1 -3pm 

Dallington Tce 

Conservation Volunteers in 

partnership with the city council, as 

part of the Rotary Forests of Peace 

and Remembrance, at the Dallington 

Landing site. CVNZ volunteers 

are helping to create a forest in 

Christchurch’s red zone. Go along 

and help create this forest in the red 

zone. Free. 

Brighton Gallery Art Classes with Tony Scanlan, Saturday, 

10.30am–12.30pm. Art classes at Brighton Gallery with Scanlan (Bachelor 

of Fine Arts, BSc), a varied artist teaching a range of styles and materials. 

Run by a charitable trust aiming to encourage creativity and promote local 

art and artists in New Brighton and Christchurch. Phone 028 418 2763 or 

960 3800 to book or just go along. $10, door sales only. Brighton Gallery, 78 

Brighton Mall. 

Vintage Market 

Saturday, 10am–2pm 

Avebury House, 9 Eveleyn Couzins Ave 

The vintage markets are back outside 

on the spacious front lawn of Avebury 

House, in Richmond, with the 

adjoining children’s playground and 

pool. Organisers are looking forward 

to providing an amazing array of 

quality vintage goods to search 

through. There will be gorgeous 

clothing, vinyl records, kitchenalia, 

fabrics, bric-a-brac, furniture, crystal, 

china, men’s stuff and all manner of 

treasures. Real fruit ice cream, coffee, 

pastries and a scone or two for you to 

enjoy. Cash only. Social distance from 

people you don’t know, 2m. Masks 

must be worn and sanitise. Food must 

be consumed outside of market area. 

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Canterbury Mountain Bike 

Series Round 3 

Sunday, 9.30am 

Bottle Lake 

This is the third and final round 

of the Canterbury Mountain Bike 

Series – a three-race series staged 

at Bottle Lake. The series caters 

for everyone – the elite rider to 

the beginner and from seven years 

and up in the short course. Short 

course – 15km, one lap, long course – 

30km, two laps. This event caters for 

everyone, young, old, male, female, 

big, small, fast or slow . At alert level 2 

numbers are limited, no entries on 

the day will be taken. Entries close at 

3pm on the Saturday before the race. 

Enter online at www.canterburymtb. 

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Thursday September 30 2021 3 

New life for hard-to-recycle items 

RICHMOND AND Shirley 

residents have a new communitybased 

recycling collection 

point for those hard-to-place 

household items. 

The Richmond Community 

Garden worked with the 

Avebury House Men’s Shed 

group to build and install a new 

recycling collection receptacle 

at 46a Vogel St – the Riverlution 

Eco Hub collection station. 

It caters to five distinctive 

recycling streams: 1. Wine bottle 

caps and can tabs; 2. Glad Wrap; 

3. Razors, blades and packaging; 

4. Toothpaste tubes and caps, 

floss containers, toothbrushes, 

mouthwash bottles; and 5. Plastic 

bottle tops. 

Garden sustainability event 

co-ordinator Morgane Honore- 

Forde said they had picked 

those five particular streams 

because they cannot be recycled 

in Christchurch at present, 

and are usually considered 

general waste. 

“EcoCentral does not accept 

any bottle tops due to the fact 

that it will damage their sorting 

conveyor belt, and razors, oral 

care products and bottle tops 

usually ends up in landfill.” 

She said the five streams will 

be recycled by a number of 

organisations and commercial 

operations. 

The wine bottle tops are going 

to the Christchurch Kidney 

Society for them to raise funds 

for its child and youth support 

program. 

“The plastic bottle tops will be 

shredded and turned into a new 

product at the Eco Hub,” she 

said. 

TerraCycle and Gillette 

partnered to create a recycling 

programme for any brand 

of used razors, blades and 

packaging. 

TerraCycle and Glad have 

also created the free Glad Food 

Storage Recycling Programme 

for Glad and all other brands of 

cling wrap, food storage bags, 

and food storage containers. 

Colgate has partnered with 

TerraCycle to help provide a second 

life for toothbrushes, toothpaste 

tubes, toothpaste caps, floss 

containers and their plastic outer 

NEW BIN: 

Richmond Men’s 

Shed volunteer 

Matty Cook 

with the new 

five-stream 

recycling station 

at the Richmond 

Community 

Garden. 

packaging materials. 

Once collected, the TerraCycle 

process cleans all the plastics and 

then melts them into hard plastic 

blocks, which can be remoulded 

to make new recycled products. 

Honore-Forde praised the 

work undertaken by the Men’s 

Shed crew, for producing the 

receptacle station. 

Everyone can access the 

Riverlution Eco Hub collection 

station to drop off items. 

In Brief 

LINWOOD POOL OPENS 

TOMORROW 

The much-anticipated $22 million 

Te Pou Toetoe: Linwood pool will 

open tomorrow. Due to Covid 

level 2 restrictions, the opening 

will be strictly limited to 100 

invited people, and access to the 

pool will be restricted to only 48 

people at a time. The ‘Have a go’ 

activities and ‘Party in the park’ 

planned for October 2 and 3 have 

been postponed. 

GARDENERS URGED TO 

GEAR UP 

City gardeners are encouraged 

to ‘gear up’ to protect themselves 

against legionnaires’ disease as 

they get stuck into their spring 

gardens. Canterbury Medical 

Officer of Health Dr Ramon Pink 

said legionnaires’ disease, caused 

by legionella bacteria, can start 

with flu-like symptoms. This 

year’s campaign highlights the 

importance of using the right 

gear when gardening, particularly 

when handling compost and 

potting mix. 

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City council acting head of 

transport Lynette Ellis said 

improvements to the public 

transport hub near the Eastgate 

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Communication key to longevity 

• From page 1 

“She settled down and eventually 

told me that I could take 

her back to the nurses’ hostel at 

Burwood Hospital where she was 

studying to be a nurse,” he said. 

Sue recalled it was a really 

weird situation: “I was running 

away from the other guy, I was 

crying, but when I saw John and 

he stopped to help me, I somehow 

knew then that this would 

be the man I wanted to marry.” 

Over the next 18 months, the 

star-struck couple spent every 

moment they could together, 

even when it meant sneaking Sue 

out a side window of the nurses’ 

hostel some nights after curfew. 

“Matron caught me once and 

she took me into a room and gave 

me a one and a half-hour-long 

lecture,” said John. 

Sue said: “He didn’t know then 

that she was my guardian, my 

parents had left me in Christchurch 

when they returned to 

England, so she was all I had.” 

Love blossomed and on September 

20, 1961, the pair walked 

down the aisle at the St Faith’s 

Church in New Brighton. 

“It was a lovely warm day and 

a friend stepped in to give me 

away,” Sue said. 

However, John remembers that 

she was over a 30min late because 

the wedding car had broken 

down at her house. 

Sue was born in Bombay 

(Mumbai) and spent the next 

decade travelling with her family 

to England and Southern Rhodesia 

(Zimbabwe) before finally 

arriving by ship in New Zealand. 

“Mum died giving birth to my 

younger sister in India and dad 

then married her cousin. 

“He worked for an asbestos 

company until we came here, 

he got a job on the railways 

BIG DAY: 

John Jackson 

and Sue 

Cann were 

married on 

September 

20, 1961, at 

St Faith’s 

Church, New 

Brighton. 

and later at James Fletchers in 

Christchurch. 

“But when I was just 16 the 

whole family went back to Devon 

and I stayed here on my own to 

train as a nurse.” 

John was born in Sydenham, 

went with his family firstly to 

Tekapo, before finally settling in 

New Brighton. 

“I’m a Brighton boy,” he said, “I 

was an apprentice cabinet maker 

machinist when we met and I 

stayed in that trade for most of 

my life.” 

“We just clicked, although she 

broke the door and window on 

my car on our first official date,” 

he said. 

The couple settled in New 

Brighton and raised three 

children – two boys, John 

and Michael, and a daughter 

Christine. 

When the children were older 

the family took charge of the Anglican 

Church Children’s Home 

at St Albans in 1974. 

It already had seven children 

from two broken families living 

in separate parts of the house. 

Sue was house mother and 

John worked as the house security 

officer. 

“We decided there and then 

that there wouldn’t be any separation 

in the families, so 

we joined the three families 

together, had our meals together, 

the kids played together and we 

even went to a Cilla Black concert 

together. 

“She came up to us during 

the concert and made the whole 

family stand up – it was a great 

sight as we took up a whole row 

in the town hall, we were one big 

family.” 

Over the next five years, the 

couple also looked after many 

short-term stay children. 

This started a long association 

with child care and volunteering 

by the couple. 

Five years later the couple 

brought a large double-storey 

house in New Brighton and three 

of the care children joined them 

there. 

“We still stay in touch with 

them and we are called Poppy 

and Grandy by their children,” 

Sue said. 

While John returned to 

cabinet making Sue eventually 

worked for 25 years at the 

Donaldson Residential Trust 

home for the intellectually 

handicapped. 

But that wasn’t the end of 

the couple’s work for both have 

received commendations from 

care groups and the police for 

their long years of work with 

Victim Support, Pregnancy 

Help, Community Watch and 

others. 

Sixty years after that side of the 

road meeting the couple agreed 

that the secret to wedding peace 

has been communication and 

trust. 

John said he never goes to bed 

without saying he loved Sue: 

“Even if we’ve had a row, I still 

say it every night.” 

“I can’t stay mad at him when 

he says that, I still love him to 

bits,” Sue said. 

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diminished heating capacity will raise 

energy use as your pump struggles 

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of things; blocked filters and / or coils, a compromised compressor or a 

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Races test dogs and owners 

• By John Cosgrove 

MAN AND beast were running 

together at the third annual 

4Paws Marathon series of races 

held on Sunday at Bottle Lake. 

Observing Covid alert level 2 

spacing rules, competitors and 

their dogs from all over the city 

and the South Island lined up 

for the start of various events 

which included a marathon, 

half marathon, 16km, 10 km, 

5km and a 2.4km walk/runs 

on tracks through Bottle Lake 

Forest and out on nearby 

beaches. 

At each race, organisers 

started lines of competitors at 

ten second intervals to space 

them apart and conducted 

mandatory vet checks at various 

distances along the tracks, 

which for some went almost as 

far as the Brighton Pier. 

4Paws event organiser and 

race director John Molloy said it 

was “a massive but fulfilling day. 

“In all we were very impressed 

with how people respected 

the events Covid rules with 

responsible mask usage in what 

is a very social event (about 100 

participants).” 

He said dogs bring the best out 

of people and for the third year 

in a row there were no dog (or 

human) altercations. 

“The smiles on everyone’s face 

KEEN: Pitena Parkin, of Parklands, with Rusty, wait for the start of the 5km walk/run. 

They completed it in a time of 54min. Right – Darryl McIntosh and daughter Blake, 9, of 

Richmond, with their dog Frankie before the start of 2.4km walk/run. The McIntosh team 

were the first team home in quick time of 15min 22sec. PHOTOS: JOHN COSGROVE 

inspires us to keep hosting this 

event. The event is about participation 

and not winning so the 

winners get no winning prizes 

as such. 

“But in due time they will 

realise they have won the best 

prize of all – sharing the experience 

of finishing a marathon 

together with their best friend,” 

Molloy said. 

He said it a priceless memory 

they will forever cherish and he 

was unaware of any event in the 

world that offers this experience 

with regards to package of race 

distances and a full marathon 

distance. 

Darryl Cotton and Pip (kelpie) 

of Rangiora won the men’s marathon 

in a time of 3hr 46min 

31sec while Holly Weston and 

her border collie Billy Knowler 

of Beckenham won the women’s 

marathon with a time of 3hr 

55min 41sec. 

Young explorers 

invited to 

honour Worsley 

TWENTY-FIRST century 

explorers will face their fears head 

on in a challenging Antarcticafocused 

weekend aiming to 

highlight an unsung hero. 

Canterbury-based school students 

in years 7 to 9 can now apply 

for the 2021 Young Inspiring 

Explorers Worsley Weekend. 

Run by Antarctic Heritage 

Trust in partnership with William 

Pike Challenge, the weekend celebrates 

Antarctic explorer, Frank 

Worsley. 

Worsley was part of Sir Ernest 

Shackleton’s Endurance expedition 

and is known for navigating 

the rescue party to safety after the 

ship was crushed by ice floes. 

Trust commercial and partnerships 

general manager Marcus 

Waters said not many people 

know about Worsley. 

Twenty students will spend the 

weekend of November 20 and 21 

in Akaroa and Wainui, learning 

about Worsley and taking part in 

a range of activities that will teach 

them to overcome challenges, 

including high ropes and rafting. 

Applications close 

on Tuesday, and those 

interested can apply at 

https://nzaht.org/inspiringexplorers-expedition-2020/ 

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Thursday September 30 2021 

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How we aspire to meet our students 

A “culturally responsive pedagogy” is a term that 

many outside of the education sector may have heard 

from time to time but have little grasp of. Such is the 

way of many government departments with their 

reliance on such jargon and assertions to stay the 

course. What this means for us at Linwood College 

at Ōtākaro is an endeavour to deliver an accessible 

practice of our teaching and learning that values an 

individual’s culture. It is a genuine attempt of our 

educators to recognise, celebrate and utilise every 

ākonga for their unique and meaningful identity and 

background. We recognise as educators our tried 

and true purpose is to advance academic progress 

but we also aspire to ensure all our students feel their 

cultural identity is strong, secure and fundamentally 

valued along the way. Using this practice ensures 

we are bicultural and upholding the principles of the 

Treaty of Waitangi for both parties, and when we 

succeed it benefits every student. For all ākonga, we 

must work to ensure they all feel they belong within 

the learning environment we provide and a sound, 

clear kaupapa is shared with the community that 

is focused on the potential of ‘all’ learners to thrive 

without compromising who they are. 

Students attending Tausala Night 

So what does this look, sound and feel like in 

our learning community? In the classroom, it is 

expressed through wānanga – decision-making and 

learning practices that are responsive to a range of 

relevant contexts. It maintains, advances, and shares 

knowledge and develops intellectual independence, 

while assisting the use of knowledge regarding 

ahuatanga Māori (Māori tradition) according to 

tikanga Māori (Māori custom). This can be found in 

our science classes where Y10 students learn about 

genetics and how a cancer threat helped singer 

Stan Walker identify how the mutated CDH1 gene 

was expressed in his whakapapa. It can be seen 

and heard in the karakia recited at the beginning 

of Tāhuhu classes. It can be found in the cultural 

narrative names gifted to us by Ngāi Tūāhuriri for the 

rebuild: Te Aratai college. 

Siva Somoa performed at our Festival of Nations 

Our commitment to cultural responsiveness is also 

addressed in our practice of ako and mahi ngātahi, 

a philosophy of not only sharing the content, context 

and responsibility of teaching and learning between 

student and teacher but also in the wider community 

with ongoing kōrero and consultation with whānau. 

Perhaps the best example of this is our Wā Whakanui 

conferencing we hold twice every year. These 

conferences replace the traditional parent-teacher 

interviews where whānau are given 10 minutes 

intervals to digest a student’s progress by individual 

teachers. Instead, Wā Whakanui is a presentation 

delivered by our students to their whānau, sharing 

and speaking to 3 pieces of their best work. These 

are empowering, inspiring presentations where the 

self-determination and success of our ākonga is 

evident for their loved ones. 

Our commitment to strong community bonds is 

also ever-present in our Tausala Night where our 

Pasifika Students and Polyfest group perform for 

their family, friends and kaiārahi, and Te Roopu 

Kapa Haka o Kimihia, the school’s kapa haka group. 

This group is a combination of 5 kura from around 

a new chapter 

Students taking part in the He Puna Putaiao 

programme 

Christchurch including: Christchurch Girls High 

School, Christchurch Boys High School, Cashmere 

High School and Haeata Community Campus. 

The success from these competitions is more than 

placing on the day, it includes creating a sense of 

whanaungatanga, personal success and a sense 

of belonging and identity within the kaihaka for all 

ākonga to be proud of who they are and their cultural 

identities. 

A school is not an isolated silo where we prepare 

our students for the ‘real world’ outside. A school is 

part of that real world, where the experiences and 

expressions are as real and lived as anything that 

flows in, through and beyond it. This is why we believe 

that a successful kura, a school that delivers success 

for its taonga, is engaged with the communities, 

histories and identities of all that come to tread life 

and experience into its hallowed halls. 

Te Rōpū Kapa Haka o Kimihia 

performers 

Linwood High School 1954 - Te Aratai College 2022 

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Grant allows sewing group to expand 

A RECENT funding boost has 

helped a community-based 

Brighton sewing group expand 

their services. 

Following a $4000 grant from 

the Coastal-Burwood Community 

Board strengthening 

communities fund, Stitch-O-Mat 

New Brighton, a Brighton group 

dedicated to helping people 

sew, can expand and offer more 

services. 

The group, based in the Surfside 

Mall, provides a learning 

space, equipment and fabric 

for people in the community to 

create their own projects, repair 

or mend items, or learn to sew 

with a facilitator on hand to give 

support. 

Currently they have been 

operating three days a week 

from 10am to 2pm, plus Tuesday 

evenings and every other 

Sunday but with the new funding 

it means they can also run 

workshops for novice sewers on 

Saturdays. 

Manager Samantha Fay said 

they are entirely reliant on funding 

grants like Strengthening 

Communities. 

“We try to run as cheaply as 

possible so that we can make our 

services accessible to people who 

wouldn’t normally be able to access 

sewing lessons.” 

She said interest in sewing has 

skyrocketed over the past couple 

of years and she estimates Stitch- 

O-Mat has 60 people coming 

through the doors each week. 

“Since we moved to our new 

site in the mall we are so much 

more visible and many more 

people are coming up everyday 

to ask for our help.” 

She puts this down to a resurgence 

of interest in traditional 

skills like sewing, weaving and 

breadmaking. 

“People are looking at ways 

to slow down and be more conscious 

in their choices. Fashion is 

the second biggest polluter in the 

world after petrochemicals. 

“That’s why a big push for us 

is waste reduction. Last year we 

were able to divert one and a 

CREATIVE: 

Stitch-O-Mat 

New Brighton 

facility 

activator 

Melanie 

Edgar works 

on one of the 

machines at 

the facility. 

PHOTO: 

NEWSLINE 

half tonnes of textiles away from 

landfill which people then used 

for their own projects with us.” 

Curtain producers, retailers 

and fabric shops are the primary 

source of textiles for the group, 

which also received a $6000 city 

council waste minimisation fund 

grant last week. 

Recent projects with a waste 

reduction focus include making 

produce bags for a vegetable 

co-op, beeswax wraps and face 

masks. 

Stitch-O-Mat also supports 

groups in the community with 

their projects, such as a recent 

working bee with Shirley Boys’ 

High School to hand sew their 

kapa haka uniforms. 

The Coastal-Burwood 

Community Board has 

supported 54 groups 

irom the 2021-22 Coastal- 

Burwood Strengthening 

Communities Fund 

Compassion Trust 

Crossroads Youth with a Future 

New Brighton Community 

Gardens Trust 

New Brighton Project 

Ōtautahi Sports Association 

Renew Brighton 

South City Youth Trust 

The Bridge South Brighton 

Trust 

Wainoni Avonside Community 

Services Trust 

Youth Alive Trust 

A Town Boxing Gym 

Anglican Diocese of 

Christchurch – Parish of East 

Christchurch 

Burwood Community Church 

Trust 

Coastal Spirit Football Club 

Dallington Community 

Cottage Trust 

Grace Vineyard Christian 

Fellowship 

New Brighton Cricket Club 

New Brighton Pier and 

Foreshore Promotion Society 

Parklands United Sports Club 

People Empowerment 

Environmental Enhancement 

Programme Trust 

PIPS Pregnancy Infancy 

Parenting Support Trust 

QE II Swim Club 

Queenspark Community 

Trust 

Spencer Park Surf Lifesaving 

Club 

Sustain South Brighton 

Te Kupenga o Aranui 

The Brighton Gallery Trust 

The New Brighton and 

Districts Historical Society and 

Museum 

The Pūkeko Centre 

The Richmond Keas Softball 

Club 

United Fencing Club 

Burwood Association Football 

Club 

Burwood Park Tennis Club 

Dallington Residents’ 

Association 

Edgeware Tennis Club 

New Brighton Friendship Club 

New Brighton Menz Shed Trust 

New Brighton Netball Club 

New Brighton Residents’ 

Association 

North Beach Residents’ 

Association 

North Beach Tennis Club 

North Wai Boardriders (1965) 

Parklands Baptist Community 

Church 

Parklands Christchurch United 

Softball Club 

Parklands Ladies Club 

Pegasus Toy Library 

SeniorNet New Brighton 

Shirley Rugby Football Club 

South New Brighton Tennis Club 

Southshore Residents’ 

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Spencerville Residents’ 

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Weekly bike rides paramount for Hunter 

• By Samantha Mythen 

HUNTER ABEL, 16, known as 

a 2m three-year-old with SATB2 

syndrome, has always loved 

riding bikes at Sumner. 

Hunter and his mother Angela 

Abel travel there from their 

home in Cashmere every Sunday, 

where Hunter rides his adultsized 

trike along the esplanade 

and along the beach. 

After speedy e-bike riders 

were causing some trouble for 

Hunter along the esplanade, Abel 

decided to use social media to 

introduce Hunter to the Sumner 

community, posting on the local 

community group page. 

“When you put yourself out 

there, being vulnerable and kind, 

it’s scary, but people reacted so 

much better than I could have 

hoped.” 

“People have started to say 

hello to Hunter, and I feel bad 

for not knowing their name. It’s 

amazing the difference a wave 

and smile can make.” 

Abel said the interactions are 

great for Hunter as he can use his 

iPad to say hello back, or let the 

passer-by know the name of his 

assistance dog, Cooper. 

The fresh air, sensory inputs, 

and endorphins from the exercise 

have a positive impact on 

Hunter. 

Abel and Hunter look 

forward to a coffee and scone at 

Scarborough Fare Cafe. 

During the recent lockdown, 

they visited Sumner every day, 

with a special note from police 

allowing them to continue 

Hunter’s routine. 

With the cafe shut, Abel 

brought along homemade baking 

and a milkshake for Hunter, 

“who didn’t even realise anything 

was different.” 

Hunter was only diagnosed 

with SATB2 at the beginning of 

this year. 

SATB2 is a rare gene deletion 

disorder, which only 450 

individuals have been diagnosed 

with globally. 

As a result, Hunter is nonverbal, 

has low muscle mass 

paired with a tall height, and has 

SMILES: Hunter, his mother Angela Abel and assistance 

dog Cooper, visit Sumner every week to make the most of 

the esplanade and beach, a perfect spot for Hunter to ride 

his trike. 

cognitive difficulties. 

“Genetics are like the Great 

Wall of China with millions of 

bricks making up our composition. 

Hunter has a few bricks 

missing,” said Abel. 

Although it was a seemingly 

perfect birth, at four weeks old, 

Abel suspected something was 

wrong. 

“He was always looking 

straight through me or was 

staring at the ceiling,” she said. 

The family took Hunter to 

hospital where he underwent a 

multitude of different tests but 

the medical staff returned with 

empty answers. 

“It was so scary,” said Abel. 

Abel said she does not want 

to sugarcoat how hard raising 

Hunter has been. 

“I had terrible depression 

for years and I still throw 

wobblies all the time,” said 

Abel. 

“But I wouldn’t change it for 

the world. Having a disabled 

child is like having a superpower. 

You have so much empathy for 

the world around you.” 

Abel worked as a project manager 

and had this idea of “fixing 

Hunter,” always known at work 

as the “problem-solver.” 

“I Googled and read and practised 

everything that could help 

Hunter,” she said. 

Throughout this journey, Abel 

recognised the importance of 

nurturing her own well-being. 

“If I’m in a good space, everything 

else is better,” she said. 

“I wish someone could have 

told me about the importance of 

self-care earlier, it’s the best advice, 

especially for new mothers.” 

As a result, Abel dived into 

cold water swimming last year at 

Sumner beach. 

“My mornings can include 

wiping poo off walls and cleaning 

Weet-bix off myself. I walk 

out of the door with all these 

negative thoughts on the messy 

whiteboard of my mind,” said 

Abel. 

“Then, although, it can be 

excruciatingly cold, dunking my 

head under cold water triggers 

me into different thought processes. 

The whiteboard is cleared 

and I can write back on it in a 

much calmer way.” 

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