{"id":24694,"date":"2020-12-14T13:25:09","date_gmt":"2020-12-14T12:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.trafalgar.com\/real-word\/?p=24694"},"modified":"2025-05-27T14:47:01","modified_gmt":"2025-05-27T13:47:01","slug":"local-heroes-winners-cheryl-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.trafalgar.com\/real-word\/local-heroes-winners-cheryl-summer\/","title":{"rendered":"Local Heroes: Meet our winners Cheryl &#038; Summer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Our&nbsp;<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.trafalgar.com\/en-au\/resources\/local-heroes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Local Heroes<\/a><\/em>&nbsp;competition was all about shining a light&nbsp;on&nbsp;those ordinary people doing extraordinary things &#8211;&nbsp;people who built up our&nbsp;communities&nbsp;and kept them safe, supported and cared for.\u202fWe received hundreds of entries from&nbsp;all across&nbsp;Australia&nbsp;and&nbsp;New&nbsp;Zealand&nbsp;and&nbsp;were astounded by how many local heroes there were with such exceptional stories.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was both an inspiring and difficult process, but eventually we managed to select 2 incredibly worthy winners \u2013 one from Australia, and one from New Zealand. Now, we are proud to share their stories with you&#8230;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-meet-nbsp-cheryl-our-australian-local-hero-nbsp\"><strong>Meet&nbsp;Cheryl, our Australian Local Hero<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" src=\"https:\/\/www.trafalgar.com\/real-word\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2020\/12\/Cheryl1.jpg\" alt=\"Cheryl local hero\" class=\"wp-image-24695\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.trafalgar.com\/real-word\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Cheryl1.jpg 720w, https:\/\/www.trafalgar.com\/real-word\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Cheryl1-330x186.jpg 330w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-cheryl-tell-us-a-little-about-what-you-do-nbsp-at-nbsp-the-lower-north-coast-community-engagement-brigad-e\"><strong>Cheryl, tell us a little about what you do&nbsp;at&nbsp;the Lower North Coast Community Engagement Brigad<\/strong>e<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>I am the Captain of the&nbsp;<em>Lower North Coast Community Engagement Brigade<\/em><em>,<\/em>&nbsp;which is a support brigade to the Rural Fire Service on the Lower North Coast Kempsey New South Wales.&nbsp;I have a team of people&nbsp;whom&nbsp;come from the Nambucca shire and Kempsey shire. I have been the Captain for three years but have been in the rural fire service for 8&nbsp;years&nbsp;&nbsp;here&nbsp;in&nbsp;New&nbsp;South&nbsp;Wales,&nbsp;and&nbsp;10&nbsp;years in Queensland.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As captain, I&nbsp;address issues within my community as to concerns of bush fire preparedness and education. This&nbsp;can be anything from addressing awareness of fires in the community or giving people updates on fire situations at the time.&nbsp;This&nbsp;could be by door knocking or setting up meetings in the communities or doing talks at group meeting in the&nbsp;communities.&nbsp;We even go to schools to do education with the students who&nbsp;age from kindergarten to high school on fire safety. I&nbsp;also&nbsp;attend meetings when needed with the rural fire service and councils.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-what-were-the-biggest-challenges-nbsp-you-nbsp-faced-nbsp-this-year-nbsp-nbsp\"><strong>What were the biggest challenges&nbsp;you&nbsp;faced&nbsp;this year?&nbsp;<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Some of the biggest challenges during our&nbsp;last&nbsp;fire season&nbsp;included&nbsp;having enough people to assist in getting the message out to people and communities, as&nbsp;some of our people were out fighting fires,&nbsp;as my members were also attached to their local brigades.&nbsp;One of the other big issues was&nbsp;not&nbsp;having enough people to cover between two shires,&nbsp;Nambucca and Kempsey. I would go home every night hoping I didn\u2019t miss anyone in the community to give them updates and hope the people we did talk to were safe and if&nbsp;they&nbsp;needed&nbsp;to, had&nbsp;left their properties in time.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-what-experience-stuck-out-to-nbsp-you-nbsp-the-most-nbsp-this-year-nbsp\"><strong>What experience stuck out to&nbsp;you&nbsp;the most&nbsp;this year?<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>What I personally struggled with was when I went into evacuation&nbsp;centres&nbsp;to give updates to the people who were evacuated out only to find some of the people there had lost everything,&nbsp;or I couldn\u2019t tell them if their family members who didn\u2019t leave were safe and well. My team of 7 people worked tirelessly over 1,000 hours during our fire season,&nbsp;day in day out,&nbsp;covering&nbsp;hundreds of&nbsp;kilometres.&nbsp;I could not have done it without them, and I wouldn\u2019t have wanted to be anywhere else. But it is good to see that there are people and families that are&nbsp;actually activating&nbsp;their bush fire survival plan and that makes me feel I have done my job at the end of the day.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.trafalgar.com\/real-word\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2020\/12\/Cheryl3-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Cheryl local hero\" class=\"wp-image-24696\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.trafalgar.com\/real-word\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Cheryl3-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.trafalgar.com\/real-word\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Cheryl3-330x330.jpg 330w, https:\/\/www.trafalgar.com\/real-word\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Cheryl3-125x125.jpg 125w, https:\/\/www.trafalgar.com\/real-word\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Cheryl3.jpg 1400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-how-did-nbsp-you-nbsp-feel-when-nbsp-you-were-nbsp-told-about-being-nominated-nbsp\"><strong>How did&nbsp;you&nbsp;feel when&nbsp;you were&nbsp;told about being nominated?<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>I was very humbled and very surprised and&nbsp;honoured.&nbsp;I do what I do to give back to my communities to help keep them safe and aware of the seasons coming up and to educate both seniors and children in the communities in fire&nbsp;safety,&nbsp;and&nbsp;help make them hopefully a&nbsp;more&nbsp;resilient community in the future.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-meet-nbsp-summer-our-new-zealand-local-hero-nbsp\"><strong>Meet&nbsp;Summer, our New Zealand Local Hero<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.trafalgar.com\/real-word\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2020\/12\/summer-2.jpeg\" alt=\"Summer local hero\" class=\"wp-image-24697\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.trafalgar.com\/real-word\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/summer-2.jpeg 800w, https:\/\/www.trafalgar.com\/real-word\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/summer-2-330x248.jpeg 330w, https:\/\/www.trafalgar.com\/real-word\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/summer-2-80x60.jpeg 80w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-summer-tell-us-a-little-about-what-you-nbsp-do-nbsp-and-the-work-bay-of-islands-animal-rescue-does-nbsp\"><strong>Summer, tell us a little about what you&nbsp;do,&nbsp;and the work Bay of Islands Animal Rescue does<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>I&nbsp;am&nbsp;the founder of&nbsp;<em>Bay of Islands Animal Rescue<\/em>, a&nbsp;rescue and rehoming charity.&nbsp;We&nbsp;respond to all&nbsp;animal&nbsp;emergency situations, 24\/7. We&nbsp;also take&nbsp;care of&nbsp;the pound dogs that have not been claimed,&nbsp;before they get&nbsp;put down.&nbsp;We&nbsp;have an amazing support network of foster carers&nbsp;&#8211;&nbsp;the animals are placed in a homely environment. Whilst we de-sex, vaccinate,&nbsp;flea and&nbsp;worm&nbsp;them,&nbsp;they are then placed up for adoption.&nbsp; Many animals are surrendered to us when people can no longer care for them.&nbsp;I am also actively out in the community helping those that cannot afford to give their animals the&nbsp;care they require. We&nbsp;also educate along the way.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-what-has-been-the-most-challenging-thing-about-working-at-nbsp-bay-of-islands-animal-rescue-nbsp-during-a-pandemic-nbsp\"><strong>What has been the most challenging thing about working at&nbsp;<em>Bay of Islands Animal Rescue<\/em>&nbsp;during a pandemic?<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>It has been&nbsp;hard,&nbsp;and I feel&nbsp;we&nbsp;have taken an extra load during the pandemic. The most challenging thing is trying to make the donations we receive go&nbsp;a&nbsp;long&nbsp;way.&nbsp;During the pandemic the cost of food and treatments has doubled due to demand.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-how-did-you-nbsp-initially-nbsp-feel-when-you-found-out-you-were-nominated-nbsp-nbsp\"><strong>How did you&nbsp;initially&nbsp;feel when you found out you were nominated?&nbsp;<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>I felt truly&nbsp;blessed and&nbsp;thought&nbsp;\u201cif only I would win\u201d. I haven\u2019t been able to&nbsp;travel&nbsp;recently&nbsp;because of&nbsp;the work involved with Bay of Island Animal Rescue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-what-do-you-love-about-travel-nbsp-nbsp\"><strong>What do you love about travel?<\/strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>When I travel of course I love the new experiences of sights and cultures&nbsp;&#8211;&nbsp;but you will always find me checking out another animal rescue operation.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-what-is-your-hope-for-the-future-nbsp\"><strong>What is your hope for the future?<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Firstly,&nbsp;that the world population gets the&nbsp;Covid-19&nbsp;vaccine,&nbsp;and secondly&nbsp;that&nbsp; Bay&nbsp;of Islands Animal Rescue didn\u2019t need to exist, or at least not to be needed as much as we are, which in turn would mean&nbsp;what we\u2019re doing with&nbsp;education on animal welfare is working.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/www.trafalgar.com\/real-word\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2020\/12\/IMG_0243-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-24698\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.trafalgar.com\/real-word\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/IMG_0243-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.trafalgar.com\/real-word\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/IMG_0243-330x248.jpg 330w, https:\/\/www.trafalgar.com\/real-word\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/IMG_0243-80x60.jpg 80w, https:\/\/www.trafalgar.com\/real-word\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/IMG_0243.jpg 1156w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em><strong>RELATED CONTENT: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.trafalgar.com\/real-word\/local-heroes-interview-brooke\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Local heroes: Interview with emergency nurse Brooke<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our&nbsp;Local Heroes&nbsp;competition was all about shining a light&nbsp;on&nbsp;those ordinary people doing extraordinary things &#8211;&nbsp;people who built up our&nbsp;communities&nbsp;and kept them safe, supported and cared for.\u202fWe received hundreds of entries from&nbsp;all across&nbsp;Australia&nbsp;and&nbsp;New&nbsp;Zealand&nbsp;and&nbsp;were astounded by how many local heroes there were with such exceptional stories.&nbsp; 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