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Tena koutou katoa ! Hello. This month we're introducing a new feature which we think will be a winner. It's called 'Secret Service, Kapiti'; and it will introduce you to people who provide service way beyond the call of duty.
You may already know people like this -- if so, introduce them to me and I'll try to write about them too.Why do I care about this? Well, after living in the UK for 20 years and enduring many examples of truly appalling service,I've been amazed at the cheerful, efficient and honest service provided by many people on the Coast.
These folk really deserve an honour -- but while they await such recognition we're going to honour them ourselves.
People like the two Wellington Free Ambulance officers who helped my wife Helen and I care for an injured woman in her 80's who arrived at the Paraparaumu Railway Station on Anniversary weekend.
She'd cut her leg badly when leaving Wellington Airport, and had somehow got herself onto the train home. But at Paraparaumu the buses had all stopped running, and there were no cabs in sight.
Finally I called 111 -- and two ambulance officers saved the day for us. They bandaged the woman's leg on the spot, then put her, and her luggage, into the ambulance and took her to her home at Sevenoaks.
There they helped her into her house with her luggage. No fuss, no charge -- it was a happy ending. But the kindness and care of those two paramedics deserves recognition.
Well, I've already got a list of stories like this. And where possible we'll bring you photos as well.
I'm sure you'll agree with us that the Kapiti Coast is a place where people care....for each other.
