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Wednesday 14 February 2018
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Angel in need of help Kay Guyton-Miller looks through possessions after her Gladstone Rd property was completely gutted by a fire last month. Photo: Charles Anderson.
Charles Anderson Kay Guyton-Miller has been helping local families and children in poverty for almost two decades – but now she is picking up the pieces of her own life after her home burned last month. Kay has long been a community
advocate for people struggling to stay afloat. She helps them get access to everything from the bare essentials to serious help. She is also Stoke School’s “social connector” who helps foster links between the school and the wider community. She is known as the “Angel in my Street,” funded by
the Nelson Tasman Charitable Trust. “I’ve always helped people,” she says. “So it’s really hard to accept help.” It was two and a half weeks ago that she was awoken to a loud bang in the middle of the night. She looked around and saw the
flames pouring over the walls of her Gladstone St home. “I raced out and went to wake up my husband and then to my son’s bedroom.” She managed to get them up and out of the house. Kay thought dog, Dre, was right beside her, but he didn’t make it.
“He was such a wonderful dog. He was a best friend to all of us in different ways. That is really sad. But I feel so grateful, it could have been so much worse.” Looking around the property now Kay wonders how they made
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