Limelight Local Legend Award

Made the Big Event: Despite the Broken Ankle and missing the Limelight Award, Zane (and Aimee) made it to the USA three weeks later OK.

 Fishing Legend misses his moment in the Limelight

 

© Simon Bloomberg, Nelson Mail, 16 June 2008.

Richmond hunting and fishing guide Zane Mirfin should have been sitting on a lime green couch in the Richmond Mall on Sunday enjoying his new status as the Limelight Charity’s Nelson Local Legend.

Limelight is honouring “legends” on a national tour of 20 towns and cities to raise funds for the Child Cancer Foundation and Variety – the Children’s Charity.

On Sunday the tour was in Richmond to present Zane with the Nelson Local Legend for sharing his passion for the outdoors with hundreds of anglers and hunters. But instead of sitting on the tour’s motorised lime green couch, Zane was lying in a hospital bed after breaking and dislocating his ankle when he slipped on ice and fell on a hunting trip in the Molesworth on Friday.

Zane’s wife Aimee says she received a phone call from the Limelight organisers on Friday only minutes before finding out that Zane had been injured. “I took the call from Limelight 10 minutes before I got the call from my sister-in-law. She said ‘You’d better sit down’ and then told me what happened”. Aimee recalls Zane had to drag himself out of a river and get into his survival gear before firing rifle shots to alert his brother, Scott, who ran for an hour to a hut to get their satellite phone and call for help. “They are very safety-conscious and did everything right – the main thing is that he’s alive and well”.

Although Zane was still in Christchurch Hospital on Sunday, his sons, Jake 7, and Izaak, 6, and rescuer Scott, attended the function in the Richmond Mall to receive the award on his behalf…..

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