The silken ropes holding 26 pearls around Jacq Dwyer’s neck are a beautiful reminder of her victory over a devastating illness, but one she will fight for the rest of her life.

Dwyer is well known in South Taranaki as an advocate for her Pātea community, a historian, author, a cancer survivor and baker of good scones.

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