Meet Highway Mail’s biggest fan
The Westville resident said one of his favourite pastimes was to sit and read the newspaper from cover to cover and would not let his parents touch it until he was done.
BEFORE his parents even know the delivery man has popped the latest issue into their postbox, Peter John Comrie, has already grabbed the Highway Mail and is absorbed in its pages. Highway Mail‘s biggest fan is a 21-year-old Westville resident and his parents, Shawn and Lorraine, said he must have picked up his love of reading from them.
“His fascination with the Highway Mail started when he was 17 years old and has been engrossed in the weekly community newspaper for four years. He won’t let anyone else come near it until he has finished reading it from cover to cover,” laughed his dad.
When he isn’t catching up on the local news he can be found chilling on the couch playing GTA V or completely immersed in completing the new craze, adult colouring in books.
During the day he goes to workshops at Careways and is taught a variety of different skills, from pottery and sewing to written work as well as exercise classes, gardening and computer training.
He likes to take part in as many activities as possible, such as the East Coast Radio Big Walk, enjoys swimming and would like to, sometime in the future, take part in the Midmar Mile. His favourite sport is body boarding which he does at least once a month when the family goes down to the Durban beachfront.
“It has definitely improved his reading over the years,” said his doting mom. Each day he sits down and writes at least one entry into his diary, which, coincidentally, has been the same length of time since he started reading the Highway Mail. The articles that interest him from the paper he cuts out the sticks into his scrap book.
“My favourite part about the Highway Mail is reading about the sports and seeing my friends in the paper and articles to do with other children with disabilities and how they are doing things for themselves,” said a smiling Peter.
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