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JEFF EHLERT’S | friends
and co-workers at the North
Shore Association for the
Physically Handicapped
(NSAPH) remember him as
a man committed to con-
tinuously improving the
quality of life for the severe-
ly handicapped on the North
Shore.

Mr. Ehlert, 40, died Monday.
He had been the executive director
of NSAPH since 1979.

Although he himself lived with
diabetes and muscular dystrophy,
he enjoyed life to the fullest. He
was hospitalized for a month and a
half after the diabetes caused a
kidney failure in December. Mr.
Ehlert. continued to work in his
capacity of executive director of
the NSAPH until the end of June.

Said acting executive director
John Newmann, who worked
closely with Mr. Ehlert since 1982:
“Even though his degenerative
disease progressed, he didn’t let
that stop him.”’

Newmann credits Mr. Ehlert
with leading che organization to its
current status as an operation
working with a budget exceeding
$2 million annually to provide a

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wide variety of community pro-
grams for the physically handi-
capped as well as operating nine
local group homes.

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Said Newmann: ‘‘He was always
very creative in how he found
money for grants. He started with
just himself and a secretary. With
the help and perseverance of the
children that could not speak on
their behalf, they started Quinton
Place (a children's group home)."’

Programs developed under the
stewardship of Mr. Ehlert include
the founding of the B.C. Physi-
cally Handicapped Winter Sports
Program, a recreational — sit-ski
program, @ summer recreation
program for handicapped children,
counselling services and numerous
other support and community ac-
tivity programs.

Said the NSAPH's Leroy
Mickelson: ‘He was a strong ad-
vocate of the association and a

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Mr. Ehlert leaves behind his wife
Betty; nephews David and

Donations in his memory may

be made to the Kidney Founda-
tion, B.C. Branch. 922-3014

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