Q.P. Ace Hardware accepts ALS Ice Bucket Challenge for one of its own
By: Lauren Fabrizi
lfabrizi@klkntv.com
As the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge continues nationwide, a local business has accepted the challenge in remembrance of one of its own.
Pete Daharsh, the founder of Q.P. Ace Hardware in Lincoln, lost the battle to ALS in June. He was 84.
Saturday, about 40 workers from all four Ace Hardwares took turns embracing the cold in his honor.
“ALS takes a lot of your physical stuff, it takes your walk and your talk and your eating,” Doug Long, Daharsh’s son-in-law, said. “But it never took his will to live, his spirit or his love of his family.”
“Just to have my dad diagnosed with it and go through what we went through, it just makes it all surreal,” Daharsh’s daughter, Lisa, Long, said. “And so I think the Ice Bucket Challenge has been so wonderful, and we just pray they have a cure.”
Q.P. Ace Hardware has nominated Saap Bros. and Williamsburg Hy-Vee.
The ALS Association reports as of Saturday, donations from the Ice Bucket Challenge have reached $62.5 million, about 26 times the amount that was donated during the same time period last year.
Those donations have come from both existing donors and more than 1 million new donors.
