Julia Eppehimer Rexford, Joella Eppehimer Liddle, Mayor Kim Ecklund, the Rev. Wayne Eppehimer and Joan Eppehimer are pictured. Ecklund is proclaiming Thursday, May 15, MPS Awareness Day and has ordered City Hall to be lit in purple, the color used to represent the National MPS Society.

Dr. Joseph Muenzer, a research physician who is researching treatments and a cure for MPS II, is pictured with the Rev. Wayne Eppehimer and his wife, Joan, as well as the Zebra mascot for rare disease.