PORT ANGELES — Twenty-one acts will take the stage Friday for the third annual Port Angeles High School Talent Show, a fundraiser to benefit Camille Frazier, a paraeducator battling cancer.
The show will begin at 7 p.m. at the Port Angeles High School auditorium, 304 E. Park Ave.
Doors will open at 6 p.m. for a silent auction of 56 items donated by local businesses.
Tickets for the talent show cost $8 for adults, $5 for children age 5 to 12, or $20 for a family of four.
The acts range from a group of elementary school baton twirlers to middle-aged ballroom dancers and musicians representing many different genres, student leadership adviser Rachael Ward said Wednesday.
“We’re gearing up for it,” Ward said.
Items in the auction include signed Seattle Seahawks gear, jewelry, a violin, toy baskets and Port Angeles High School spirit gear, Ward said.
Donations are welcome, she said.
Cookies and brownies served at intermission will be provided by Kitsap Bank employees.
The show is organized by members of the high school’s student government and leadership class, and each year, a member of the community in great financial hardship, usually due to an illness, is selected to receive 100 percent of the proceeds from the event.
This year, Frazier, 49, a paraeducator at Stevens Middle School, wife, mother, and grandmother, was selected by students after a round of nominations.
Students collected names of people who were in need beginning in September, then narrowed the list in December.
Their criteria was that the recipient be in financial need and the amount of money they could raise really make a difference in that person’s life, students said in January.
Frazier, who is fighting breast cancer for the second time, is the third recipient of the talent show fundraiser.
Currently, Frazier is undergoing chemotherapy and preparing for a double mastectomy.
She recently completed a round of radiation therapy and was given an 80 percent to 90 percent chance of survival by her doctors.
Students collected $12,000 for Tammy Goodwin, the 2010 recipient of the school’s inaugural talent show fundraiser.
Goodwin died March 14, 2010, at the age of 47 after a long battle with a sarcoma, a cancer of the soft tissue.
Kevin Jones, the 2011 recipient — who had suffered a brain aneurysm in November 2010 — and his family have since moved from the area.
The second annual talent show raised $3,800 to help the family.
Recent information on his condition was not available, but his son said in December that Jones was doing well.
“My dad is getting better,” his son, Christopher Jones, 15, wrote on Jones’ Facebook account in December.
For more information about the talent show, phone Ward at 565-1529 or email rward@portangelesschools.org.
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