PORT ANGELES — A golf tournament and a Finale Celebration dinner will cap a weeklong fundraiser for Operation Uplift.
Pink ribbons tied all over downtown Port Angeles this week have announced the Port Angeles Soroptimist Noon Club’s Pink Up Port Angeles campaign to raise money for the Port Angeles-based grass-roots support group that offers education, information, support meetings, a 24-hour message phone line, free clinics, prostheses and wigs for both women and men with all types of cancer.
After the campaign’s biggest fundraiser Thursday night — a $10-a-plate feed at the Chestnut Cottage featuring “celebrity” waiters competing for tips in an event underwritten by First Federal — the Soroptimists’ Tees Off for Cancer Golf Tournament will begin at noon today at Peninsula Golf Club, 824 S. Lindberg Road, Port Angeles.
Prizes will include a 2011 GMC Sierra truck, an Apple iPod and an Amex gift card.
How much it is . . .
The cost is $80 per golfer or $45 for Peninsula Golf Course members.
Sponsors are the Mac Ruddell Community Fund, All Weather Heating and Cooling, Strait View Credit Union, Copy Cat Graphics, Sweetest Things Photography and Rudy’s Automotive.
For information, phone Chris Repass at 360-457-6501.
On Saturday, a Finale Celebration chicken dinner and a silent and live auction are planned at the Port Angeles CrabHouse Restaurant, 221 N. Lincoln St.
Tickets for the chicken dinner, which will begin at 6 p.m., are $35 each or two for $60. A few tickets will be available at the door.
Auction items include tickets for four to a Seattle Mariners game, a fly-fishing trip for two, a gourmet dinner for six, a trip to Victoria, a bunco party and dinner for 16, and a salt-water charter for two.
More than 70 items will be in the silent auction.
For tickets, phone Liz Zenonian-Waud at 360-912-0030 or Deb Alwine at 360-460-0313.
The Pink Up Port Angeles campaign began Saturday with a bake sale at Swain’s General Store and a free breast health clinic sponsored by Olympic Medical Center and First Federal.
It continued Sunday with the second annual Pink Up Port Angeles Pooch and Papa Walk along the Waterfront Trail — underwritten by Randy’s Auto Sales and Leitz Farms.
Soroptimists “pinked out” City Pier, with the help of OMC, during Wednesday’s first performance in the free Concerts on the Pier summer series.
The 2010 Pink Up campaign raised more than $27,000, said Soroptimist Linda DeBord.
“All the money raised stays local in Port Angeles for the use of people here,” she said.
For more information about Pink Up Port Angeles, phone DeBord at 360-460-1155 or 360-457-6181.
For more information about Operation Uplift, go to 118 S. Liberty St., Suite B, Port Angeles; phone 360-457-5141; email info@operationuplift.org; or visit the website at www.operationuplift.org/index.html.
