PORT ANGELES — The Pink Up Port Angeles campaign heats up for an event-packed weekend with a “celebrity waiter” dinner tonight.
The all-you-can-eat spaghetti dinner, which is sponsored by First Federal, will be from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the Chestnut Cottage, 929 E. Front St.
The cost is $10. Dessert, wine and beer will be available for an additional fee. A gift basket from Franni’s Gift Expressions also will be raffled.
The meal will be served by local “celebrities” — well-known people in town who volunteer to serve spaghetti for “tips” to become the champion waiter.
They will donate their tips to Operation Uplift of Port Angeles.
The Soroptimists International of Port Angeles’ (Noon Club) annual fundraising campaign, which began Friday and continues through Saturday, supports Operation Uplift.
The group offers education, information, support meetings, a 24-hour phone line, free clinics, prostheses and wigs for both women and men with all types of cancer.
It operates on donations and with an all-volunteer board of directors.
All Pink Up donations remain in Clallam County, said Linda deBord, fundraising chairwoman.
On Friday at noon, a shotgun-start Pink Up Golf Tournament will begin at Peninsula Golf Club, 824 S. Lindberg Road.
Registration is $45 for golf club members or $80 for non-members, and includes greens fees and a light snack, followed by hors d’oeuvres.
During the tournament, a hole-in-one will win a new truck, a 2012 GMC, from Ruddell Auto Mall.
The major sponsor for the tournament is All Weather Heating & Cooling Inc. Also sponsoring the event is the Mac Ruddell Community Fund.
To register, phone Chris Repass at the golf club at 360-457-6501.
The Pink Up Finale dinner Saturday will feature a special guest: radio and voice personality Scott Burns of Seattle.
The dinner will begin at 7 p.m. at the Port Angeles CrabHouse Restaurant, 221 N. Lincoln St.
The cocktail hour will begin at 5:30 p.m. Admission will be $35.
Burns has won seven Puget Sound Broadcasters “Soundies Awards,” deBord said.
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He has broadcast on morning radio shows in Seattle, including KJR, Young Country and, most recently, 97.3 KBSG, and is known for his impersonations of Tom Brokaw, Barney Fife, Richard Simmons and others.
Burns also has been the voice for animation characters for video and computer games — most notably providing the voice of Bowser in the Nintendo Super series.
He can be heard in ads for Sound Transit, Washington Dental Services and Muckleshoot Bingo, and has provided the voice in sales training videos for Les Schwab Tire, IBM Cloud and CenturyLink.
In 2007, he created a solo live performance show examining his life of growing up on a farm to his career in radio.
He can be seen in the film “G-Sale,” a “mockumentary” look at a town’s fascination with garage sales.
Burns now produces radio commercials for Destination Marketing, teaches classes and provides private coaching for those interested in entering the field of voice-over.
Sponsors of the dinner are Union Bank, Windermere Realty and Wilder Toyota.
Advance tickets for the dinner are available by phoning 360-477-3101.
The De-Pink-ing of Port Angeles will begin at 9 a.m. Sunday, with volunteers meeting at the Cornerhouse, 101. E. Front St.
For more information about the fundraising events, phone deBord at 360-460-1155 or 360-457-6181, or Margo Peterson-Pruss at 360-460-4251.
For more information about the Soroptimists International of Port Angeles (Noon Club), visit www.sipawa.org.
