PORT ANGELES — One of the first events of the weeklong Pink Up Port Angeles fundraiser for Operation Uplift will celebrate fathers.
The inaugural Pink Up Port Angeles Pooch and Papa Walk will be from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sunday.
The Father’s Day event is in addition to a celebrity spaghetti dinner; another dinner, with an auction; and a golf tournament, said Linda DeBord, fundraising chairwoman for the Port Angeles Soroptimist Noon Club, which organized Pink Up Port Angeles.
Proceeds will got to Operation Uplift, a Port Angeles-based group that offers education, information, support meetings, a 24-hour phone line, free clinics, prostheses and wigs to those with cancer.
During Sunday’s Pooch and Papa Walk, participants will start at City Pier, walk their leashed pets on the Waterfront Trail to Francis Street, get a stamp and walk back to receive a goodie bag and certificate.
Registration for the Pooch and Papa Walk is $20.
Walkers also can obtain pledges for the walk.
For more information about the walk, phone Margo Petersen-Pruss at 360-460-4251 or 360-452-3333 or DeBord at 360-460-1155.
Sunday’s Father’s Day walk will be preceded by kickoff activities Saturday.
Soroptimists will tie pink ribbons on objects in downtown Port Angeles at 9 a.m.
A bake sale is planned from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Swain’s General Store, 602 E. First St., Port Angeles.
Also on Saturday, in conjunction with the campaign, Olympic Medical Center will conduct a free breast health clinic from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Free mammograms
The clinic, at 939 Caroline St., will provide free mammograms to women who are unable to pay and who haven’t had the test in the past year.
Availability is limited and preregistration is required.
To register, phone 888-362-6260.
The clinic is in partnership with First Federal.
First Federal’s Community Dividend Fund donated $375,000 to OMC to be used toward digital mammography in 2009. The financial support allowed the center to purchase the equipment and it continues to provide free mammograms for women who qualify.
In the first four months of 2010, the mammography program at OMC screened approximately 3,000 patients. Among this group of 3,000 patients, 21 received a breast cancer diagnosis.
On Wednesday, Pink Up Port Angeles organizers will “take over the pier,” DeBord said.
“We tie pink ribbons on everyone — even the dogs,” she said.
The group will have tables at City Pier in Port Angeles and provide information.
On Thursday will be the campaign’s biggest fundraiser, DeBord said.
Celebrity waiters will serve a spaghetti dinner for $10 at the Chestnut Cottage, 929 E. Front St., Port Angeles, from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m.
The waiters will compete for tips to increase the donation to Operation Uplift, and a basket will be raffled.
First Federal donation
The evening will be underwritten by First Federal, DeBord said, so all the proceeds will go to Operation Uplift.
Next Friday, June 25, the group plans a dinner auction at the Port Angeles CrabHouse Restaurant, 221 N. Lincoln St.
Tickets for the dinner, which will begin at 6 p.m., are $32 except for those participating in the Pink Up Port Angeles golf tournament Saturday. Registered golfers receive a ticket to Friday’s dinner.
For tickets, contact Soroptimist Noon Club members. A limited number of tickets will be available at the door, DeBord said.
The fundraising week will finish with a golf tournament at the Peninsula Golf Club at 824 S. Lindberg Road, on Saturday, June 26.
Registration is $75, except for members of the golf club, who will pay $50, DeBord said.
To register, phone the golf club at 360-457-6501.
