PORT ANGELES — The final event of the weeklong Pink Up Port Angeles campaign begins at noon today.
The 12th annual Soroptimist Golf Tournament will begin with a shotgun start at the Peninsula Golf Club, 824 S. Lindberg Road.
The cost is $100, or $65 for members of the golf club.
Prizes, which are sponsored by the Mac Ruddell Community Fund, will be awarded for a hole-in-one, closest to the pin and longest drive.
The Soroptimist International of Port Angeles-Noon Club organizes the fundraiser to benefit Operation Uplift, a Port Angeles-based nonprofit cancer support group.
The week began Saturday with Pink Margaritas on Ice, a bake sale at Swain’s General Store and a free breast health clinic.
It continued Wednesday with a booth at the first Concert on the Pier of the season. The booth offered information, freebies and cookies.
Thursday night was Pink Out’s biggest fundraising event: a spaghetti dinner at Chestnut Cottage in Port Angeles.
It featured “celebrity waiters,” well-known members of the community who competed for tips as they served a $10 dinner of salad, garlic bread and spaghetti.
All tips are donated to Operation Uplift.
Quilt raffled
At today’s tournament, a drawing will be held in the raffle of a queen-sized quilt created by Bunny Rutter.
Raffle tickets for the hand-stitched quilt, made with a lot of pink and in a cancer-survivor theme, are $5 or three for $10.
Tickets are available from Soroptimist members and will be available at all the fundraising events.
On Saturday, Soroptimists will “de-pink” Port Angeles by taking down ribbons around town.
All proceeds from the Pink Up campaign will go to the grass-roots Operation Uplift, founded in 1983.
The group is run by volunteers and provides services and information to cancer survivors in the local area.
To register for the golf tournament, phone the club at 360-457-6501.
For more information on Pink Up Port Angeles, visit Soroptimist International of Port Angeles’ Facebook page.
For more information on Operation Uplift, visit the office at 118 N. Liberty St., Suite B, or phone 360-457-5141.
