PORT ANGELES — Students organizing the seventh annual Benefit and Talent Show are seeking fresh acts for the February production.
The talent show, a benefit organized by the Port Angeles High School leadership class, will be at 7 p.m. Feb. 12 in the high school auditorium, 304 E. Park Ave.
Auditions for talent are open to the public and will continue through Jan. 22.
To schedule an audition, phone Pam Helpenstell, leadership class adviser, at 360-565-1529.
Each year, the student leadership class selects a community member who is experiencing a health and economic challenge to be the beneficiary of talent show proceeds.
Cancer patient
The 2016 show will raise money to help cancer patient Jaime Campos, 45, of Port Angeles, said Helpenstell.
“Our theme, ‘I Love You to the Moon and Back,’ was developed with Jaime’s family,” Helpenstell said.
The family has helped him through his treatments, and the Disney movie “Inside Out” has been an inspiration during his journey through treatment, she said.
Campos was diagnosed in April with stage 4 squamous cell carcinoma, a type of skin cancer, and tonsillar cancer.
After aggressive treatment, he is in remission but still has difficulty speaking and hearing, Helpenstell said.
He and his wife, Stacy Campos, have two daughters, Helpenstell said.
Tickets
Tickets will cost $10 per adult, $5 per student and $20 for a family of four, and will be sold at the door the night of the show.
Helpenstell said students are working with local businesses to find a presale outlet.
Doors will open at 6:15 p.m. for a silent auction of donations from local businesses.
For more information or to make a donation to the silent auction, phone Helpenstell or email phelpenstell@portangelesschools.org.
Past recipients
In the 2010 inaugural talent show, the recipient was Tammy Goodwin, a Sequim High graduate and mother of two Port Angeles graduates.
Goodwin died March 14, 2010, at the age of 47 after a long battle with a sarcoma, a cancer of the soft tissue.
In 2011, the class selected Cornerstone Tabernacle Pastor Kevin Jones, who was undergoing treatment for an aneurism due to a genetic heart condition.
Jones and his family have since moved from the area.
The 2012 students selected Camille Frazier, a Port Angeles schools para-educator.
Frazier died June 12, 2014, after a long fight with a rare and aggressive form of breast cancer.
In 2013, the leadership class selected Liz Romero, mother of five PAHS graduates.
Romero died Dec. 15, 2012, after a three-year battle with an aggressive brain tumor called a glioblastoma multiforme.
Students chose to hold the talent show benefit in her memory and donated the funds to her family.
The 2014 recipient, Justine Raphael, was the mother of the 2013-14 student body council president.
Raphael died Nov. 2, 2014, of a rare and aggressive inflammatory breast cancer.
The 2015 recipient was Hayden Webber, now 10, for leg surgery due to proximal focal femoral deficiency, which caused her right femur to grow bent, twisted and shorter than her left.
The Webber family continues to raise funds for the extensive surgeries needed to lengthen the bone and replace her knee.
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