PORT ANGELES — Tickets are on sale for the fourth annual Hollywood Nights.
Set for 4 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 26, at the Vern Burton Community Center, 308 E. Fourth St., the event will be held in conjunction with the 2012 Academy Awards and feature a live telecast of the Oscars on a large, 40-foot screen.
It will feature appearances by movie and television stars who live on the North Olympic Peninsula and honor Roger Oakes, a Port Angeles physician for 37 years until his retirement in August 2011.
Those who attend can walk the red carpet while entering the event.
Reserved table seating is available for $60 per person.
Proceeds from Hollywood Nights, which will be presented by Sequim Health and Rehabilitation, will benefit Olympic Medical Center and many of its departments, including obstetrics, the emergency room, cardiac services, laboratory and radiology, said Bruce Skinner, executive director of the OMC Foundation.
In addition to honoring Oakes, the fundraiser will also feature movie and television celebrities, including Lynda Day George, a former star of the “Mission Impossible” television series and numerous other TV shows and movies, and Craig and Gabe Rygaard, stars of the History Channel’s “Ax Men” television series.
George is a resident of Gardiner. The Rygaards live in Port Angeles.
Activities will include several contests, live and silent auctions, and dinner.
Contests, prizes
In a “Guess the Winners” contest, entrants who pick the most award-winners in selected categories will take home prizes. A “Dress as Your Favorite Movie Star or Character” contest also offers prizes for the winners.
Oakes retired from the OMP Primary Care Clinic last August.
“I always wanted to practice medicine in Port Angeles,” Oakes said.
Valedictorian of his 1960 Port Angeles High School graduating class, Oakes got his bachelor’s degree in biological sciences from Stanford in 1964 and graduated from the University of Washington School of Medicine in 1968.
He completed his internship at University of California, Los Angeles, and his residency at UCLA Harbor General Hospital and UW.
He also served as a combat infantry surgeon in Vietnam.
After finishing his residency, he returned to Port Angeles in 1974, where he was at the Olympic Primary Care Clinic — formerly Port Angeles Clinic and Virginia Mason Port Angeles — and active on the Olympic Medical Center staff.
He served as chief of staff at OMC in 1983 and 2007.
He is a past president of Nor’wester Rotary and serves with the Hurricane Ridge Winter Sports Club and the Clallam County Council on Alcoholism.
He was the United Way of Clallam County city campaign chairman in 1999 and served as Clallam County campaign chairman in 2000.
He also served as the volunteer team physician at Port Angeles High School from 1974 to 1998.
“The community has given me a good life, and I’ve always felt that we as physicians should give back,” Oakes said.
Tickets are available at Necessities and Temptations gift shop at Laurel Street and Railroad Avenue and at the OMC Foundation office at 928 E. Caroline St.
Additional details can be obtained by phoning the foundation office at 360-417-7144.
