SEQUIM — Law enforcement officers from across the North Olympic Peninsula raised $2,504 at a fundraiser Thursday for the Special Olympics — plus $10 in Canadian currency.
The first Tip-A-Cop event on the Peninsula was held at the Sequim Applebee’s restaurant.
Officers took drink orders for customers, who in turn provided them donations in the form of a tip.
The fundraiser took place at 26 Applebee’s across the state, said Ron Cameron, chief criminal deputy with the Clallam County Sheriff’s Office.
As of Friday, the Sequim event had raised the most statewide, he said.
The Special Olympics office in Seattle had not finished counting donations at the time, he added.
Even if the event in Sequim didn’t raise the most, Cameron said it was by all means a success.
And he attributed that to the giving spirit of Peninsula residents.
“It’s the community,” Cameron said. “The community comes together.”
Participating agencies were the Clallam County and Jefferson County Sheriff’s Offices; the Sequim, Port Angeles and Port Townsend police departments; and the State Patrol.
