PORT ANGELES — The 16th annual auction at the Festival of Trees raised $104,100, with every tree selling for more than $1,000 each.
“It was a good year,”‘ said Bruce Skinner, executive director of the Olympic Medical Center Foundation, which teams up with the Port Angeles Exchange Club for the event.
“It was the best year we ever had.”
The top draw at the auction was “Christmas Masterpiece,” which sold for $5,000.
The tree was designed by Susan and Chloe McCabe and sponsored by American marine Bank.
It also includes a $200 gift certificate to Bushwacker’s restaurant, an array of seafood and a massage.
Bill Littlejohn of Sequim bought the tree, as well as the $4,700 “I Love Paris in the . . .” by Kathy Skinner, Pat Elmer and Jan Allen, sponsored by Doug Parrish Excavating.
That tree also includes a three-day trip to Paris, France for two.
“Angel Wishes,” by Sherry Phillips and sponsor Thomas Building Center was bought for $4,700 by Rand Thomas of Sequim.
That tree also includes a trip to the 2007 Indianapolis 500 race for two.
In 2005, the annual designer tree auction raised about $87,000 in the auction, Skinner said.
The proceeds from the auction will be split, with 80 percent going to the hospital’s foundation and the 20 percent going to the Exchange Club, which helps pay for the Exchange Club Center for the Prevention of Child Abuse at Healthy Families of Clallam County.
The annual Teddy Bear Tea was on Friday.
The tea hosted hundreds of children and their parents during two sessions with a program that featured music and entertainment, along with a host of dressed-up fairy tale characters.
