PORT ANGELES — Participants can help Olympic Medical Center and go Hog Wild at Barhop Brewing & Taproom, 124 W. Railroad Ave., today.
“Hog Wild — A Night of Games, Suds and Grub” begins at 5 p.m. Saturday and concludes at 10 p.m.
Tickets will be $25 at the door. They also can be purchased by calling 360-417-7144.
Admission will buy a pig roast and two drinks — beer, spirits or soda — with proceeds to benefit the Olympic Medical Center Foundation, which raises funds to support hospital operations.
Prizes will be awarded to the winners of games. Among the games: basketball hoop shot and ladder golf, in which contestants try to throw a cord attached to two golf balls in a wraparound of a ladder’s rung.
A photo booth and live music are planned.
Barhop microbrews will be featured.
‘A good time’
“We are hoping to fill Barhop with a crowd and then have a good time,” said Jeremy Gilchrist, foundation event coordinator.
Donations will be accepted in a jar at the event, he said.
Hog Wild was created as a new way to raise money for the hospital, which is based in Port Angeles and has a cancer center in Sequim.
“It’s not a big gala, and it’s not ducks,” Gilchrist said.
Two of the biggest foundation fundraisers are the formal Harvest of Hope Winemakers Gala and the Great Olympic Peninsula Duck Derby.
In the inaugural Hog Wild event in 2014, $15,000 was raised through ticket sales and donations.
The money was used in conjunction with individual donations to reopen and continue operations of the hospital’s therapy pool, said Bruce Skinner, executive director of the OMC Foundation.
“We are hopeful to [raise $15,000] again this year,” Skinner said.
Proceeds from this year’s Hog Wild will be used to purchase equipment for the obstetrics department at OMC.
Hog Wild is sponsored by Sequim Health and Rehabilitation and Crestwood Health and Rehabilitation.
The rehab centers also will continue to be the presenting sponsors of Festival of Trees and will take part in several other foundation events, including Harvest of Hope, which benefits the OMC Cancer Center, and the Red, Set, Go! Heart Luncheon, which benefits cardiac services at the hospital.
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Reporter Arwyn Rice can be reached at 360-452-2345, ext. 5070, or at arice@peninsuladailynews.com.
