Pink Up Port Angeles continues with golf, finale dinner
Published 12:01 am Friday, June 22, 2012
PORT ANGELES — The Pink Up Port Angeles fundraising campaign will feature a golf tournament today and a special guest at a Pink Up finale dinner Saturday.
The Soroptimists International of Port Angeles’ (Noon Club) annual fundraising campaign, which began last Friday, supports Operation Uplift, a Port Angeles-based group that offers education, information, support meetings, a 24-hour phone line, free clinics, prostheses and wigs for both women and men with all types of cancer.
Operation Uplift operates on donations and with an all-volunteer board of directors.
All Pink Up donations remain in Clallam County, said Linda deBord, fundraising chairwoman.
Radio personality
The keynote speaker for Saturday’s finale dinner will be radio and voice personality Scott Burns of Seattle.
The dinner will begin at 7 p.m. at the Port Angeles CrabHouse Restaurant, 221 N. Lincoln St., with a cocktail hour starting at 5:30 p.m.
Admission will be $35.
Burns, who has won seven Puget Sound Broadcasters “Soundies Awards,” has broadcast on morning radio shows in Seattle, including KJR, Young Country and, most recently, 97.3 KBSG, and is known for his impersonations of Tom Brokaw, Barney Fife, Richard Simmons and others.
Burns also has provided the voice for video and computer animation characters, including that of Bowser in the Nintendo Super series.
He can be heard in ads for Sound Transit, Washington Dental Services and Muckleshoot Bingo, and has provided the voice in sales training videos for Les Schwab Tire, IBM Cloud and CenturyLink.
In 2007, he created a solo live performance show examining his life of growing up on a farm to his career in radio.
Mockumentary
He can be seen in the film “G-Sale,” a “mockumentary” look at a town’s fascination with garage sales.
Burns now produces radio commercials for Destination Marketing, teaches classes and provides private coaching for those interested in entering the field of voice-over.
Sponsors of the dinner are Union Bank, Windermere Realty and Wilder Toyota.
Advance tickets for the dinner are available by phoning 360-477-3101.
Today at noon, a shotgun-start Pink Up Golf Tournament will begin at Peninsula Golf Club, 824 S. Lindberg Road.
Registration is $45 for golf club members or $80 for nonmembers, and includes greens fees and a light snack, followed by hors d’oeuvres.
During the tournament, a hole-in-one will win a new truck, a 2012 GMC, from Ruddell Auto Mall.
The major sponsor for the tournament is All Weather Heating & Cooling Inc. Also sponsoring the event is the Mac Ruddell Community Fund.
To register, phone Chris Repass at the golf club at 360-457-6501.
On Sunday, volunteers will meet at 9 a.m. at the Cornerhouse, 101. E. Front St., for breakfast before fanning out to take down the pink ribbons they have tied all over downtown Port Angeles.
For more information about the fundraising events, phone deBord at 360-460-1155 or 360-457-6181, or Margo Peterson-Pruss at 360-460-4251.
For more information about the Soroptimists International of Port Angeles (Noon Club), visit www.sipawa.org.
