WEEKEND: Port Angeles motorcycle poker run to benefit Healthy Families

PORT ANGELES — The American Legion Riders Post 29 is hosting a motorcycle poker run Saturday.

The run will start at Olympic Powersports at 221 S. Peabody St., with registration between 9:30 a.m. and 11 a.m., and finish at the Clallam County Veterans Center, 216 S. Francis St., by 3:30 p.m.

Prizes will be awarded at 4 p.m.

Proceeds will benefit Healthy Families of Clallam County, which provides child abuse prevention and treatment services, parenting classes, support groups, crisis intervention and other services.

The cost is $10 per poker hand and all riders and passengers must have at least one hand.

More than $12,000 worth of prizes will be awarded.

They include a load of gravel from Angeles Concrete Products, a $400 gift certificate for Weider Chiropractic Clinic and gift certificates for Frugals and Subway.

The poker run will travel a 121-mile route to the west side of the Hood Canal Bridge into Port Townsend and back.

Hot dogs, chili and sodas will be served after the ride.

For more information, phone Gary Bruner, 360-504-2213 or 360-808-5380.

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