PORT ANGELES — The week long Pink Up Port Angeles campaign in June raised more than $32,100 for Operation Uplift, Soroptimist International Port Angeles announced Monday.
“The numbers are finally in for Pink Up Port Angeles,” Linda deBord, fundraising chairman, said in an email.
The total is “a terrific leap over last year’s total of $26,000, impressive in our down economy,” she said.
“I think the reason is the people of Clallam County know that all the funds collected will go directly to the people who live here,” deBord said.
Operation Uplift is a Port Angeles-based grass-roots support 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.
It operates on donations, with an all-volunteer board of directors.
More than 300 people were helped in 2010 through Operation Uplift, deBord said.
A total of 65 women received free mammograms as a result of a cooperative effort among Olympic Medical Center, First Federal, Operation Uplift and Soroptimists, she said.
Since 2009, Pink Up Port Angeles has raised an increasing amount of donations for Operation Uplift, deBord said.
In 2009, it raised $25,000 and in 2010, it collected $27,009.
Funds were from several activities during the week, including a bake sale at Swain’s General Store in Port Angeles, a “pooch and papa” walk on the waterfront trail, a “celebrity waiter” event at Chestnut Cottage in Port Angeles, a golf tournament at Peninsula Golf Club and a finale dinner and auction at the CrabHouse.
The Chestnut Cottage event raised the most money during the week, bringing in more than $7,900, deBord said.
In addition to the cost of the meals, 11 waiters — all well-known people around town — raised nearly $3,400 in tips, while a raffle basket donated by Frannie’s Gifts brought in $702.
The Chestnut Cottage ownes ansd staff donation theri evening to the fundraiser, deBord said.
Many businesses turned their windows pink in a decorating contest.
Sears won the top prize in the contest in which more than 25 stores competed.
For more information about Operation Uplift, go to 118 S. Liberty St., Suite B, Port Angeles; phone 360-457-5141; email info@
operationuplift.org; or visit the website at www.operationuplift.org/index.html.
