PORT ANGELES — Members of Soroptimists International of Port Angeles (Noon Club) already are planning events for the 2013 edition of Pink Up Port Angeles.
This year’s weeklong Pink Up Port Angeles campaign netted Operation Uplift $33,800, the amount that remained after bills were paid from the donations of $41,000, said Linda deBord, campaign chairwoman.
All proceeds from Pink Up Port Angeles — announced each June by the signature pink ribbons tied all over the downtown — go to Operation Uplift, a Port Angeles-based group that provides 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, deBord said.
“We have had a couple of meetings and have started planning some exciting new things to add to next year’s celebration,” deBord said.
Among them will be a pet costume contest for the Dennis Wilcox Pooch Walk on the Waterfront Trail.
Pink Up is growing every year, even though the net amount this year was slightly down from last year’s total of $34,200 after bills were paid, deBord said.
“We had much greater participation in every event,” she said, as well as adding a new event: the Pink Row, in which members of the Olympic Peninsula Rowing Association “pinked” the water near Ediz Hook with flowers.
Receipts from a bake sale at Swain’s General Store were up by $75 from last year, deBord said, and the annual Dennis Wilcox Pooch Walk was up by more than $400.
“More than 40 pooches took their masters on a walk,” deBord said.
During the Pink Up the Pier event, information about resources for those with cancer is distributed from a table set up on City Pier, which is decorated with the signature pink ribbons of Pink Up Port Angeles.
Twenty-two women received free mammograms, with results leading to three women referred for additional ultrasound testing.
“None of these would have this had it not been for these free mammograms because they don’t have insurance,” deBord said.
“Who knows how long it would have gone on undiscovered.
“I feel like we really did a service,” she said.
The Pink Take Over of the Chestnut Cottage saw 12 “celebrity waiters” — people well-known in the community — serve spaghetti while competing for tips that were donated to the cause.
Some even wore unusual clothing, deBord said.
A gift basket donated by Franni’s Gift Expressions netted $717, while the dinner itself was up by $50 over last year for a spaghetti evening total of $7,601.
“This continues to be our best money maker thanks to First Federal support underwriting most of the costs,” deBord said.
Eleven teams of golfers gathered for the shot gun start of the Teed-off against Cancer Tournament at Peninsula Golf Club.
The team of Steve and Cindy Schlaffman and Jay and Linda Bruch won the tournament, which had as its major sponsor All Weather Heating and Cooling.
The hole-in-one trophy, a 2012 GMC SLE Sierra pickup donated by the Mac Ruddell Community Fund, went without a taker, deBord said.
The grande finale was a dinner and auction.
“Soroptimists will continue to bring in needed funding to insure there will be help for those who need it in the future,” deBord said.
“Many thanks to the caring community we live in.”