Midnight in Paris set to raise funds for family support

Published 1:31 am Wednesday, September 21, 2016

North Olympic Health Care Network presents the eighth annual Midnight in Paris Dinner and Auction event on Saturday, Sept. 24, at the Red Lion, 221 N. Lincoln St., Port Angeles.

More than 100 attendees are expected to join First Step Family Support Center for its annual soiree. The event brings friendship, generosity, champagne and cuisine together for First Step’s biggest fundraiser of the year.

The theme this year is “Making Dreams Come True” and auction items include a Camaraderie Wines basket, a catered French dinner for four, a “Picker’s Passport” to a year of fresh fruits, berries and vegetables from a local garden, an entire year of massage at Renaissance and an afternoon excursion on La Boheme, an iconic 1936 wooden sloop.

Tickets are $80 ($40 of which is tax deductible) — RSVP at FirstStepFamily.org or by calling Amber Hosken, marketing and events coordinator, at 457-8355.

Professional auctioneer Dave Ryckman of Stokes Auction Group, will be running the auction.

All proceeds go directly to First Step Family Support Center, whose mission is to promote the healthy development of children and families in Clallam County. More information about First Step can be found at FirstStepFamily.org.

Sponsors are the North Olympic Health Care Network, Merrill & Ring, Seven Cedars Casino, First Federal, Aaron Swenson, DDS, John L. Scott Real Estate, Hermann Brothers Logging, Peninsula Children’s Clinic, Waste Connections, Elwha River Casino, George Symonds, OD, and private donors.