The Olympic Medical Center Foundation announced a donation of $14,000 for the expansion of the OMC Cancer Center, and recognized the top sales people for its May 21 duck race at an OMC commissioners meeting on June 7.

“We are pleased to announce that we have now received over $318,000 in donations and pledges toward the cancer center expansion,” OMC Foundation Executive Director Bruce Skinner said.

Those gifts have come in large and small amounts, he said, from more than 180 different donors.

In addition, the foundation has donated $339,993 in gifts to all areas of the hospital in the past last 18 months.

Foundation president Jim Jones and Skinner also recognized top duck sales people, including the top 12 for the event: Bill Littlejohn of Sequim, 3,141 ducks sold; Gail Ralston of Port Angeles, 1,955; the Port Angeles Lions Club, 1,789; Gay Lynn Iseri, Port Angeles, 1,764; Larry Strohm, Port Angeles, 1,495; Edie Beck, Port Angeles, 1,165; Peninsula College nursing students, 1,031; Jim Leskinovitch, Port Angeles, 954; Jean Hordyk, Port Angeles, 730, Jim Cammack, Port Angeles, 492, and Dick and Delores Kent, Port Angeles, 478.

Leskinovitch, Hordyk and Cammack are OMC commissioners, while Littlejohn is the chairman of the OMC Cancer Center expansion fundraising effort.

Skinner said that the duck race had a record year, netting almost $100,000. A total of 28,821 ducks were sold by all sellers.

Those interested in more information or in making a donation are asked to call the OMC Foundation office at 417-7144 or email to bruce@omhf.org.