PORT ANGELES – The day after last month’s news that the Port Angeles Fire Department would not be conducting Operation Candy Cane this year because of concerns about exposing first responders to Covid-19, a local business decided to step up and carry on the decades-long tradition starting tonight at 5:30.
PNW Mobile Detailing is partnering with the Port Angeles YMCA to collect donations for the Food Bank using the same model that has worked so well for the fire department over the years, and will follow the same neighborhood street routes over a period of 6 days tonight through Saturday.
Owner Katheryn Murray told us Monday what to watch and listen for this evening in the neighborhood west of First and M Streets.
“There’s Christmas carolers provided by the YMCA and there will be lights all over my vehicle, with a beautiful balloon display with lights in it, provided by Joyful Events and Balloons, and just a parade of vehicles decorated. And cowbells. Cowbells.”
So listen for carolers and cowbells. Murray says they’ll be giving away candy canes, and everyone in the convoy will be masked up. They’re asking neighborhood folks to do the same when they drive by asking for canned goods and other non-perishable foods.
The rest of this week’s schedule will cover First and L streets to C Street tomorrow, C Street to Lincoln Street Wednesday, Thursday it’s Chase Street to Chambers Street, Friday it’s Jones Street to Golf Course Road, and they’ll finish up on Saturday above Lauridsen Boulevard.