STORY AND PHOTO BY KAREN BOSSICK

The community is invited to purchase a Ribbon of Hope to support The Advocates through the remainder of June.

Each donation will be represented by a colored ribbon hung in Ketchum’s Memory Park from June 26 to July 2. Supporters will be invited to enjoy the Color Our World Summer Social and Ribbon Walk Through from 4:30 to 6 p.m. Friday, July 2.

There’ll be refreshments sponsored by Dan and Micki Chapin and a raffle drawing at 5:30 p.m.. Raffle items will include a six-night stay in Nuevo Puerto Vallarta, Mexico; tickets and lodging for the Sawtooth Valley Gathering music festival; a gift certificate package for valley restaurants; Boise State football tickets, a Sun Valley Challenger season ski pass and a River Run parking pass.

To make a donation or purchase raffle tickets, go to https://www.theadvocatesorg.org/color-our-world/

The Advocates provided 693 people with such services as shelter, crisis counseling, safety planning, transitional housing and English/Spanish support groups during 2020. The organization’s Prevention and Education department provided healthy relationship training to 4,272 youth and adults.

Color Our World is The Advocates’ sole in-person fundraising this year, seeking to raise 50 percent of its fundraising goals.

Color Our World sponsors include: Emerald - $5,000: Blaine County Title, Dr. Hillary Whipple, DMD, and St Luke's Wood River Medical Center; Sapphire - $2,500: First Lite, Image Eyes Optical, InnerHealth MD, Lloyd Construction, Northpoint, Silver Creek Ford, and The Terra Group; Amethyst - $1,500: Amanda Breen Law, DPPM Project Management, KMV Builders, Magleby Construction, Lindsey Zondag Movement Mortgage, Morgan’s Fine Finishes, Panache, Pioneer Title Company, Scott Miley Roofing, and V's Boutique.

The venue was provided by the Cimino Family Foundation.