Lee Spencer Photography Asks You to Get Silly to Help a Local Charity

Who can resist being straight-up silly for a good cause?

That's exactly what Tammy and Lee Spencer want you to do at this year's Wishes Can Happen Picture Party at , taking place from 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Friday.

The third annual fundraiser helps out , a North Canton-based non-profit that grants wishes to terminally ill children. 

The Spencers will have you grab some feather boas, some outrageous hats and whatever goofy props they can find and set you up in front of a backdrop with your friends for the ultimate silly photo shoot. They'll post the photos straight to Facebook as the event is happening, and you and your friends "tag" yourself so that the photos are yours to keep.

Wishes Can Happen means a lot to the Spencers. In 1984, Lee Spencer lost his 16-year-old sister to Hodgkin's lymphoma. She had been one of the very first wish recipients.

"That's why it's so passionate to us," Tammy said. "We know what it meant to our family in having that wish granted. It's giving families happy memories to hold on to."

Last year the event raised about $2,000. This year, the couple is shooting for $5,000.

Although the event is free, the couple hopes participants will pay to enter several raffles, spend a few dollars on food (meatballs, Italian sausage and peppers, and bread sticks) and donate to play games.

Participants have lots of chances to win prizes, such as a set of 1,000 business cards and stationary, $300 worth of graphic design work, six months with a personal trainer and lots more. There's also a cash cube on site (you remember those glass cubes with paper money whirling through the air?) and particpants will get a chance to grab at papers that correspond with prizes.

A "gift tree" also gives folks a chance to give and get. Let's say you give $10; you get a gift card worth at least $10 in return. It could even be worth more.

You can find out more about the prizes and games available by checking out the WHC Picture Party Facebook event.

"Bring your friends. Bring your family," Tammy said. "(We want to) make more people aware of the organization and simple ways to help. People can help just by sharing that we're doing this."