Former Cambria resident Henry Cooper could use help with medical expenses and some of his old friends here are hosting fundraisers to help him out.

A builder by trade, the Honorary Mayor of Cambria in 1982, is a “personality extraordinaire,” said Pat Riley, a Cambria artist. On one memorable Pinedorado Parade float, Cooper rode on a ceremonial “throne”— a toilet.

Cooper now lives in Redway in Humboldt County.

Riley, who established Pat Riley’s Hand Painted Clothing business in Cambrian in 1985, is offering three of her one-of-a-kind creations in a raffle: A denim shirt (retail value $140), a sweatshirt ($82) and an apron ($42). Winners get to pick the size, and men’s or women’s style.

Raffle tickets are sold separately for the three items for $10, $5 and $2, respectively. Ticket holders need not be present to win.

Among other things, funds raised will help pay for gas so his wife, Kathy O’Brian, the original co-owner and founder of the Harmony Pasta Factory in Harmony, can visit him in the hospital.

Tickets will be available from noon to 4 p.m. the next two weekends, Saturday

and Sunday, June 30 and July 1, 7 and 8, in the garden at The Garden Shed, 2024 Main St.

For more information or tickets, call Riley at 550- 8066.

—Bert Etling