KINGSTON — The Kingston Rotary Club is offering local golfers the chance to create a cartful of memories while in the same stroke helping Kingston High School athletes.

On June 19, Rotary will host the third annual Swing for the Lights charity golf challenge at White Horse Golf Club in Kingston. Golfers can play on the much-lauded course, rub shoulders with Seattle Seahawks, contribute to the effort to build lights at the KHS football field and possibly win a car.

“This golf tournament separates itself from all other golf tournaments in Kitsap County,” said Clint Boxman, who is organizing this year’s event. “You’re playing on one of the best courses you can play on in the state of Washington.”

In the evening, after the clubs are stowed, non-golfers can join the festivities by partaking of a post-tournament barbecue at 6 p.m. on the practice range. Cost for the dinner is $15 and will include typical backyard grill fare, as well as a performance by the KHS band.

The $115 entry fee for this year’s tournament is significantly lower than last year’s, and golfers are being asked to contribute what they can beyond the entry fee as a tax-deductible donation toward the KHS lights.

“We felt like we priced out some golfers last year. We thought ($115) was a very competitive number, to entice people to participate in this good cause,” Boxman said.

While on the links, golfers making higher contributions to the lights project have the option of teaming up with a handful of current or former players from the Seattle Seahawks (names are yet to be announced).

“It’s not often that we get those types of individuals to come out to a small town like Kingston,” Boxman said of the football players.

The tournament will also feature hole-in-one, longest drive and closest-to-the-hole competitions, with the hole-in-one prize being a new Chevy Malibu hybrid donated by Haselwood Auto Group.

Anyone unable to make either the golf challenge or the barbecue can contribute to the lights fund through a “watt” donation of their choosing by making a check out to the Kingston Rotary Foundation and dropping it off at Viking Bank in Poulsbo, Kitsap Bank in Kingston or the Edward Jones office in Kingston. Any funds raised beyond the $20,000 needed to finish the lights will go to the KHS associated student body, which has already kicked in $13,000 of its own money for the project.

“Kingston High School is definitely sacrificing a lot,” Boxman said. “Kingston ASB is giving $13,000, and we’d like to give some of that $13,000 back to the kids.”

Hole sponsorships are also available for $350 for businesses interested in staffing a booth next to one of the tees.

The push to install lights at the Kingston athletic field began two years ago, shortly before the high school opened. The first two Rotary golf challenges took in about $27,000 combined, but lights were estimated at nearly $240,000. Community members went to the school board numerous times with a variety of plans to pay for the lights, but it was not until April of this year the board allocated funds to the project. According to the plan outlined by the school board, $140,000 will come from a KHS pot of “non-obligated funds,” $40,000 will come from state funds and the remaining $60,000 will come from community contributions, which have already reached about $40,000.

In addition to the golf challenge and money donated by the Kingston High ASB, recent contributions to the field lights project have come from the grand opening of the Kingston Firehouse Theater, calendar sales and other small fundraisers.

“We’re just hoping that a combination of all those (efforts) will add up past the $20,000 mark,” Boxman said.