GREENBANK — It is no secret. Bob Sines and John Smiggs both love cars and helping the community.

As a result, the partners have teamed up again to host the second annual Greenbank Car Show, to be held from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, June 16 at Greenbank Farm. Proceeds will go to the Alzheimer Society of Washington. The event has evolved during the past five years from washing cars and hosting raffles and small car shows consisting of 12 to 15 cars at HomePlace – Special Care Center of Oak Harbor, an Alzheimer’s patient care and support facility, to an official car show with around 300 cars and a host of other car-related activities for all levels of auto enthusiasts.

“As we moved along, we decided we were tired of washing people’s cars and holding little raffles to raise money for the society,” said Sines. “So we thought we’d try this car show to see if we could raise more money and increase awareness of Alzheimer’s disease.”

Every dollar Sines and Smiggs donates to Alzheimer Society of Washington is used for education on the effects of Alzheimer’s disease on patients and their caregivers.

“Families need a great deal of help with the disease process so they understand it,” said Josselyn Winslow, executive director of the Alzheimer Society of Washington. “Caregivers need education to help them understand what they need to do to take care of dementia patients and themselves.”

Part of the education process includes memory screening for people who are concerned for their own or other’s health, and much of the donated funds go toward this end, said Winslow.

“The Greenbank Car Show is an excellent event because it is an interest to people of all ages and especially to people who are aging,” she said. “This show is of interest to people not only on Whidbey Island but beyond it, as well.”

“If you have Alzheimer’s disease, you may not know what is going on day to day, but you have memories of the past,” said Sines.

“The car is the most important thing you purchase in your life, next to a house. You spend a great deal of your life in a car, around cars or dealing with cars. You think about how much fun you had on a trip, going out on a date or owning a particular car. As you get older, these are the memories that are left,” he said.

As a result, a natural relationship formed between the pair’s car show and donating money to the society, Sines said.

In addition to the large number of cars being shown, car dealerships will be on hand to showcase their latest automobiles and a hybrid car will also be on display. And for the kids, Sines will have Grand Turismo 4 contests on PlayStation 2s, with best times earning trophies. A pinewood derby will also be available to anyone wanting to build a car and participate. The event will also include food booths.

For Sines, who has enjoyed 1955 through 1957 shoebox Chevys and muscle cars such as SS Chevelles and Dodge Daytonas, getting John Wiebe’s 1970s front-motor dragster was also a success.

Smiggs, co-coordinator of the event, Greenbank Car Show, also enjoys cars, to put it mildly.

“I am a car guy. I have been in racing and in car shows all my life,” Smiggs said.

This weekend’s show will feature plenty of wonderful wheels.

“There will be a variety of cars; a piece of history that is quite old, a 1906 Thomas Rear Entry Tonneau, on loan from the LeMay Auto Museum, and cars that are quite new. For the day, it will be a great museum.”

Pete Walstrom of Greenbank will bring his 1929 Ford Town Car, one of only 18 left in the world.

“The Town Car is a very rare car from 1929 and I have had it for about seven years. I restored it and have been in the show circuit with it, receiving four national awards,” Walstrom said.

Walstrom fell in love with cars first with Model As and by age 14, he bought his first for $200.

He still has the car and has refurbished it three times.

“The car show will have a variety of cars,” he said, “and the proceeds go to a really good cause. Every car has a story and at my level, I will get to network with other restorers.”

“I don’t think there is any place that you can spend time, see so many things that represent such a span of time from 1906 to 2007 and only spend $5 to get in the door and help the Alzheimer Society of Washington. And that is the point of the show.”

For more information about the show, call 360-929-1609.