Chris Tate of Pasco wanted his first tattoo to mean something.

That’s why on Saturday he waited at Asylum Tattoo in Pasco to receive a cancer ribbon tattoo with the colors representing the cancers that have affected his life — orange for leukemia, which he survived at age 3, and blue for colon cancer, which his grandmother died from in March.

Asylum Tattoo offered free cancer ribbon tattoos Saturday to provide cancer awareness and to raise money for the Tri-Cities Cancer Center Foundation. A box was put out for donations.