On Saturday, May 11, 2013, please place non-perishable food items by your mailbox as part of the national Stamp Out Hunger food drive. Your mail carrier will pick up and deliver this food to Operation Hope in Fairfield. Your donations will help to stock Operation Hope’s local food pantry that has provided over 123,077 meals to our neighbors in need last year. It’s an easy and convenient way to help Operation Hope’s local efforts. Remember to put your food out early on Saturday, May 11. Thank you for your generous donations!

Save the date for the 2013 Operation Hope Annual Gala honoring the Mitchell family of Westport, CT. Mark your calendar for Thursday, May 16 from 6:30-10PM. It will be an evening not to be missed! For tickets, information or sponsor opportunities, please contact Paula at (203) 292-5588 or at pmorthanos@operationhopect.org

Come join us on Thursday, May 30th for a night of music at Fairfield Theater Company’s StageOne featuring Band Together. Enjoy this fun, talented and local band that shares a passion for music and charity as they host a Funk Jam concert to benefit 5 local charities: Operation Hope (Help for the Homeless); Connecticut Burn Care Foundation (Children’s Camp); WPKN (Publicly Funded Radio); A Hand for a Paw (Ending Animal suffering in Bridgeport): and Fairfield Theater Company (Live Cultural Exchange). Band Together’s founders, Jerry Vigorito and Rob Fried, have once again teamed up with Fairfield Theater Company to host this benefit and help Operation Hope through their music.

Tickets include a festive pre-party beginning at 6:30PM followed by the 7:30PM concert. Tickets are $29 each and FTC members save $5 per ticket.

For more information about the show or to purchase tickets, visit Fairfield Theater Company