What:
Stamp Presentation to Alexis McKinnon

Who:
US Postal Service North Kingstown Post Office

When:
Friday, May 13, 2011

Where:
North Kingstown Post Office, 7715 Post Road, North Kingstown, RI

Background:
The United States Postal Service (USPS) and North Kingstown Postmaster Phil Picott will recognize the amazing worldwide achievement of Alexis Clare, the youngest person ever to star in a professional opera and musical production. Clare is also the youngest college student, age 9, ever to have starred in a leading role in an opera at the University of Rhode Island (URI).

The United States Postal Service has a long history of honoring people, events and milestones trough U.S. postage stamps. The Postmaster plans to honor Clare with a Stamp Presentation Award featuring the USPS’s new Jazz (Forever) Postage Stamp; Clare’s family has strong ties to the North Kingstown community. Her mother Laurie and Grandparents lived in the community and her mother actually worked in the building that houses the Post Office when it was a grocery store.

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