Who:

Actor / Producer Edward James Olmos
Actress Alison Arngrim
Actor Nicholas Turturro
U.S. Postal Service (USPS)
National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC) AFL-CIO
Scott Mikels, CFO, MEND - Meet Each Need with Dignity
Rusty Hicks, President of Los Angeles County Federation of Labor

What:

The 27th Anniversary Stamp Out Hunger Letter Carrier Food Drive

When:

10:00 a.m. PT
Tuesday, May 7, 2019

Where:

MEND - Meet Each Need with Dignity
10641 N. San Fernando Rd.
Pacoima, CA 91331

Background:

On Saturday, May 11, 2019, letter carriers will collect food in every neighborhood across the nation to help stock local food bank shelves that are struggling to keep up with demand. This is the largest one-day food drive in the world. Over one billion pounds of food has been donated during its history.

Actor Edward James Olmos, along with actress Alison Arngrim, actor Nicholas Turturro, NALC members, and USPS officials, will get the word out at this event about how easy it is for everyone to help their neighbor by placing a sturdy bag of non-perishable food by their mailbox on Saturday, May 11. Letter carriers will collect the food and deliver it to a local food bank. MEND Food Bank representatives will discuss the skyrocketing need for food assistance in the Los Angeles area, especially during the summer months.

Award-winning actor and producer Edward James Olmos — whose father was a USPS letter carrier — was born and raised in Los Angeles, CA. He is best known for his roles as Lieutenant Martin "Marty" Castillo in Miami Vice (1984-1989), William Adama in the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica (2004-2009), teacher Jaime Escalante in Stand and Deliver (1988), and Detective Gaff in Blade Runner (1982), and its sequel Blade Runner 2049 (2017). In 2018, he played the father of a gang member in the FX series, Mayans MC.

Olmos has publicly supported the Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive since 2013.

Actress Alison Arngrim was born in 1962 in New York City.  Arngrim followed in the footsteps of her showbiz family to become a child actress.  New York Times Best Selling author of “Confessions of A Prairie Bitch: How I Survived Nellie Oleson and Learned to Love Being Hated”, Arngrim is best known to viewers world-wide for her portrayal of the incredibly nasty “Nellie Oleson” on the much loved, long running hit television series "Little House On The Prairie," and continues to amuse audiences through her many film, television, stage and multi-media appearances. 

Actor Nicholas Turturro was born in Brooklyn, New York. His mother, Katherine Florence (Incerella), was an amateur jazz singer, who worked in a Navy yard during World War II, and was born in the U.S., to Italian parents, with roots in Sicily. His father, Nicholas Turturro, Sr., was a carpenter and shoemaker.  He garnered an Emmy Award nomination for playing Officer/Det./Sgt. James Martinez on the television series NYPD Blue and was on the series for its first seven seasons. He also was a guest ring announcer at Wrestlemania XI for the main event of Shawn Michaels vs. Diesel.

On November 18, 2014, Rusty Hicks, 38, was unanimously elected to the position of President of the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor, AFL-CIO. His election to the post makes him one of its youngest leaders and the first post-9/11 war veteran to lead one of the nation’s largest labor federations.

Raised by a single mother in Fort Worth, Texas, Rusty saw first-hand the challenges of attaining the American Dream. His mother was a bookkeeper, his grandfather a grocery clerk and his grandmother a teacher’s aide. Their hard work inspired Rusty to a life of service to ensure that the voices of working people are heard on the job, in their communities, and at the ballot box.

For additional information about this year’s Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive, visit nalc.org/community-service/food-drive.

The Postal Service receives no tax dollars for operating expenses and relies on the sale of postage, products and services to fund its operations.

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