Photo Flash: Patrick Page and Paige Davis Volunteer at Operation Backpack

Patrick Page and Paige Davis helped fellow volunteers unload over 20 Fed Ex trucks Tuesday evening, August 19th, 2008 at 345 Park Ave South in support for Operation Backpack.

Paige Davis, who is known to TV audiences for her work on "Trading Spaces," has appeared on Broadway as Roxie Hart in Chicago.  She has also been seen on tour as the title character in Sweet Charity and as Babette in Beauty and the Beast.  Regional credits include The Sound of Music, A Chorus Line, Hello, Dolly! and Pippin.

Patrick Page (King Henry VIII). Broadway: How the Grinch Stole Christmas (Grinch), The Lion King (Scar), The Kentucky Cycle, Beauty and the Beast (Lumiere), A Christmas Carol (Scrooge-standby for Roger Daltry). Off-Broadway: Rex (title role), Richard II (NYSF). Regional: Leading roles at Long Wharf (Sergius), Oregon Shakespeare (Marc Antony, Autolycus, Brazen, etc.), Pioneer Theatre Co. (Cyrano, Richard III, Henry V), Alabama Shakespeare (Richard II),  Utah Shakespeare (Iago, Brutus, Armado, Jaques, Richard III, etc.), Indiana rep (Hamlet), Missouri Rep (Mercutio), Arizona Theatre Co. (Dracula), as well as Seattle Rep, ACT, Cincinnati Rep, and many others. Patrick is recipient of the Princess Grace Award, The Joseph Jefferson Award and the Utah Governor's Medal for the Arts.

Over 9,000 families including 11,000 school-age children reside in the New York City homeless shelter system. Most of these children will go
back to school in September without basic supplies.

Now in its 5th year, Volunteers of America's Operation Backpack will be working with more than 70 companies to hold back-to-school drives, encouraging employees to collect and fill backpacks. Storefronts and City Councilpersons provide Official Drop Locations, enabling the public to donate backpacks. FedEx donates their time and talent by transporting all the supplies and backpacks that have been collected to our sort location. This year, children from several public and private schools hosted fundraising drives and filled more than 250 filled backpacks, before this year's campaign even kicked off!  During Sort Week, the culminating event of Operation Backpack, corporate volunteers help fill thousands of backpacks. This year with even more public and corporate support, the goal is to give all 11,000 children a new, filled backpack. www.OperationBackPackNYC.org.

Patrick Page and Paige Davis

Paige Davis, Rachel Weinstein and Patrick Page

Paige Davis and a group of Operation Backpack Volunteers.