Benefit: HPC/Operation Smile Benefit Meal, Concert, and Silent Auction - Colorado College

Benefit: HPC/Operation Smile Benefit Meal, Concert, and Silent Auction

A silent auction from 6:00-7:00 followed by a benefit meal provided by Olive Garden and Smiley’s Bakery from 6:45-7:15. Benefit concert by Colorado College’s acapella vocal groups Ellement, Back Row, and Room 46 from 7:15-9:00. All proceeds go to Operation Smile and organization that has provided much needed medical care by repairing children's cleft lips and cleft palates since 1982. Operation Smile has treated more than 140,000 children and young adults from 50 countries around the world and in the United States. Every $1 donated is leveraged to yield $6 in additional program services. It takes as little as 45 minutes and cost approximately $240 for an Operation Smile cleft lip surgery to change a child's life.

Location: Jerome P. McHugh Student Commons, above Preserve; in the Western Ridge Housing Complex, 1090 N. Cascade Ave. (map)

Tickets: $5, $5 for students, or $5 with a CC ID; tickets at Worner Campus Center Information Desk, 902 N. Cascade Ave.

This event is open to the general public.