Blood drive

set for Tuesday

A Red Cross blood drive will be held Tuesday, Jan. 19, from 1-6 p.m., at the First Parish Congregational Church, 116 Main St., Yarmouth. For an appointment, see www.redcrossblood.org or call 800-RED-CROSS.

Camden Conference

event this week

Merrill Memorial Library will welcome writers from Portland’s Telling Room, on Wednesday, Jan. 13, at 6 p.m. The program is a free Camden Conference Community Event.

The program will begin with a short film, “The Whole World Waiting,” which introduces young people who have traveled from all over the world to settle in Portland. The profiles bring the writers’ stories to life engaging the audience in a fuller view of the immigrant experience in Maine. Following excerpts from the film, students will read from their recently published book, “A Season for Building Houses.”

The Telling Room is a nonprofit writing center dedicated to the idea that children and young adults ages 6-18 are natural storytellers.

For more information in the event, call 846-2422 or see www.yarmouthlibrary.org.

Yarmouth man invited to speech

U.S. Rep. Chellie Pingree announced last week that she was taking Tabin Tangila mesu Kamba of Yarmouth to the president’s Jan. 12 State of the Union speech in Washington as her guest. He was invited to watch the president address Congress and the nation from the gallery in the U.S. House of Representatives.

According to a press release from Pingree’s office, he was an activist in his home country of the Democratic Republic of the Congo when the 2011 presidential election generated chaos and violence. He fled to the United States and was granted asylum status. He works at a local nonprofit.