AUGUSTA – The Attorney General’s Consumer Mediation Service is recruiting new volunteer consumer complaint mediators for its October 2003 and May 2004 classes. Training for the October session begins Monday, Oct. 6.

Volunteers will mediate consumer complaints over the phone or by mail in the attorney general’s Augusta office. Mediators are asked to volunteer approximately six hours a week on a schedule convenient to them.

Interested people can contact Assistant Attorney General James A. McKenna at 626-8842 or e-mail jim.mckenna @maine.gov.