Blood drive

OLD TOWN – A blood drive will be held from noon to 6 p.m. Monday, Nov. 29, at the Georgia-Pacific Training Center, 791 Main St., Old Town. The drive is sponsored by Georgia-Pacific, Pace Local 80 and the Old Town-Orono Kiwanis. Each donor will receive a bag of paper products.

Hearing center grant

BANGOR – The Warren Center for Communication and Learning will continue to give the gift of hearing to members of the community this holiday season thanks to the Rite Aid Foundation.

The Regional Hearing Aid Bank is the recipient of a $9,000 grant from the Rite Aid Foundation. The grant allows the Warren Center to provide hearing aids to members of the community who could not otherwise afford them.

“We are grateful to the Rite Aid Foundation for this grant,” said Mary Poulin, administrative director of the Warren Center. “Their generosity will allow at least 20 people in our community to improve their quality of life and regain the hearing that was lost.”

The ReHAB program accepts hearing aids from the community, both behind-the-ear and in-the-ear models. The behind-the-ear models are refurbished and given to people who cannot afford to purchase hearing aids of their own. In-the-ear models cannot be reused, so they are sent to a recycling facility and the Warren Center gets a small monetary credit which helps cover costs of the program.

The program is dependent upon the donation of hearing aids and the Warren Center is in need of donated behind-the-ear models. Hearing aids may be delivered or mailed to the Warren Center office at 175 Union St., Bangor, ME 04401. Call the Warren Center at 941-2850 for more information.

End hunger campaign

BANGOR – The Bangor Area Homeless Shelter is working in conjunction with Partners in Ending Hunger and its annual campaign committed to a hunger-free Maine. The statewide event, which began Nov. 19, runs through Monday Nov. 29.

The Bangor shelter, through its Day Program, provides a daily soup kitchen and distributes free emergency food from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays. The shelter is able to do so largely because of the efforts of others who organize food drives and who volunteer to provide meals. The shelter also receives benefits from the USDA surplus commodity food program and from a number of local businesses, which share appropriate leftovers.

To obtain more information, call the shelter at 947-0092, or visit www.endhungernow.org.