Concert Sunday to

aid Runge family

A sacred music benefit concert for the Runge family of Yarmouth will be held Sunday, Nov. 20, at 3 p.m., at Sacred Heart Church, 326 Main St. in Yarmouth. Nat Runge, a longtime Yarmouth resident, was hospitalized Sept. 18 with complications stemming from an autoimmune blood disorder that then compromised his kidneys. His wife, Jen Runge, is or has been associated with each of these choirs – Wescustago Youth Chorale, Vox Nova and Sacred Heart Choir – which will perform selections for an hour or so of music. Donations at the door would be appreciated.

Meeting topic

is park plan

The Yarmouth Parks & Lands Committee is hosting a public meeting about the Pratt’s Brook Park management plan, Thursday, Nov. 17, at 7 p.m., at the Town Hall Community Room.

The committee has specific interest in making some changes and is seeking comments from residents. For more information, contact Karyn MacNeill at 846-2406 or [email protected].

Parking ban

The on-street winter parking ban will be in effect from Tuesday, Nov. 15 to Saturday, April 15, 2017.

Library hosting

poet laureate

Maine Poet Laureate Stuart Kestenbaum will read from his collections of poems and essays on Wednesday, Nov. 30, at 7 p.m., at Merrill Memorial Library. Kestenbaum is the author of four collections of poems, “Pilgrimage,” “House of Thanksgiving,” “Prayers and Run-on Sentences” and “Only Now,” and a collection of essays, “The View From Here.” The director of the Haystack Mountain School of Crafts from 1988 to 2015, he has written and spoken widely on craft making and creativity, and his poems and writing have appeared in numerous small press publications and magazines. He was appointed Maine’s poet laureate in 2016.

Group’s next book,

‘Boy, Snow, Bird’

“Boy, Snow, Bird,” a novel by Helen Oyeyemi, is the next Reader’s Circle selection and will be discussed Thursday, Dec. 1, at 7 p.m., at Merrill Memorial Library, 215 Main St.

In the winter of 1953, Boy Novak arrives in a small town in Massachusetts looking, she believes, for beauty, the opposite of the life she’s left behind in New York. She marries Arturo Whitman, a local widower, and becomes stepmother to his daughter, Snow, and then gives birth to Bird, whose dark skin exposes the Whitmans as light-skinned African-Americans passing for white.

Film matinee

“Love Actually,” the 2003 comedy, will be screened at Merrill Memorial Library Monday, Nov. 28, at 1 p.m. Headlined by a cavalcade of stars, the film follows eight couples whose lives intersect shortly before Christmas.