LEWISTON – The National Association of Retired Federal Employees will meet at noon Tuesday, Sept. 28, at the Ramada Inn. Steve Jennings, associate state director for advocacy at the AARP Maine office in Portland, will be speaker.

Jennings assists in the coordination of more than 20 volunteers and staff to influence Maine’s state and federal legislators on behalf of Mainers age 50 and over.

AARP Maine’s federal and state legislative efforts address, among other things, the solvency of Social Security and Medicare, affordable prescription drugs, assuring quality long-term care, affordable utilities and property tax reform.

Jennings has coordinated AARP’s advocacy efforts in Maine for the past eight years and has worked for AARP in a number of eastern and intermountain-west states since 1991. He lives in Portland. Jennings will hold a question-and-answer period.

Plans for the meeting were made at a recent session of the executive board at the home of Vi Dumais. Attending were President Sue Stetson, Mike and Flo Bohunicky, Jayne Bickford, Doris Hamel and Therese Baumer.

Lunch will be served at noon and following lunch Stetson will conduct a business meeting.

This organization for federal employees and retired federal employees is looking for new members.

There are about 377,000 members nationwide and the organization is a legislative voice for them. Members are kept up-to-date on issues through a monthly magazine, Retirement Life, and the Web site at http://www.narfe.org.

Membership is open to the following who are or will be eligible to receive an annuity: current employees, retirees, former employees, spouses and surviving spouses and former spouses who are legally eligible for a federal or survivor annuity.

The local chapter, Androscoggin Valley 1804, meets the fourth Tuesday of the month September through May at the Ramada Inn.

Those interested in joining should contact Stetson at 784-9438, Hamel at 782-6139 or Bohunicky at 353-2688.