NORWAY – As part of the One Book One Community 2008 theme, “Making a Difference,” two organizations, the American Red Cross, and Friends of Little Field Home, will be the focus at 7 p.m. Monday, March 17, at Norway Memorial Library. The public is invited.

Allen Crabtree and Julie Peterson will represent the American Red Cross, which helps people who have suffered in disasters.

Crabtree is a volunteer for Red Cross Rapid Response as a writer and spokesman. He has been deployed to disaster sites all over the country, including Hurricane Katrina. He writes for the Portland Herald and the Bridgton News, and he and his wife live in Sebago.

Peterson volunteers with the Red Cross as a mental health worker locally and nationally. She also serves on the Disaster Action Team of the United Valley Chapter, helping fire victims in Oxford County. Peterson has opened her own therapy practice in Norway and serves on many mental health and disaster organizations. Recently she was appointed to the board of the Rape Education and Crisis Hotline. She lives in Norway with her family.

Friends of Little Field Home is located in the Chigamba Village, Malawi, Africa. Their goal is to collaborate with Malawians “to work together to serve the orphans and the community living in around Little Field Home.”

Little Field House provides assistant in four programs: health, medical, education and sponsoring a child. Janet Littlefield, founder of the organization that bears her name, is a science teacher at Hebron Academy.

In 2003 she established Little Field House to help children in Malawi after spending time in the country as a Peace Corps volunteer. Littlefield continues to teach at Hebron Academy and in the summers she takes students to help at Little Field Home.

For more information about One Book One Community, visit the Oxford Hills Reads blog at www.oxfordhillsreads.blogspot.com. For more information about the Making a Difference organizations, contact the library at 743-5309.