LEWISTON — The Lewiston Area Public Health Committee will host its fourth annual Rally for Recovery in Kennedy Park on Saturday from noon to 3 p.m. 

It will feature testimonials, resource speakers, live music, informational materials, food and children’s activities. There is no charge to attend.

The rally will open with a welcome from Lewiston Mayor Carl Sheline at 12:15 p.m., followed by Dr. Paul Vinsel, an emergency room physician and board-certified addiction physician at Central Maine Medical Center. Maine’s director of Opioid Response, Gordon Smith, will speak, followed by Auburn Mayor Jeff Harmon at 1 p.m. talking about the new $9 million Police Activities League drop-in/community center on Chestnut Street in Auburn.

Dave Bilodeau & Friends will perform at 1:15 p.m., followed by speaker Amran Osmon, founder of Generational Noor, who will talk about the stigma around substance use disorder. David Bilodeau, the Options liaison for Androscoggin County, and Lewiston Police patrol officer Jeff Burkhardt will talk about available outreach programs.

Lisa Escobar, Lewiston Public Schools substance abuse counselor and winner of the 2024 Community Service Award, is scheduled to speak at 2 p.m., followed by a testimonial from Sean Leclair, who is more than six years sober, talking about his experience with drug addiction.

Craig Saddlemire, who co-chairs the ad hoc Lewiston Shelter Committee, will provide an update of the committee’s work, followed by Bronte Roberts, a clinical mental health counselor and behavioral health care manager at CMMC, making a presentation on the hospital’s addiction medicine program. The afternoon program will end with a testimonial from Marshall Mercer about his personal recovery.

For more information, call 207-513-3018.