AUGUSTA — The Maine Teen Advocacy Coalition, a local group created by Pearl Benjamin and other Camden-area teens, will be among four advocacy groups holding a candlelight vigil, Saturday, at 7 p.m., in front of the Blaine House, in Augusta.

"Maine: Light the Way," a vigil remembering the victims of last weekend's mass shootings in El Paso and Dayton, will also act as a call to action to elected officials to enact gun safety measures.

The Maine Teen Advocacy Coalition, the Maine Gun Safety Coalition, Mom’s Demand Action for Gun Sense in Maine, and Suit Up Maine, four of Maine’s leading organizations focusing on gun safety, will co-host the

“Maine: Light the Way,” is timed to mark the hours between when the mass shooting in El Paso, Texas ended and when the subsequent mass shooting in Dayton, Ohio, began, on August 3.

The event will feature a candlelight vigil to remember the victims of those massacres, and remarks from elected officials, gun violence survivors, and gun safety leaders, who will call on those in power at the state and federal level to enact common sense gun safety legislation to help prevent future mass shootings and every day gun-related tragedies.

Elected officials confirmed to appear include Speaker of the Maine House of Representatives Sara Gideon, Representatives Vicki Doudera and Lois Reckitt, and Senators Rebecca Millett and Linda Sanborn.

Representatives of each of the sponsoring organizations will also speak, in addition to Betsy Sweet, Judi Richardson (founder of Remembering Darien), gun violence prevention advocate Nick Wilson, and Safiya Khalid (candidate for Lewiston City Council).