The all-volunteer, nonprofit Back Door Dance Studio team continues to perform to help other organizations raise funds.

Cindy Madore of Eddington, a 47-year-old member of the group she describes as including “incredible college kids to older people,” reports that the 26 dancers will present their next Zoot Suit Revue at 6:30 p.m. Saturday, May 1, at Eddington School.

Admission is $5 for adults. There is no charge for children.

The team’s purpose, Madore said, “is to raise money for other nonprofit organizations” ranging from the Maine Children’s Cancer Fund to foster parent and school groups.

For example, the team recently performed in Stratton to help raise money so that community’s elementary school children can visit the Boston Museum of Science.

Back Door Dance Studio owners Chuck and Sue McKay of Eddington formed the team five years ago.

It is made up of “former and current students of various levels of ability,” Madore said.

But, to her, “what is most important is the level of commitment and enthusiasm” of the dancers, and “how much fun getting out and dancing is.”

In a later column, we’ll inform you about the team’s appearances for Eastern Agency on Aging in Bangor and Project Graduation in Brewer.

For more information about the team, and how it might help your organization, write Back Door Dance Studio, 34 Lois Lane, Eddington 04428, call 843-5638, e-mail swingtime34@aol.com or visit www.backdoordance.com.

Hospice of Eastern Maine is the local host for Hospice Foundation of America’s 11th annual Teleconference, “Living with Grief: Alzheimer’s Disease,” from 1:30 to 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 28, in Mason Auditorium at Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor.

Maine panelists participating in a post-teleconference discussion will be Elizabeth Weaver, program director for the Maine Alzheimer’s Association; Sally Smith, Alzheimer’s care manger for Mount Desert Island Hospital; and Elizabeth Grantham, Westgate Manor director of social services.

To register, call Alicia Guite, 973-6550.

Our very active and hardworking Habitat for Humanity of Greater Bangor chapter is preparing for its Benefit Dinner and Auction from 6 to 10 p.m. Saturday, May 1, in the new banquet room of the Sea Dog Restaurant on Bangor’s waterfront.

The event includes a catered meal, entertainment by musician John Tercyak and the auction, featuring a variety of items sure to please.

For example, you might go home with a Ricky Craven collection of NASCAR items; a handmade cribbage board; tickets to any Penobscot Theatre Company performance, cross-country skis from The Ski Rack, a 13-week Bangor Daily News subscription or matted photography by Steven Sleeper.

Tickets will be available for the chapter’s Otter Kayak Raffle, for which the winning ticket will be drawn during its June yard sale.

Dinner tickets are $10 per person, and more information can be obtained by calling Cindy Ault, 989-4547, or Steve Earl, 942-1127.

The Calais Lioness Club is planning its first Community Yard Sale Day for Saturday, May 8.

The territory this fund-raiser covers, reports Lorraine Mitchell, is “Red Beach to Calais; from Baring to Baileyville.”

Participants will display bright yellow signs with the familiar, purple Lions Club L.

For a $5 donation to the Lioness Scholarship Fund, you can have your yard sale located “On the Map.”

Maps will be available beginning Monday, May 3, at Boston Shoe Store, Calais Federal Savings & Loan, Machias Savings Bank and St. Croix Valley Chamber of Commerce, all in Calais; J.C. Penney catalog store, Milltown; Knock on Wood, Baring; and St. Croix Federal Credit Union offices in Baileyville and Machias.

Maps also will be available at the Lions Club Pancake Breakfast, 6:30-10 a.m. Saturday, May 8, at the American Legion Hall in Calais, and 8-9 a.m. that same day in front of the St. Croix Valley Chamber of Commerce office in Calais. To be part of this event, or for more information, call Mitchell at 454-7587, or Linda Howe, 427-3333, Ext. 38.

Donations of items, and cash, would be appreciated by organizers of the yard sale to benefit the restored James School from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the school, 125 Niles Road in Presque Isle.

Items can be left, anytime, at the home of Mary Turner, 19 Maple St., Presque Isle, or call 764-6244 to have them picked up.

Cash donations can be sent to James School treasurer Peter McConnell, 67 Pine St., Presque Isle 04769.

Proceeds will help maintain the restored, one-room schoolhouse that dates to 1917.

Joni Averill, Bangor Daily News, P.O. Box 1329, Bangor 04402; 990-8288.