You are invited to join members of the Wellesley College Alumnae in Eastern Maine, their families and friends, for a coach trip to view Art in Bloom, departing at 7 a.m. Sunday, April 22, for the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.

The cost is $119 each and includes transportation, admission to the museum, a program book, box lunch at the museum, and a buffet supper at Ricetta’s Brick Oven Pizzeria in Portland.

People with accessibility concerns should know that all venues are accessible to the handicapped.

The coach leaves from the park and ride lot on the corner of Odlin Road and Interstate 395 in Bangor, and boarding along the Interstate 95 is available through prior arrangement.

For ticket and dining information, call Nancy Ziegenbein at 947-7965, or write her at 41 Linden St., Bangor 04401.

The reservation deadline is Friday, April 6.

Ziegenbein reports that the show features 60 garden club arrangers and 20 professional floral designers who have combined to produce creative floral interpretations of works of art.

Proceeds help support financial aid-blind admissions to Wellesley and special book gifts to students from eastern Maine attending Wellesley College, an all-women institution in Wellesley, Mass.

Ziegenbein previously has explained that when Wellesley admissions people review applications, “they don’t know if the applicants need aid or not. They are admitted, and then they apply for aid.”

“We are one of the few colleges left in the U.S. that does that.”

Irv Marsters reports that the first 30 children coming to The Curran Homestead 11th annual Maple Festival & Irish Celebration, which was rescheduled to 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Sunday, March 18, at Curran Homestead, 372 Fields Pond Road in Orrington, “will receive a free coloring book about maple sugaring.”

Marsters also reports that you will be able to view “for the first time a 28-minute video, ‘The Maple Sugaring Story,’ which teaches science, history and geography as it spans the time from the northeastern American Indians to the technology of today in the maple industry, which is one of the region’s most unique agricultural enterprises.”

You also can sample ginger ice cream and kettle corn with maple syrup.

General admission is $7 for adults and $5 for children under 12 and, for members and donors, $5 for adults and $3 for children under 12.

Tickets are on sale for the presentation of “42nd Street” beginning at 7 p.m. Friday, March 23, and Saturday, March 24, at John Bapst Memorial High School on Broadway in Bangor.

Tickets are $5 and available 7:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. during school days at John Bapst. More information can be obtained by calling 947-0313.

The musical features 79 students, including 35 cast members, 17 crew members and 27 playing in the Pit Band.

This sounds like a really fun fundraiser: Local media personality Stu Marckoon of WNSX 97.7 FM in Ellsworth, and local business owners and professionals will be pitting their basketball skills against the Harlem Ambassadors.

The Rotary Crushers, as they have named themselves, will face the Ambassadors at 7 p.m. Friday, March 23, at the Mount Desert Island High School gymnasium.

Hosted by the Mount Desert Island Rotary Club and MDIHS Interact Club, proceeds will benefit the organizations’ respective community projects.

Advance tickets are $10 for adults, $4 for children 12 and under and those 65 and older, and free for children 4 and under.

Tickets can be purchased at the Mount Desert Island YMCA in Bar Harbor and the Bar Harbor YWCA; The First in Bar Harbor, Southwest Harbor and Northeast Harbor; from all MDI Rotarians and Interact Club members; and at the door.

The Ambassadors, according to a release, offer comedy routines that will make everybody in the family laugh and promote a message of “stay in school and stay off drugs.”

Coaches for the Rotary Crushers will be Dan Berry of the Mount Desert Island YMCA and Benni McMullen of the Bar Harbor YWCA.

And Darling’s Auto Mall in Ellsworth is offering an opportunity to win a 2007 Jeep Grand Cherokee.

Berry reports sponsorships still are being encouraged for a $200 fee.

Each sponsor receives 10 free tickets and an invitation to dine with the players after the game.

For more information, call Berry at 288-3511, e-mail dan@mdiymca.org, call McMullen at 288-5008, e-mail ywcamdi@verizon.net, or call Toni Joerres, 244-0939, or e-mail tonichyk@gwi.net.

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