The state champion Hampden Academy Mock Trial Team cordially invites you to attend its annual Dessert Theatre at 6:30 tonight at Reeds Brook Middle School in Hampden.

Tickets are available at the door and are $8 for adults, $5 for students and $25 for a family of four or more.

All proceeds will help with expenses for the team to travel in May to the National High School Mock Trial Competition in Dallas.

Coached by local attorneys William Devoe and James McCarthy and teacher Kathryn King, team members “will serve sinfully delicious desserts and coffee between the two sides of the trial being presented,” King wrote.

The presentation is the same civil case the students will argue at the national competition.

The case is based on a 1947 Texas tragedy in which a French merchant vessel blew up in the largest manmade, non-nuclear explosion in U.S. history, killing and injuring hundreds of people and causing hundreds of millions of dollars in property damage.

If you cannot attend, but want to help the team go to the nationals, send your contributions to Kathryn King, Hampden Academy, 1 Main Road North, Hampden 04444-1212.

More information is available by calling her at 862-3792 or e-mailing kking@sad22.us.

The public is invited to enjoy the Friends of Eastern Maine Community College Library’s sixth annual Books2Eat Edible Book Contest from 4 to 6 p.m. Wednesday, April 11, at Rangeley Hall on Sylvan Road on the EMCC campus in Bangor.

Admission is $10, but those submitting an entry are admitted free.

All edible books will be photographed and judged in one of four categories, and prizes will be awarded to the four winners.

The professional entries will be auctioned off, and all other entries will be consumed.

Proceeds will benefit the EMCC Technical Resource Center and Library.

For more information, call Karen Reilly at 974-4640 or e-mail kreilly@emcc.edu.

Nicole Heanssler reminds you that the Waldo County Healthcare Dessert Cabaret, postponed from March, begins at 5:30 p.m. Friday, April 13, at Belfast Area High School.

Admission to the event is free, but donations are requested for the fundraiser that features performances by local school bands, Cub Scouts, middle school pupils, favorite area singers and dancers and Waldo County General Hospital staff members.

Gift certificates for local businesses will be drawn as door prizes, and a 50/50 raffle will be held.

Proceeds help support WCH’s free wellness events such as its Family Wellness Fair, the Medication Safety Fair, Reiki clinics, diabetes and hypertension screenings, a prostate clinic and women’s health screenings.

Word has been received that Paul McCluskey of Hampden has been diagnosed with an aggressive form of lung cancer.

A self-employed contractor, he has no health insurance, so friends are doing what they can to help by hosting a Benefit Auction, Dance and Potluck Supper for McCluskey and his family at 6 p.m. Saturday, April 14, at the Bangor Elks Lodge on Odlin Road.

Everyone is welcome to attend “and bid on some items to help Paul and his family make it through this difficult time. Any and all donations will make a big difference,” his niece, Noelle Richard, wrote.

“Paul is in good spirits,” she added. “He’s a trooper.”

If you are unable to attend but would like to help, donations can be sent to the Paul McCluskey Fund, Maine Savings Federal Credit Union, P.O. Box 347, Hampden 04444.

For more information, or to donate items for the auction, call Kelly Strang at 659-2585.

Nancy Ziegenbein called last week to ask me to let readers know that some seats remain for the Wellesley College Alumnae in Eastern Maine coach trip to view Art in Bloom at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.

The coach leaves at 7 a.m. Sunday, April 22, from the park and ride lot on the corner of Odlin Road and Interstate 395 in Bangor, and by pre-arrangement, boarding along the interstate is available.

The cost of the trip is $119 and includes transportation, museum admission, lunch and a buffet supper. The excursion is accessible to people with disabilities.

The show features 60 garden club arrangers and 20 professional floral designers who have produced floral interpretations of works of art.

Reservations can be made through Friday, April 13, by calling Ziegenbein at 947-7965 or writing to her at 41 Linden St., Bangor 04401.

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