The fund-raiser is a benefit for resident Jerie Phinney who suffered serious injury in an accident this winter. Phinney, a single mom, upholsterer, and musician by passion, is facing a year-long recovery period. In an attempt to make her path to recovery smoother, her friends and family, led by friend Steve Dutton, have put together an incredible array of talent, cuisine and goods.

Said Dutton, "We are expecting a very good turnout and would like to urge anyone who has not done so already to get out there and buy your tickets. We are basing our food purchases on ticket sales so please pick yours up this week, if possible, to allow us enough time to anticipate the head count."

Advance tickets are available at Sherman's Book & Stationery Store, Dave's AG, Boat House Bistro and The Opera House.

The dinner menu leads off with appetizers of petite Maine shrimp pesto pizzas; lobster, shrimp and crab pate on sweet butter crostini and an international assortment of cheese and crackers. The main course includes stuffed beef and veal roulade with smoked ham, broccoli and buffalo mozzarella served with a mushroom duxelle sauce; garlic and rosemary oven roasted red potatoes; Shaker-style sweet corn custard with savory croutons; penne with vodka sauce and homemade roasted garlic and cheddar sausage and pao de queijo (Brazilian cheese breads). Dessert, you ask? Assorted decadence - savor that!

Many well-known local musicians and singers will take to the stage: the Don Brewer Blues Project, the Space Heaters, Chip Schwehm, Joey O, Faye Christy and a vocal quartet featuring Linda Clark, Lori Brewer, Glenn Burnham and Brian Howe. And, rumor has it a few special guest performers will be joining the line-up.

To tempt and entice, here is the list of items up for auction, beginning with the Chinese Auction. This auction is a cross between a silent auction and a raffle. Chinese Auction Cards will be sold that have 27 perforated stubs with unique numbers on them for $5.00 each. One of the stubs is the receipt and one stub is for a door prize yet to be determined. The other 25 stubs will be used to bid on the items that will be set out on tables. Each item will have a bag next to it in which attendees can deposit one or more tickets in to "bid" on that item. The more tickets put in, the greater the chances are of winning a particular item. Later in the event each bag will have one stub drawn from it and the holder of that number is the winner.

Chinese Auction items are: gift certificates from the Lobster Pier Caf', Wen's Diner, Boothbay House of Pizza, Townsend Coffee House & Wine Bar, the Village Market, Heads of the Harbor Salon, Strong's Auto Sales & Service and Harbor Medical Clinic. Other items: a coffee mill, men's wrist watch, Pyrex hot/cold tote, luggage, a screw gun, potpourri, Martha Stewart sheets, a paper shredder, and a first aid kit.

The list of auction items continues with two outdoor wall sconces, two Xenon cabinet light kits, a 12- pack of VHS tapes, Bakers Dozen yard service, a handmade Canadian Harbor Bell, two custom-made children's stools, a hand-knit baby blanket-sweater set, hand-painted Ukrainian egg and egg painting class for 10, pies and cakes, a 10-person booze cruise with drinks and hors d'oeuvres by The Far Bar, a custom-made silver bracelet, china, Danbury Mint Roger Troy Peterson vase, Dobro steel guitar, Wittnauer Swiss watch, Magnum Ferrari Carano 2001 merlot wine (one of only 75 produced), wine posters, five yards of premium, dark brown mulch and five yards of organic compost (Jordan Construction), 14 yards of screened loam (30-mile radius from E.M. Wood), 4' x 6' area rug (Jim's Carpet), 100 pounds of lobster (10 lots of l0 lbs. each), a seafood patterned serving utensil, a hand-knit sweater, a 28-quart Coleman cooler, books, original artwork prints, a custom-made bird house, a custom-made mirror, a'vintage 1960'100-piece'flatware service for eight of bronze and rosewood,'a marine spotlight (Ocean Point Marina), one residential appraisal in Lincoln County (Farview Appraisal).

A wide variety of gift certificates for lodging: at Five Gables Inn, Tugboat Inn and Lake Pemaquid Campground. Gift certificates to local restaurants: 93 Townsend, The Lobster Dock, China By the Sea, Fisherman's Wharf and Boothbay Harbor Inn. Gift certificates to the House of Logan, A Silver Lining, Paine's Clothing Store, Poole Brothers Lumber Company, two half-hour massages with Lynn Orne, and a two-month Curves membership.

"Previously Loved" items include a Dobro steel guitar, exercise bike, TV, cassette tape deck, VCR, telescopes, blessing flute, microwave, wood rack, dehydrator, juicers, Salamander CD holders, two bicycles, women's K2 skins, fishing gear and a massager.

Watch for further additions and other last minute info in next week's edition of the Boothbay Register. But, for now, go to your calendars and write "Jam for Jerie" in the April 22 block.