The Haiti Dinner, to be held at St Patrick’s Church in Damariscotta Mills on February 7 at 6 p.m., will be prepared by the chef/owner of King Eider’s Pub and Stone Cove Catering, Todd Maurer and his Caribbean kitchen crew, Omar Simpson and Michael Rose from Jamaica. Maine Health executive chef Tom Schwartz will join the King Eider’s team in the kitchen to prepare a Caribbean flavored banquet.

“All of us at King Eider’s are happy to lend our support to this worthy cause, and with our years of experience working with trained chefs from Jamaica, we are uniquely qualified to add an authentic flavor to this year’s dinner,” Maurer said.

Maurer said the menu will be centered on a Caribbean chicken stew accompanied by rice and beans and include salad with a mango salsa dressing and chocolate mousse.

Committee members have announced that the benefit dinner will also feature Singing Rooster coffee, a fair trade mountain grown coffee from Haiti and a Haitian fruit punch. The punch will come in two varieties, one non-alcoholic and the other flavored with Haiti’s famous Barbancourt rum, still distilled in the traditional way directly from sugar cane juices rather than molasses and widely considered one of the best rums in the world.

The dinner, which is the fifth annual fundraising event of the Lincoln County Ecumenical Committee for Haiti, will also feature Haitian art, handicrafts and music. A unique traditional sequined art flag by renown Haitian artist Reynold Clerisier will be raffled and a limited number of art bowls by Damariscotta potter Alan Baldwin will be available for purchase. A “just for fun” trivia quiz on Haiti will cap the evening.

The Lincoln County Ecumenical Committee for Haiti is comprised, among others, of members of the following Lincoln County churches: St. Patrick’s, St. Andrew’s, St. Giles, First Congregational of Wiscasset, Bristol Congregational and the Midcoast Friends Meeting.

Dinner tickets are $25 for adults and $15 for children and are available at the aforementioned churches and the Maine Coast Bookshop and Skidompha library in Damariscotta. All proceeds of the dinner will go directly to ongoing projects to benefit the most needy in the northwest Haitian town of Gros Morne. This year it is planned to devote a portion of the proceeds to initiate a pilot project in Gros Morne of microcredit for women.

For more information on the dinner, please contact dinner co-chair Dean Curran, 207-380-5103 or Stephen Dixon, 207-380-197