Dark comedy helps fight frightening disease

In the six years Beach Bash to End Alzheimer’s Committee has been holding fundraisers, more than $107,000 has been donated to the Alzheimer’s Association. Previously, the event was a beach party held at Big Ed’s Firehouse.This year, with the restaurant sunsetting, the group tried a different tack by offering a darkly comic whodunit, “Death of a Hot Sauce Salesman,” hosted Saturday at the banquet hall at the new Hugeback-Johnson Funeral Home.It was tough to guess who murdered the hot sauce salesman, as every character in the Cresco Community Theatre production had a motive, right down to his youthful fiancee who couldn’t remember his name.— For more on this story, see the Oct. 16 New Hampton Tribune.