Dear Sun Spots: Sexual assault survivors and childhood sexual abuse survivors, let your voices be heard! The Sexual Assault Crisis Center is seeking submissions for its fall newsletter.

Please submit short essays and stories, poetry, black and white photographs and any other original works for inclusion in this publication. Submissions from supporters and allies of survivors are also welcome.

Submissions must be received by Sept. 28 and must include the name and contact information for the author/creator.

This publication is a forum for the voices of survivors of sexual assault and abuse to share their feelings, thoughts, memories and insights. Our next edition will be published in October. We reserve the right to edit submissions as deemed necessary for space and content reasons.

While acknowledging possible confidentiality and safety concerns, every effort will be made to contact authors/creators whose work is edited. Please include information regarding the safest way to leave a message should we need to contact you with editing concerns. Submissions without name and contact information cannot be considered. However, you may specify that you wish to identify yourself with first name or initials in the publication.

Please send your submissions to the Sexual Assault Crisis Center, PO Box 6, Auburn, ME 04212 or via e-mail, where appropriate, to [email protected]. Please remember to include your contact information.

To find out more information about this newsletter, please call Sarah at SACC at 784-5272, ext. 104. – Sarah, Lewiston.

Dear Sun Spots: Our Lady of the Rosary is seeking crafters for our annual holiday fair. It will be held Friday, Nov. 30, and Saturday, Dec. 1, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Please call Connie at 375-6951 during 9 a.m. and noon, Monday to Thursday to reserve your table or for more information. The fair will be held at the Maxwell-Gill Hall at the church on High Street in Sabattus. – Connie Chasse, Sabattus.

Dear Sun Spots: I am interested in taking a day fall foliage trip by train in Maine or New Hampshire. Do you know of any trips that are currently scheduled for the upcoming foliage season? Thank you. – Leaf Peeper, Oxford.

Answer: Sun Spots has located several that might be of interest to yourself and other leaf peepers.

Belfast & Moosehead Lake Company, fall foliage train excursions Thursday through Sunday, Sept. 27 to 30, Thursday through Monday, Oct. 4 to 8, and Saturday and Sunday, Oct. 13 and 14. It is a two-hour trip. Phone 948-5500 or e-mail [email protected], www.unitytrainmuseum.org.

Boothbay Railway Village will have steam train rides during its 34th annual fall foliage festival taking place Oct. 6 and 7 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Rain date is Oct. 8. FMI phone 633-4727 or contact the Boothbay Region Information Center at 633-4743.

Conway Scenic Railroad also has trips listed. However, while not identified as foliage train trips, train riders are bound to see the foliage in the Washington Valley area.

Contact Conway Scenic Railroad, Route 16, North Conway, NH 03860, 1-800-232-5251 or 603-356-5251. You may also reach them via e-mail at [email protected] or online at www.conwayscenic.com. According to foliagetrains.com, there are several trips scheduled. Some depart from Lincoln, Meredith or Weirs Beach N.H., as well as foliage scenic dinner trains and all-day foliage train trips. Phone 603-745-2135 FMI, or check the Web site at www.foliagetrains.com where you’ll find a variety of choices. You might also check out www.traintraveling.com, which lists fall foliage train trips in Canada, the Midwest and other areas of the United States.

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