Dear Sun Spots Readers: Please join us for our 37th annual Great TV Auction, a televised shopping extravaganza supporting the noncommercial television and radio stations of Maine Public Broadcasting Network. We need you, your friends and your neighbors (now through March 2008) to help solicit and/or retrieve items from businesses in your community.

Can you help?

We need volunteers in: Aroostook, Cumberland, Hancock, Lincoln, Oxford, Piscataquis, Penobscot and York counties. Volunteers should be able to work, during the day, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. when businesses are typically open. However, if a volunteer finds that another time/day worked better for the business, that is fine. As long as the items are found and collected, it is a huge help.

Please contact MPBN’s Volunteer Coordinator, Denis Howard, via e-mail at [email protected] or by phone at 800-884-1717, ext. 3099.

We are looking forward to hearing from lots of you and having a fun and productive auction. Come help us with our largest fundraiser of the year. – Denis Howard, Volunteer Coordinator, MPBN., Bangor.

Dear Sun Spots: I was wondering if you could please give me the words to Miranda Lambert’s “Everyone Gets Famous In A Small Town”? Thanks a lot. – No Name, No Town.

Answer: Sun Spots located the following lyrics online at Lambert’s Web site, www.mirandalambert.com:

Famous In A Small Town by Miranda Lambert / Travis Howard



They say life is so much sweeter

Through the telephoto lens of fame

Around here you get just as much attention

Cheerin’ at the high school football game

I dreamed of going to Nashville

Put my money down and placed my bet

But I just got the first buck of the season

I made the front page of the Turnertown Gazzette

Every last one route one rural heart’s got a story to tell

Every grandma in-law ex-girlfriend

Maybe knows it just a little too well

Whether you’re late for church or you’re stuck in jail

Hey, word’s gonna get around

Everybody dies famous in a small town

Tyler and Casey broke up

It ended pretty quietly

We heard he was caught red-handed with her mama

So that’s just what they let us all believe

Every last one route one rural heart’s got a story to tell

Every grandma in-law ex-girlfriend

Maybe knows it just a little too well

Whether you’re late for church or you’re stuck in jail

Hey, word’s gonna get around

Everybody dies famous in a small town

Well baby who need’s their faces in a magazine

Me and you, we’ve been stars of this town since we were seventeen

Let’s go on down to the quick stop

Wear your yellow shades and I’ll put on my tight jeans

And we’ll just spend the weekend burnin’ rubber

And we’ll let ’em point and stare in disbelief

Every last one route one rural heart’s got a story to tell

Every grandma in-law ex-girlfriend

Maybe knows it just a little too well

Whether you’re late for church or you’re stuck in jail

Hey, word’s gonna get around

Everybody dies famous in a small town

Everybody dies famous in a small town

Dear Sun Spots: The reader seeking a couch, might please contact me, Ron Ouellette at 782-6926. I have a 2-year-old green couch and a rocker recliner to offer. – Ron Ouellette, No Town.

• The Gold Star Wives of America, Dirigo Chapter item in Wednesday’s Column, should have stated that members of the national organization are the widows of those killed in action or deceased service-connected veterans. Sun Spots apologizes for any confusion. She would also like to remind any widows out there to consider checking into the organization, especially while the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall replica is in town at the Veterans Memorial Park. You may be entitled to benefits. FMI contact Jena Wilde at 634-3621.

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