DEAR SUN SPOTS: Is there anyone in the near area that sells local honey? Thank you. You’re doing a great job. — Dorothy, Lewiston

ANSWER: Sun Spots found several sources of Maine honey online. Here are a few: www.overlandhoney.com (Portland, 772-3380), www.mainehoney.net (Pittston, msplaisted@prodigy.net), www.rlberryfarm.com (Readfield, 685-4709, 877-647-3419), www.mainehoneycrisp.com (Boothby’s Orchard, Livermore, 754-3500), as well as the Made in Maine stores. Readers will also undoubtedly have suggestions.

DEAR SUN SPOTS: Catholic Financial Life, formerly Union Saint-Jean-Baptiste Chapter Sainte Croix No. 413, would like to invite Prince of Peace parishioners and area residents to join them in their annual family bottle drive to benefit Father Marc Boisvert’s Hope Village in Haiti.

Free The Kids (www.freethekids.org) is a nonprofit organization founded by Father Marc, a former U.S. Navy chaplain who has dedicated his life to Haitian orphans. Since the 2010 earthquake, Project Hope (Pwoje Espwa) is now taking care of more than 600 orphans, providing shelter, medical care, education and a soup kitchen.

This year donations are down by 40 percent due to other crises throughout the world. To find out more about Father Marc’s orphanage, visit his blog at: pwojeespwa.blogspot.com.

With the help of area donors, our chapter is hoping to raise enough money to qualify for $1,000 in matching funds from Catholic Financial Life. Last year, our joint efforts brought in $5,650.

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We are asking for your help. Please save your bottles between May 1-31, redeem your bottles and send us a check by June 10. Cash donations will also be very much appreciated if you do not wish to save bottles.

Please make checks payable to Catholic Financial Life Chapter 413 and send them c/o me at 237 Pleasant St., Lewiston, ME 04240. You can make a difference in the lives of these poor orphans. — Jean Gastonguay, president

DEAR SUN SPOTS: For the person who was looking for coal furnaces (April 27), there is another option: Kerry Thomas of Central Maine Coal and Stoves, 38 Howes Corner Road, North Turner, ME 04266, 754-2483. — No Name, No Town

DEAR SUN SPOTS: In reference to the April 27 letter from the person hunting for a coal burning furnace, maybe they should try propane gas. We heated our house this year with propane and found it to be about half or even a quarter of what we paid the year before. — No Name via email

DEAR SUN SPOTS: We are trying to locate our fellow Hornets from the Leavitt Area High School Class of 1991. We are still missing the following folks: Ray LaMontagne, Michelle Gagne, Mark Dustin, Joan Draper, Amy Harkins, Tom Hallowell, Vicky Thibodeau, Casten Von Otter, Wanda Clark, Brian Arsenault, Joe Bouchard/April Morin, Sonja Morrissette Bowie, Becky Nickerson, and Alan Ramey. Please contact Jill Sharples Martlock at boozshalou@yahoo.com or Sarah Tessier-Roy at 224-8458 or join our discussion page at LAHS91CR@groups.facebook.com.We look forward to hearing from you! — Sarah Tessier-Roy, honeybubbles21@hotmail.com

DEAR SUN SPOTS: I want to thank the readers for their generosity to Turner Elementary School for sending me their Box Tops for Education. We met our goal and collected $1,512 in Box Tops for our school! If you have any Box Tops that you would like to donate to our school, please mail them to me at 5 Brookfield Estate, Turner, ME 04282. — Laurie Labbe, Box Tops coordinator, laurie.labbe@willis.com

This column is for you, our readers. It is for your questions and comments. There are only two rules: You must write to the column and sign your name (we won’t use it if you ask us not to). Please include your phone number. Letters will not be returned or answered by mail, and telephone calls will not be accepted. Your letters will appear as quickly as space allows. Address them to Sun Spots, P.O. Box 4400, Lewiston, ME 04243-4400. Inquiries can also be e-mailed to sunspots@sunjournal.com.

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