DEAR SUN SPOTS: You are, indeed, a sunny spot in our day! Thank you for all you do.

There was an article in the Sun Journal at the beginning of the school year about a high school or middle school in the Jay-Livermore area. Their principal developed a code of conduct for the students, which included guidelines with specific requirements for dressing appropriately in the school workplace. (School is work, isn’t it?)

Can you find out whether the students embraced these guidelines and whether there is any data showing how the guidelines affected the school atmosphere and student performance? If there is a correlation between how students conduct themselves in school and student performance, it would be helpful for other school administrators to know. — Lida Iles, Bethel, biles@megalink.net

ANSWER: To find your answer, Sun Spots emailed Sun Journal reporter Donna Perry, who said she was planning on updating this story. She did so in today’s paper. You can read her story in some editions of today’s local sections or online at sunjournal.com/dresscode.

In brief, apparently the school dress code was not being followed or enforced as some might have wished. Principal Gilbert Eaton drafted a more detailed version of the code and put it in the student handbook for both the Jay school and the south campus high school in Livermore Falls. 

Shauna Gordon, a junior at Spruce Mountain High School North Campus in Jay, wrote a story about the school’s dress code in the student newspaper, Phoenix Prophecies, last fall.

In a recent interview with Donna, Shauna said she believes the dress code is simple to follow and thinks students are getting into less trouble over how they dress since the rules were clearly outlined and promoted, but some students still object to the dress code.

DEAR SUN SPOTS: I hope you can help me. I received a mahjong game for Christmas and do not know how to play. It has directions, but they are not explicit.

I live at an assisted living home and am wondering if a reader might be interested teaching me and two other ladies how to play. We think we would enjoy it afternoons this winter. Two of us are wheelchair-bound. I’m hoping that someone out there might be interested. — carolhiggins@myfairpoint.net, 786-5740

ANSWER: In addition to any offers for help you might get from readers, Sun Spots found a brief description of the rules at http://tinyurl.com/232fyjw and a more thorough one at http://tinyurl.com/hechz. You can order a card with the rules for $7 or $8 (large print) at www.nationalmahjonggleague.org. You also can buy a book on the game at Amazon.com.

DEAR SUN SPOTS: A discussion has come up about Ashley Judd being on a commercial around five years ago about FRANK 107.5 FM radio. Could you find out if she has ever been on this commercial and if it wasn’t her, can you tell me who it was? — No Name via email

ANSWER: Sun Spots spoke to Bob at Frank. He said that Ashley Judd did not do a commercial for them and couldn’t recall any commercial that might fit. Without more details, Sun Spots doesn’t have a way to find the commercial you are looking for.

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