DEAR SUN SPOTS: Hope Association, a nonprofit agency that serves the intellectually disabled, is looking for anyone willing to donate three 6-foot-diameter folding round tables and any small fish tanks to use as terrariums by our Briar Patch Greenhouse.

Please call me at 364-4561 or email [email protected]. Thank you, Sun Spots, for your service; you have always been very helpful. — Andy Beauchesne, Rumford

DEAR SUN SPOTS: Countryfolk Music & Minerals not-for-profit museum project in East Dixfield awards youth music scholarships annually and now seeks old country music posters;, 45, 78 and 33 1/3 records, especially by Maine musicians; or band photographs of country-western musicians, old microphones, an old Victrola and jukebox, instruments (loaners to youth musicians), as well as old rock collections, mining tools, glass display cases, family video and photos of prospecting or specimens from Maine mines.

We also need materials: two 36-inch steel doors, fire door breaker bar hardware, a 48-inch window door, insulation and half-inch plywood. Please call me at 744-9212 or email [email protected] — Larry Bisbee, East Dixfield

DEAR SUN SPOTS: My son is currently deployed. We are looking to send them baseball gloves so on their off time they can play a little baseball. We are also conducting a bottle drive so we can send much-needed items to our troops.

You can drop your bottles off at Roopers and donate them to Harvest for the Troops. If you are interested in donating any other items to our troops, you can contact me. Anything will help them. Thank you in advance. — Kris Bear, [email protected]

DEAR SUN SPOTS: I am a volunteer at Togus VA Medical Center in Augusta, which needs volunteers for the following assignments:

* Drivers for volunteer transportation network (Augusta, Rumford)

* Parking lot shuttle driver, Friday and on-call

* Escort volunteers, Monday and Wednesday

* Hospice receptionist

* Sterile processing service (cleaning)

* MRI clerical, any two days

* Warehouse delivery, Tuesday/Thursday

* Radiology clerical/receptionist, any days 8 a.m. to 1 p.m.

* Mental health clinic courtesy reminder calls, any two days

* Air rifle program setup/tear down, first and third Wednesday 9 a.m. to noon

There are certain requirements involved with applying to become a volunteer at Togus, including getting a criminal background check, getting fingerprinted, completing an orientation session and getting tested for tuberculosis. The costs associated with these requirements are paid by Togus VAMC.

If you are interested in becoming a Togus volunteer, or, if you are already a Togus volunteer but have not volunteered in a while, please contact Mysti Grass at Togus VAMC, 621-4886 or by email a: [email protected]. I hope you can help. — Phyllis Rand, voluntary services representative, Togus VAMC, [email protected]

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