ANSWER: You can write to USAOPOLY Customer Service, 5607 Palmer Way, Carlsbad, CA 92010; call 1-888-876-7659; or email customersupport@usaopoly.com and ask for the instructions for playing the Beatles Scrabble game. The instruction booklet is available for viewing and printing online, too. This link brings you directly to the download: usaopoly.com/download/file/fid/3833

SUN SPOTS: Do you have anyone in your resources who can stretch rugs? Unfortunately, the gentleman who installed two bedroom rugs does not return my calls. Thank you for your help. Call 207-344-3069 and leave a message. — No Name in Lewiston.

RESPONSE: Is the carpet wrinkled or loose? Most carpet installers that you find in the Sun Journal advertisements install carpet and stretch carpet. Try calling Sherm Arnold’s Flooring at 207-782-0831 or visit http://www.shermarnolds.com/; or Royal Flooring at 784-6964 or visit http://www.royalflooring.com/.

DEAR SUN SPOTS: Thank you for all your good work. Soon it will be lawn mowing time again. We are looking to hire someone to do our mowing. There is quite a large area which has to be mowed every four to five days, weather permitting. We have a new Toro zero-turn mower. We live in the Greene area. If anyone is interested, please call us at 207-946-4961.

Also, can you tell us if there is a shoe repair person in the Lewiston-Auburn area? Thank you for your help. — No Name in Greene.

ANSWER: If you read the Sun Journal advertisements, there are quite a few businesses that offer lawn mowing services.  These include Benner & Son at 207-782-4920; High Maintenance Landscaping at 207-754-4926; Lawn Guard at 207-783-2970; A Cut Above Lawn Care at 207-370-5296; and Carrier Lawn and Landscape at 207-577-8256.

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The Sun Journal’s Special Sections department published this article on lawn mowing and cropping versus chopping the grass: https://www.sunjournal.com/news/2014-landscape-garden/2014/04/11/lawn-mowing-crop-not-chop/1507514

Sun Spots is often asked about shoe repair services in the Lewiston-Auburn area and recently published this information on April 11. Try Alterations by Judy and Industrial Stitching & Leather Repair at 207-783-6201 or Beyond Shoe Repair at 207-783-5403.

DEAR SUN SPOTS: I know you have printed this in the past, but I am now in need of someone who does house cleaning and do not have your article that named them. I would appreciate your help in listing it again. Thank you. — C.S. via online form.

ANSWER: There are many businesses that offer house cleaning services. Here are a few of them in the Lewiston-Auburn area:

* Susie Crossley, Lewiston, 207-783-7785

* Sun Bright Cleaning Service, Auburn, 207-784-6193

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* Service Master Co., Lewiston, 207-783-0310

* Chrissy’s Down Home Cleaning, Lewiston, 207-754-4266

* SERVPRO of Lewiston-Auburn, 888-638-0881

DEAR SUN SPOTS: Thank you for the many questions you answer. I am trying to find out if the police officer who was shot in the face in Boston on March 27 is still alive. Thank you. — No Name, No Town.

ANSWER: When Sun Spots researched your question on April 15, the police officer was alive and had been released from the hospital.

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