DEAR SUN SPOTS: First, does the Lyons Club still collect old prescription glasses? The place I used to drop them off at no longer collects them, and they did not know who might. Second, back around 2002 or 2003, my daughter and her friends were part of a group who were helping to build a […]

DEAR SUN SPOTS: My friends and I hope you can answer a question for us. On automobiles do things in the passenger-side mirror have to look farther away? Also, maybe your readers might have the directions for playing the games of Flinch and Snitchboard. Thank you for any help you can provide. — N.S. Landy, […]

DEAR SUN SPOTS: Is there anyone in the Central Maine area that sells Shepardy potatoes (don’t know if that is spelled correctly)? Thank you for your great service and to all your readers. — Diane Freve, [email protected] ANSWER: According to several online sources, a Shepody (you were close on the spelling) is a long, white, […]

DEAR SUN SPOTS: Tommy’s Feral Feline Friends will hold its annual Christmas bake sale from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, Dec. 20 and 21, at Sports Trader, 707 Main St. in Lewiston next to Cumberland Farms and across from Burger King. Due to a lack of an available indoor venue, the event […]

DEAR SUN SPOTS: You are so helpful. Now I hope that I can help you help G.G. from Lisbon Falls whose letter about her pellet stove was in the Nov. 18 column. If she qualifies for Li-Heap fuel assistance for low-income people and has applied for that assistance, it’s possible that the Community Action, which […]

DEAR SUN SPOTS: Central Maine Adaptive Sports is looking for volunteers for this winter season who are willing to donate one to two hours a week to teach those with intellectual disabilities how to alpine or cross-country ski or snowboard. I teach 20 to 25 students myself, but I am currently healing from a broken […]

DEAR SUN SPOTS: The High Street Food Pantry is sponsoring a Warm Hands for Kids project and is seeking donations of mittens — knit and fleece — for kids ages 5 to 15. We hope to distribute at least 500 pairs of mittens to our clients during the month of January. Mittens may be dropped […]

DEAR SUN SPOTS: You are so helpful in everything. I am wondering about a chocolate-chip cookie from Mrs. Fields. They came in a red box shaped like the top of a house and were individually wrapped. I can’t find them anywhere. Shaw’s, Hannaford, Walmart, nobody sells them. Do you have any information about what happened to […]

DEAR SUN SPOTS: Once again Lewiston High School’s Store Next Door Project is reaching out to its community for support for the coming season. We assist all students at LHS in getting new (or slightly loved but clean and in great shape) winter coats, boots, hats and mittens. Last year we shared more than 400 […]

DEAR SUN SPOTS: Recently I saw a woman I am acquainted with who had been working as a chambermaid at a local motel. She has a different job. I am very concerned about what she told me about her former employer. As soon as guests checked out, he would go to their room and pocket […]