DEAR SUN SPOTS: If you love numbers and helping people and enjoy learning as well as challenges, please consider volunteering as a Medicare advocate. Our trained volunteers provide invaluable information and guidance for enrollees and those needing assistance for enrolling in Medicare. Join our team of volunteers! A training program is scheduled in July. Please […]

DEAR SUN SPOTS: Members of the First Congregational-Christian Church of New Gloucester are preparing for a yearlong celebration of our 250th anniversary in 2015, and we need your help. Do you have photos of weddings, graduations or other events held at the church from years past that you would be willing to share? Please email […]

DEAR SUN SPOTS: With good intentions I bought 100 percent natural forest product black mulch to put under my future squash vines. Could you please check if the black colorant would be undesirable in the vegetable garden? Thanking you in advance for your assistance. — No Name, Turner ANSWER: Sun Spots doesn’t think the fact […]

DEAR SUN SPOTS: Our Molloyockett Chorus (Sweet Adelines) is putting on a  show this summer called “Big Hair.” We are looking for wigs that anyone would donate or loan to us for our production. We are thinking along the lines of hairstyles from the 1950s or ’60s or ones that could be styled to look […]

DEAR SUN SPOTS: We are looking for volunteers for the newly created Emerge Film Festival. There are lots of opportunities to help make this a great experience for our film-watching guests. The event begins Friday, June 13, with a beer and horror night complete with a reception at Baxter Brewing Co. and movies at the […]

DEAR SUN SPOTS: Friends of Tommy’s Feral Felines are always so generous to our kitty friends, and another chance to help them is coming up. Please start setting aside your recyclable cans and bottles for an upcoming bottle drive to benefit Tommy’s and all of the feral cats for which it cares. The bottle drive […]

DEAR SUN SPOTS: Thank you for your column. I would like to know if you have a list of people who would do housework for others. I am 81 years old and need someone to wash my floors and dust. Could you please give me an answer? I’m desperate. — No Name, Lewiston ANSWER: It has been […]

DEAR SUN SPOTS: The Mechanic Falls Public Library Trustees are holding their annual book sale from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. June 7. It will be held in the Municipal Gym at the Town Office in Mechanic Falls. We are asking for donations. If anyone is cleaning out their bookshelves and would like to donate, […]

DEAR SUN SPOTS: Thanks for a great column. Keep up the good work. I have a couple of questions: What is the significance of the phrase “birds on a wire”? Is there an antidote for caffeine? For example, if you drink coffee late in the day, can you eat or drink anything to counteract the […]

DEAR SUN SPOTS: The Franco-American Collection at USM’s Lewiston-Auburn College is interested in collecting the stories of anyone with a connection to the two Catholic orphanages in Lewiston — the Healey Asylum or St Joseph’s Orphanage (better known as the Marcotte Home). We’re particularly interested in hearing from people who would be willing to conduct […]