Dear Sun Spots: Sept. 8 through Oct. 8 is Maine Literacy Month. During this time, the 14 Literacy Volunteers affiliates across the state are working hard to bring in the volunteers needed to help illiterate adults and families in their communities. The theme for this year’s effort is Teach, Mentor, Care.
The good news is that adults who need us are asking for help. The bad news is that some are waiting six months or more for a tutor because we are in dire need of volunteers.
Won’t you please help?
Literacy Volunteers-Androscoggin has a large waiting list of individuals and families who need help with reading, writing, basic math and English conversation. If you are 21 years old or older, have a 12th grade reading level, flexibility, patience, and creativity, you can be an effective tutor. Volunteers are needed in all five of our program areas, including basic literacy, prison literacy, family literacy, English conversation, and English for speakers of other languages. Our next 12-hour tutor training workshop will be offered from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Oct. 15 and 22. If these dates don’t work for you, we train four times a year and can schedule you for another workshop. For more information please call 754-1772. – Tahlia Hope, Auburn.
Dear Sun Spots: St. Dominic’s class of 1990 is planning its 15th high school class reunion. We are still looking to locate some graduates. If you have not yet contacted us, please do so. Please make payment to Jennifer Gendron, Class of 1990 Reunion, 55 Sprague Mill Road, Greene, ME 04236, or via phone at (207) 946-3700.
The reunion date is from 4 to 8 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 24, at the Midnight Blues Club, downstairs in the Cellar Door, corner of Main and Court Streets in Auburn. Parking available in the garage. Light appetizers followed by a hot supper buffet, including beef, chicken and fish selections, will be served. Cash bar will be available. Tickets are $25 per person, and we need RSVPs by Monday, Sept. 12. – Jen Gendron, Greene.
Dear Sun Spots: Any Oxford High School graduate, spouse, or anyone who attended OHS who wishes to attend the OHS reunion Sept. 24 should please get in touch with Verna Meserve. Money needs to be in to me by Sept. 10. The cost is $20 each. We still have a number of folks whose addresses we did not find. Please contact us if you are interested in attending. I can be reached at P.O. Box 46, Oxford, ME 04270, (207) 539-8413. – Verna Meserve, Oxford.
Dear Sun Spots: I would greatly appreciate any help that that can be offered from Sun Spots readers. My garden is not offering any Sweet Annie this year so I am hoping a reader may have an overabundance of it, enough to share, swap or sell. Thank you. – Bethany D., Roxbury.
Dear Sun Spots: I am the queen of the Thursday morning Red Hatters of Norway. We are interested in your luncheon. I can be reached via e-mail at knowlton@megalink.net. – Kathy Parsons, No Town.
Dear Sun Spots: One of the 1942 Class of Edward little High School graduates had the initials O.L.C. Is there a classmate, or other, out there who can please help me locate her and/or her brother (whose initials were F.J.C. and graduated a year or two later?
She was a special girl and to renew the friendship would be a real treat for me. – E.W.D., No Town.
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