At 3 p.m. Friday, Dec. 4, we need volunteers at St. Dom’s to unload the truck and set tables up in various locations. During the event on Saturday, we need volunteers to do crafts with the children from 9-11:30 a.m. and again from 11:30 a.m.-2 p.m.
If you’re unable to volunteer that day, consider baking a cake instead for the cake walk. Bake two cakes from one cake mix, decorate and bring them in on a disposable plate or stop by your favorite bakery and pick up some 6-inch or 8-inch cakes.
The more cakes they have, the more winners there are in this musical chairs-type event. Ask your family and friends to help us out. The cake walk is an important part of the festival, and all assistance is greatly appreciated.
If you are willing and able to volunteer your time or bake and/or purchase cakes, please email DBeckwith@Electricityme.com. Cakes can be dropped off at St. Dom’s anytime after 8 a.m. on the day of the event.
DEAR SUN SPOTS: Residents at Montello Manor lost their male cockatiel and the female is lonely. We are looking for a donation of a male cockatiel. Contact Donna at 207-783-2039.
DEAR SUN SPOTS: Thank you for all you do.What would we do without you? Sun Spots is the first thing I read in the newspaper. I have two questions not related. First, can you tell me who the person is at Leavitt High School who collects prom gowns? Second, I am looking for an organization or school that is selling the discounted movie booklets for Flagship Cinema. Thank you for any help you can give.
ANSWER: Sun Spots talked to staff at Leavitt Area High School and learned that the person at Leavitt who collected prom gowns no longer does that. However, Sun Spots knows that the Woman’s Literary Union at 19 Elm St., Auburn, collects prom gowns starting in January. Then they give them away for free to any high school girl who attends their prom gown giveaway event in April. You can call 207-753-0931 or email denisescammon@gmail.com for more information.
Sun Spots has published queries about the discounted movie tickets sold by nonprofits or school students and no one has replied. Maybe this time someone will send in contact information.
DEAR SUN SPOTS: You are so helpful in finding information on so many things. There was a place on Riverside Drive in Auburn in the early 1960s, before you passed Bell Farms going toward Freeport. The house on the right is still there. Across the street is now a gravel pit.
In that same spot in the ’60s there was a mini horse corral where you could go and ride around the corral. I went there a few times when I was a child. It seemed like a nice place to hang out after hours. What was the name of it? When did it go out of business? — C.G. in Lewiston.
ANSWER: Sun Spots did not find a specific answer. Perhaps the corral was at the location of the Vickery Farm, but that building, built in about 1879, is still standing. There was a Vickery gravel pit on the same road. Sun Spots hopes someone reading this knows the answer and writes in.
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