DEAR SUN SPOTS: We have fond memories of the Father’s Day barbecue at St. Phillip’s Church in Auburn and their amazing chicken. Our children always refer to how great that chicken was!

Do any of your readers have the recipe for the sauce they would use to mop the chicken? We have tried several times to duplicate it for our family events but can’t seem to get it right. — Bert Breton, [email protected]

ANSWER: Sun Spots suspects that recipe will soon hit your “in” box. She hopes that readers will also send it to her to share with other readers.

DEAR SUN SPOTS: A reader complimented a sandwich shop for serving bagels and lox with cream cheese and capers (Gripes and Gushes, B Section, July 15). It was not identified. Which sandwich shop is this? — No Name via email

ANSWER: Sun Spots asked the editor of the b Section, and he said that the Gusher did not identify the shop. Perhaps he or she will see your query or another reader will have an idea from where those bagels and lox hail.

DEAR SUN SPOTS: Would you ask your readers if anyone remembers the name of the hot dog stand at the causeway in East Auburn on Turner Street by Lake Auburn that was owned by Don Cooper and Paul Damond that they had in the summer of 1954 or 1955 or maybe 1956? I ran it for them one summer but can’t remember the name of it. It may have been called Little Willie’s Hot Dogs? — Jim Randall, [email protected]

DEAR SUN SPOTS: You have helped me in the past, and I am very thankful. I have a brass bottle opener with the inscription Cy Moss. I have owned it for 35 years. I would like any information that you can find on its origins. — D.H., Lewiston

ANSWER: Sun Spots did not turn up anything online. Did she read your handwriting correctly? Maybe the name is spelled differently. Or perhaps readers will have information.

DEAR SUN SPOTS: About 10 years ago I worked with a co-worker who had another job that involved him proofreading textbooks at his own pace at home and he was paid for it. I no longer know where this co-worker is, so I am wondering if Sun Spots or others might know who this company was and if they still pay people to do this. Thank you. — No Name via email

ANSWER: There is not enough information in your letter to be able to identify the company, but Sun Spots does textbook proofreading and editing, and the quantity of work has declined. Cost cutting by many publications and the move to online resources are contributing to the contraction of all kinds of publishing work.

It is also a difficult field to break into even if you have previous experience with a book publisher and topnotch spelling and grammar skills.

For example, to succeed you’d need to know things such as the fact that proofreading is one word and what a serial comma is: the comma used immediately before a coordinating conjunction (usually and or or, and sometimes nor) preceding the final item in a list of three or more items.

DEAR SUN SPOTS: For the lady who wants beads (July 6), I have some. — Roberta Cartnick, 783-0982

ANSWER: It was Anita at 782-5118, who wanted those beads for a volunteer class she’s teaching.

DEAR SUN SPOTS: On June 21 a reader was looking for a way to remove pine pitch from his car’s paint. Marcel Lemay, a well-known former local body shop owner and Lewiston Regional Vocational Technical Center teacher, taught me that an ice cube in the shade on a cool panel will harden pitch so that it can be easily picked off with a fingernail. He should try using ice to freeze the sap. Once frozen it lifts easily from the paint. Many professionals use this trick. — Bill, Auburn

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