DEAR SUN SPOTS: First, I want to thank you for the answer to my request about the magnetic gloves to ease arthritic pain. I knew if anybody could find out, you could. Now I have another request. Some time ago you listed some people who pick up leftover garage sale items. Could you please print them again? Thanking you, No Name in Lewiston.

ANSWER: We list nonprofits that accept garage sale leftovers, not individuals. The Hospice House is hosting a yard sale this summer at 217 Turner St. in Auburn. Email rem12@roadrunner.com for more information. The Waterford Grange will gladly accept treasures from your attic or garage for their flea market which they hold each Friday and Saturday throughout the summer. Call Mary DeLorenzo at 207-583-4490 for more information. Perhaps other nonprofits will write in and let us know if they will pick up leftover garage sale items.

DEAR SUN SPOTS: In the April 23 edition of Sunspots is a letter from SHAREcenter looking for some of the materials Mary inquired about. They are located just past Mac’s Grill on Minot Ave. (Industry Ave.). I have taken articles there and they accept so many things you may not even think are usable. Love your column. — No Name via email.

ANSWER: Thank you for finding that information. Here is a condensed version of what was published: SHAREcenter in Auburn is a nonprofit organization that takes materials which would be thrown away and provides them to our members to use in their programs and classrooms.

We are in need of clean baby food jars, small plastic containers with lids (example: yogurt, margarine) or other containers, sewing supplies, paper towel tubes, wallpaper books, yarn, office supplies, buttons, craft items, wood pieces, and pencils, to name just a few items. For more information, call 207-333-6671 or email sharecenter@auburnschl.edu.

DEAR SUN SPOTS: Can you find out the details of the raising of the real estate homestead exemption from $10,000 to $20,000 that I heard was included in the new state budget? Thank you very much. — Bill Pollard in South Paris.

ANSWER: Sun Journal reporter Scott Thistle recently wrote about this issue in an article published June 29. He wrote: Democrats, who control the House of Representatives by 10 votes, have been sticking to their position that any income tax breaks be focused on the middle class. They have also insisted that the state’s homestead exemption, a property tax relief program, be increased and kept in place for all homeowners.

Under the current program, the first $10,000 of a primary home’s taxable value can be exempted from property taxes. LePage wants to double the amount of the exemption from $10,000 to $20,000 but wants to limit eligibility to households with at least one resident who was 65 years old or older. The Democratic proposal increases the exemption to $20,000 but allows it for all households currently eligible for the exemption.

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