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BBACC Connects
December 7, 2017
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Last Week's poll results: You said you are not available right now to be on our membership committee, please contact us if you are interested!
What holiday drink do you prefer?
Take the poll at the bottom of the newsletter.
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#ThinkLocalFirst Campaign
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The Bucksport Bay Area Chamber of Commerce is encouraging people to “Think Local First” by shopping at Home for the Holidays. Supporting independently owned businesses helps all of us in our community not just at the holidays but all year round.
As part of our month long celebration we are bringing back a contest where shoppers can win a prize!
$100 Cash provided by Main Street Bucksport, an additional $50 cash provided by Head of the Bay Business Alliance, a BookStacks “Still Mill” prize package, and Bangor Daily News has added a free year subscription to Bangor Metro Magazine.
We need your help to encourage customers to shop local and show them how they can win! Anytime someone shops with a small business in any of the communities the Bucksport Bay Area Chamber of Commerce represents for goods or services and “Thinks Local First” they can present their receipt to the Chamber and fill out a ballot to enter to win. Another way shoppers can qualify is if they take a selfie while shopping, “check-in” to the business and submit it to the Chamber's Facebook page using the hashtag #thinklocalfirst. The final way customers can enter is to sign the pledge to shop at home for the holidays, pledge boards are located at local businesses.
Watch for the shoppers' post on the Chamber’s Facebook page and thanks for helping your communities thrive! Entries will be accepted from Small Business Saturday through January 1, 2018!
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BHS Displays Art at The Lighthouse Arts Center
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December 8, 2017 The Bucksport High School Art Department will have paintings and drawings on display in the Observation Gallery of the Lighthouse Arts Center. Free to the community, come in and browse the wonderful artwork from our local students. The Lighthouse is open from 9-6PM on 12/8. The display will be up through Christmas.
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Customer Appreciation Days at PCT Communications
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It's
Customer Appreciation Days on
December 8 & 9 from 8am to 6pm at PCT Communications and just before Christmas!! Stop into any PCT Communications location- Bucksport, Ellsworth, Machias and Calais- and pick up your FREEBIES!!! And they'll have accessory deals so you can fill everyone's stocking this year!!
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2nd Friday Coffee Hour from Main Street
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Join Main Street Bucksport, downtown business owners, and employees to talk all things downtown this
Friday, December 8 at 8am
at The Local Variety. All are welcome. 2nd Friday Coffee Hour has no set agenda. It's simply a time to catch up, talk business, share ideas, and get to know your downtown neighbors. Show your support of The Local Variety and buy some coffee and a yummy pastry. See you there!
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Mrs. Claus Comes to BookStacks
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Saturday, December 9th
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Mrs. Santa
reading stories
from 1 to 1:30pm
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Pat Ranzoni
signing copies of
Still Mill
from 2pm to 3pm
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For more information call 469-8992
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Holiday Fun & Santa Coming to Orland
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Santa Claus is coming to Orland
Saturday,
December 9th, 2017 to the Orland Community Center. The Parade Starts at 9am starting at the Orland Fire Department & H.O.M.E. Co-op, heads down the road to the Community Center.
After the
tree lighting and
Christmas carols,
there will be
crafts and snacks for the kids.
Christmas Craft Fair from 9am to 2pm
Open House at Shutter Images 10am-3pm Pictures with Santa
Get your pictures on a Flash Drive for $20.00
21 Schoolhouse Road Orland, Maine at The Orland Community Center
For more information, call Dan 207-702-9285
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Parade of Lights and Santa in Bucksport
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The Town of Bucksport is bringing back the Lights Parade on
Saturday, December 9 at 5pm. (Route starts at the old mill down Main Street to the Town Office). This is a great new event - started last year, continuing and growing this year, the event will be a great success. Enjoy holiday themed and lighted floats participate in a parade along Main Street.
If interested in having a float, call the town office, 469.7368 or email Chris to register c
[email protected]
There are prizes for three best floats.
Santa Claus will be in the parade and head on down to the
Lighthouse Arts Center after. Also happening at the Lighthouse Arts Center throughout the day: Toys for Tots, collecting letters to Santa, making decorations with kids.
From 2pm to 8pm
Bucksport Heart & Soul invites the community to drop in to our Headquarters and view drafts of Bucksport Heart & Soul Community Statements. Please let us know if we got them right! Celebrate the completion of Phase 2 with cake and conversation!
The Local Variety will be open late with a Hot Chocolate Bar and FREE cookie decorating!
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'Carols in the Round' at Elm Street Congregational Church
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December 9th! following the Parade of Lights, the Mount View Chamber Singers will be performing their 'Carols in the Round' program at the Bucksport Elm Street Congregational Church and at 7pm. Parade and song ... what a wonderful way to spend an evening in Bucksport, Maine!
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Island Rise & Shine Open Saturday Evening
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Woo Woo! The Island Rise & Shine Restaurant is celebrating their 1 year anniversary this
Saturday, December 9!! They are not normally open on Saturday evenings but to celebrate they will be between 5pm and 8pm on 12/9. Planning on going to the Parade of Lights? Cross the bridge to Verona Island after to warm up. Lunch and Dinner menu items only, no breakfast on this day.
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Appointments with Santa in Orland
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This option has worked well for many families in previous years. It avoids the line/crowd and rushed atmosphere of the mall. It also gives the more timid kids a chance to warm up to Santa before pictures are taken. Once the photos are done, you can visit with Santa while Dan prepares your images and burns them to a disk. Total Price is $75 that includes a 1-hour appointment, sitting fee, the disk with the images and release form that allows you to print the pictures at your discretion.
Appt. Days Start @ 9:30am, remaining dates
12/10, 12/17 We will have some week days and evenings available. Make sure to call for an appointment: 207-702-9285
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Lularoe Boutique Jenn Saunders
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This Sunday,
December 10 from 10am to 1pm you can #ThinkLocalFirst by heading into BookStacks and shopping three local businesses at once!
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Senior Meals Calendar & Center Activities
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Mondays:
Aerobics 8-9am
Knitting and Crocheting 9:30-11am
Skip-Bo Cards 9:30-11am
"3-13" Cards 12:30-2pm
Poker & Hand and Foot Cards 5:30-9pm
Bridge Games - 6:30pm (not during the summer months)
Tuesdays:
Evening Bingo 5:45-8pm
Day Quilters - 1st Tuesday 9am to 3pm
Wednesdays:
Aerobics 8-9am
Skip-Bo Cards 9:30-11am
Scrabble 12:15-2pm
Thursdays:
Bridge 12:30-4pm
Poker & Scat/31 Cards 5:30-9pm
Fridays:
Aerobics 8-9am
Skip-Bo Cards 10-11am
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Playing at the Alamo Theatre...
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The Florida Project
In honor of Ginia Davis Wexler
December 8-10, 2017
Friday & Saturday at 6 & 8:15pm
Sunday at 2 & 6pm
111 minutes
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Set over one summer, the film follows precocious 6-year-old Moonee as she courts mischief and adventure with her ragtag playmates and bonds with her rebellious but caring mother, all while living in the shadows of Disney World.
Fri 8 Dec, 6:00 pm
Fri 8 Dec, 8:15 pm
Sat 9 Dec, 6:00 pm
Sat 9 Dec, 8:15 pm
Sun 10 Dec, 2:00 pm
Sun 10 Dec, 6:00 pm
General Admission $8
Students/Seniors $7
Members $5
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Buck Memorial Library News
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You might notice this green light at the Buck Memorial Library. They have added it in support of the Greenlight a Vet campaign.
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America’s veterans are some of our nation’s bravest, hardest-working men and women. However, it’s hard to show them the appreciation they deserve when, back home and out of uniform, they’re more camouflaged than ever. Greenlight A Vet is a campaign to establish visible national support for our veterans by changing one light to green.
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The Buck Memorial library invites all to share in "the joy of the holidays" with a gift of new books for children of all ages and jars (no glass) of peanut butter, jelly, and cinnamon and sugar (cinnamon toast).
Please bring all gifts to the Buck Memorial Library by 11am on
Wednesday, December 13. Bucksport Community Concerns will deliver to area families. Books purchased at Bookstacks for this cause are 10% off.
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Buck Memorial Library Story Time
Welcomes all ages to the traditional reading of Santa Mouse
Wednesday, December 20th 10:30-11am.
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A Message from BRHC's CEO Carol Carew
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It is unbelievable that the holidays are upon us. And with them, come an abundance of varied foods that show up at every turn. Are they always safe to eat? Remember an important rule for food safety: keep hot foods hot and cold foods cold. For safety tips, read Preventing Foodborne Illness.
National Handwashing Awareness Week is December 4-10. Keeping your hands clean is one of the best ways to prevent illness and the spreading of germs to others. Visit
www.cdc.gov for more information. We’re excited to have new, free classes starting in January: tobacco cessation, and the National Diabetes Prevention Program, which includes developing lifestyle habits to reach a healthy weight and incorporating adequate physical activity into your life. Call Bucksport Regional Health Center, ext. 260, to reach Jessica Richards, our health educator, for more information. From all of us at BRHC, have the happiest of holidays
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Penobscot Marine Museum News
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The Research Library is Still Open!
Volunteer Researcher Eric Pena
The Museum exhibits may have closed for the season, but the Stephen Phillips Memorial Library is still open for business.
Our crack team of volunteers staff the research library Tuesday through Friday from 9am to 1pm year-round. We are located at 9 Church Street on Penobscot Marine Museum's Searsport campus.
Please be sure to send us your research request or book your visit in advance.
Phone: 207-548- 2529 x212
Mail: Penobscot Marine Museum
ATTN: Library Researcher
P.O. Box 498
Searsport, ME 04974
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20% off All holiday items, santas, snowmen, snowglobes, nativities, ornaments and mire at
Silkweeds
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25% Off Prints now through December 18th
To order contact Photo Archivist Kevin Johnson at 207-548-2529 or
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All through December
Blossoms By the Bay will run
20% off Ornaments
10% off candles
10% off Willow tree figurines
10% off Black Dinah Chocolates
Weekly specials on arrangements, bouquets, plants and cash and carry roses.
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The two IRS/SSA Employment Tax webinars we originally offered on November 2 and December 7 both filled to capacity and we had to close registration. Due to popular demand, we have scheduled a 3
rd
webinar for
Thursday, December 14!
Attached is a flyer for the December 14
th
session of “Racing Towards Year End: Employment Tax Reminders.”
The Internal Revenue Service will cover such topics as the W-2 Verification Pilot, protecting against data breaches and identity theft, and navigating the newly redesigned IRS web site to find information payroll professionals need. The Social Security Administration will discuss Business Services Online, W-2 online, electronic and paper filing, AccuWage and the Social Security Number Verification Service (SSNVS).
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Yoga with Naomi
Beginner-Friendly Healing Hatha Yoga
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Orland: Tuesdays
Gentle, beginner-friendly yoga classes for adults and teens.
Tuesday nights, 6:30-7:30 p.m.
Orland Community Center, Room 20
$12 to drop in
$50 for 5 classes
Discounts for first-responders
Free to cancer patients, survivors, and their caregivers
Bucksport: Wednesdays
Every Wednesday, our longest-running Yoga with Naomi class meets from 3:30-4:30 p.m. at Bucksport Regional Health Center in Bucksport. Gentle, warm and friendly, this class is a welcoming space for yogis of any ability, age, or body type.
Bucksport Regional Health Center
3:30 - 4:30 p.m.
Gentle, healing hatha
Mats and props provided.
Everyone welcome.
$12 to drop in for a single class.
Sign up at the start of a 5-week series and pay $50 for 5 classes.
Ellsworth: Tuesdays & Thursdays
These classes are gentle, healing hatha classes; free and open to cancer patients, survivors, and caregivers. Call the Center at 207-664-0339 or email [email protected]. You can find us at 23 Commerce Park in Ellsworth. Drop-in any time.
Tuesdays
4 - 5 p.m.
Gentle, healing hatha
Mats and props provided.
Everyone welcome.
No cost.
Thursdays
1 - 2 p.m.
Gentle, healing hatha
Mats and props provided.
Everyone welcome.
No cost.
David Walker also teaches a Beth Wright-sponsored gentle yoga class for cancer patients and survivors at Blue Hill Yoga on Mondays 3-4 p.m. There is no cost for the class and all are welcome.
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Help Healthy Acadia Build a Recovery Community
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Are you interested in Building a Recovery Community? Would you like to Help People Seeking Recovery?
Please join us for a potluck dinner & explore volunteer and training opportunities
Monday, December 11, 2017. 5:30pm to 7pm
at Your Place, Inc. 8 old Mill Road in Ellsworth.
At this event, participants will: meet people who are interested in giving back to their communities and helping others, talk about building a recovery community, discuss recovery supports. What does that mean and how is it helpful to those seeking recovery?, Identify what recover supports are needed for people to succeed in recovery and MORE! For more information and questions please feel free to call Denise at 667.7171 ext. 15 or email
[email protected]
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Main Street Bucksport Night on the Town
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Main Street Bucksport has booked seven musical acts to play in shops or restaurants on Thursday,
December 14 from 5-7pm. The past few years, this event has been very successful and drawn people downtown when they might have otherwise stayed home.
PLUS get your photo taken in the Holiday Photo Booth at Heart and Soul! Make a donation (the amount is up to you!) and get a fun, festive photo of your friends or family. All proceeds benefit Main Street
Bucksport and Heart and Soul.
Also stop into
Verona Wine and Design for a wine tasting from 5-7 PM! Cheers 🍷
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Bucksport YMCA Holiday Fayre
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Bucksport YMCA Holiday Fayre 2017
G.H. Jewett School, Bucksport
December 16 10am to 3pm
Call for craft & business vendors!
$10 per space
Please contact Ellie Shorey at 217.8306 or email her at
[email protected] to sign up before the deadline, December 2.
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Bucksport Bible Church Christmas Play
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We are having a Christmas pageant on
December 17th at 6:00 pm. We’ll have 12-13 adorable kiddos dressed up as Shepherds and Angels belting out the Christmas carols :-) Free Christmas cookies and cocoa to follow.
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Verona Wine & Design Plans for Holiday Activities
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Friday, December 22 at 5:30pm Community caroling! Meet at Verona Wine and Design plan your route and spread the magic with your voices and head back to Verona Wine & Design for hot cocoa and cookies.
December, 31 at Midnight
Ball drop downtown. More events to be planned. Verona and Wine and Design is offering tapas buffet and music inside and an outdoor ice sculpture will be constructed for a selfie station by Chris Whitham during the day in front of Blossoms By the Bay.
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Bucksport UMC Upcoming Special Services
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Longest Night Blue Christmas Service
December 21st 7:00p.m. Not everyone is up beat and cheery for the Christmas holiday. If you are dealing with loss, grief, divorce, dis-ease of anykind, this service is intended to offer a chance to find peace and spend a time of reflection and remembrance. Memorial candles will be lit for loved ones who have died, are away in the military, separated, incarcerated, etc. FMI 469-3622
Christmas Eve Candlelight Service 12/24 will be held at 4:00p.m. and 7:00p.m. at 71 Franklin Street. There will not be services at the East Bucksport Chapel this year.
New' Years Eve Sing-spiration Celebration 12/31 from 2:00-3:30pm with an ice cream social. Share an afternoon of music and refreshment, prayer and praise for 2017 reflections and the hopes for 2018.
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Bald Mountain Community Center Solstice Celebration
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Please join us at Bald Mountain Community Center for our annual Solstice Celebration.
Friday, December 22 from 5:30pm to 9pm
we'll be having a potluck and an open mic, along with a yule log, a solstice tree for decorating, a bonfire, and good cheer!
Please bring a dish to share, an ornament for the tree (edible for the wild animals), your own beverages (or extra to share), and a sense of adventure. We look forward to sharing light and joy with our neighbors during these long nights.
Members: $5 Non-members: $7
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What seasonal drink do you prefer?
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