As part of the Bucksport Heart and Soul's eighty-two citizen generated ideas, expanding the buy local program was one with high impact and high feasibility. We plan to expand our seasonal buy local program and inspire and motivate everyone to shop local everyday and in every way. In 2019, we present to you our year round Local Everyday Local Everyway campaign. 

The Bucksport Bay Area Chamber of Commerce has held a #ThinkLocalFirst campaign in partnership with other organizations in Bucksport since 2014. Each holiday season we encourage those shopping for gifts to shop locally. You can find the details for this season on our website later in the year.

To kick off Local Everyday Local Everyway we will be hosting a shop local scavenger hunt. We will list a number of items to search for in the zip codes listed below. If you do not see your zip code listed below, that's okay! Participants can earn an extra entry if they find the items at a Chamber member location outside of this area. The list of items will be included in The Bucksport Enterprise for four weeks in the month of May, on our website and the Bucksport Bay Area Chamber of Commerce Facebook page.

The winner of our scavenger hunt will win a prize basket, filled with goodies from different Chamber Members.

Have you heard someone say, "I can't find that locally"? We're trying to show them they don't have to travel to a big box store. When deciding what to donate to the prize basket, remember this is your opportunity to showcase what your business has to offer that your neighbor can purchase locally. Something that will get them in your door to buy more!

Chamber Members are invited to submit a list of products or services that your business has to offer. We will try to choose from those lists when selecting items to use in the scavenger hunt. We only have limited space so we may not be able to use something from your list each week but we will do our best to include something from what you've sent us.