Waite General Store Joins Healthy Acadia in Project Sticker Shock

Please join us in celebrating Waite General Store, the newest partners to join Healthy Acadia in Project Sticker Shock.

Project Sticker Shock is a community and statewide effort to raise public awareness about the risks of underage drinking and to strengthen the deterrent effect of the law against providing alcohol to minors. As part of the campaign, bright orange stickers warning about the penalties for furnishing alcohol to minors are affixed to multi-packs of beer and cases of other beverages containing alcohol that remind purchasers of the risk of purchasing or providing alcohol to anyone under age 21.

Healthy Acadia and business owners across Washington and Hancock counties are partnering to take action to prevent sales of alcoholic beverages to anyone under age 21 in our community. Healthy Acadia’s Darrean Thornton affixed the orange stickers to the thirty-five alcohol beverage cases in the Waite General Store’s current inventory to remind purchasers that providing alcohol to minors is a crime.  Creating more awareness is important - according to our most recent survey data, one in four high school students in Washington County reported consuming alcohol in the 30 days before the survey.

Thank you, Waite General Store for playing a vital part in our community and helping to prevent underage drinking in Washington County!

For more information about Project Sticker Shock or if you are a business owner that would like to participate in efforts to prevent underage drinking and substance use in our community, email us at info@healthyacadia.org.

Prevention efforts supported by Maine CDC.