Three words can save your life… and win you a basket of local goodies!

We recently launched the use of the What3Words app as a resource for our 911 Emergency Communications Centre in order to effectively and efficiently deploy resources when individuals become lost or stranded within our community.

In order to promote downloading and the use of this potentially lifesaving technology, we are announcing a scavenger hunt of local businesses across Greater Sudbury. 
COVID-19 has been a very hard and stressful time for many including small, locally-owned businesses. We have randomly selected 10 local businesses in our community to be a part of our What3Words Scavenger Hunt to encourage community members to shop local and hopefully introduce you to some new locally owned businesses that you may not have known about. Each of the 10 businesses are listed below by their three words from the What3Words app. When you say the three words into the What3Words app, you will be given a location of a local business.
The scavenger hunt starts today and the deadline to enter is Friday, December 11, 2020 in order to provide ample time to visit as many of the businesses as possible without causing large gatherings or overwhelming the businesses during COVID. Community members are asked to respect physical distancing when attending businesses while complying with Public Health guidelines including face coverings/masks. Community members are also asked to complete the scavenger hunt alone or with someone from your household or social bubble.

Here’s how to enter:

Each of the 10 local businesses have three words from the What3Words app (the list is below).
You must attend the location of each business or as many of the businesses as possible in the two-week time period and take a selfie in front of the business (maybe check out what they have to offer while you’re there).
At the end of the two weeks or whenever you complete the scavenger hunt, you are to make an Instagram or Facebook post of your selfies from the 10 local business or as many as you get in the two week time period tagging us @sudburypolice.
The person who gets selfies at the most businesses will win a basket with goodies from all 10 local businesses or if multiple people get the same number of selfies, the names will be entered into a draw and the name drawn will win the basket.
We hope you have as much fun participating in the scavenger hunt as we had coming up with it and we hope that this initiative will encourage you to download the What3Words app (prior to an emergency) and support our local businesses.

Here are the 10 locations:

· Princess, meaningless, shower

· Speared, zoom, depend

· Search, strategy, learning

· Embedded, mocked, Monday

· Texture, inflates, relaxed

· Wicked, barber, tycoon

· Bins, lied, slewed

· Float, sung, explains

· Escaped, radioactive, concealing

· Chats, luring, seats