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Scouts selling cookies
Program helps fund activities
By Rene Cizio, Special Writer
PUBLISHED: January 11, 2007
Milan Girl Scout Troop 923 is busy taking cookie orders and is looking for community support to achieve its goals by Jan. 28.
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The Scouts are introducing a new incentive this year to entice customers to buy cookies. Through advance orders, the Cookie Share program allows customers to purchase cookies to ship to the U.S. military overseas.
There is a column on the order form to be marked for donating cookies. The Scouts handle shipping, and the troop gets credit for the amount donated.
The Girl Scout cookie program helps fund activities that the Girl Scouts participate in, such as council programs, field trips, educational opportunities and camps, as well as individual troop needs.
The program also fosters life skills, such as personal responsibility, organization, strong leadership, decision-making skills, money management, goal-setting and teamwork.
More than 50 million American women have participated in Girl Scouting during their childhood and two-thirds of female members of Congress have been Girl Scouts.
The troops are hoping that the Cookie Share program, combined with the wide selection of cookies, including the new Lemonades, a frosted bottom, lemon shortbread, will attract enough supporters to help them reach their goal of 105 boxes per girl and secure a trip to the Toledo Zoo.
"The girls would also like to fund a camping trip, buy materials to make blankets for a local hospital or donate toward a community service project," said troop leader Rhonda Barron.
Their goal may not be too difficult. The Thin Mint is the third most popular cookie sold in the United States behind only Oreos and Chips Ahoy.
"They're really excited about the cookie booths because they'll be wearing their uniforms and have a product in hand," Barron said.
Troop 923 consists of 15 Scouts in the first and second grades, and is preparing for their first cookie sale by practicing their sales pitch, talking about the benefits of the sale and their plans for the expected income.
The Scouts are taking orders through Jan. 28 and will host a cookie booth at the Milan Kroger on weekends Feb. 24 through March 18.
Rene' Cizio is a freelance writer. She can be reached at .
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