JANUARY 15, 2009 ISSUE
Order Your Girl Scout Cookies Now
Buy an Extra Box or Two for Active-Duty Military Personnel
Coming soon to a shopping center near you: the annual Girl Scout Cookie sale. Eight varieties will be for sale at $3.50 per box and proceeds fund local Girl Scout activities.
Watauga County Girl Scouts began selling the annual Girl Scout Cookies on January 2. This year’s varieties include Caramel deLites, Peanut Butter Patties, Shortbread, Thin Mints, Peanut Butter Sandwich, Thanks-A-Lot, Lemonades and Daisy-Go-Rounds. Here’s a description of each:
Caramel deLites—Delicate vanilla cookies drenched in caramel, sprinkled with toasted coconut and laced with cocoa stripes
Peanut Butter Patties—Crispy vanilla cookies layered with real peanut butter and blanketed with a chocolaty coating
Shortbread—Traditional favorite with a buttery, light flavor
Thin Mints—Thin chocolate wafers dipped in a rich chocolaty coating with a burst of pure peppermint
Peanut Butter Sandwich—Deliciously smooth peanut butter sandwiched between crunchy oatmeal cookies
Thanks-A-Lot—Heart-warming shortbread cookies dipped in rich fudge and topped with an embossed thank you message in one of five languages
Lemonades—Savory slices of shortbread with a refreshingly tangy lemon icing
Daisy-Go-Rounds—Reduced fat crispy cinnamon flowers blooming with flavor in every bite and packaged in five single-serve snack packs
The cost is $3.50 per box.
Once again this year, the Girl Scouts will support our military overseas by offering Operation Sweet Treat (OST). Customers can purchase a box or more of cookies and the Scouts will send it to our military men and women overseas. The Scouts’ goal this year is 13,000 boxes.
Cookies will arrive in Watauga County on Friday, January 30, and booth sales will begin in February. Booth sales will be located at Lowes Foods, Harris Teeter, Boone Mall and Lowe’s Hardware on most Saturdays at select times.
Support your local Girl Scout Troop by purchasing cookies for yourself or OST.
If you don’t know any Girl Scouts personally and want to place an order, click to www.girlscoutcookies.org, type in your zip code and then provide the requested info for the Girl Scout Council of The Catawba Valley Area. Or, for more info, you can call Catherine Wilkinson at 828-264-0412.
Girl Scout Cookie Trivia
How much do you know about Girl Scout cookies?
• Juliette Gordon Low initiated the cookie sale as a way for Girl Scouts to be self-reliant and to fund their own activities.
• In the 1920s and ‘30s, Girl Scouts in different parts of the country baked their own simple sugar cookies and sold them to raise money for their activities.
• The first documented council-wide sale of commercially baked cookies took place in Philadelphia in 1934.
• The first national Girl Scout Cookie sale was held in 1936.
• Over the years, cookie varieties have come and gone in response to changing consumer tastes. However, the only modification to Shortbread has been a “facelift” in 1979 when the cookie’s traditional Girl Scout service mark was replaced by a more contemporary service mark.
• Thin Mints is the top selling Girl Scout Cookie in America.
• Each season, Girl Scouts sell almost 200 million packages of Girl Scout Cookies.
• For every box of Girl Scout Cookies you buy, more than two-thirds of your purchase prices stays right in your community.
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