By RHEA-FRANCES TETLEY
Staff Writer
Beginning on Jan. 28, and continuing through March 12, Girl Scout cookies will be available to purchase or can be delivered, if pre-ordered or ordered online.
In addition, Girl Scouts will be sitting for many hours each week outside the local grocery stores, such as Stater Bros and Jensen’s, with a vast selection of the cookies with them on their display tables for instant sales and enjoyment. The price this year is $6 a box.
Because there is no major grocery store in Crestline, several troops are also delivering boxes of online ordered cookies. Each selling location for the troops must be approved at the district level to allow the troops to sell cookies sequentially and not be in direct competition at a location. The individual girls are also marketing their cookies, through groups and friends.
The cookies sales teach the girls about goal setting, decision making, money management, people skills and business ethics and responsibility. The girls are working toward several levels of sales which can earn them various trips and activities.
There are several Girl Scout troops on the mountain; each troop may have a maximum of 20 girls enrolled. Girl Scouting enrolls girls from the Daisy level of girls, who are attending kindergarten, through Ambassadors, who are seniors in high school.
Girl Scouting teaches girls skills and information that can be applied to their daily and future life, while having fun. Girl Scouting is a valuable experience for girls to learn about the world around them and how they can benefit others though positive actions.
There are twelve cookies available this year – three different peanut butter cookies, several caramel ones and traditional Girl Scout cookie favorites like Thin Mint. Each year there is also a new flavor. Not all troops nationwide will have all the same cookies, as different councils order different cookies.
All local troops are in the San Gorgonio Council. Troop 768 meets two times a month at the Hootman Community Center, with members from Crestline to Running Springs. Troop 768 is planning to use its money to learn about ocean life during a troop trip to Catalina Island and to make memories together. This will be a very different adventure than they have daily in the mountains. Online orders are now being taken.
Abby from Troop 768 is excited about this year’s sales. She has placed a big order and said she will be delivering cookies as the weather doesn’t always cooperate in February to be out selling at the market. They will be at the market on weekends and some after school days. You can order cookies for delivery at: https://digitalcookie.girlscouts.org/scout/abigail503136.
Some people also like to order cookies for donation to the troops at bases overseas or to senior citizen retirement homes, hospitals and to the homeless; that can also be done through the local troops.
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