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  • Thin Mints can be cheaper by the troop [Girl Scouts actually have some capitalism, who knew?]

    03/28/2006 1:38:37 PM PST · by brown noiser · 44 replies · 858+ views
    Boston Globe ^ | March 26, 2006 | Christine McConville
    It's an American tradition as homespun as Thanksgiving Day turkey and Fourth of July fireworks. But how much you pay for a box of Girl Scout cookies can depend on where your Girl Scout lives. Every winter, eager Girl Scouts set up their cookie-laden booths in front of supermarkets, and the selling begins. For buyers, getting a box or two of the Girl Scout-sponsored Thin Mints is about much more than picking up a snack; it's a nostalgic trip down memory lane. For the scouts, selling the cookies is a chance to learn valuable business skills, while making money for...
  • Thief takes Scouts' cookie money, runs

    02/28/2006 10:42:07 AM PST · by MsGail61 · 31 replies · 681+ views
    Orlando Sentinel ^ | 2/28/06 | Willoughby Mariano
    The Brownies of Troop 545 say the loiterer with a bandanna was a bad, bad man. After he puffed on a cigarette outside the Publix on South Semoran Boulevard near Pershing Avenue in Orlando where they sold Girl Scout cookies Saturday afternoon, he tossed the butt to the ground, then snatched their money box and ran. The $352 that Bryanna Sura, 9, and Kaitlin Renaud, 8, raised to help finance a pilgrimage to the home of the Girl Scouts' founder was gone. "He could have bought our cookies," Bryanna said Monday after school. "But noooo. He had to steal money."
  • Let the troops eat your Girl Scout cookies (Great idea!)

    02/21/2006 6:04:50 AM PST · by Millee · 25 replies · 537+ views
    9News.com (Denver) ^ | 2/21/06 | Dr. Stephanie Clements
    It's a way to help the Girl Scouts without pigging out. It's a clever cookie caper; Pat Tobey can buy boxes of the cookies without wearing them. Girl Scout Audra Barkley is writing thankyou notes to customers who choose to ship their cookies to Iraq. Feb. 20, 2006. 6 p.m. Parents whose kids are selling Girl Scout Cookies often end up helping out by taking the tempting treats to work where co-workers and clients make them disappear. Big problem for Brian Barkley, who is a fitness trainer. His clients at Functional Conditioning in Arvada are busy working off cookies, donuts...
  • Scouts Deliver Taste of Home to Safeguard Sailors

    05/12/2005 4:21:21 PM PDT · by AZHua87 · 6 replies · 514+ views
    Navy NewsStand ^ | 5/12/2005 | Journalist 2nd Class (SW/AW) Kathryn Whittenberger
    SINGAPORE (NNS) -- Girl Scouts and Brownies from two troops in Singapore dropped in on the crew of USS Safeguard (ARS 50) during a port visit to Singapore to pass out boxes of Girl Scout cookies May 9. The cookie delivery was part of Operation Thin Mint, a program developed by Girl Scouts in the San Diego area, where they teamed up with their customers to send cookies and handwritten notes of support to service men and women serving overseas. “We’re extremely grateful to the Girl Scouts for bringing a piece of home out here to us while we’re deployed,”...
  • Scout Cookies Bring Boxer Crew A Step Closer to Home

    03/27/2004 7:01:53 PM PST · by BykrBayb · 7 replies · 520+ views
    Navy NewsStand ^ | 3/25/2004 9:40:00 AM | Journalist 1st Class Todd Macdonald, Logistics Group Western Pacific Public Affairs
    Story Number: NNS040324-08 Release Date: 3/25/2004 9:40:00 AM By Journalist 1st Class Todd Macdonald, Logistics Group Western Pacific Public Affairs SINGAPORE (NNS) -- While nothing can replace family and friends on the pier for Sailors and Marines returning from deployments, the crew of the San Diego-based USS Boxer (LHD 4) had arguably the next best thing waiting for them pierside March 21 - pallets of Girl Scout cookies —enough for everyone aboard. Local Girl Scouts, acting on behalf of their counterparts from the San Diego-Imperial chapter and its Operation Thin Mint (OTM) initiative, delivered 310 cases of cookies, along with...
  • Nine-year-old sends Girl Scout cookies to troops

    03/23/2004 8:58:46 AM PST · by Dbdaily · 37 replies · 443+ views
    Nine-year-old sends Girl Scout cookies to troops March 22, 2004 — Some lucky soldiers in Iraq are getting a shipment of Girl Scout cookies thanks to the work of an industrious fourth grader from Cary. Nine-year-old Rachel Davis shipped 200 boxes of Thin Mints, Peanut Butter Patties and Shortbread cookies to Iraq last week. Davis began going door to door in January, asking customers in the northwest suburb of Chicago to buy cookies for the troops and sign a thank-you card attached to each box. Her troop also began holding sales outside grocery stores. Profits from the sales are being...
  • Pro-Abortion Feminist Scouts

    02/15/2004 9:10:47 AM PST · by heyheyhey · 40 replies · 647+ views
    OpinionEditorials.com ^ | February 13, 2004 | Hans Zeiger
    Across America, Girl Scout cookie sales are in full swing. Last week, Girl Scouts of America officials announced a sales record for Washington, D.C. as 4.2 million boxes of Samoas, Thin Mints, and other cookies were sold in the nation’s capitol. But I’m going to be critical of the Girl Scouts. I love the cookies, but the organization has somewhat rejected moral decency. At a recent Nobody’s Fool annual meeting held at Planned Parenthood of Waco, Texas, the Bluebonnet Council of the Girl Scouts of America bestowed on Planned Parenthood chief executive Pam Smallwood the title of “Woman of the...