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  • Girl Scout Sells 17,000 Boxes Of Cookies

    05/15/2008 10:15:41 AM PDT · by Responsibility2nd · 23 replies · 855+ views
    KSAT.COM ^ | 05/15/2008
    DETROIT -- Jennifer Sharpe is one sharp cookie, especially when it comes to selling Girl Scout Cookies. The 15-year-old from Dearborn, Mich., sold more than 17,000 boxes of cookies. Jennifer was on a street corner with her mom every day selling Thin Mints, Do-Si-Dos and the rest of the cookie line. Pam Sharpe, Jennifer's mother and troop leader, said the sales effort helped build her daughter's confidence. She said that at first, Jennifer was shy and quiet but came out of her shell selling the cookies. National Girl Scout officials said there is no cookie sale record on the books,...
  • Two Girl Scouts Start Campaign Against Cookie Sales

    04/16/2008 3:21:36 PM PDT · by Incorrigible · 67 replies · 1,320+ views
    Newhouse News ^ | 4/15/2008 | Marjorie Kauth-Karjala
    Two Girl Scouts Start Campaign Against Cookie Sales By MARJORIE KAUTH-KARJALA   Seventh graders Rhiannon Tomtishen, left, and Madison Vorva are helping to save orangutans by raising awareness of the effect of palm oil plantations on the primate's habitat. (Photo by Leisa Thompson)     ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Two middle school students who started a project to earn a Girl Scout award have ended up rejecting what may be the best known of their organization's symbols: Girl Scout cookies. Madison Vorva and Rhiannon Tomtishen, both 12, started doing research last fall on endangered orangutans in Indonesia as part of...
  • Girl Scouts send deployed soldiers notes of thanks, and lots of boxes of cookies

    04/04/2008 5:22:58 PM PDT · by SandRat · 7 replies · 601+ views
    FORT HUACHUCA — While deployed in Kuwait, Spc. Herbert Brown remembers how much he and his comrades appreciated the little things from home. So when boxes of Girl Scout cookies were shipped to his unit, the men and women were completely moved by the gesture of good will. “It’s really hard to express how much this means to the soldiers,” Brown said, recalling what it was like to be on the receiving end of the cookies. “I was in Kuwait in ‘05-’06, and it meant a lot that people I didn’t even know were thinking about me.” For the past...
  • Girl Scout Cookies

    03/15/2008 10:51:11 AM PDT · by SamAdams76 · 42 replies · 716+ views
    The Berkeley Bee | March 15, 2008 | Gertrude C. Schwarzhopher
    Greetings members of the sisterhood. Well, it's that time of the year again. Girl Scout cookie time. A time when our little sisters in bondage are forced by their patriarchal masters to spend rainy Saturday mornings in front of supermarkets, post offices and department stores, peddling over-priced cookies on rickety tables, in order that they raise monies to support the organization that helps enslave them and prepare them for a lifetime of subjugation, submissiveness and slavery. Yes, my fellow sisters, I'm talking about the Girl Scouts of America. An organization formed by our evil paternalistic forefathers to ensure that...
  • Teens Unremorseful After Stealing From Girl Scout (watch the video)

    02/02/2008 7:50:11 PM PST · by ChildOfThe60s · 103 replies · 388+ views
    WPBF.com ^ | 2/1/2008 | Staff
    BOYNTON BEACH, Fla. -- The State Attorney's Office will decide whether to charge two teens who admit they robbed a 9-year-old Girl Scout selling cookies outside of a Boynton Beach supermarket. "I thought that it was a really mean thing to do, and I was sad after," Girl Scout Gracie Smith told WPBF News 25. Authorities said that a 17-year-old girl in a hot-pink sweatshirt approached Smith outside of a Winn-Dixie supermarket at Hypoluxo and Jog roads in Boynton Beach Wednesday evening and asked the girl what her favorite cookies were. Police told WPBF that, while Smith was telling the...
  • Roswell Girl Scout earns every badge available

    01/22/2008 1:11:01 PM PST · by MotleyGirl70 · 18 replies · 88+ views
    AJC.com ^ | 01/22/08 | MARY MacDONALD
    In a time when many kids flutter from activity to activity, Katherine Tuggle stands out as a model of commitment.For the past three years, the Girl Scout has worked toward a singular goal —collecting every badge available. She has all 104, each of which required six different tasks. To that end, among other things, Katherine, 11, has cooked supper over a backyard fire pit, hiked a trail using a compass, sampled exotic fruits and vegetables, taught her dog to shake hands and tackled ice skating.And, of course, she sells the famous Girl Scout cookies every year.Most of the badges required...
  • FReeper Comments/Ratings Desired - Coffee/Cookies for Troops Video

    11/01/2007 1:40:29 PM PDT · by Impeach98 · 7 replies · 33+ views
    Move America Forward ^ | 11/01/2007 | Melanie Morgan/Lt. Col. Buzz Patterson
    We just posted a video to YouTube that showcases an effort by Move America Forward to deliver Coffee, Cookies and more to our troops. Please rate the video at YouTube, post comments, etc... as you see fit. Here's the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kd0rGxGhttk
  • Christian Alternative to Secular Girl Scouts Growing, Expanding

    08/06/2007 2:13:36 PM PDT · by fgoodwin · 22 replies · 462+ views
    Christian Post ^ | Fri, Aug. 03, 2007 Posted: 20:14:11 PM EST | anon
    Christian Alternative to Secular Girl Scouts Growing, Expanding http://www.christianpost.com/article/20070803/28750_Christian_Alternative_to_Secular_Girl_Scouts_Growing,_Expanding.htm http://tinyurl.com/36w64j American Heritage Girls (AHG), a Christian alternative to Girl Scouts, has entered a new phase of growth this month with plans to expand to all 50 states by 2008. Fri, Aug. 03, 2007 Posted: 20:14:11 PM EST American Heritage Girls (AHG), a Christian alternative to Girl Scouts, has entered a new phase of growth this month with plans to expand to all 50 states by 2008. The 12-year-old organization offering girls programs that are God-centered has experienced unprecedented growth in recent years while large secular organizations such as t Girl...
  • Camp getaway for military daughters

    07/11/2007 6:10:28 PM PDT · by SandRat · 9 replies · 345+ views
    Next month, about 80 young girls from southern Arizona will head off to an extended Girl Scout camp for free. "Operation Red Shirt" gives young girls with a parent deployed overseas the chance to attend Girl Scout camp whether they're a scout or not. Seven year old Emma Guerry is very excited about her first day of summer camp. "It's on Mountain Lemmon," said Emma with a laugh. The Mount Lemmon camp is an all girl's camp for military daughters with at least one parent serving overseas in the war. "Kids coming back to school in the fall don't always...
  • Girl Scout Escapes From Bear Trying to Pull Her Out of Tent in New Jersey

    06/07/2007 1:46:22 PM PDT · by RDTF · 29 replies · 776+ views
    FoxNews.com ^ | June 7, 2007 | AP
    <p>WHITE HAVEN, Pa. — A bear tried to pull a Girl Scout out of her tent during a camping trip, the girl and scout officials said.</p> <p>Celeste Tietz, 11, said Wednesday that she managed to grab a tent pole and slide out of her sleeping bag as the bear was tugging at it early Sunday morning at Camp Mosey Wood.</p>
  • FIRST-PERSON: Not your mom's Girl Scouts

    04/27/2007 7:00:56 PM PDT · by fgoodwin · 23 replies · 734+ views
    Baptist Press ^ | Apr 26, 2007 | Penna Dexter
    FIRST-PERSON: Not your mom's Girl Scouts http://www.bpnews.net/BPnews.asp?ID=25503 By Penna Dexter Apr 26, 2007 DALLAS (BP)--Did you get your Girl Scout cookies this year? Those delectable Thin Mints, those yummy Do-Si-Dos, the melt-in-your mouth Tagalongs. Ya' know, they say these treats no longer contain trans fats. Perhaps the cookies are more wholesome than they were when I sold them oh-so-many years ago. But the national organization that promotes their sale, the Girl Scouts of the USA, is not. Pro-family Americans have admired the Boy Scouts' unwavering opposition -- even under intense pressure -- to get the organization to permit homosexuals to...
  • Not your mom's Girl Scouts

    04/26/2007 4:10:32 PM PDT · by Sopater · 7 replies · 398+ views
    Baptist Press ^ | Apr 26, 2007 | Penna Dexter
    DALLAS (BP)--Did you get your Girl Scout cookies this year? Those delectable Thin Mints, those yummy Do-Si-Dos, the melt-in-your mouth Tagalongs. Ya' know, they say these treats no longer contain trans fats. Perhaps the cookies are more wholesome than they were when I sold them oh-so-many years ago. But the national organization that promotes their sale, the Girl Scouts of the USA, is not. Pro-family Americans have admired the Boy Scouts' unwavering opposition -- even under intense pressure -- to get the organization to permit homosexuals to be scoutmasters. The Boy Scouts of America has stood firm against the politically...
  • Sisterhood of Girl Scouts becoming ethnic patchwork

    04/17/2007 7:02:23 AM PDT · by fgoodwin · 11 replies · 226+ views
    Columbus Dispatch ^ | Monday, April 16, 2007 3:29 AM | Sherri Williams
    Sisterhood of Girl Scouts becoming ethnic patchwork http://www.columbusdispatch.com/dispatch/content/local_news/stories/2007/04/16/SCOUTS.ART_ART_04-16-07_A1_GU6D2CV.html http://tinyurl.com/2ut5uc Monday, April 16, 2007 3:29 AM By Sherri Williams THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH The 12 girls are beautiful, always moving and free, like monarcas, Spanish for a type of butterfly. But the lessons on appearance for the young Latinas aren't just on how to look pretty; they're meant to boost the confidence of the girls, who are members of Girl Scout Troop 1118, the Monarcas. At a recent troop meeting on the West Side, volunteer stylists gave the girls tips on dressing appropriately. They created a mixture of hairspray and happiness, along...
  • Girl Scouts Want You To Die

    03/04/2007 7:15:02 AM PST · by Valin · 171 replies · 2,734+ views
    American.com ^ | 2/26/07 | Katherine Mangu-Ward
    My local liquor store is selling Girl Scout cookies, and last week I chose Thin Mints over gin, thinking myself quite virtuous. Little did I know… According to MeMe Roth, who is the head (and may be the sole member) of National Action Against Obesity: Girl Scouts have an economic, medical and moral imperative to dump junk food as their $700 million fundraising source….Girl Scout Cookies are high-calorie, high-sugar, high in saturated fat and nearly devoid of nutrition. Using young girls as a front to push millions of cookies onto an already bloated population further exacerbates an alarming [obesity] crisis,...
  • America Supports You: Troops Get Girl Scouts’ Gift of Caring

    01/18/2007 5:18:40 PM PST · by SandRat · 9 replies · 294+ views
    America Supports You ^ | John J. Kruzel
    WASHINGTON, Jan. 17, 2007 – When the Girl Scouts combined their knack for selling cookies with their dedication to community service, they cooked up the Gift of Caring program. Each Girl Scout troop can choose a Gift of Caring partner to receive donated boxes of Thin Mints, Do-si-dos, Trefoils and other baked favorites throughout the cookie-selling season. Girl Scouts near the nation's capital are sending cookies to deployed servicemembers through the Gift of Caring Program. Courtesy photo  '(Click photo for screen-resolution image);high-resolution image available. Many girls of the 4,000 troops in the Girl Scout Council of the Nation's Capital have...
  • Girl Scouts rally for troops

    10/09/2006 5:16:29 PM PDT · by mdittmar · 4 replies · 351+ views
    WTHR ^ | Oct 9, 2006
    Indianapolis - A Fishers brownie troop is making a positive impact on our men and women serving overseas. Girls with Brownie Troop 1916 attended a "support the troops rally" in downtown Indianapolis at the Indiana War Memorial Sunday afternoon. They are helping lift the spirits of Marines overseas. The troop has been sending cookies and other goodies to a Marine division in Iraq. The soldiers wrote back letters thanking the girls for their generosity. The mother of Lance Corporal Brad Schiff says they greatly appreciate the caring spirit back home. "He's very proud of these girls just as they are...
  • Upcoming 30-year anniversary of Girl Scouts Murder

    10/08/2006 12:04:23 AM PDT · by GodfearingTexan · 18 replies · 6,571+ views
    various ^ | various | Various sources
    Camp Scott: Once a wilderness utopia where children played, it's fifty-year history came crashing to a sudden end with the ghastly murders of three Girl Scouts in 1977. Michele Heather Guse , 9, Doris Denise Milner , 10, and Lori Lee Farmer , 8, had all fallen victim to a monsterous killer--the likes of which Oklahoma and the nation had never before seen. A curious crime that to this day continues on as one of the country's most unusual mysteries.
  • Girl Scouts to Cav Scouts Cookie Drive

    09/29/2006 5:51:27 PM PDT · by CplM · 30 replies · 1,997+ views
    A Soldiers Perspective ^ | September 27th, 2006 | Cpl M
    Don’t forget to donate to send Girl Scout cookies to deployed Marines! Please use the Girl Scouts to Cav Scouts button in the sidebar to donate! Additional ways to donate are in the the extended section as well as all details.
  • Muslim camp seeks funds from Linn, Johnson

    09/21/2006 6:45:06 PM PDT · by callthemlikeyouseethem · 13 replies · 453+ views
    Gazette Online ^ | 09/21/2006 | Gregg Hennigan
    The organization building a Muslim youth camp on Coralville Lake is asking Linn and Johnson counties for a small amount of financial support and their endorsements to go after a larger state grant. Bob Ballantyne, a member of the Muslim Youth Camps of America board of directors, asked the Johnson County Board of Supervisors at their informal work session this morning to sign a letter of support for a $250,000 Vision Iowa grant. He also asked the board to consider a "token" contribution to further show the Vision Iowa board that MYCA had the county's support.
  • Scouting survives: Even in high-tech age, youths learn to 'Be prepared'

    08/06/2006 7:41:01 PM PDT · by fgoodwin · 3 replies · 226+ views
    Herald-Mail ^ | Sunday August 6, 2006 | CANDICE BOSELY
    Scouting survives: Even in high-tech age, youths learn to 'Be prepared'http://www.herald-mail.com/?module=displaystory&story_id=144116 Sunday August 6, 2006 by CANDICE BOSELY candiceb@herald-mail.com TRI-STATE - These are a few of their favorite things: Cell phones and cookies, iPods and pop-up tents, video games and wilderness badges. Seeing teenagers - and children even younger - talking or sending text messages on cell phones, fiddling with mp3 music players and playing video games are common sights. Girl Scouting and Boy Scouting might almost seem passé, given the associated images of camping, surviving in the wilderness and sleeping in wooden cabins at camp. But it's not antiquated...
  • Rabies Shots Urged for 950 Girl Scouts

    08/06/2006 8:33:56 AM PDT · by nuconvert · 37 replies · 3,823+ views
    Maimi Herald/AP ^ | Aug. 6, 2006
    Rabies shots urged for 950 Girl Scouts Associated Press LEESBURG, Va. - Officials are recommending that nearly 1,000 Girl Scouts who may have been exposed to rabies at a Northern Virginia camp consider getting protective vaccinations. There is only a small chance that any of the girls were infected by bats that were found in some of the sleeping shelters at Camp Potomac Woods, Loudoun County officials said. But authorities are erring on the side of caution because around 1 percent of bats carry rabies, a viral disease that is incurable once symptoms appear. Bats can bite children in their...
  • America Supports You: Two Girls Continue Treasure Hunt for Troops (Extreme Cuteness WARNING!)

    07/06/2006 5:16:11 PM PDT · by SandRat · 13 replies · 1,059+ views
    American Forces Press Service ^ | Ashleigh Covington
    WASHINGTON, July 6, 2006 – Inspired by the book "A Treasure Trove," by Michael Stadther, and the Disney movie "National Treasure," 10-year-old Rachel and 8-year-old Kelsi Okun created their own scavenger hunt to raise scholarship money for military children and spouses. Rachel (right) and Kelsi Okun during an event held to promote their organization, "ThanksUSA." The two girls created a national treasure hunt to raise money for scholarships given to family members of active-duty servicemembers. Courtesy photo  (Click photo for screen-resolution image);high-resolution image available. Their idea, which they dubbed "ThanksUSA," quickly captured the attention of their parents, teacher, neighbors, major...
  • Marine Band San Diego supports annual Girl Scout cookie mission

    05/18/2006 5:23:59 PM PDT · by SandRat · 2 replies · 353+ views
    Marine Corps News ^ | Staff Sgt. Jeff Janowiec
    MARINE CORPS RECRUIT DEPOT SAN DIEGO (May 19, 2006) -- Marine Band San Diego sent a delegate of five Marines to the locally harbored USS Midway on Saturday where they provided patriotic music for the Girl Scout Operation Thin Mint 2006 Sendoff Celebration. Girl Scouts by the hundreds, troop leaders and parents gathered on the large carrier’s deck and surrounded the center stage waving miniature American flags while the brass quintet played patriotic music. The girls met on the ship as a formal way to send massive quantities of cookies sold throughout the year to the troops deployed overseas. Bill...
  • Muslims find opportunities to reinforce values, share culture in Girl Scouts

    05/11/2006 8:57:51 AM PDT · by radar101 · 40 replies · 892+ views
    San Diego Union ^ | May 11, 2006 | Helen Gao
    A devout Muslim, Lallia Allali was drawn to the Girl Scouts because it shares many of the values of her religion, such as an emphasis on moral character, service and charity. That's why about two years ago, Allali founded three Muslim Girl Scout troops at the Islamic Center of San Diego, the largest mosque in San Diego County, where her husband is the imam. “In Girl Scouts, it teaches you to be confident. In Islam, it says you should be confident and never give up,” said Layla Elmi, 10, who attends school at the Islamic Center. “You can be friends...
  • 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 · 809+ 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...
  • Refusal to Subsidize Scouting Is Upheld

    03/10/2006 8:34:42 AM PST · by Crackingham · 29 replies · 575+ views
    LA Times ^ | 3/10/6 | Maura Dolan
    California may refuse to provide subsidies to the Boy Scouts of America and other nonprofit groups that fail to comply with government antidiscrimination policies, the California Supreme Court ruled unanimously Thursday. The state high court's decision gives cities and government agencies the ability to impose antidiscrimination conditions on any group that receives a public benefit. The ruling was one of a handful across the country in which courts have permitted government agencies to exclude the Boy Scouts from programs because the Scouts bar gays and atheists. In a ruling written by Justice Kathryn Mickle Werdegar, the court upheld a decision...
  • Let the troops eat your Girl Scout cookies (Great idea!)

    02/21/2006 6:04:50 AM PST · by Millee · 25 replies · 513+ 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...
  • Anyone have any experience with the Brownies?

    11/18/2005 10:05:30 AM PST · by Maceman · 87 replies · 2,543+ views
    My 7-year-old daughter recently asked if she could join the Brownies like some of her friends. I am inclined not to let her join, because my understanding is that the Brownies (and the Girl Scouts) are not what they were when I was growing up in the 1950s. Still, I hate to deprive my daughter of a valuable experience with her friends. The fact is, I really don't know much about the Brownies, since I was a Cub Scout (and Boy Scout) back in the days when we were allowed to proudly wear our uniforms in school, replete with the...
  • When Feminism Looks Back

    10/22/2005 11:49:32 AM PDT · by WildReeling · 22 replies · 818+ views
    CatholicExchange.com ^ | 10/22/05 | Paul Nowak
    Abortion advocacy has become synonymous with the modern feminist movement. Groups such as the National Organization for Women (NOW) have become so outspoken in their abortion rights campaign that the group is seen as “pro-abortion” as much or more than it is seen as “feminist.” In fact, one of the most recognized feminists groups today that is not pro-abortion has to specify that fact in its name: Feminists for Life. This was not always the case. Early pioneers for women's rights did not ignore the issue of abortion, even though it was illegal at the time and a taboo subject....
  • Scouts targeted in San Diego

    09/25/2005 11:02:20 AM PDT · by Jacob Kell · 92 replies · 3,337+ views
    WorldNetDaily.com ^ | September 25, 2005
    A coalition of homosexual activists and atheists plan to march on a Boy Scout camp in San Diego next month demanding the organization open its membership and leadership to them. The group Scouting For All plans to march and rally at a Boy Scout camp Oct. 9.
  • Please ACLU, Don’t Get Me Killed Saving My Civil Liberties

    09/23/2005 7:11:15 AM PDT · by PurpleMountains · 226+ views
    From Sea to Shining Sea ^ | 9/23/05 | Purple Mountains
    The ACLU has become so divorced from any semblance of common sense, it should be opposed on every front. This organization, which is trying to destroy the Boy Scouts and the Girl Scouts, is now trying to interfere with attempts on the part of local authorities to protect good Samaritans from criminals mixed in with Katrina refugees. Rhode Island recently greeted more than 100 refugees. State police did criminal background checks on every refugee and found that more than half had criminal arrest records — a third of them for felonies. In South Carolina, state police checked every evacuee flown...
  • Girl Scouts National Conclave to Feature Pro-Abortion, Pro-Lesbian Speakers

    09/11/2005 5:39:42 AM PDT · by NYer · 50 replies · 3,526+ views
    Concerned Women for America ^ | August 29, 2005 | Robert Knight
    Dr. Johnnetta Cole, a woman whose radical views forced the Clinton administration to withdraw her name from consideration for Education Secretary, will be one of three keynote speakers at the Girl Scouts USA national convention in Atlanta from October 7-10. Another speaker is Kavita Ramdas, president and CEO of the Global Fund for Women, which, among other things, promotes abortion and feminism. The third speaker is Ann Curry, news anchor for NBC’s Today Show. The choice of the first two speakers indicates that the Girl Scouts show no sign of slowing their plunge into hard-core feminism and political advocacy, at...
  • What happened to the Girl Scouts?

    09/08/2005 6:50:23 AM PDT · by jasoncann · 132 replies · 2,897+ views
    WorldNetDaily.com ^ | Posted: September 8, 2005 | Hans Zeiger
    The Boy Scouts are routinely attacked for standing by traditional standards of moral character, like faith in God and respect for the institution of the family. In the politically correct corners of America, wearing a Boy Scout uniform is like wearing a Nazi brown shirt. In a recent column for the Fredericksburg Free Lance-Star, Rick Mercier criticized President Bush for having visited last month's patriotic Boy Scout Jamboree. "Isn't there something nightmarish about our misleader swooping down on a steaming pit of sweat and testosterone and whipping a throng of brown-shirted youths into a nationalistic frenzy?" he asks. The Philadelphia...
  • Thousands in Cookie Money Stolen From Va. Scout Troop

    08/05/2005 2:52:55 PM PDT · by steve-b · 21 replies · 874+ views
    WaPo ^ | 8/5/05 | Leef Smith
    It took long weekends camped outside their local grocery stores and hours tromping door-to-door, but the Girl Scouts in Springfield Troop 1868 eventually sold enough Thin Mints and Tagalongs to help fund a camping trip to Hersheypark in Hershey, Pa. But then the mother in charge of the troop's cookie sale vanished, as did her young daughter and $4,483 of the cash, troop leaders said. The summer trip was canceled....
  • Girl Scouts Donate 'Boxes of Joy' to Kearsarge Sailors and Marines

    08/02/2005 5:42:17 PM PDT · by SandRat · 4 replies · 195+ views
    Navy NewsStand ^ | Aug 2, 2005 | Journalist 1st Class (SW) Robert Keilman
    PERSIAN GULF (NNS) -- The Girl Scouts of the San Diego Imperial Council donated an assortment of cookies to deployed Sailors and Marines aboard the amphibious assault ship USS Kearsarge (LHD 3) July 26. The cookie donation is in support of the Girl Scouts' ‘Operation Thin Mint,’ which is an effort to give thanks to deployed service members supporting the global war on terrorism. “We received the cookies during a vertical replenishment (VERTREP),” said Master Chief Storekeeper (SW) Jeff Tranovich, Kearsarge Supply Department’s leading chief petty officer. “After we unloaded the boxes, we placed them on the ship’s mess decks...
  • America Supports You: Girl Scouts Send Cookies to Troops

    05/18/2005 5:41:58 PM PDT · by AZHua87 · 16 replies · 544+ views
    American Forces Press Service ^ | May 18, 2005 | Steven Donald Smith
    WASHINGTON, May 18, 2005 – Following each Girl Scout cookie season there are thousands of leftover boxes of unsold cookies. Fortunately, most of these extras are donated to charity. Girl Scouts from Service Unit 80-5 in Woodbridge, Va., and their families packed care packages loaded with boxes of Girl Scout cookies on May 14. The care packages are being shipped to troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. Courtesy photo (Click photo for screen-resolution image);high-resolution image available. This year, Girl Scout Service Unit 80-5, which consists of 23 separate troops from Woodbridge, Va., decided to donate their leftover cookies to American servicemembers...
  • Scouts Deliver Taste of Home to Safeguard Sailors

    05/12/2005 4:21:21 PM PDT · by AZHua87 · 6 replies · 502+ 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,”...
  • Girl Scouts Sue Deadbeat Cookie Buyers

    04/29/2005 9:56:44 AM PDT · by MisterRepublican · 39 replies · 1,684+ views
    WAUKESHA, Wis. -- Girl Scout cookies aren't free, as a few alleged deadbeats are about to find out. One scout group has filed small-claims lawsuits against people who failed to pay up. Christine Slowinski, communications director for the Girl Scouts' Great Blue Heron Council, said the legal action Thursday came only after several efforts to collect the money from sales of cookies in the annual fund-raising campaign over the past two years. The amounts owed by two couples and three other women ranged from $301.42 to $1,485.68.
  • Woman charged in Girl Scout cookie theft

    04/09/2005 11:40:10 AM PDT · by Cagey · 15 replies · 926+ views
    The Burmingham News ^ | 4-8-2005 | MALCOMB DANIELS
    A Shelby County woman with a history of writing bad checks has been charged with theft of $4,848 in Girl Scout cookies. The Shelby County Sheriff's Department charged Doris LeAnn Taylor, 33, of the Shelby community with one count of theft by deception, Sheriff Chris Curry said Thursday. Taylor, a Girl Scout cookie mom, is accused of ordering 3,020 boxes of cookies and then failing to return either money or cookies to the Girl Scouts of Cahaba Council, which serves seven counties. Cookie moms are mothers who take responsibility for supervising sales by a group of Scouts. The Cahaba Council...
  • Operation Thin Mint...Sending Girl Scouts cookies to soldiers overseas

    03/10/2005 12:23:24 AM PST · by quietolong · 10 replies · 827+ views
    WEAU TV 13 ^ | Mar 9, 2005 | Shaun Verbout
    Operation Thin Mint Updated: 3:10 PM Mar 9, 2005 Shaun Verbout Girl Scouts of Indian Waters Council are asking if people want to purchase cookies for soldiers overseas. They call the project "Operation Thin Mint". When you buy girl scout cookies, you'll have the option to purchase some for soldiers as well. The Girl Scouts get money, which goes towards projects in the community; and soldiers get a taste of home. The problem is finding the money to ship the boxes over. It costs over ninety cents to ship one box. So, local business are chipping in to pay for...
  • Man Ticketed For Selling Girl Scout Cookies With Daughter

    03/08/2005 6:40:04 PM PST · by BattleBorn · 33 replies · 2,380+ views
    WNBC ^ | March 8, 2005 | The Associated Press.
    Man Ticketed For Selling Girl Scout Cookies With Daughter POSTED: 8:58 am EST March 8, 2005 UPDATED: 2:22 pm EST March 8, 2005 NEW YORK -- A Long Island man was ticketed in Brooklyn for selling Girl Scout cookies with his 13-year-old daughter. Hoi Louis was in Williamsburg delivering the cookies with his daughter over the weekend. Louis said it was his old neighborhood, before he moved to Bethpage, and he and his daughter have been selling Girl Scout cookies there since his daughter was in first grade. At 4:50 p.m. Saturday a police captain and a uniformed officer pulled...
  • Man Ticketed For Selling Girl Scout Cookies With Daughter

    03/08/2005 8:46:17 AM PST · by Puppage · 112 replies · 3,981+ views
    WNBC Television ^ | 3/8/2005 | Puppage
    NEW YORK -- A Long Island man was ticketed in Brooklyn for selling Girl Scout cookies with his 13-year-old daughter. Hoi Louis was in Williamsburg delivering the cookies with his daughter over the weekend. Louis said it was his old neighborhood, before he moved to Bethpage, and he and his daughter have been selling Girl Scout cookies there since his daughter was in first grade. At 4:50 p.m. Saturday a police captain and a uniformed officer pulled up to their van as they were unloading cookies. Louis said the captain from the 94th Precinct ticketed him for selling cookies without...
  • Girl Scout cookies and office politics

    01/25/2005 10:23:16 AM PST · by SmithL · 25 replies · 1,135+ views
    San Francisco Chronicle ^ | 1/25/5 | C.W. Nevius
    It is that time again -- the season of the tyranny of the Thin Mint. For roughly the next month, Girl Scout cookies will be on sale across the country. Although this is a jolly annual rite in many offices, in others it is a grueling ordeal every bit as competitive as climbing the corporate ladder. It is just too stressful. What do you do, for example, when Bob from down the hall brings in Ashley, his daughter, carrying an invoice sheet and cookie order form? She wants to know if you'd rather have the Caramel deLites, known as "Samoas"...
  • Girl Scouts Get Marching Orders From Liberal Pressure Groups

    07/07/2004 5:25:21 AM PDT · by Nasty McPhilthy · 24 replies · 1,308+ views
    Insight on the News ^ | 7/6/04 | Joy Downey
    "Be Prepared" is a motto I know well. It is the Girl Scout motto and for eight years I was a Girl Scout -- from 1993 to 2001. During this period, I learned many things, including first aid, the discipline to plan and implement long-term projects and, of course, cookie marketing. However, at the national level, that motto means something quite different from what it meant to me and the other girls in my troop. For us it meant be prepared for whatever life had to offer. For the national organization -- Girl Scouts USA (GSUSA) -- it seems to...
  • Pro-Life Group Documents Another Planned Parenthood-Girl Scout Tie

    06/23/2004 6:43:34 AM PDT · by truthandlife · 4 replies · 472+ views
    CNS News ^ | 6-22-04
    A pro-life group says it is outraged that a former Planned Parenthood official is the new executive director of a Girl Scouts council in Omaha, Nebraska. "It is time parents in Omaha and elsewhere investigate the real motives of this once wholesome organization," said Jim Sedlak, executive director of STOPP International, a division of the American Life League. Since March, STOPP International has been conducting research to determine how many of the 315 Girl Scout councils in the United States have some sort of relationship with Planned Parenthood. As of today, 25 of the 108 councils STOPP has classified (23...
  • Nebraska Girl Scout Organization Hires Planned Parenthood Lobbyist

    06/21/2004 6:44:36 PM PDT · by WildReeling · 4 replies · 414+ views
    LifeNews.com ^ | June 21, 2004 | Paul Nowak
    Omaha, NE (LifeNews.com) -- A former Planned Parenthood official has been appointed to lead the Great Plains Council of the Girl Scouts of America, a move that concerns pro-life organizations. Beverly Todd Nolte, a former vice president of marketing and lobbyist for Planned Parenthood of Nebraska and Council Bluffs, now leads the 11,000 member organization for girls. "It would be naive to believe that Nolte's appointment is a coincidence, or that it won't translate into a stronger Planned Parenthood influence over the young girls who are a part of this council," said Jim Sedlak, executive director of STOPP International, a...
  • Scouts help revive jet's colorful identity

    05/29/2004 6:28:30 AM PDT · by SandRat · 7 replies · 159+ views
    Arizona Daily Star ^ | 5/29/04 | Sarah Garrecht Gassen
    The F-4 Phantom jet standing guard outside American Legion Post 109 on the Southeast Side has been repainted with the red, white and blue it wore when it was part of the Air Force Thunderbirds air-show crew in the 1970s, thanks to the wrangling of a local Girl Scout troop. The plane will be rededicated at a Memorial Day ceremony at 9 a.m. Monday at the McCulloch-Wagner American Legion Post 109 hall, 15921 S. Houghton Road in Corona de Tucson. "To me, it brings the reflection of the airplane and what's been accomplished," said Ernie Salazar Jr., a legion member...
  • Jewish Girl Scouts Win Right To March (Arabs "Offended" By Mere *Existence* Of Little Jewish Girls!)

    05/23/2004 10:38:14 AM PDT · by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle · 54 replies · 276+ views
    Jerusalem Post ^ | 5/22/04 | Lauren Gelfond
    Jewish Girl Scouts in New York, who were warned by the national Girl Scouts against marching in uniform at the annual Israel Day Parade because it would be "insensitive to Arab Scouts," have at the last minute received an okay, a troop leader told The Jerusalem Post. The troop of 11-13-year-old girls in Scarsdale, who recently launched a pen-pal project with Palestinians, was dumbfounded by the initial admonition. Uniformed Girl Scouts in the US, with the strong endorsement of Scout officials, join such festivals as Mexican pride, Hispanic heritage, and Asian New Year. They have also been encouraged to become...
  • Laura Ingraham Show: Girl Scouts Have Relationship With Planned Parenthood

    04/20/2004 6:00:36 PM PDT · by Pharmboy · 20 replies · 237+ views
    Laura Ingraham Radio ^ | April 20, 2004 | Me
    I only heard parts of this show (doing chores in the car) but she reported that 26% of GSA counselors are involved with PP and some GSA chapters use PP material for sex education!Spokespersons for GSA refused to go on the show, but a guy from an anti-PP organization spoke against.I dunno about you folks, but I think this is outrageous and I wanted you to know.The suggestion on the show was for local folks to call up their GSA troop and find out what's what.
  • Pro-Life Group Unveils Findings of Planned Parenthood/Girl Scouts Probe [26% Tied to PP]

    04/12/2004 5:17:29 PM PDT · by Diago · 6 replies · 132+ views
    Pro-Life Group Unveils Findings of Planned Parenthood/Girl Scouts Probe By Melanie Hunter CNSNews.com Deputy Managing Editor April 12, 2004 (CNSNews.com) - A pro-life group investigating Planned Parenthood's ties to the Girl Scouts organization has found that 26 percent of Girl Scout councils have relationships with the abortion provider."But what is even more surprising is that 79% of Girl Scout councils have not disclosed their position on Planned Parenthood by failing to answer a simple question - Do you have any relationship with Planned Parenthood?" said Jim Sedlak, executive director of STOPP International, in a statement. American Life League's STOPP International...