The sale of Girl Scout cookies supports many activities, such as this spring’s outdoor skills training. Girl Scouts and leaders learned knot-tying, how to pitch a tent, start a fire, cook over a campfire and more.
I’m MaeAnna LaFavor of Girl Scout Troop 4110 and Halle Bockovich of Troop 4135 and I found a unique way to share Girl Scout cookies this year. We have a cousin, Kristy Thompson of Grand Marais, serving in Afghanistan. We wanted to do something nice for our soldiers. We were able to get a generous family to purchase cases of Girl Scout cookies to be donated and dispersed.
I found an organization called Operation Minnesota Nice that raises money to ship packages to soldiers. So with a trunk full of Girl Scout cookies, I headed to the Cities to deliver the cookies to be shipped to soldiers actively serving in the military.
To be sure Kristy received cookies quickly, our troop also shipped cookies directly to Kristy.
It was fun and an honor to recognize and thank soldiers for their duty to us and what better way than with a box of Girl Scout cookies? One of the kinds of Girl Scouts cookies is called “Thanks-ALots.”
Thanks-A-Lots are shortbread cookies with a chocolate coating, imprinted with “Thank You” in various languages. These particular cookies make great Girl Scout S’mores! You just melt a marshmallow either over a campfire or even in a microwave and put it in the middle of two Thanks-A-Lots cookies and you have an instant or “Girl Scout S’more.”
Halle dispersed her donated cookies locally. She was able to donate some to the North Shore Care Center and the remainder to the local food shelf. Halle earned her Bronze Award in Girl Scouting for working with the Food Shelf making “Party Bags.” She thought it would be fun to see Girl Scout cookies available for families who use the food shelf.
Girl Scout cookies are tasty, but more importantly, each troop gets a profit per box sold. That money is used locally to support the troop and its various activities.
Some of the proceeds go to the local council which in our case is called Girl Scouts of Minnesota Wisconsin Lakes and Pines. They are headquartered in Duluth, Minnesota. A portion of cookie sales helps keep Girl Scout camps open. In our council we have five camps. Now is the time to be thinking about sending your daughter to summer camp.
Girl Scouts is alive and well in Grand Marais and Cook County. Most troops meet by grade levels. For more information about joining or volunteering with Girl Scouts, you may contact Laura LaFavor at (218) 475- 2390.
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