Local Girl Scouts kick off cookie season

“Our goal is to educate girls now so they are prepared for the future”. By purchasing a box of cookies, supporters are helping girls learn Five Skills: goal setting, money management, business ethics, people skills, and decision making.

The Girl Scout Cookie Program is still the premier entrepreneurial program for girls, and selling cookies for the troops also allows the girls to earn a Gift of Caring patch. You can buy them online with the new app “digital cookie”. The scouts will be selling the cookies through March 27. Proceeds from Girl Scouts of Connecticut’s Cookie Program stay in CT and directly benefit all of the Girl Scouts in CT, including the Girl Scout troop or group from which the cookies were purchased.

In addition to the traditional methods of taking orders, orders can also be placed through “Digital Cookie”. “She baked cookies in her oven”, said Beth Chatterton, manager for scout service Unit 97 of Wicomico County. First phase is the initial ordering, second phase is continuing to sell cookies after the initial order, and the third phase is the booth sales. Toffee-tastics, gluten-free buttery cookies with toffee bits, are new and available in limited quantities. A mere gaff from classmates when she raises her hand, not making the team, bullying or a delicate BFF situation, no weekend adventures planned, combined with hours of time spent watching life on social media… can define or rather limit a girl’s realization of her best self. “It’s all girl-led; we advise them, but they do the work”.

Eight varieties of cookies are offered this year: Thin Mints, Samoas, Tagalongs, Trefoils, Do-Si-Dos, Savannah Smiles, Rah Rah Raisins and Toffe-tastics.