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Media Releases
One Case of Thin
Mints, One Case of Samoas...
Girl Scout Cookie Deliveries Start
February 17!
Media Contact:
Ann Marie van den Hurk, APR
302-456-7170
avandenhurk@cbgsc.org
Newark, DE,
February 14, 2006:
One
case Thin Mint, one case Samoa… Girl Scouts will start delivering
your Girl Scout Cookies to your door starting on February 17 and you
can stop by a Girl Scout Cookie Booth to get your cookies if you
missed your favorite Girl Scout this year!
The Girl Scout
Cookie program is more than just selling cookies, but has an impact
in girls’ lives by giving them real life skills such as money
management, decision-making, and goal setting... skills they need
for today and tomorrow.
The beneficial
effects are evidenced by the fact that many of today’s businesswomen
cite selling Girl Scout cookies as their first step toward
successful careers.
Community members
can purchase Girl Scout Cookies directly at Cookie Booths in grocery
stores, drug stores, and churches throughout the Delmarva Peninsula
starting on February 17. For more information call 1-800-YUM-YUM2 or
go to
www.girlscoutschesapeakebay.org through March 12. Cookies are
$3.50 per box.
All the proceeds
from this program stay here in the communities the Girl Scouts come
from, directly benefiting all of the Girl Scouts in our community,
including the Girl Scout troop you buy Girl Scout cookies from. In
2005, over 7,700 Girl Scouts on the Delmarva Peninsula
learned money management and marketing skills in the Cookie Program
with over 1 million boxes sold to their communities.
Approximately 18,000 girls participate in Girl Scouts each year on
the Delmarva Peninsula. The Cookies
• All Abouts
-- a shortbread cookies have a series of Girl Scout messages
embossed on top and a rich fudge coating on the bottom.
• Café –
New for this year! Caramelized with brown sugar and a hint of
cinnamon spice.
• Do-si-do -- oatmeal peanut butter cremes.
• Lemon Coolers—
reduced fat bite-sized lemon cookies covered in
powdered sugar
• Samoas -- a caramel and toasted coconut cookie.
• Tagalongs
-- a layered cookie featuring smooth peanut butter and chocolate.
A zero trans fats cookie.
• Thin Mints
-- our bestselling chocolate-covered mint cookies.
• Trefoil – the original Girl Scout cookie -
shortbread.
Cookies are $3.50
per box.
Operation Taste of Homesm
Since 2003, Girl Scouts of the Chesapeake Bay Council
Operation Taste of Homesm
has provided over 70,000 boxes of the Girl Scout cookies to
our Armed Forces overseas via the USO thanks to the
generosity of the community. The USO located at Dover Air Force Base
distributed the cookies all over the world. This project gave girls
the opportunity to make a positive difference for our women and men
in the armed forces overseas. Join Girl Scouts for Operation
Taste of Home: Tailgate for Troops on February 18
at locations all over the community.
The mission of Girl Scouting is to build girls of courage,
confidence, and character, who in turn make the world better place.
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The 2006 Cookie Program theme is Be Brilliant. It focuses on
science. Girls who take part in the cookie program activities become
students of the Institute of Cook-E-ology and learn the Formula 4
Success: They can do anything!
2006 Cookie Program Fact Sheet
Radio PSA
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