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Media Releases
Helping Girls Be
Brilliant!
Girl Scout Cookie Program Starts
Jan. 14, 2006!
Media Contact:
Ann Marie van den Hurk, APR
302-456-7170
avandenhurk@cbgsc.org
Newark, DE,
December
15, 2005:
The
Girl Scout Cookie program encourages girls to be
brilliant! The program encourages girls to discover her unique
talents and skills.
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. Girl Scouts will be out
in your community taking Girl Scout cookie orders starting on
January 14, 2005.
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
learned money management and marketing skills in the Cookie Program
with over 1 million boxes sold to the community.
Approximately 18,000 girls participate in Girl Scouts on the
Delmarva Peninsula each year.
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. 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 or call 1-800-YUM-YUM2 or go to
www.cbgsc.org through April.
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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
Community Specific Releases:
State
of Delaware
Dover, DE
Newark, DE
New Castle County, DE
Kent County, DE
Sussex County, DE
Cecil County, MD
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