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Operation Taste of Home
Girl Scouts to Deliver Over 33,000 boxes of Cookies

Media Contact:
Ann Marie van den Hurk, APR
302-456-7170
avandenhurk@cbgsc.org

Newark, DE, April 28, 2006:  Girl Scouts give the Armed Forces a taste of home. On May 3, Girl Scouts will deliver over 33,000 boxes of the Girl Scout Cookies to the USO at Dover Air Force Base, Delaware Air National Guard, and Perry Point VA Hospital for members of the armed forces serving overseas and recovering from wounds. Our goal was 35,000 boxes.

We would like to thank the community for their support of Operation Taste of Home!

A convoy of Girl Scout cookies and Girl Scouts will be delivering on Wednesday, May 3:

9:00 Perry Point VA Hospital, Perry Point, MD
10:30 Delaware Air National Guard, New Castle, DE
12:30 USO at Dover Air Force Base (North Gate)

Since 2003, Girl Scouts of the Chesapeake Bay Council Operation Taste of Home has provided over 100,000 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.

Girl Scouting builds girls of confidence, courage, and character, who make the world a better place. We do that by providing girls with personal leadership development and programs that build real life skills for the real world. To learn more about Girl Scouts of the Chesapeake Bay Council, visit www.girlscoutschesapeakebay.org .
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The 2006 Cookie Program theme was Be Brilliant. The Girl Scout Cookie program encourages girls to be brilliant! The program encourages girls to discover her unique talents and skills.

2006 Cookie Program Fact Sheet
Recipes for Girl Scout Cookies