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Media Releases
Operation Taste
of Home
Girl Scout Cookies for Our Armed
Forces Overseas
Media Contact:
Ann Marie van den Hurk, APR
302-456-7170
avandenhurk@cbgsc.org
Newark, DE,
February,
2005:
Since 2003, Girl Scouts of the Chesapeake Bay Council Operation
Taste of Homesm has provided over 40,000 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 Homesm: Tailgate for Troops on
February 12 at locations all over the community. Special
Tailgate for Troops are being held at:
Saturn of Newark, 1801 Ogletown Road, Newark - 1:00-3:00pm
Boscov’s, Dover Mall, Route 13, Dover - Noon-2:00pm
JC Penny's, Easton - Noon-2:00pm
Gordy Tiger Mart, Route 13, Salisbury - Noon-2:00pm
Thanks to Saturn, Boscov's, JC Penny, and Gordy Tiger Mart for
hosting Tailgate for Troops!
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 11 or call 1-800-YUM-YUM2 or go to
www.cbgsc.org through April.
Girl
Scout Cookies make a difference here and abroad! Participating in
the Girl Scout Cookie Program makes a difference 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
8, 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 2004, over 8,200 Girl Scouts learned money
management and marketing skills in the Cookie Program with over 1
million boxes sold to the community.
The
Girl Scouts of the Chesapeake Bay, with its 24,000 members on the
Delmarva Peninsula, is part of the world’s pre-eminent organization
dedicated solely to young women. In an accepting and nurturing
environment, young women build character and skills for success in
the real world.
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The 2005 Cookie Program theme is Mission: Possible. It
encourages girls that anything is possible when they try.
Operation Taste of Home - Newark
Operation Taste of Home - Dover
2005 Cookie Program Fact Sheet
Recipes for Girl Scout Cookies
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