Girl Scout Season Begins 100th Year with New Cookie, Locator Apps
Friday, Jan. 6 marks the start of the 2012 Girl Scout Cookie Program.
Through mid-March, thousands of Girl Scouts will take orders for your favorite Girl Scout cookie varieties, including Do-Si-Dos, Dulce de Leche, Samoas®, Tagalongs®, Thank You Berry Munch, Thin Mints or Trefoils.
In celebration of Girl Scouts’ 100th anniversary in 2012, a new Girl Scout Cookie is making its debut: Savannah Smiles, named after the Georgia city in which Juliette Gordon Low founded Girl Scouts in 1912. Savannah Smiles is a lemon-flavored cookie dusted in powdered sugar that is sure to become a fast favorite.
Girl Scouts in west central Florida will take pre-orders Jan. 6 to 27, to be delivered beginning Feb. 16.
Friday, Feb. 24 marks the start of booth sales, so keep an eye out at your favorite businesses and stores and take a box — or a dozen — home with you.
Also beginning Feb. 24, visit www.gswcf.org and search for a Girl Scout Cookie Booth by zip code using the cookie booth locater system. Cookie fans with smart phones can download the free Girl Scout Cookie Locator (Kellogg) app by calling **GSCOOKIES (**472665437) from their phones, or by searching for “Cookie Locator” in the iPhone App Store or Android Market Place.
Cookie booth sales end Sunday, March 18.
For those who want to support Girl Scouting in their communities but don’t want to enjoy the cookies themselves, GSWCF offers the Cookies from Home Program. This unique program is a way for Girl Scouts to give back to their communities: donations of cookies through the Cookies from Home Program will be sent directly to our military troops serving in combat zones overseas through a partnership with Support Our Troops. Donations to the Cookies from Home Program may be made in person through a Girl Scout at anytime during the Cookie Program, through March 18.
Girl Scout Cookies are not only an icon of American culture, but also the world’s leading entrepreneurial program for girls. Through the program, girls practice useful life skills such as planning, decision-making and customer service. During cookie activities, girls are members of a team working toward a common goal, with each girl striving to do her personal best.
For more information regarding purchasing Girl Scout Cookies and supporting Girl Scouting in your area, visit www.gswcf.org/cookies, or call (800) 881-4475, ext. 1838.
Girl Scouting builds girls of courage, confidence, and character, who make the world a better place. Girl Scouts of West Central Florida (GSWCF) serves nearly 22,000 girls and 11,000 adult members in Citrus, Hernando, Hillsborough, Marion, Pasco, Pinellas, Polk and Sumter counties. GSWCF receives funding from the Community Foundation of Tampa Bay and area United Way agencies. Did you know that more than 53% of all women business owners are Girl Scout alumnae? For more information on how to join, volunteer, reconnect or donate to Girl Scouts of West Central Florida, visit www.gswcf.org or call 800-881-4475.
Editor's note: This is a press release submitted from the Girl Scouts of West Central Florida.
gw
10:12 am on Thursday, January 5, 2012
America needs to kick the habit. NO MORE GIRL SCOUT COOKIES! Why? Besides the fact that your beloved Food Cop, Michelle Obama, would frown upon you for indulging in the mediocre, fatty wafers, is a little known FACT: The Girl Scouts have a long-standing partnership with the largest baby-killing organization in the world, Planned Parenthood. Yep. Look it up. It's true. In addition, the indoctrination of girls by the gay movement is evident. So, sorry, but there are better organizations for girls. Shoot, ANYTHING is better than what they get with the Girl Scouts... and just about ANY cookies are better than what you may have bought from them. Boycott the Girl Scouts until they drop their love affair with Planned Parenthood!
gw
10:13 am on Thursday, January 5, 2012
Here's a GREAT ALTERNATIVE to the girl scouts: http://www.ahgonline.org/
Neal in Denver
10:19 am on Thursday, January 5, 2012
@gw - good luck on your crusade. There are no cookies in the world like Thin Mints. Without planned parenthood thousands of girls and women will die in back alleys at the hands of butchers that you and your ilk will create.
gw
10:57 am on Thursday, January 5, 2012
haha. as expected, out come the ogres of the baby killing clan. nice. right on time. didnt you know that 'thin mints' are only a cheap knock off of just about any supermarket's original version? i'll support my local grocer rather than this politically motivated "youth organization."
look up exactly who planned parenthood really is sometime. you can start with googling their racist, morally deprived founder, margaret sanger. here's just one lead: http://blackgenocide.org/sanger.html after reading up on your history, you can get back to occupying something. perhaps you can then find some time to burn a flag or curse your creator.
gw
10:59 am on Thursday, January 5, 2012
now i've had my say... and i'm not following this thread any longer. say what you will at my expense. i rarely give this much time to evil-doers.
David Olsen
11:09 am on Thursday, January 5, 2012
hahaha, gw talks of a creator, religion has been around X number of years there was millions of years before that, insted of wasting your time bashing people go to a shrink hon, you ve been sucked in by the schizophrenics claiming GOD.
Mom4Life
3:12 pm on Thursday, January 5, 2012
Teen Girl Scout calls for Cookie Boycott http://www.honestgirlscouts.com/#CookieBoycottVideo
Susan Riedley
3:30 pm on Thursday, January 5, 2012
Wrong, Neal in Denver. Keebler makes Grasshopper cookies which taste identical to Thin Mints, are available all-year-round and are CHEAPER. Plus, they do not benefit GSUSA which is deceiving its members and parents by hiding transgender boys in Girl Scout troops against its own claim of being an "all-girl" organization. If they have to lie and cover-up something as basic to their identity as this, they surely have more skeletons in the closet. BOYCOTT GIRL SCOUT COOKIES.