Tuesday, January 8, 2013
It's that time of year again—get out your wallets and get ready to snack on some of your favorite sweet treats, courtesy of the Girl Scouts of America.
It's time to stock up on your favorite Girl Scout cookies. Not sure where to buy them near you? You can plug your zip code into the cookie finder on the Scouts' website to find out. Can't remember which variety you like best? When in doubt, buy a bunch—or check out the Cookie Guide. And just in case you were wondering just where all that cookie money goes, we did our homework. According to the Girl Scouts of the United States of America, all of the revenue earned from cookie activities stays with the local Girl Scout council that sponsors the sale. This includes the portion that goes directly to the group selling cookies. Councils use their cookie revenue to supply essential services to troops, groups and individual girls, such as …
Monday, December 3, 2012
Bernie's Book Bank just got about 2,230 new titles thank to Westmoor Girl Scouts' book drive for at-risk children.
It took the Westmoor School students about two weeks to collect more than 2,230 new and gently used books for Bernie’s Book Bank, a not-for-profit organization dedicatedto providing books for children in low-income neighborhoods. Junior Girl Scout Troop 41111 led the effort, setting grade-level goals and school-wide goals, making classroom announcements and counting the books throughout the drive. In mid-November, the scouts made a final count and boxed up all the books for Jessie Urban, Director of Operations and Logistics for Bernie’s Book Bank. Urban visited Westmoor on Nov. 16 to pick up the books and talk with the scouts about the organization’s mission. According to the Bernie’s Book Bank website, more than 60 percent of low-income …
Saturday, February 12, 2011
Local Girl Scouts prepare healthy snacks for national webcast.
Their signature may be their Thin Mints, but Girl Scouts across the country (and right here at home) are about much more than cookies—they’ve partnered with First Lady Michelle Obama’s Let’s Move! initiative to promote healthy living and put an end to childhood obesity. In celebration of the initiative’s one-year anniversary, local Girl Scouts teamed up with counterparts from Los Angeles, Atlanta and Washington, D.C., to prepare nutritious after-school snacks for a live webcast Thursday, Feb. 11. “I thought it would be a fun activity to get involved with,” Glenbrook North high school senior Kelsey Murray told Patch. “When I started reading the [Let’s Move!] materials, it sounded so interesting and I love the idea that it’s a volunteer …
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