Editor’s note: Please note this correction. The cookie drop-off location this year was at Emmanuel Reformed Church in Morrison, IL. Super Wash, Inc. offered their site in past years.
Morrison, IL, Girl Scout troop leaders took receipt of thousands of boxes of cookies on Monday, February 20, 2017. They were parceled out to five levels of Scouting: Daisy, Brownie, Junior, Cadette, and Senior Girl Scouts. Troop members soon will deliver these treats to their cookie customers. Many people donated boxes of cookies to the Military. Those were shipped directly from the manufacturer, “Little Brownie Bakers.”
Below are a pickup-truck’s fill of cookies, delivered to Emmanuel Reformed Church, for Troop #1504. Eight varieties–totaling 3088 boxes–were sold by Girl Scouts in grades Kindergarten through fifth. In this troop of 25, 23 girls chose to sell cookies. Monday afternoon, Leaders Lara Adolph, Hillary Blevins, and Andrea Ramirez transferred the boxes into Blevins’s truck; they were unloaded into the garage of her mother, Stephanie Vavra. The latter two women sorted them into 23 piles per each girl’s order. Parents arrived between 6:00 and 8:00 p.m. to pick up the cookies. Boxes were moved seven times, from when they landed on the Super Wash floor, to when they entered the parents’ homes.
Once there, families and Scouts will divide the boxes into individual customer orders, in preparation for delivery.
Leaders Adolph, Ramirez, and Blevins, left-to-right, completed the stacking in the garage in one hour. They were assisted by the Adolph sisters: six-year-old kindergartener Lara and three-year-old preschooler Leau.
For the convenience of people who did not place an order during the initial sale and for those who wish to purchase more deliciousness, there will be a Booth Sale on Saturday, March 11, at Sullivan’s Foods, 300 N. Madison Street, Morrison, from 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. Cheryl Neumann‘s Cadette troop #5294 and her Senior troops #5005 and #5066 will be at your service.
When you purchase a box of Girl Scout Cookies, you are investing in a girl’s future. Did you know Girl Scout Cookies is the largest girl-run business in the world? Girl Scout troops who participate in sales are raising money to fund their own Girl Scout adventures. Girls choose how to use troop proceeds, whether it’s for travel, financing community projects, attending camp, donating to a worthy cause, or a combination. It’s up to the girls, because Girl Scouts is completely girl-led.
The Girl Scout Cookie Program teaches girls five essential life skills: goal setting, decision making, money management, people skills, and business ethics. One hundred percent of the net revenue raised through the Girl Scout Cookie program in northern Illinois stays with Girl Scouts of Northern Illinois and its local troops. So, customers who purchase Girl Scout Cookies are not only getting a delicious treat–they are also making an important investment in girls living in their communities.
