Amador County – Girl Scouts Cookie Season has officially begun, and will help raise funds and teach future leaders among the 29,000 Girl Scouts in 18 counties of the Sacramento region. Girl Scouts officials said the 2011 cookie selling fundraising season officially begins Jan. 14.
Jennifer Lemos of the “Girl Scouts Heart of Central California,” based in Sacramento, said the annual cookie sales season runs Jan. 14 through to March 20.
The cookies are $4 per box, and this year’s flavors and features include eight different labels. They are: Thin Mints, Carmel deLites, Peanut Butter Patties, Peanut Butter Sandwiches, Shortbread, Lemonades, Thanks-A-Lots, and the newest cookie, Shout Outs, a Belgian-style caramelized cookie.
In another change this year, Lemos said, the Thanks-A-Lots cookies will have a new “green” packaging which “will eliminate 150 tons of paperboard” from the recycling stream.
Girls Scouts was founded 99 years ago, in 1912 and Lemos said it is “still the leading authority on girls’ healthy development, and builds girls of courage, confidence and character who make the world a better place.”
The local council, “Girl Scouts Heart of Central California,” is headquartered in Sacramento and serves nearly 29,000 girls in 18 counties in central California.
Lemos said: “Through Girl Scouting, girls become leaders in their daily lives and prepare for their bright futures.” She said the cookie sales program “provides an important ingredient for leadership by helping girls develop five key skills” of “goal setting, decision making, money management, people skills and business ethics.”
After paying the licensed baker, all proceeds from the Girl Scout Cookie sales program stay within the local council area to help support troop activities and provide essential services to membership. Lemos said the program is one of the few youth programs in the country that “allows girls to make a decision, on where a portion of the profits are applied.”
For information, go online to girlscoutscc.org.
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