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Pittsylvania County Girl Scout troop donates โThank Youโ cookies to medical center
Read full article: Pittsylvania County Girl Scout troop donates โThank Youโ cookies to medical centerGirl Scout Troops donate 'Thank You' cookies to PATHS staffCHATHAM, Va. โ One Girl Scout troop expressed their thanks to a group of medical workers by giving them a delicious treat. On Monday, Chatham Girl Scout Troop 845 delivered two large sacks of โThank Youโ cookies to medical professionals at the new Piedmont Access to Health Services (PATHS) in Chatham. This comes after the troop members requested donations from customers to support doctors, nurses and other caregivers during the 2021 Girl Scout Cookie season. The delivery came after the center had exhausted its supply of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, according to a press release. โThe girls concluded their 2021 cookie season as a troop with the delivery,โ 845 troop leader Lisa Wiebking said.
Girl Scouts rebuke Boy Scouts in escalating recruitment war
Read full article: Girl Scouts rebuke Boy Scouts in escalating recruitment warThey called the lawsuit โutterly meritless.โThe Boy Scouts on Saturday pointed to legal arguments in which it blames the Girl Scouts for reacting to its expansion plans with โanger and alarmโ and said the Girl Scouts launched a โground warโ to spoil plans by the Boy Scouts to include more girls. โAs a result of Boy Scoutsโ infringement, parents have mistakenly enrolled their daughters in Boy Scouts thinking it was Girl Scouts,โ the lawyers said, adding that this never occurred before 2018. The lawyers for Girl Scouts said Boy Scouts councils in Illinois acknowledged improperly using the Girl Scoutsโ slogan in Cub Scout recruiting materials and pictures of Girl Scouts to promote a Boy Scouts โScouts Sign-Up Night!โThey said a western Massachusetts Boy Scouts council posted a recruiting flyer on Facebook including a photograph of a girl depicted in her Girl Scouts Brownie uniform. Meanwhile, Ohio Boy Scouts used the Girl Scouts trademark to try to get a local newspaper to write an article, suggesting a storyline entitled โBoy and Girl Scouts Looking for Membersโ even though the recruitment involved only the Boy Scouts, the lawyers said. In Seattle, a Boy Scouts council used the Girl Scouts trademark in social media recruiting materials, the lawyers said.
Danville Girl Scout breaks record for cookie sales
Read full article: Danville Girl Scout breaks record for cookie salesA Danville teen makes history selling Girl Scout cookies. She is the first African American Girl Scout to sell a thousand boxes of cookies in the Virginia Skyline Council 13 years in a row. She said selling that many cookies wasnt really a goal she set out to do, but once Trinity hit the mark year after year she just kept going. I think its a big accomplishment, to use her Girl Scout skills on everyday life. Just to know girl scouting is not just to sell cookies, Tambra said.
Crooks & cookies: Counterfeiters target Girl Scouts
Read full article: Crooks & cookies: Counterfeiters target Girl ScoutsBRADENTON, Fla. โ Itโs Girl Scout cookie season and some crooks are setting their sights, not on the tasty treats, but the cash collected by the troops. Several Florida troops have been targeted by counterfeiters using phony bills to pay for cookies, while asking for change. Itโs a hard lesson to learn, but troop leaders say theyโre teaching the girls what to do next time they sell cookies. โThey might take a little extra time to inspect your money,โ Girl Scout leader Kelly McGraw says. Troop leaders have reported the crime to police in Bradenton, Florida.