" A mother of three, she also considers Girl Scout cookies to be "pure junk food.
In the past, girls in Girl Scout troops have typically sold cookies and exchange currency face-to-face.
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My Girl Scout troop put flags on graves at the West Point cemetery on Memorial Day.
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Being a girl scout taught me the value of setting a goal for myself and achieving it.
As a former Girl Scout I am thrilled to wish the Girl Scout Organization a 100th Happy Birthday!
Girl Scout troops, for example, have started using GoPayment swipers to accept credit cards when selling cookies door-to-door.
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The difference is that with Thin Mints, Samoas and other Girl Scout treats, "you're buying a product, " says Mr. Trenka.
She was a girl scout (honorable), a debutante (poised), and a teacher (selfless) before beginning her career on Wall Street.
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Every year, my troop supports a local shelter for families of domestic abuse by supplying them with Girl Scout cookies.
Nicholas Ukrainian Catholic Church, was a Ukrainian Girl Scout, went to Ukrainian summer camp, and still speaks Ukrainian with her family.
's 35 employees are welcome to sell Girl Scout cookies in the office, says Ron Trenka, co-owner of the New York digital-marketing agency.
My very first goal as a young girl was to earn every Girl Scout badge in the book and I accomplished that goal!
Mr. Lopez, who says he was unaware of the campaign, notes that Halloween would be a tough day to highlight a Girl Scout.
Anyway, in addition to helping raise money for their organization, you could say the cookie sales help to fulfill part of the Girl Scout promise.
OK, so if peanut butter cookies are made with peanut butter, and oatmeal cookies are made with oatmeal, what are Girl Scout cookies made of?
Morris said he takes the stand despite the knowledge that "99.9% of Girl Scout troops in this country" are run by good leaders, he told WRTV.
"We ought to be able to run the state of Maine without taxing Girl Scout cookies, " said Mr. King, now the state's junior U.S. senator and an independent.
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Mary Yuschak, a former Girl Scout who is corporate controller of Web search firm AltaVista, pledged 100 company shares to the Girl Scouts of Santa Clara County, Calif.
Several Girl Scout Troops (they didn't know him at all) near us have raised money for his family and planted a tree in Erwin's honor....he so loved trees.
In stark contrast to his colleague, Indiana House Speaker Brian Bosma, also a Republican, handed out Girl Scout cookies on the floor of the General Assembly on Tuesday.
It comes back into the Reinsch house in Snickers bars, Ragout spaghetti sauce, Peter Pan peanut butter, Girl Scout cookies, Certs breath mints, and almost any kind of crispy snack food.
So when our family trip to Africa in July 2008 coincided with completing my Girl Scout Gold Award, I knew the chance to make a real difference had arrived.
" Among the tasks of a good Girl Scout was to "have children of your own" and "teach them to be good, hardworking, honorable citizens in our big growing country.
After staff at the local Girl Scout council called counterparts in every state to determine who did and didn't face sales taxes, it quickly became apparent Idaho was an outlier.
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State tax laws regarding Girl Scout cookies vary widely.
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Our goal is nothing less than to transform the philanthropic landscape and create a lasting impact for girls and for the world through the collective power of the Girl Scout movement!
Patricia Vaccarino, owner of Xanthus Communications LLC, a public-relations firm in New York and Seattle, doesn't allow her four employees to pass around Girl Scout cookie or other order forms while on the clock.
Girls can participate in the Boy Scouts through its subsidiary group, Exploring, and a Girl Scout troop in Colorado allowed a 7-year-old transgender child into its ranks last year, although some later protested with cookie boycotts.
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