But they are guaranteed to make more money at the cookie booths that will be set up at places such as Wal-Mart and Northwoods Mall.<\/p>\n
For the girls, the annual cookie sale is an important learning process.<\/p>\n
“We learn how to speak,” said Ashley St. Aubin, 16, of Morton High School, who sold 506 boxes this year.<\/p>\n
Another scout, Savannah Hersemann, 13, of Broadmoor Junior High School, learned the money skills.<\/p>\n
“We learn, we work, and we get to have fun,” said Hersemann.<\/p>\n
Webb said the entire process of the cookie sale involves a lot of hard work, and she believes it is a realization for the girls about responsibilities as they get older.<\/p>\n
“They learn financial literacy, budgeting, communication and organization skills,” Webb said.<\/p>\n
This year, the Girl Scouts of Central Illinois have sold more boxes of cookies than last year.<\/p>\n
“We did have a successful sale,” said Erica Douglas, public relations and advertising specialist with the organization.<\/p>\n
But the tough economy did affect some sales.<\/p>\n
St. Aubin’s big buyer, who bought three cases – 36 boxes of cookies – the previous year bought only 10 boxes this year.<\/p>\n
On the other hand, a lot of people participated in the council’s new program, Operation Cookie Share, where customers can buy boxes of cookies for the soldiers in the war zones of Iraq and Afghanistan.<\/p>\n
Webb said there are some scouts whose families and friends are associated with the soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan.<\/p>\n
The Pekin troop sold 120 boxes that will be shipped to the soldiers. They also will anonymously make a thank-you card for the soldiers that will tag along with the cookies.<\/p>\n
Douglas said 7,000 cases have been sold overall, that is 84,000 boxes, just in this operation.<\/p>\n
The scouts, who earn 20 cents from every box they sell, have different ways of spending their money. Some save it for summer camps, like Hersemann plans to do this year, while others plan to be a part of the big Girl Scout trip to the Mall of America in Minnesota.<\/p>\n
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Riya V. Anandwala can be reached at 686-3194 or ranandwala@pjstar.com.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n Read the original article from Journal Star<\/a>.<\/p>\n Distributed via Chicago Press Release Services<\/a><\/p>\n Girl Scout troop leader Jamie Webb started sorting out about 4,000 cookie cases at 7 a.m. Tuesday at the First Church of the Nazarene. “People are here to unload the semis, we have two trucks,” said Webb, who had 10 to 15 volunteers helping her. The Girl Scouts who took orders in January will be […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-382609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=382609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382609\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/img><\/a>
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