It’s cookie season for the Girl Scouts
(Seguin) – Get your tastebuds ready because it’s Girl Scout cookie time. Cookies are now in the hands of local Girl Scouts. That’s according to local troop leader Denise Crettenden. Crettenden says a shipment of 5,000 cookies arrived in Seguin just a few days ago.
“We have nine of the cookies from last year coming back and then we have a new cookie that people have been talking a lot about and it’s called Rasberry Rally. The girls are not going to have those in their hands. Those are going to be available to order online and we are hoping that people take advantage of that. The other slight changes is that we were one of the last councils in this area to still sell our cookies for $4 last year. They have gone up to $5 a box like most other things but the girls are also getting more money per box for their troops this year as well,” said Crettenden.
The list of cookies this year include last year’s new cookie Adventurefuls; Lemon-Up; Trefoils, Do-si-dos; Samoas; Tagalongs; Thin Mints; S’mores; Toffee-tastic (gluten free) and the new online only Rasberry Rally.
Crettenden says each year, girl scouts work hard selling their cookies and each year, those proceeds go back to help each troop.
“Obviously, the bakery gets a percentage because they bake the cookies and then our local council who has the staff and the Girl Scout shop and runs all the things to support the girls, they get a percentage and then each troop gets a percentage from that box based on how many boxes are sold in the troop and then the girls decide what to do with that money. So, lots of it goes to service projects, troop activities things like badges and lots of trips, camping trips, field trips, overnight trips even international trips,” said Crettenden.
Cookie booths will be available in various places around town especially throughout the weekends. To make things easier, Crettenden says customers will want to go online and find out the nearest booth.
“If people are looking for cookies and they don’t know a Girl Scout, they can go on the Girl Scouts of South Texas website and there is a cookie finder. They just enter their zip code and it will tell you all the booths and it will even tell you some troops that you can order from who will get those cookies to you. So, that’s GirlScouts-swtx.org.” said Crettenden.
Again, boxes this year are $5 each. For the nearest booth, visit girlscouts-swtx.org and click on the cookie tab.