If you haven’t gotten your stash of Peanut Butter Patties, Thin Mints, other favorite Girl Scout cookies or the new Exploremores yet this year, there’s still time to grab some. According to Katherine Curtis, executive director of Girl Scouts of Texas Oklahoma Plains which includes the Amarillo area, the deadline for sales has been extended to March 15.
Curtis said the first week of cookie sales went well, but “Amarillo got hit with the winter storm and the next weekend with freezing temperatures, so our season started when the storm hit most of West Texas, and they decided they were going to give the girls more weekends to sell.”
The troops will be selling at some United Supermarkets and Walmarts, and some girls will set up their own booths. To find one near you, you can go to girlscoutcookiefinder.org , and at the top of the website will be a locator of the nearest store near you, according to Curtis.
“We have girls that are going to the GS USA Tri-Annual Convention in Washington D.C. this summer in the cookie program, brought together every three years, or various camps and outings or travel, statewide or internationally,” said Curtis.
There is a Cookie Champion Donor Program that helps young girls unbox the future for Girl Scouts and their success through the Biggest Girl-Led entrepreneual program in the world. If a scout sells 200 cookie boxes, she can earn $1,200 to keep or donate. For 150 boxes sold, she can receive $900 and for 100 boxes sold, she can get $600, according information on the Girl Scouts website.
One enterprising young Scout, Mackenzie McManus, is working hard to donate 250 Girl Scout cookie packages to Transformation Park. She worked to organize a project that involved assembling care packages, with basic personal-care items and everyday essentials, to give to the homeless community, as mentioned in a Jan. 14 article in the Amarillo Globe-News.
They are also reaching out to businesses that may be interested in supporting her goal with a donation, and a receipt can be provided as well, if needed for tax purposes. People can make a donation through her cookie link and select “donated cookies,” and an emailed receipt will be immediately available.
According to her mother, Kodie, “Mackenzie’s sales are going great! She’s at about 2,100 packages out of her goal of 3,000. This will be the most she’s sold in a cookie season.
“Last year she sold 2,300 packages. We have four girls in our troop going to Europe in 2027, and they can earn cookie vouchers to cover the cost. They do have the opportunity to also go to D.C. this year for the national convention, but it would take away from what they can put towards their Europe trip, so unfortunately we won’t be able to attend Washington, D.C. this time.”
According to Curtis, the Girl Scout Camp Kiwanis camping site is still our west of Amarillo, and they are working through all the new state laws regarding camping sites, which resulted from the flooding disaster near Kerrville last year. It will not be used as an overnight camp this summer as in the past, along with other youth camps.
This year’s cookie season includes a new flavor, Exploremores, a rocky road–inspired sandwich cookie with chocolate, marshmallow and toasted almond–flavored crème.
Most cookie varieties cost $6 per box, with the gluten-free Caramel Chocolate Chip priced at $7. Proceeds from each box stay local and fun their ambitions, like camping trips and sleepovers at museums.
Local council information is available online at https://www.gs-top.org .
This article originally appeared on Amarillo Globe-News: Girl Scout cookie sales extended this year
Reporting by Nell Williams, Amarillo Globe-News / Amarillo Globe-News
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