For at least three years now, a Greeley-based Girl Scout troop has donated unsold cookies to a local organization or entity.
This year, Greeley-Evans School District 6 was the lucky benefactor of 59 cases of Thin Mints, Tagalongs, Trefoils, S’mores and other flavors. With 12 packages to a box, that’s plenty of cookies to distribute to district teachers and staff.
The donation from the 21-member troop 128 was a thank you to the district employees for their work during the COVID-19 pandemic. Officially, the district was recognized at end of the cookie-selling season as the troop’s hometown heroes.
“Because not only did the students have to be taught at home, but the teachers had to go through different things,” troop leader Mary Pickering said.
Pickering said the girls in the troop are between 6 and 13 years old, from entry-level daisies through the older cadettes for girls in grades 6-8.
The girls selected District 6 as the hometown heroes during a troop meeting. Pickering said in the past the troop has donated left over cookies to the Weld County Sheriff’s Office.
Many of the girls attend District 6 schools, Pickering said, though some go to schools in Windsor and Weld RE-1 School District for students in Gilcrest, LaSalle and Platteville.
The girl scouts dropped off a truckload of cookies at the district office on March 23 in downtown Greeley. From there, the cookies were to be distributed to schools and buildings.
“I think they are a bunch of really smart girls,” said Pickering, who became involved with the troop a few years ago through her granddaughter. “They know what’s going on and talk about what’s going on. They’re pretty good kids.”
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