Chisholm Trail Service Unit --Girl Scout Cookie Sales 2011--Lockhart, Texas

Jan. 17, 2011 - PRLog -- CONTACT:
Chisholm Trail Service Unit-Girl Scouts of Central Texas
Audra Gregg
512-227-6365
tagregg512@yahoo.com
see our service unit website at http://www.ctgsctx.wordpress.com

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

What A Cookie Can Do?

    Every cookie has a mission, beginning January 19
Austin, Texas, January 12 - Girl Scouts of Central Texas will ask customers to help girls do great things by purchasing a box of the tasty treats that not only taste good, but that do good beginning January 19.

    “People say, ‘it’s just a cookie. What can a cookie do’,” says Tracy Morris, Product Program Manager, “a Girl Scout Cookie can do a lot.”
While cookies are only on sale for 38 days, local Girl Scouts reap the benefits all year long. Girls decide where the money goes. A Girl Scout cookie could help girls pay for camp; purchase uniforms and badges; fly a troop to a destination of their choice; or buy school supplies for needy kids. It could also cheer up a soldier far from home. Every cookie has a mission: To do great things.

    With every season of Girl Scout cookies, another generation of girls learns to speak confidently, set goals, make a plan, manage money and believe in themselves. As women, they’ll need these skills, whether their goal is to start a business, or a family.
“The skills taught by the Cookie Program, especially money management and goal-setting, are life skills,” says Morris. “The Cookie Program puts these very complicated and important skills into a situation where girls can comprehend, practice and master them.”

    To ensure the best educational experience possible, Girl Scouts of Central Texas is encouraging cookie customers to ask Girl Scouts any or all of the following questions.

• What cookie do you recommend and why?
• What is your cookie sale goal?
• What has the Cookie Program and Girl Scouts taught you?

    By answering questions correctly and reaching their sales goals, Girl Scouts develop confidence in themselves and their ability to succeed. Confident girls become leaders who make the world a better place, thus achieving the mission of Girl Scouts.

    The cookie sale is January 19-February 25. This season girls will be able to take cookie orders online using approved online tools. Girl Scouts of Central Texas sells eight types of cookies: Thin Mints, Shortbread, Caramel deLites, Peanut Butter Sandwiches, Lemonades, Thanks-A-Lots and new this year, Shout-Outs!

    More information about Girl Scouts, including how to register, can be found at
http://www.ctgsctx.wordpress.com

    About Girl Scouts of Central Texas:
Girl Scouts of Central Texas serves more than 21,000 girls in grades K-12 and nearly 12,000 adult volunteers in 46 Central Texas counties. Headquartered in Austin, Girl Scouts of Central Texas has program centers in Brownwood, Bryan, Killeen, San Angelo and Waco. Through outcomes-based leadership opportunities, girls discover their own potential, connect with others and take action to improve their communities. Girl Scouting offers an array of fun, educational programs focusing on fine arts, science and technology, math, the environment, community service and life skills. Girl Scouts lead with courage, confidence and character, to make the world a better place. For more information, visit
http://www.ctgsctx.wordpress.com

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We are the Chisholm Trail Service Unit in Lockhart, Texas, part of the Girl Scouts of Central Texas. We want to give our girls the best scouting experience possible giving them training and opportunities to be great future leaders.