BROOKINGS – It’s the 100th anniversary of the Girl Scouts selling cookies, and the Brookings Girl Scouts are ready to sell to anybody with a sweet tooth and a couple bucks to spare after they received 1,661 cases of cookies on Thursday.
That amounts to nearly 20,000 boxes of cookies that will help fund the local Scouts’ activities, from service projects to camps.
Jenna Lundgren, a Girl Scout troop leader, helps stack cookies that will soon be distributed to Girl Scouts and their parents.
Penny Crapser, the Girl Scouts’ cookie sales coordinator, carts over cases of cookies to be loaded into parents’ vehicles.
Last year, cookie sales dollars helped send Brookings Girl Scouts to a superhero themed camp that included lessons on strength building and basic taekwondo.
There are 90 girls in the Brookings Girl Scouts with 30 adult volunteers.
Thin Mints are the most popular of their cookies in the U.S., but Brookings’ tastes differ from the national norm, instead preferring Samoas, which are the caramel-coated cookies with chocolate stripes and cocoanut sprinkles.
There are two new cookies for customers to try: the Toffee-tastic, a buttery cookie made with toffee bits and is gluten-free, and the S’more, a cookie version of the summertime treat.
For those who don’t know a Girl Scout to order from, booths will be set up Walmart and Runnings from 4-6 p.m. on Friday and 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on the weekend. They’ll even be at the Larson Ice Center for the Blizzard hockey games Friday and Saturday from 6-8 p.m.
