Kirkwood Girl Scouts Provide Soldiers With a Taste of Home
In 2006, a group of Kirkwood Girl Scouts began sending cookies to soldiers stationed overseas. This year the girls look to deliver 10,000 sweet treats to U.S. troops.
Submitted by Girl Scouts of Eastern Missouri. Girl Scout Troop 485, based in Kirkwood, Missouri, hopes this is the year they break 10,000. The troop's goal is to deliver 10,000 cookies to Operation Homefront Missouri and soldiers stationed overseas. They moved almost 400 cookies in 2006. In 2008, six other troops joined them and they transported more than 700 cookies. By 2010, 44 troops joined the effort and they shipped more than 1,400 cookies. Last year, 148 troops participated and they shipped 7,368 cookies. "It started in 2005 when the girls were in kindergarten," said Lou Kramme, 485's Troop Leader. "Daisies then were not allowed to handle money. They participated in April Showers, a Girl Scouts personal care drive, and parties for …
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