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Girl Scouts prepare for an annual tradition in the city

By Scott Wagar

02/03/2015

Starting Feb. 13, the members of the Bottineau Girl Scouts will start to sell their Girl Scouts cookies in and around the local community with hopes to raise enough money to assist their troops and provide assistance to Bottineau in local projects. 

“We have 570 cases of Girl Scouts cookies coming to Bottineau,” said Sady Wall, one of the troop leaders for the Bottineau Girl Scouts. “Each case has 12 boxes of cookies and each box cost $4, which equals around $27,000 worth of cookies coming to our community.” 

Girl Scout cookies in the nation date back to 1917 when the Girl Scouts originated a plan to finance troop activities. Since that time, Girl Scouts have also started to conduct community projects in their hometowns.

“The Girl Scouts also use the money to buy materials and to do thing and go places with,” said Wall, who also stated that her own troop utilizes the money they raise to go camping where they work on projects, earn badges and have a fun time. “We don’t get any other outside sources of money. So, if we do not sell very many cookies we don’t have the money to buy crafts, badges and other items to teach our Girl Scouts.

“Money also goes to the community projects,” Wall said. “In past years, Girl Scout troops in Bottineau have purchased playground equipment for Tommy Turtle Park, planted flowers at the park, bought pet food for a local dog pound along with many more projects.

“And, selling Girl Scout cookies helps the girls with their cookie badges,” Wall added. “The cookie badge teaches the girls about being entrepreneurs by planning ahead with what they are going to do with the money and how to be responsible with money through the different levels of the badge as they work toward earning the cookie badge.”  

For each cookie box the Bottineau Girl Scout sells, they get to keep 50 cents for each box. There are 30 Girl Scouts selling cookies and they will sell the cookies from Feb. 13 through March 13. 

Wall stated that the girls enjoy the cookie sale. 

“The girls love it and they enjoy going door to door,” she said. “This has been here for a long, long time and it is a nice activity for girls to do because there are not a lot of activities for girls to do in small towns. It is an opportunity for them to work on a project, learn, have fun and receive money for their troop activities.”