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Then again, so does a whole sleeve of Thin Mints. “Because of the pandemic, I mean, it’s like, people are even more excited they’re like, ‘all right, give me five boxes instead of two,’” said Heather Merritt Gentry, the troop leader for Aspen Girl Scout Brownie Troop 15014. Local cookie hounds won’t find their fix at the usual booths outside grocery stores or near the gondola plaza this season. The Aspen troop took a COVID-cautious virtual approach with online ordering and options for contactless delivery or shipping to customers. “We are setting an example for our girls in Girl Scouts to make socially responsible decisions, and to do the right thing for our community,” Merritt Gentry said. “At times like this, as much our girls want to be out selling cookies and it’s the highlight of the year, we thought it was much more important to teach them the value of respecting what our communities need and being … upstanding citizens.” ....
About the same time Girl Scout Brownie Troop 2148 decided to sponsor a collection drive, a nearby family also was looking for a way to give back to the community. The February Light Show and Diaper Drive emerged as the perfect partnership for the two groups to help others while having some fun. ....
New Mexico Girl Scouts Adapt To COVID-19 Curveball With Technology For Contactless Cookie Sales Feb. 8-March 21 - 8:21 am Annual Girl Scout Cookie Program runs Feb. 8-March 21. Courtesy/Girl Scouts of New Mexico Trails New Mexico Girl Scouts holding up drive-thru cookie booth sign. Courtesy/Girl Scouts of New Mexico Trails Girl Scouts CEO Rebecca Latham GIRL SCOUT News: Albuquerque Today, Girl Scouts of New Mexico Trails kicks off the 2021 Girl Scout Cookie season with a cutting-edge approach powered by the tech sector’s biggest players. In addition to the Digital Cookie ® platform, which launched in 2014 for online ordering, Girl Scouts in New Mexico will now use Amazon Alexa, Google Voice, and the food delivery service Grubhub, to get their trademark cookies into the hands of hungry customers. ....