Local girl scouts and their families gathered at the Senior Center on Friday, January 9th for the 1st Annual Malad Cookie Rally.  The event’s focus was to build excitement around cookie season and allow the girls to practice some of the necessary skills needed for cookie sales.  Each girl received a passport at check in with each booth listed.  As they went to each booth they got their passport stamped and got to sample a cookie.  Makinzie Shandrew ran a pretend cookie booth, which allowed the girls to practice selling cookies and handling money.  Stacey Clark manned a cardboard door where they could practice their sales pitch and how to answer some more difficult responses when going door to door.  Katy Maughan had a booth themed around setting goals.  The girls got to write down their cookie goal and then start thinking of what they would like to do with their troop with their cookie proceeds.  

We try to focus on a fun event and a way to give back to the community.  Cadette Zaira H. created a cookie trivia game and Annabelle S. put together information about our cookie mascot this year, the black footed ferret.  Girls got to vote for the name of the 3D printed ferret that will be visiting cookie booths this year.  Adventureful was the winning name, after the brownie and caramel flavored cookie.  Cadette Olivia S. created cookie themed props and ran the photo booth and Lilly J. helped the girls create pop up ferret boxes or make signs for cookie sales.  There was a representative from Girl Scouts of Silver Sage on hand to talk about Girl Scout camp and show some of the different incentives available based on the amount of cookies sold.  The most popular event of the night was the raffle, with prizes such as girl scout cookie themed winter gear, various craft kits and a Disney Headbandz game.  The event was a success and we look forward to planning next year’s event.

Cookie sales started on Friday, January 20th.  You can anticipate girls going around to local businesses and residences asking if you would like to buy Girl Scout cookies.  Girls now have the ability to accept credit cards, Venmo and Paypal if they have signed up to use the Digital Cookie app.  Cookies will be delivered after Valentine’s Day and booth sales at local businesses will start as early as Friday, February 19th.  We do have a Gluten Free option, Caramel Chocolate Chip.  There is a new cookie this year called Exploremores which is inspired by Rocky Road ice cream.  If you are unable to eat the cookies then please consider donating them.  We try to keep all our donations local to Oneida County.

If you have any questions about Girl Scout cookies or have a school aged girl interested in joining Girl Scouts, please contact Kristy Zahn at 714-726-6687 or 
[email protected].