03/02/2007: "Cookie Season Starts Today"

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(left to right are: Front row: Claire Boden, Cady Wilson, Echo Wood; Back Row: Megan Wilson, Hailey Ott, Emma Wickman)

San Juan Island's Brownie Troop 183 sets up "shop" this March with cries of: "Get your Thin Mints. Get your Somoas!"

The annual Girl Scout cookie drive kicks off on Friday, March 2. The dozen members of Troop 183 will be hosting a cookie table outside Islander's Bank from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. and parading through downtown Friday Harbor. The troop will also be at several locations during the month, including King's Market on Sunday, March 4 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., and Marketplace on Mondays, March 5 and 12 from 3 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.

Proceeds from the troop's cookie sales will go toward a special off-island trip as well as into the troop's new philanthropic fund. The girls recently donated money to Heifer International and to Friday Harbor's Family Resource Center.

"Fundraisers like the cookie sale not only give the girls a chance to go have fun away from home, but they teach them how they can make a difference in their community and their world," said troop leader Wendy Wood.

For more information on buying cookies, please call Jan Bollwinkel-Smith at 370-5354.