COOKIE TIME Girl Scouts Kick Off Cookie Sale With Newly Designed Boxes, Same Price
Reported by: Bethany Simmons
Web Producer: Bethany Simmons
Reported: Jan. 3, 2013 10:26 AM EST
Updated: Jan. 3, 2013 1:59 PM EST
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Charleston
, Kanawha County
, West Virginia
If you have been dreaming of Thin Mints and Do-Si-Dos, you soon will be able to sink your teeth into the delicious cookies that you have been craving.
The Girl Scouts kicked off this year's sales with a press conference Thursday to showcase the newly designed boxes. The new packaging was on display at the Charleston Marriott Town Center.
The traditional favorites are back for 2013 including Thin Mints, Trefoils, Do-Si-Dos, Samoas, Tagalongs, Dulce de Leche, Thank U Berry Munch and Savannah Smiles.
The Girl Scouts of Black Diamond Council serves more than 60 counties in West Virginia, Ohio, Virginia and Maryland. The group will be taking orders for the cookies beginning today.
Prices per box remain the same this year at $3.50.
Girl Scouts has 3.7 million girl and adult members worldwide.
Girl Scouting promotes building girls of courage, confidence and character, to make the world a better place.
Juliette Gordon Low organized the first Girl Scout Troop on March 12, 1912, in Savannah, Ga. The organization celebrated 100 years of tradition last year.
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Bethany Simmons
