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Show Facts about cookies Facts about Girl Scout Cookies: The most popular type of Girl Scout cookie is the Thin Mint. The Trefoil is the original Girl Scout cookie. All Little Brownie Baker cookies are baked using vegetable shortening shorten-ing and contain no preservatives or artificial flavors. Girl Scout cookies baked by Little Brownie contain complete nutritional nutri-tional information including U.S. Recommended Daily Allowances and sodium content. All Little Brownie Baker Girl Scout cookies are wrapped in cellophane to preserve freshness. Girl Scout cookies freeze well, while retaining their freshness for months. The organization is open to all girls ages 5 through 17 (or in kindergarten through grade 12). They all subscribe to the ideals of the Girl Scout Promise and Law, which states: On my honor, I will try: To serve God and my country. To help people at all times, and to live by the Girl Scout Law. "When a Girl Scout gives her honor, she is giving everything she stands for pride in herself, love of the truth, and the tenacity to spend every bit of energy she has on maintaining main-taining her honor," said Shelly Blundell, assistant service unit director di-rector for the South Davis Girl Scouts. Girl Scouting is an all-girl organization devoted to meeting the specific needs and interests of today's girls. The organization offers limitless opportunities in learning, exploring and fun. Through these activities, girls learn how to become the mothers, business busi-ness executives and community leaders of tomorrow, said Blundell, who has 17 girls in her troop. The Girl Scouts gives girls from all segments of American life a chance to develop their potential, to make friends, and to become a vital part of their community. Based of the ethical values, the program opens up a world of opportunity for the girls, she said. There are five age levels of Girls Scouts. The activities for each level One of their assignments is to research re-search another country's struggle for political, racial and religious freedoms. They get to cross-country ski the scenic Wasatch Mountains and sometimes even travel to other states or foreign countries. The Girl Scout program is a continuous con-tinuous adventure in learning that offers every girl a broad range of activities which address both her current interests and her future role as a woman. Tiirough activities that stimulate self-discovery, the girls are introduced to the worlds of science, the arts, the outdoors and people, said Blundell. The girls grow in skill and in self-confidence. They have fun, they make new friends, and through meaningful community service they acquire understanding about themselves them-selves and others, she added. Part of the Girl Scouts' fun includes in-cludes selling cookies, because the girls receive credits based on their sales. The credits go toward programs pro-grams and camps, where they would normally be charged a small fee for attending, said BlundelL Not only do they receive credits, each girl also gains self-confidence, self-respect self-respect and satisfaction from selling cookies, said Blundell. They also learn about money management, customer relations and following through with deliveries. |