Girl Scouts team up with the American LEgion to send cookies to Afghanistan

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Girl Scouts team up with the American Legion to send Girl Scout Cookies to Afghanistan

(WOODSTOCK, GA) Come out and support your local community! This year Girl Scout Troop 10428, out of the Hickory Flat/Holly Springs, GA area has the chance to show off what they have learned about the guiding principles behind Girl Scouting. Girl Scouts make a pledge to be honest and fair, friendly and helpful, considerate and caring and courageous and strong. Girls Scout Troop 10428 is taking those values to the streets with their 2011 Girl Scout Cookie Program Gift of Caring!

These girls are learning about money management, entrepreneurship, self-confidence and what it means to give back. The girls will have areas set up to take donations for the American Legion Auxiliary Unit 45 in Canton. Any patron wishing to donate a box of cookies will have the option to donate to our troop’s Gift of Caring project and send to our troops overseas. The girls will also have the opportunity to help pack the care packages being sent!

So far, we have collected approximately 200 boxes of cookies and our goal is to send 500 boxes of Girl Scout Cookies to our troops! If you are interested in donating please come by one of the following locations:

Family Tradition,7830 Hickory Flat Hwy. Woodstock, GA Sat. 2/26 7a-2p and 5:30p-8p

Hickory Flat Kroger, 6766 Hickory Flat Hwy. Canton, GA Sun. 2/27 11am-8p

Mon. 2/28-1:30-8p

Wed. 3/2 1:30-8p

Terminus Bldg. 3280 Peachtree Street, (Cafe Street) Atlanta GA Thurs. 3/2 4-7p

For additional information for Troop 10428: please contact, Alissa Cook, Troop 10428 Co-leader and Cookie Chair at (404)545-7513. Email address: Alissa@alissacook.com; 678-395-3398

For more information for Girl Scouts of Greater Atlanta, please contact Melissa Brandon, mbrandon@gsgatl.org or phone 770-702-9172.

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Girl Scouts of Greater Atlanta, Inc. is the premiere leadership development organization for girls, serving over 41,000 girls with almost 18,000 adult members in 34 counties in the greater metropolitan Atlanta area, northwest Georgia and Polk County, TN. Girl Scouting builds girls of courage, confidence and character, who make the world a better place. For more information on how to join, volunteer or donate to Girl Scouts of Greater Atlanta, Inc. call 800.771.4046, or visit www.gsgatl.org. For information on the national organization visit Girl Scouts of the USA’s Web site at www.girlscouts.org.