East County resident Brittney Pascoe organized 41 boxes of Thin Mints in the bed of a truck as volunteers passed her more Girl Scout cookies.Â
Pascoe, leader of Girl Scout Troop 34, had to fit 239 cases of cookies the 12 girls in her troop sold into her two cars.Â
Once Pascoe was finished loading, other troop leaders arrived to pick up their orders.
More than 57,000 boxes of cookies were delivered to Camp Honi Hanta Feb. 4 for 41 troops to pick up during Girl Scout Cookie Delivery Day. Troop 42Â sold the most cookies in its pre-order sales, selling 500 cases.Â
Girl Scouts selling cookies is more than about people getting their cookie fix, said Sasha Lioce, the product program manager for Girl Scouts of Gulfcoast Florida.
"It's a program for girls to learn about selling and owning a business," she said. "[Selling cookies] is the legwork to get girls out there."
Each girl sets a goal, and the girls in each troop decide what the money will go toward, Lioce said.Â
If you're looking for cookies but don't know a Girl Scout, go to the Girl Scouts website to find when and where troops will be selling cookies locally. Booth sales begin Feb. 14.Â
Sasha Lioce, Aleksandra Moore and Erika Rolando dress in masks and capes as part of their Girl Scout Cookie Delivery Day's superhero theme.
Sasha Lioce, product program manager for Girl Scouts of Gulfcoast Florida, decorates a building at Camp Honi Hanta for Girl Scout Cookie Delivery Day.
Erika Rolando, service unit manager, rolls in five cases of Do-si-dos.
Large palettes of Girl Scout cookies are unloaded from one truck delivery.
Volunteer Paul Wade and Aleksandra Moore, service unit cookie coordinator, take off the top two layers of cookies so the palette can fit through the doors of the building.
Girl Scout cookies will be available for sale at booths at different East County locations starting Feb. 14. S'mores and Lemon-ups are new cookies this year.
Paul Wade, a volunteer, uses a tractor to unload a palette of Samoas from a truck.
Aleksandra Moore, service unit cookie coordinator, and Sasha Lioce, product program manager, organize dozens of Samoas on a palette to be more easily moved into the building for distribution.
Samoas are one of eight types of cookie Girl Scouts are selling.
Erika Rolando, service unit manager, and Sasha Lioce, product program manager, work together to remove and organize cases of Samoas so the palettes can fit through the doors.
Erika Rolando, service unit manager, moves a palette of Samoas into a corner. Volunteers later organize orders to distribute to troop leaders.
Thousands of cookies are unloaded from a truck to be distributed to Girl Scout troop leaders.
More than 57,000 cookie boxes will be organized into orders for Girl Scout troop leaders to pick up.
Girl Scout cookies are stacked and ready for troop leaders to pick up.
Amber Hill, who is the leader of Girl Scout Troop 7 and Troop 111, helps Brittney Pascoe, leader of Girl Scout Troop 34, load Thin Mints into the bed of a truck.
Victoria Cobb, leader of Girl Scout Troop 165, assists in loading Tagalongs into cars.
Richard Wood helps his daughter-in-law Nadia Wood, who is leader of Girl Scout Troops 885 and 26, load cookies onto the bed of a truck. "He's our official cookie picker-upper," Nadia Wood says.
