Girl Scout cookies have arrived

In just a few days, you can satisfy your Girl Scout cookie cravings.

Those boxes of Thin Mints, Samoas, and even the new S’mores cookies, will be available by March 3 and through March 26 when cookie booths are set up around the region. Those boxes were picked up by troops on Saturday, including more than 425,000 packages at Planes Moving & Storage on Cincinnati-Dayton Road in West Chester Twp.

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Overall, the Girl Scouts of Western Ohio will have distributed more than 2.9 million boxes on Saturday to more than 2,300 troops in 32 counties throughout western Ohio. That includes about 1,000 troops representing just under 10,000 Girl Scouts, said Devon Beck, product sales manager for the Girl Scouts of Western Ohio’s Cincinnati region.

About 450 of those troops will pick up their cookies in West Chester Twp. so they can set up cookie booths to raise money for their troops.

“This means the world for these girls,” said Beck. “They’re selling cookies so they can go to camps, do community service projects. It’s kind of that linchpin holding their troops together.”

At the Cincinnati-Dayton Road location, they’ll have all sorts of vehicles picking up cookies, including U-Haul trailers. This year they had a Rhinegeist van and a horse trailer pick up cookies.

“Those are some of the highlights, for sure,” Beck said of the variety of ways cookies are picked up. “This is the first time I’ve seen a horse trailer come through. That might be my favorite.”

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This was the first time for Erin Martel, who helps with a third-grade troop out of Wyoming.

“It’s pretty amazing,” she said of the scores of pallets of boxes. “A lot of girls did a lot of hard work to sell these cookies.”

Teresa Detherage was picking up for eighth-grade girls, Troop 49468 out of Hamilton. Saturday meant one thing.

“It’s business time now,” she said.

Her troop has seven girls, and now that they’re older they’re looking for more adult activities. This past year, they went to northern Ohio and visited Cedar Point and Put-in-Bay “and it was their first grown-up trip.”

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Now they want to save up for an out-of-state trip, Detherage said.

“They’re wanting a more tropical location,” she said. “Like a cruise.”

It will take a couple of years to save up for that trip, although Detherage said, “We probably can make it work.”

The pickup was also a fundraiser for the Lakota East softball team. Student and parent volunteers worked the several rows for cars to pick up cookies.

If it wasn’t for the line of cars waiting to pick up cookies, hunger may have gotten the better of freshman Jessica Church.

“It makes me hungry,” said Church, who had a particularly close eye on the Do-Si-Dos. “I want to eat them. We have to get rid of them.”

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FIND GIRL SCOUT COOKIES

If you don't see a local Girl Scout troop selling cookies at a local grocery store — and no one at your work is helping their daughter sell cookies — find your local supplier at gswo.org/findcookies.

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