Announcement

Girl Scouts Cookie Booth Sales Start

Girl Scouts of California’s Central Coast announced that local Girl Scouts will kick off this season’s Girl Scout Cookie Booth Program throughout the Santa Barbara and Goleta. Booth sales begin February 26, 2011 and continue through March 20, 2011 at many Santa Barbara and Goleta retail locations.The Girl Scout Cookie Program is a hands-on leadership and business program for girls.Proceeds from cookies sales help to support their goals and service projects, as well as support volunteers, provide girl scholarships, and maintain council program centers. To learn more aboutthe Girl Scout Cookie Program, or to locate cookies, visit: www.girlscoutsccc.org.

The Girl Scouts of California’s Central Coast will be selling six cookie varieties, Thin Mints, Samoas®, Tagalongs®, Trefoils, Do-si-dos®, Lemon Chalet Cremes™. Girl Scout cookies are $4 per box.The Girl Scout Cookie Sale will also once again include an opportunity for customers to donate Cookies to support military troops serving overseas through Operation Gratitude. Operation Gratitude seeks to lift morale and put smiles on faces by sending care packages addressed to individual soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines deployed in harm’s way. Last year, supporters of Girl Scouts of California’s Central Coast donated 18,432 boxes of Girl Scout Cookies to Operation Gratitude. This season will is the second year the Girl Scouts set goals to support military troops with Girl Scout Cookie donations.Girl Scout Cookie booths will be hosted by local troops at the following locations throughout the Santa Barbara and Goleta area on Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays between February 26, 2011and March 20, 2011.

Albertsons – Calle Real

Albertsons – Carpinteria

Albertsons – Cliff Drive

Albertsons – Five Points

Albertsons – Pacific Oaks

Gelsons – Upper State

Home Improvement

KMart – Goleta

Lazy Acres – Mesa

Lenscrafters – La Cumbre

Rabobank – Calle Real

Rabobank – Patterson