Annual Girl Scout Cookie Sale Celebrates a Big Birthday for a Cookie!

     Contact: Lori Ebinger Sullivan
     FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: January 11, 2005
     
     CALENDAR LISTING
     Annual Girl Scout Cookie Sale Celebrates a Big Birthday for a Cookie!
     
     WHO:
     Girl Scouts of Broward County
     
     WHAT:
     Annual Cookie Selling Program Activity
     
     Big 30th Birthdays in 2005:
     South Florida super-model Niki Taylor
     Golf legend Tiger Woods
     Oscar Winning Actress Charlize Theron
     Soccer sensation David Beckham
     Baseball great Alex ‘A. Rod’ Rodriguez
     And…The Samoas® Girl Scout Cookie!
     
     That’s right, the Girl Scout original 2½-inch round, striped Samoas® cookies will turn 30 in 2005. Girl Scouts all over Broward will be setting up shop for the 3-week birthday-theme sale. Seven other cookie varieties will be offered with the Samoas®.
     
     WHEN:
     (Thursday) January 20 – (Tuesday) February 8, 2005
     
     WHERE:
     All over Broward County
     
     COST:
     $3.50 per box
     
     Proceeds from the Cookie Product Sale Activity stay within the Broward community, helping to provide ongoing troop funding, programs, council-sponsored activities, camping and support for training our adult volunteers.
     
     CONTACT:
     To find a cookie booth location near you, call Mary Ann Boatright at (954) 739-7660, ext. 230.
     
     PHOTO OP:
     Four Broward locations, where Girl Scouts will be picking up their cookie deliveries, will be open in Oakland Park, Pembroke Pines, Pompano Beach and Sunrise on Jan. 17-19. Contact Lori Sullivan at (954) 739-7660, ext. 219.
     
     MORE INFO:
     Girl Scouts of Broward County, Inc. serves more than 9,100 girls and 4,500 adult volunteers. To learn more, including information about girl registration and adult volunteering visit www.browardgirlscouts.org.
     
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