You’ll soon be saying hi again to the Samoas.
While getting reacquainted with a box (or four) of Thin Mints.
Ditto, for the reunion with the Do-si-dos.
Yep, the Girl Scout cookies hit Morgantown on Tuesday, which means the favorites you ordered will soon be making their way to your kitchen counter and work cubicle.
Uh, just as soon as Tara Hilleary finishes loading her car.
“Hey, I’m working on it,” the Morgantown woman said, laughing, Tuesday afternoon at Mylan Park.
“We’ll get ‘em out.”
Hilleary, who heads up the Daisy troop that includes her daughter, Madelyn, was part of the cookie caravan that rolled into the Hazel and J.W. Ruby Community Center on the rainy day.
The note about the weather is important.
So is the fact that the cars and trucks really did drive into the cavernous center, where the cookies were off-loaded, in one shot, with no raindrops.
“We’re pretty streamlined and efficient here,” Denise Davis said.
Davis is director of product and retail sales of the Girl Scouts’ Black Diamond Council, which is made up of troops across West Virginia, Ohio, Maryland and Virginia.
For the Scouts, the cookie sale amounts to one big teachable moment, incorporating lessons from self-esteem to business ethics.
It works: Girl Scouts across the country move about 200 million boxes a year, and all the money stays in each troop’s local council to fund scouting programs and community outreach efforts.
A total of 7,773 cases (or, the equivalent of 93,276 packages of cookies) were present at Mylan Park for the day.
Regionally, the Black Diamond Council has been known to sell 1 million boxes a year — and Morgantown Daisy Rory Clark really did her part for 2020.
With the help of social media, she made cookie sales in all 50 states.
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