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The Eastside High School football team will travel to Alachua to play Santa Fe High School in a spring football game.
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Metro Atlanta Girl Scouts say they have around 720,000 boxes of cookies stacked in a Georgia warehouse about $3 million worth of Caramel De-Lites, Trefoils, and Peanut Butter Patties that are unsold because of coronavirus-related challenges. “It’s a lot of cookies,” Girl Scout
Najya Robinson told
WSB-TV. “I did not know there was this many cookies left over.”
Although the Girl Scout Council of Greater Atlanta said it initially saw a 150-percent increase in their online cookie orders, that bump wasn’t enough to cover the decrease in the number of in-person sales. “Girl Scout cookies, in a normal year, would not be sitting in this warehouse,
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TROOP 3245 went camping in Ojai before the pandemic and members hope to use cookie profits to go camping again at Lake Tahoe, when it is safe.
The only thing sweeter than an extra week of Girl Scouts cookie season is being able to purchase cookies from Girl Scouts themselves. After nearly two seasons of digital cookie sales, the Girl Scouts of Greater Los Angeles (GSGLA) extended cookie season until April 18 to accommodate newly approved outdoor-distanced boothing.
“The resiliency of our girls never ceases to amaze me,” GSGLA CEO Theresa Edy-Kiene wrote in the email announcement to troops. “Through every challenge, they innovate, create, and overcome. This past year has been somewhat of a rollercoaster, and throughout the ups and downs, loops and drops, we cannot thank you enough for sticking with us as we ride this rollercoaster together.”
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