To: Cookie Managers and Troop Leaders
Subject: [GS] Collecting Cookies for Our Military Troops Overseas

Donna O'Connell has kindly offered to help us distribute cookies to our overseas military. I've forwarded her message below. This information also captured in the new bullet item on our web site in the Cookie Manager section.

In the past years we have worked with the Massachusetts National Guard at Camp Curtis in Reading to help donate Girl Scout Cookies to soldiers overseas.

It's very easy to do and the customers really like donating cookies. When the Girl Scouts are selling at booth sales, have a sign or suggest to customers to buy a box of cookies to donate to soldiers. It's a good idea to have a seperate box (I use a Rubbermaid box decorated with Red, White and Blue) to store the cookies and keep them seperate from the other cookies. Other options are when selling door to door suggest to donate cookies or what we have done in the past, is when we deliver the cookies we include a letter thanking them and offering them the opportunity to donate cookies to soldiers overseas.

I will provide dates and times for each Troop to bring the cookies to Camp Curtis. It's very easy and right in Reading on Haverhill Street. If the dates and times are inconvenient, give me a call and we can figure something out together.

If you have any questions or would like more information, please don't hesitate to contact me.

Thanks,
Donna O'Connell
Cookie Mgr Troop 1277
781-942-2383
donnadoc2001@hotmail.com

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Ralph L. Vinciguerra
Cookie Chair, Reading Service Unit
ralph@vinci.org