Girl Scout Cookies? We’ll Take 120 Boxes, Belleville American Legion Says – Belleville, NJ Patch

BELLEVILLE, NJ — The following news release comes courtesy of American Legion Post 105 and Sons of the American Legion Squadron 105. Learn more about posting announcements or events to your local Patch site.

American Legion Post 105 and Sons of the American Legion (SAL) Squadron 105 made the day a little sweeter by buying and donating 120 boxes of Girl Scout Cookies to our overseas-deployed troops and our veterans.

As they do every year, Girl Scouts around the country sell cookies as their biggest annual fundraiser. This is the case for Girl Scout Troops 20122 and 20462, both of Nutley, who have sold cookies for the past four years at Post 105. One of the options each year for anyone buying cookies is to donate boxes to be sent to our deployed troops.

Since 2018, the Post 105 Family has annually voted on buying and donating cookies to send to those in uniform who can’t be home during ‘cookie season’. This year, in their largest donation yet, SAL 105 voted to double their purchase from last year, donating four cases to our troops – 48 boxes of cookies – which ended up costing over $200. American Legion Post 105 generously met that donation, bringing it up to eight cases overall.

In addition to that donation, SAL 105 purchased an additional $200 worth of cookies for a project run by SAL 105 Adjutant Rusty Myers, who is also the SAL Detachment of NJ Children and Youth Commissioner, which will be completed in April during American Legion Children and Youth month. Scouts from both Nutley troops, in addition to other local Girl Scout troops, will be delivering those cookies to veterans at VA hospitals and facilities throughout Essex County and New Jersey.

In total, this year our troops and veterans get to enjoy over 100 boxes of Thin Mints, Do-si-do’s, Tag-alongs, and an assortment of all of the other delicious cookies we all look forward to each year. This year’s ultimate donation to feed the sweet tooth of our current and former servicemen from the 105 Family ended up being $600.

The hope is that each bite of a Somoa or a Trefoil cookie reminds the troops of how much the American Legion 105 Family appreciates and values what they do.

Girl Scout Junior Grace Myers of Troop 20122 and Cadette Abigail Myers of Troop 20462 accepted the donation on January 31st, while also making the rounds selling their cookies to everyone else at the Post. There is no shortage of people who look forward to getting their cookies each year, as well as no shortage of people who are generous enough to donate cookies to the serviceman on their own.

The Girl Scouts of the United States of America states that “When you buy delicious Girl Scout Cookies, you’re helping girls fund life-changing programs, experiences, and learning for themselves and their troops all year long. These experiences broaden their worlds, teach them essential skills, and launch them into a lifetime of success.” The girls not only win badges, awards, and incentives based on how many cookies they sell, the process from selling to delivering the cookies imparts on the scouts a sense of responsibility and people skills, as well as the value of goal setting and entrepreneurship.