PICATINNY ARSENAL, N.J. - There’s just something that makes cookies so alluring and tempting that it’s understandable if there is widespread agreement with a sentiment attributed to the Sesame Street Cookie Monster: “C is for cookie that's good enough for me.”
Thanks to the efforts of local Girl Scout Troop 98861, donated cookies have made their way to the military housing residents at Picatinny Arsenal.
The cookies were donated to the Religious Support Office at Picatinny Arsenal last week. Two non-commissioned officers, along with the garrison’s Chaplain, Lt. Col. Simon Chang, then worked with the Picatinny Arsenal Housing Office to distribute boxes to military residents throughout the community.
Sgt. 1st Class Randy McKire Jr., and Staff Sgt. Jacqueline Whimple, received the cookies from representatives of Troop 98861.
“Any opportunity we get to enhance the morale of our military members here on Picatinny Arsenal, we jump on it,” Whimple said. “We were just grateful of their support and excitement to donate to us, and that we were able to put a smile on many faces.”
When Girl Scouts take orders or make sales through cookie booths, customers can designate purchases as donations for the Girl Scouts “Cookies from Home” program, in which cookies are later delivered to designated recipients.
“It was great to see the smile on our residents’ faces when we rang their doorbell with a cookie delivery, and it was perfect timing because we are in the Month of the Military Child,” said Dawn Kadow, Picatinny Arsenal Housing Manager.
In 2023, Girl Scouts of Northern New Jersey donated more than 102,000 Girl Scout Cookie packages to local non-profit organizations, emergency services, front-line healthcare and other workers, food pantries, and more, through the Cookies from Home program.
Girl Scouts of the United States of America, commonly known simply as Girl Scouts, is a youth organization for girls in the United States and girls living abroad. It was founded by Juliette Gordon Low in 1912, a year after she had met Robert Baden-Powell, the founder of scouting.
The stated mission of the Girl Scouts is to "[build] girls of courage, confidence, and character, who make the world a better place" through activities involving camping, community service, and practical skills such as first aid. There are roughly 1.7 million girls involved in scouting throughout the world.
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