On Saturday about 3.25 million boxes of Girl Scout Cookies were distributed to Girl Scout troops throughout the greater Los Angeles area, with local events held in La Cañada and Glendale.
"The cookie program is so much more than a fundraiser," said Carol Fairshter, the service unit cookie chair who was managing the distribution event. "It's really about girls learning business skills because they're really running a cookie business. We focus on the five skills for them, which are goal-setting, decision-making, people skills, business ethics and money management, and all of those have special elements that the troops are training and teaching the girls about those different pieces, and what they look like."
Adult volunteers from the troops and the local community came out to run the distribution event, which operated in a drive-through method for the second year in a row: Troop leaders pulled up to the event in vans and, after checking in at the first stop, proceeded through to each of the stations, divided by cookie type.
