More than 1,700 people recently boarded the USS Midway Museum for Girl Scouts San Diego\u2019s 17th\u00a0annual\u00a0Operation Thin Mint sendoff. Special guests included Point Loma Girl Scout cadette Jessica Andrews of Troop 4103. The seventh-grader\u00a0was one of\u00a020 high-achieving cookie entrepreneurs who sold 2,017 or more boxes in 2017. Andrews, who reached 2,036 boxes sold, and the other top cookie sellers,\u00a0arrived and departed by helicopter. During the program, the girls took the stage to reveal that this year, generous San Diegans donated 141,570 Operation Thin Mint boxes of Girl Scout cookies for U.S. troops.\u00a0
\nThe sendoff event is the culmination of Girl Scouts San Diego\u2019s Operation Thin Mint community service project, a local program that sends “a taste of home and a note to show we care” to deployed U.S. military troops, and to veterans. Since the Operation Thin Mint program\u2019s inception in 2002, cookie customers have purchased more than 2.8 million boxes of all varieties of Girl Scout Cookies and countless handwritten notes of support to the military. Recipients include U.S. Navy, Marine, Army, Air Force and National Guard troops aboard ships, and military personnel stationed in Africa, Asia, the Middle East and the South Pacific.\u00a0
\nAll cookie proceeds stay in San Diego to fund local Girl Scout adventures like camp, traveling, science, career exploration and girls\u2019 community projects.\u00a0
\nAs the world\u2019s largest girl-led enterprise, the Girl Scout Cookie Program\u00a0teaches\u00a0girls like Andrews about money management, goal setting, decision making, people skills and business ethics.
\nTo learn more about Girl Scouts opportunities in\u00a0Point Loma and the surrounding areas for girls in grades K-12 and adult volunteers, visit\u00a0www.sdgirlscouts.org, or contact Christa Sherman,\u00a0csherman@sdgirlscouts.org, or 619-610-0706.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
More than 1,700 people recently boarded the USS Midway Museum for Girl Scouts San Diego\u2019s 17th\u00a0annual\u00a0Operation Thin Mint sendoff. Special guests included Point Loma Girl Scout cadette Jessica Andrews of Troop 4103. The seventh-grader\u00a0was one of\u00a020 high-achieving cookie entrepreneurs who sold 2,017 or more boxes in 2017. Andrews, who reached 2,036 boxes sold, and the […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":726,"featured_media":293210,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"11559","_seopress_titles_title":"Point Loma Girl Scout takes flight for Operation Thin Mint","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[11559,11551],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-293209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-beach-bay-press","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/726"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=293209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293209\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/293210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}