Help girl scouts raise “A Mile of Cookies” on Saturday
For the last five years, girls from Boise Girl Scout Cadette Troop 396 have donated cookies to cancer patients at St. Luke's Mountain States Tumor Institute. Local residents have helped the effort by buying cookies to be donated.
Over the years this has meant more than 1,400 boxes of Thin Mints and other delights going to MSTI patients.
The troop is holding a special sale, 8 a.m.-5 p.m., on Saturday (Feb. 28) at the Milwaukee Marketplace, 1085 N. Milwaukee St., in front of the new JoAnn Fabrics Store in Boise.
The goal is to get you, and yours, to buy enough boxes of cookies to measure a mile, were the boxes were stacked end to end.
You can buy a box for $3.71. Buying $20 worth of cookies will mean adding about a yard to that ambitious mile. One hundred dollars will add 17 feet. Five hundred dollars will add 84 feet.
Feel like pitching in? Show up on Saturday. This year's donations will go to MSTI, but also other organizations in the Valley, including homeless shelters, food banks, the Idaho Veterans’ Home and senior citizens through the Meals on Wheels program.
Tunes and furry creatures: always a winning mix
The Visual Arts Collective hosts “A Seasonal Disguise Album Release Party,” and special benefit for the Idaho Humane Society (ages 21+).
Doors doors open 7 p.m., at the VAC, 3638 Osage St., Garden City, with guests The Very Most and Hillfolk Noir.
And here’s the cool part — well, the other cool part.
One dollar of your $5 admission price goes to the Society, or you can bring a can of pet food and get $1 off your ticket price.
Or, if you’re not in the mood for music, they probably wouldn’t mind if you just stopped by and dropped off some kibble anyway. 424-8297.
Boise firefighters "Step Up" to fight cancer
A team of local firefighters will be at the Dillard's entrance to the Boise Towne Square mall, 11 a.m.-3 p.m., Saturday (Feb. 28).
They'll take to stair machines — in full gear, mind you — to train for the upcoming Firefighter Stairclimb in Seattle in March, and hopefully inspire you to donate to fight leukemia and lymphoma.
Kids will be able to try on "bunker gear," get temporary tattoos and stickers.
Come show your support.
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Thanks to GS Troop 396 for the cookies!
I was very pleasantly surprised to be offered a Girl Scout Cookie at the Mountain States Tumor Institute. I thought maybe someone had brought a box or two to share, but they gave my wife the entire box.
She is getting Chemotherapy and it is difficult to get these patients to eat and keep up their strength due to the impact of the drugs and treatment. One of the first rituals is always to see if the patients have lost weight since their last treatment. I don't know if everyone realizes just how fitting of a gift these cookies are!
On the box was a simple label that reads "Plase take this box of cookies; may it brighten up your day. We hlep girls grow stronger; it's the Girl Scout Way! (from GS Troop 396).
I just wanted to say that your gifts have ended up exactly were they were supposed to and they did indeed brighten our day.
Thank you!
Thanks for taking time to comment...
I appreciate it, and I'm sure the scouts do, too.
I send my best to your wife,
Anna Webb
Dogs don't ask for charity, they give; the money's for the vet.
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