Oskaloosa Girl Scouts Help Celebrate 100 Years Of Girl Scouts
Girl Scouts
by Brandi Allen
Oskaloosa, Iowa – The Oskaloosa Girl Scouts enjoyed celebrating the 100th birthday of Girl Scouts of America at their 2nd annual Just Desserts auction. The National Birthday of Girl Scouts is celebrated each year on March 12. This day commemorates the day in 1912 when Juliette Gordon Low officially registered the organization’s first eighteen members in Savannah, Georgia.
The day started out with girl scouts turning in their baked items for the auction. As they waited for the results from the cake judging they sang Happy Birthday to Girl Scouts of America and soon found lots to do. Face painting, hair coloring, craft tables, dancing and a make your own peep table were several options the girls could choose from. Barnyard Billy was very popular with all of his balloon surprises and the kids lined up for their balloon wonder.
Lots of sweet treats could be found throughout center court as birthday cake was served to everyone in attendance and a buy it now table with a huge selection was available.
Top Cookie Seller awards were handed out by Girl Scouts of Greater Iowa’s CEO Jamie Boersma. This award went to the top 3 sellers in each girl scout level for a total of 12 awards. Oskaloosa scouts sold a total of 22, 515 boxes of cookie which made them the top selling group in the service units of around 100 girls. Oskaloosa did have 1 girl make the top 25 sellers in the state. Brooke Allen was 15th in the state with a total of 990 packages sold.
Scouts and their families turned in a total of 56 items for the auction. Cake decorating winners were Jamie Holmberg for the Yummiest looking, Brianna Hunt for Best Girl Scout Theme, Alexis Sidebottom for 100th Birthday, Hailey Gladson for the Best Use of Girl Scout Cookie, and Mackenzie Metier for Non-Cake. Don Zook and Mike Helleur from Sinnif Auction Service soon had the auction under way with several family bidding wars and lots of great laughs. A total of around $2700
was raised to help send Oskaloosa Girl Scouts to summer camp.
The Oskaloosa Girl Scouts would like to send a huge thank you to Mahaska Drug, Sinnif Auction Services, Penn Central Mall, McRobi DJ Service, and Sodexo at William Penn for all of your wonderful support for this event. Also, thank you to all of the scouts and their families because without you this event wouldn’t have been possible.
