Alaska Girl Scouts Get PPP Loan as Cookie Sales Crumble – By John Blosser (Newsmax) / April 27 2020
The coronavirus has caused Girl Scouts of Alaska cookie sales to collapse in the state, and the federal government has stepped in with a Paycheck Protection Program loan.
Since the Girl Scouts cannot go door-to-door peddling their Thin Mints and Samoas, some 144,000 boxes of unsold cookies are languishing in garages of Girl Scout parents, while their daughters are working on their new COVID-19 merit badge for hygiene, the Anchorage Daily News reports.
Instead of their normal six-week selling season, the Girl Scouts had to cut back to just three weeks, meaning folks with a craving for S’mores, Lemon-Ups, and Tagalongs had to hustle to satisfy their sweet tooths before the state-ordered shutdown in Alaska.
“It was frenzied shopping, and people were hoarding cookies like they were toilet paper,” Leslie Ridle, who leads one of two Girl Scouts groups, said.
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