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Last year, Jasmine Osborn, a sixth grader in Marshall, was the top seller in Saline County, with a total of 1,000 boxes.
Osborn met her goal of 1,000 boxes -- a number she had tried to achieve in previous years as well -- with the help of her mother, Stacey, who sold cookies to her coworkers at the Marshall Habilitation Center. Osborn's grandmother, Brenda Davis, placed the biggest order: 20 boxes.
Reaching her goal was not without rewards, too. Of course, Osborn got a cookie badge, but she also got to go on a trip with other high-selling scouts.
They went to the zoo and science center in St. Louis.
After such success last year, Osborn plans to take it easy this year. Her goal is to sell just 200 boxes.
"Since the prices went up on the boxes," she said, "my goal is a little lower."
Cookies used to cost $3.50, but now each box is $4. And, in this economy, it will be harder to sell large numbers of cookies, Stacey predicts.
Of course, the family will still buy some of Osborn's cookies. They freeze them so they last all year, her father Gerald said.
And Osborn's favorite?
"I like two," she said, "Caramel DeLites and Thin Mints."
Contact Sydney Stonner at marshallbusiness@socket.net
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That doesn't mean I don't think Jasmine Osborn doesn't deserve recognition, she's and the other girl scouts have done a fabulous job. I just don't like doing fundraisers that cost parents more money than necesary. I dont want magazines either but at least the mail delivers them to you door
I love GS cookies but would NOT want to deliver that many. It's one thing to sell them and a complete different story when it comes time to deliver. I don't help my kids sell anything, I'd rather give a donation then have to drive all over creation spending way more money in time and gas to deliver the stuff. Not my thing.