Cookies are in, will be sold at various Valley stores starting today

WARREN

Thin Mints, Do-si-dos, Tagalongs, Trefoils, Samoas and Savannah Smiles addicts, begin salivating.

Girl Scout cookies by the thousands of boxes, longtime favorites and some new varieties, arrived via semi-trucks today at W. D. Packard Music Hall here and are arriving Saturday at St. Michael Parish in Canfield to be picked up by local Girl Scout leaders for distribution to their troop members.

In the Warren area, 11,264 cases were picked up by representatives of 85 Girl Scout troops; and 4,467 cases are being picked up in Canfield for distribution to 50 troops, said Kendra Allen, business services coordinator for the Youngstown Office of the Girl Scouts of Northeast Ohio.

With 12 boxes in each case, 188,772 boxes of cookies will be distributed in the Warren and Canfield areas; and nearly three million boxes will be delivered by GSNEO troops, the office said.

Some 1,800 of those boxes were sold and will be delivered by the 14 seventh-grade girls of Troop 80379 in the Vienna/Fowler area, said Caroline Crawford of Fowler, co-troop leader with Kathleen Wallace of Vienna.

Troop 80379 members also are manning booths from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday at the Howland Giant Eagle store and from 4 to 7 p.m. at the Liberty Walmart; and more troops will be at other places after that.

Read where they'll be in Saturday's Vindicator or on Vindy.com.