Girl Scout Cookies Overseas

Girl Scout hopes to get cookies to troops serving overseas

Staff report
Tuesday January 22, 2008


Martinsville

Cookies and Kool-aid.

That's what one Morgan County Girl Scout thinks troops overseas need, as the cookie season sales get underway for the year.

Tulip Trace Troop 391 member Molly Dirrim is selling Girl Scout cookies and hopes people will buy 300 boxes to send to Indiana National Guard Troops overseas in April. They might even include some Kool-aid to go with the tasty treats.

"We thought it would just be nice to send them," Molly Dirrim said. "Kool-aid and cookies are a good combination."

The Martinsville Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 1257 has offered to pay for the postage to send the cookies to Iraq, which is where members of B Co., 1-151, headquartered in Martinsville, are expected to deploy to later this year.

This is not the first time soldiers overseas have received care packages from the Dirrim family, according to Molly's mother, Bobbie. Bobbie said they have been sending care packages that include food and cards and letters of support to troops with family ties through their church. Most recently they sent a package to a solider who grew up in the Center Grove area.

"We just kept asking for people, and his name came up," Bobbie Dirrim said. "We always ask for soldiers that don't have much family to send our packages to. They like the food too, but they really love the letters and the pictures in the package."

Cookie sales for the Girl Scouts will continue until March 10, and are available through any Girl Scout, or they will be available at several locations around Martinsville.

"A person can buy a box for themselves and one for a solider," Molly Dirrim said.