The Columbia Press
February 5, 2021
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Girl Scout Cookie sales go off a bit differently this year
Girl Scout Cook-
personally still can
ie season has arrived
purchase cookies from
and, like so many oth-
a local troop for di-
er things this year, it
rect shipment to their
will be handled a bit
homes or by donating
differently.
cooies to a local non-
Girl Scouts are sell-
profit group.
ing in creative, social-
Proceeds from cook-
ly distant, and con-
ie purchases stay with
tact-free ways to keep
the local troop and its
themselves and their
council.
customers safe, na-
“The cookie pro-
tional leaders say.
gram
has always giv-
Courtesy Girl Scouts of America
Even in light of the Cookies can be purchased directly from Girl
en girls one-of-a-kind
pandemic, girls are Scouts or ordered online this year.
opportunities to build
adapting their sales
valuable skills like
methods to share cookies national collaboration with goal-setting and money man-
through the largest girl-led Grubhub.
agement,” said Karen Hill,
entrepreneurship program
Additionally, Girl Scout CEO of Girl Scouts of Oregon
in the world — including tak- USA began taking orders and Southwest Washington.
ing contact-free pickup and online Feb. 1 so consumers “This year, they get to add
delivery orders through a who don’t know a Girl Scout resilience and innovation to
that list.”
This year, Girl Scouts is
providing new cookie badge
program materials to support
girls as they run their cookie
business online and via social
media, helping them be best
equipped to sell during these
tough times.
To order online, go to
girlscouts.org and click on
the yellow bar to order cook-
ies. You’ll type in your ZIP
codes. In Clatsop County,
cookie sales will benefit Asto-
ria Troop 11924.
Boxes of cookies are $5 and
$6 plus shipping.
The website also allows
people to make donations of
cookies to their local Meals
on Wheels location.
Upcoming events
Eavesdropping in
name of science
Samara Haver likes to
eavesdrop on the ocean.
The Oregon State Univer-
sity researcher uses under-
water microphones to study
ocean sounds. Sounds in
marine environments are
generated by marine life
such as whales, natural
phenomena like sea ice,
and man-
made sourc-
es such as
vessel traf-
fic.
Haver will
explain how
she and her
Haver
colleagues
listen to the
ocean, and what they have
learned by eavesdropping
in underwater ecosystems
around the United States
during a free online event
Thursday, Feb. 11.
Her talk is part of the Na-
ture Matters lecture series,
which is sponsored by Lew-
is and Clark National His-
torical Park in partnership
with the park association, the
North Coast Watershed As-
sociation, and Fort George
Brewery.
To listen in, go to Fort
George Brewery’s Facebook
page and click on the live link
when it becomes available.
For more information, call
the park at 503-861-2471.
Coastal meadows
is topic of lecture
Most people picture waves,
sandy beaches, and rocky
cliffs when they think of the
Oregon Coast.
But Braden Elliot will pres-
ent a more complete picture
of the local environment
through his lecture on Coast
Range small meadows of the
past and present.
His talk is at 7 p.m. Thurs-
day, Feb. 11, through the Low-
er Nehalem Watershed Coun-
cil’s online speaker series.
Small meadows in moun-
tainous regions at temper-
Braden Elliot
ate latitudes are wonder-
ful places to forage or hunt,
says Elliot, a botanist, ecol-
ogist, and ethnobiologist.
His doctoral and master’s
studies focused on mead-
ows on the Oregon Coast.
Meadows represent an
ecosystem that offers in-
sights into climate, soil,
plants, and animals from
the Ice Age through today
and into the future, accord-
ing to Elliot.
The council will have its
board meeting at 5 p.m. via
Zoom, followed by Elliot’s
presentation.
Both are free and open to
the public and can be ac-
cessed from the council’s
website, lnwc.nehalem.org.
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