Bonners Ferry Girl Scout Troop sells 3,636 boxes of cookies

Girl Scout leader Raina Haworth is in search of a truck and trailer.

That's because the eight members of Haworth's Jr. Girl Scout Troop No. 171 in Bonners Ferry sold an amazing 3,636 boxes of Girls Scout cookies. She will need to pick up the cookies in Sandpoint in mid-March.

“I'm very proud of them,” Haworth said. “I hope they enjoyed doing it.”

The girls, who are in third through sixth grades, earned 50 cents for each box. That gives the troop $1,818 for yet-to-be-determined activities.

Savannah - whose last name was not released because a Girl Scouts regulation prohibits it - was the top seller. She sold 1,058 boxes. Others in the troop and their sales are Samantha, 701; Paige, 529; Talia, 354; Hannah, 350; Cameron, 250; Veronica, 216; and Gabby, 141.

Troop No. 171 is the only Girl Scout troop in Boundary County.

Two years ago, the girls used their cookie money for a three-day trip to Seattle, where they visited Pike Place Market, Woodland Park Zoo, Seattle Aquarium and Pacific Science Center.

Haworth is also proud of her girls because none have missed their twice-monthly Wednesday meetings since the start of this school year.

Brian and Cheryl Navarro, Ron and LeAnn Sukenik, and Mitch and Rhonda Vogl, all of Bonners Ferry, spent a week in Hawaii.

“(It was) awesome,” Ron Sukenik said. “It was sunny and 80 degrees every day with a light breeze coming off the coast.”

While staying at Aqua Aloha Surf and Spa on Oahu Waikiki, they met Courtnay Koski, who was born and raised in Sandpoint. They learned that Courtnay has relatives in Bonners Ferry, many of them whom LeAnn Sukenik knows from working as a waitress at the Chic-N-Chop. LeAnn has worked at the restaurant for 17 years.

Heard from my friend, June Bindel, in Libby, Mont.

June, who is in charge of The Libby Red Hat Rebels, reported that at 10 a.m. March 12, her group will be coming to Bonners Ferry.

“We will be playing in the casino at the Kootenai River Inn, shopping the shops and flea markets, and eating,” she said. “Be ready to see lots of red and purple.”

Boundary County Solid Waste Department was pleased with the recycling day held Feb. 6 in the Far North parking lot.

“We received 1,320 pounds of recyclable materials,” said waste department superintendent Claine Skeen. “That is very impressive.”

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