If you've had a hankering for Girl
Scout cookics since last spring,
you've not long to waiL
Brunswick County Girls Scouts
arc taking orders for cookies now
and until Jan. 26, offering a line-up
of seven cookies.
l his year the cookics for Giri
Scouts in Eastern North Carolina arc
baked by ABC Cookie Bakers of
Richmond, Va., said Vickic Poole,
Brunswick County Girl Scouts com
munications representative.
The product line includes the
three required cookics? traditional
Shortbread, a buttery-tasting cookic
that compares with the Trefoil sold
in the past; the popular Thin Mint, a
wafer cookic made with pure pep
permint oil and a chocolaty coating;
and the Peanut Butter Sandwich,
two oauncal cookics enclosing a
smooth peanut butter filling.
Other offerings includc Peanut
Butter Patties, vanilla cookics cov
ered with real peanut butter and
chocolaty coating; Carmel dcLitcs
(the familiar Samoa), a vanilla cook
ic drenched in caramcl, with toasted
coconut and chocolaty stripes; and
Lemon Pastry Crcmcs, a lemon fill
ing sandwichcd between lightly
glazed pastry.
A new cookic with ABC for 1992
is ihc Praline Royalc. It has a rich,
chewy center of pralines, pccans and
coconut in a vanilla cookic drizzled
wiih chocolate icing.
All seven cookies are made with
100 percent vegetable shortening,
said Ms. Poole. They arc cholesterol
free and arc Kosher, contain no arti
ficial colon; or added preservatives.
Use of tropical oils is kept to a mini
mum, using only enough to allow
the chocolate to spread smoothly.
The cookies freeze well.
All cookies arc S2.25 a box, with
the number of cookics in a box vary
ing by variety. Shortbread come
about 40 u> a box, compared to 18
Praline Royalcs per box.
Through the cookie sales. Girl
Scouts learn valuable lifelong skills,
said Ms. Poole, such as organizing,
teamwork, goal setting, marketing
and salesmanship.
Proceeds support both local
troops and the Girl Scout Council of
Coastal Carolina Inc. The council
serves 13,000 girls and adulls in 25
Eastern North Carolina counties and
is a United Way agency.
Anyone who hasn't been visited
by a Girl Scout and is interested in
ordering cookics. can contact Ms.
Poole at 754-6720.
Cookies Get Students To Read
Students arc reading more as a re
sult of an incentive program used by
the Lincoln Primary School Media
Center, according to a school news
release.
The program, "Smart Cookies
Read," which began Nov. 1, 1993,
and will run through May of this
year, is designed "to help encourage
students to read more."
Students earn a paper "cookie"
for each book they read from the
school media center.
At the end of each month, the
class that accumulates the most
cookies i>i their grade level's cookie
jar wins a large, real chocolate chip
cookie for the class.
At the end of the academic year, a
spccial prize will be awarded to the
class wiin the most cookies.
The winners for November were
Bonita Phelps* kindergarten class;
Wanda Lofton's first grade class;
Gilda Waddcll's second grade class;
Cheryl Hawkins' third grade class;
and Mary Lane's resources class.
December's winners were Nancy
Nipper's kindergarten class; Wanda
Lofton's first grade class; Mary
Sandlin's second grade class; Betty
Chaisson's third grade class; and
Rose Cook's resources class.
Teachers involved in the program
credit its success to the enthusiasm
of Joseph Budcr, Lincoln principal,
the faculty and the parents of the
students, the release stated.
Dcbra Knox is the school's media
coordinator.
King Holiday Closings Noted
A number of agencies and busi
nesses across Brunswick County
will be closcd Monday, Jan. 20, in
observance of the birthday of the
late Martin Luther King Jr. and his
achievements in the field of civil
rights.
All county offices and agencies
housed at ihc government center in
Bolivia will be closcd. So will all
Brunswick County schools, local
banks and post offices.
The Shallotte, Southport and Bo
livia offices of Brunswick Electric
Membership Corporation (BEMC)
will close their doors as well.
Instead of their regular meeting
Monday night, Brunswick County
commissioners will meet Tuesday,
Jan. 21, at 6:30 p.m.
A 10-minute public hearing will
be held at 6:20 p.m. to hear com
ments on a proposed road name
change for Shady Forest Drive in
Calabash.
Vamamtown aldermen will hold
their regularly scheduled meeting at
7:30 p.m. in the town hall.
Town Halls in Shallotic, Cal
abash, Ocean Isle Beach, Holden
Beach and Sunset Beach will all be
open for operation Monday.
The business offices of Atlantic
Telephone Membership Corporation
(ATMC) in Shallotic as well as The
Brunswick Beacon will also be open.
Pnorn CONTRIBUTED
Toastmasfers Install Officers
Newly-installed officers of the Coast Toasters Toastmasters Club in Shallotte are (from left) Susan Lig
gett, secretary; jon Im rigs ion, sergeani-ai-arms ; Frances Warner, vice president ? membership and
public relations; Jack Scarborough, president; Don Eggert, vice president ? education; and Jimmy
Marshall, treasurer. Club members meet weekly to improve their public speaking and communication
skills.
VISTAs Will Again Assist
Brunswick Literacy Program
VISTA volunteers will be as
signed again to work with the
Brunswick County Literacy Council
during the coming year.
Gladys Wagcnscil, program direc
tor, said the non-profit agency's ap
plication for assistance from VISTA
(Volunteers In Service To America)
was approved by the federal agency
ACTION.
Three VISTA volunteers rccruitcd
from the community will again be
assigned lo work with local literacy
volunteers in their efforts to provide
free, private tutoring lo those who
wish to improve their basic reading
and writing skills, indicated a BCLC
news release.
The VIS'iA staff will serve as
outreach workers with BCLC full
time for a year beginning in late
April, and will receive mileage
reimbursements as well as a month
ly living allowance and other AC
TION benefits.
The non-profit program is de
signed to be the domestic equivalent
of the Peace Corps and is open to
adults with no restrictions on age or
incomc.
Locally-recruited VISTAs cur
rently assigned to the project arc
Lila Milieu, Edith Bridger and
Brenda Grissett.
For more information, write to
BCLC, P.O. Box 6. Supply, N.C.
28462, or call 919-754-7323.
Board Approves Paving Contract
The N.C. Board of Transportation
approved a contract of S2.34 million
Friday for rcpaving of approximate
ly 49 miles of roads in Brunswick
and New Hanover counties.
These include resurfacing of 5.5
miles of U.S. 74-76 in and near
Leland and a 6.35-mile section of
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To Enter Pageant
Litllc Miss Brunswick County
1992 will be crowned March 7 in a
pageant at Shallotte Middle School.
Feb. 7 is the deadline to enter this
year's event, which is co- sponsored
by the Shallotte Junior Woman's
Club and Scholarship Pageants of
Brunswick County Inc. The pageant
is an adjunct of the Miss Brunswick
County Scholarship Pageant, an of
ficial Miss America preliminary
event.
The Little Miss Brunswick
County 1992 Pageant is open to
girls who arc residents of Brunswick
County and are between the ages of
6 and 9. Competition is in the areas
of private interview, party dress and
talent.
The entry fee is S75. Applications
may be obtained by contacting
Cynthia Champion at 754-8043 or
David Clcgg at 253-4331 or 371
0753, or writing Clegg at 23 Creek
side Drive, Leland. N.C. 28451.
Chalmers Champion, a nine-year
old student at Shallotte Middle
School, is the current Little Miss
Brunswick County.
NAACP To Sponsor
King Celebration
The Southport-Brunswick County
Chapter of the NAACP will hold its
annual Martin Luther King Jr.
Celebration Sunday, Jan. 19, at First
Baptist Church in Southport.
"Your Contribution to Keeping
the Dream Alive" will be the theme
of the celebrauon, which begins at 5
p.m.
The local chapter of the National
Association for the Advancement of
Colored People invites the public to
attend. The church is located at 619
N. Lord St. in Southport.
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