Sunday, Feb. 27 marks the final day for Girl Scouts Cookie sales this year, and all local troops are coming together on the final day for a joint “pop-your-trunk” event. From 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday at 901 Avenue B, formerly the Family Services Center, cars filled with cookies will be parked and ready to accept drive up orders.

“Cookie sales end on Sunday, so this is an opportunity for people to get their last run on cookies,” said Jessica Hardy, Executive Director of the Latch Key Program who is also associated with Girl Scouts this year. “They’ll be able to come to one location, because we usually don’t have booths set up on Sundays, and it’s a chance for all of our troops to sell what’s left of their cookies.”

Girl Scout Cookie Captain Karissa Raines described some of the treats are still available.

“Our best sellers are the Caramel DeLites and the Thin Mints,” Raines said. “Caramel DeLites have more coconut on them. Thin Mints, they taste like mint gum. We also have two peanut butter cookies – the Peanut Butter Patties and the Peanut Butter Sandwiches. The Peanut Butter Patties kind of taste like a Reese’s cup, and the Peanut Butter Sandwiches taste more like a Nutter Butter.

“Our newest cookies are called the Adventurefuls. It’s brownie-inspired with caramel in the middle and a chocolate dressing. The new cookie last year was the Toast-Yay and it tastes like Cinnamon Toast Crunch. The Lemonades, which are the best to both of us, they’re a shortbread with a thin layer of lemon icing on the bottom. The shortbread is just a plain butter cookie There’s also a gluten free cookie, the Caramel Chocolate Chip.”

As a Girl Scout Cookie Captain, Raines said her duties consist of, “taking care of all the littles, mainly the Daisies, and helping them learn the cookies and learn how to sell the Girl Scout Cookies.”

Raines attained the Girl Scouts Bronze Award last year, which is the highest honor a Girl Scout Junior can achieve. Raines intends to pursue a Silver Award, which is the highest award a Girl Scout Cadette can earn. As part of the process, Raines is working to have a dog food dispenser installed at the Brownwood Soccer Complex. For her Bronze project, Raines was the driving force behind the addition of more trash cans along the walking trail at Festival Park.

Regarding the importance of Girl Scouts, Raines said, “You don’t necessary have to do it, but it helps you learn to better work as a team, work together, and try and make the world a better place.”