By BECKY KISER
Hays Post

We’re in the final days of the annual Girl Scout cookie sale, which continues through Sunday, March 8.

If you’ve already purchased enough Thin Mints for yourself, you can still help support the 212 Girl Scouts in Ellis and Russell Counties, as well as local charities, through the Cookie Share program.

Sales Manager of the Hays Girl Scouts office, Lisa Cech, said it’s a “great opportunity for consumers to support the Girl Scouts, along with Kansas military members, food banks and Catholic Charities.”

“We do partner with the Kansas National Guard and other forms of the military, including McConnell Air Force base in Wichita. We have the local food pantries which are extremely popular in this part of the state. We also partner with Kansas Food Bank. They push the cookies out through their many food pantries they support across the same 80 western Kansas counties Girl Scouts of Kansas Heartland covers, so that’s a great partnership for us. We also work with Catholic Charities,” Cech said.

A Cookie Share program was started last year with local Hays businesses.

“I’ll have to say the people in this region have always been very supportive of the Cookie Share program. We rank right up there with the rest of the state in cookie donations,” added Cech.

The eight varieties of Girl Scout Cookies, including the new gluten-free Trios, are $4 a box.

Girl Scout Cookie Booths will be open this weekend in Hays at the west Dillons store, 512 W. 27th, and at Walmart, 4301 Vine Street.