Courtesy: CHAT Newsroom

By Angela Kazmierczak

Local Girl Guides return to door-to-door sales

Apr 6, 2023 | 4:26 PM

MEDICINE HAT, AB – They used to show up at your door around this time. Now they’re back.

Girl Guides of Cypress-Hills and Medicine Hat have returned to selling their vanilla and chocolate cookies door-to-door, while also embracing new changes to the program.

Linda Gove, who’s been guiding in Medicine Hat for 42 years, says the return to door-to-door cookie sales allows the girls to once again socialize and learn how to make change.

However, the guides say the girls were forced to increase cookie sales from $1 to $6 due to inflation. The increase in cost ensures youth benefit from girl empowerment, leadership development and fun activities.

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In addition, Gove says many other new changes are coming to the program as well.

“A lot of the program is changing – we want to be more inclusive, we want to get the word out that we are accepting all types – everybody is welcome to guide, and that’s really something that we’re working towards changing,” said Gove.

Presently, the guides are planning for a Provincial Rally Day that extends to all units in Alberta, the Northwest Territories and Yukon.