Girl Scout breaks record for cookie sales

Published: May 15, 2008 at 8:50 PM
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Tagalong Girl Scout Cookies, as they are unloaded from tractor-trailer trucks to waiting vans and cars, in south St. Louis county, March 7, 2001. (UPI/Bill Greenblatt)
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DEARBORN, Mich., May 15 (UPI) -- A Michigan girl honored for selling a record-breaking 17,323 boxes of Girl Scout cookies said she simply set a goal and stuck to it to reach the top.

Dearborn resident Jennifer Sharpe, 15, was honored Wednesday for her sales accomplishments at a Girl Scouts of Metro Detroit ceremony in Livonia, Mich., the Detroit Free Press reported.

"Make a goal, and don't give up on it," she said.

Sharpe said she peddled her cookies six days-a-week at a booth outside Cherry Hill Presbyterian Church and on Sundays in front of an auto parts shop.

"When I was young, I knocked on doors. Now that I'm older, I get too many rejections face to face. People don't want to buy from a 15-year-old. They want to buy from a cute little Brownie," Sharpe said.

The profits from the cookie sails are being spent on a visit to Europe for Sharpe's entire troop, the Free Press said.


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