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Oldest Living Girl Scout Now 111

The oldest living Girl Scout, Milly England, 111, sits in her room at the New Bedford Health Care Center in New Bedford, Mass. England joined the organization in 1914, two years after its inception in 1912. The Girl Scouts will turn 100 next Monday. Story here. (AP Photo/Stephan Savoia)

Question: Have you ever been a Girl Scout? Tell us about your experience.

Crump: Bring On Girl Scout Cookies

Just in case you’re running out of things to worry about, you should know that there’s an ethics crisis brewing surrounding the sale of Girl Scout cookies. It’s perhaps the worst-kept secret in the world that parents of the 3.7 million Girl Scouts worldwide sell more than their share of Thin Mints, Do-Si-Dos, Trefoils, Tagalongs, Samoas, Daisy-Go-Rounds, Thanks-A-Lots, Lemon Chalet Cremes, Sugar-Free Chocolate Chips, Dulce de Leche and Lemonades. And they do so, by and large, in their workplaces. This has prompted some employers to create rules against charitable solicitations at the office, according to CNN. I have problems with that policy on two levels. First, if your social skills are so weak that you can’t politely say, “Thanks, but no,” to a cookie-pushing colleague, then you belong in a monastery, not a workplace. And in the second place, I can’t do without my annual fix of Girl Scout Cookies/Steve Crump, Twin Falls Times-News. More here.

Question: I know I asked a question about annoying habits of co-workers earlier today. But I want to spotlight one that bothers some but not others. Should co-workers or their children be allowed to sell Girl Scout cookies at work?

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D.F. Oliveria is a columnist and blogger for The Spokesman-Review. Huckleberries Online was judged the best 2008 Idaho newspaper blog by the Idaho Press Club. And the best 2007 news blog in the Pacific Northwest by the Society for Professional Journalist. Print Huckleberries is a past winner of the Herb Caen Memorial Column contest by the National Association of Newspaper Columnists. The Readership Institute of Northwestern University cited this blog as a good example of online community journalism.

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