Girl Scouts donate cookies to local health care providers
CHERYL SCHWEIZER | Hagadone News Network | UPDATED 5 years, 6 months AGO
Cheryl Schweizer/Columbia Basin Herald Girl Scouts, from left, Madeline, Allyson and Ella unload Girl Scout Cookies for donation at Moses Lake Community Health on Wednesday.
Senior Reporter Cheryl Schweizer is a journalist with more than 30 years of experience serving small communities in the Pacific Northwest. She began her post-high-school education at Treasure Valley Community College and enerned her journalism degree at Oregon State University. After working for multiple publications, she has settled down at the Columbia Basin Herald and has been a staple of the newsroom for more than a decade. Schweizer’s dedication to her communities and profession has earned her the nickname “The Baroness of Bylines.” She covers a variety of beats including health, business and various municipalities. | September 17, 2020 1:00 AM
MOSES LAKE — Members of Grant and Adams counties Girl Scout troops brought a gift to Moses Lake Community Health on Wednesday, one of a series of gifts the scouts are making throughout the two counties.
The scouts brought boxes of Girl Scout Cookies, donated to the clinic staff members to thank them for their work during the COVID-19 outbreak, troop leader Deborah Ostler said. They’re still in the process of distributing the cookies, which the scouts bought with the intent of donating them.
Cookies have gone, or will go, to Coulee Medical Center in Grand Coulee, Samaritan Hospital in Moses Lake, Confluence Health-Moses Lake Clinic, East Adams Rural Healthcare in Ritzville, Columbia Basin Health Association in Othello, Quincy Valley Medical Center, McKay Healthcare and Rehab in Soap Lake, the Coulee City Clinic and Columbia Basin Hospital in Ephrata.
The girls purchased and will donate 3,554 boxes of cookies in total, Ostler said. It’s part of a project by the Girl Scouts of Eastern Washington and Northern Idaho, the governing council for the region, to donate cookies to health care workers and first responders.
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