Guides sell biscuits
Blackwall Girl Guides will be selling Girl Guide Biscuits over the next two weeks.
The local guide group will be selling packets of biscuits outside Flemings supermarket in West St, Umina, from 9am to 12pm on Saturday, May 29.
The group have also planned to set up a stall outside the IGA supermarket in Ettalong from 9am to 12pm on Saturday, June 5.
"Supporting this important campaign is about much more than buying biscuits," Girl Guides Australia's chief commissioner Ms Lynne Price said.
"With every biscuit sold, another generation of girls learns to set goals, grow in confidence, work in teams, make business decisions, develop business ethics and manage money.
"As young women, they'll need these skills for life."
Blackwall Girl Guides publicity officer Ms Leonie Newson said Girl Guide members would also be accepting donations of corks in order to recycle into cork products such as tiles and boards.
"The funds raised from both biscuit sales and recycled corks enable the girls to continue enjoying the various programs run by the Guides Australia at minimum cost to their family," Ms Newson said.
Email, 20 May 2010
Leonie Newson, Blackwall Girl Guides