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Cookies for troops
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Left to right: Girl Scout Troop Leader Kelly Fox, Army National Guard Staff Sgt. Shane Carber, Daisies Kendra Selvidge, Gates Fox, Delia Rangal, Nina Hoobyar, Emma Light and Sgt. Craig Carter. - photo by JONATHAN MCCORKELL / The Journal

Local Girl Scout Daisies from Troop 399 donated 300 boxes of Girl Scout cookies to staff at the Army National Guard station in Turlock. Guardsmen from the 149th Chemical Company in Turlock will be forwarding the cookies to sister Chemical Companies 140th and 132nd, which are currently deployed to Afghanistan.