Goessel students pack cookies for U.S. troops overseas

Goessel High School students (clockwise from left) Corey Buller, Kendra Flaming, Tori O?Brien, pre-kindergartener Klay Willis and fifth-grader Kolton Lare, worked together Friday to package more than 30 dozen cookies for U.S. military troops abroad. The project, said Gina Bergin, GHS Family and Consumer Sciences teacher, involved students from her classes, members of the Family Career and Consumer Leaders of America, parents and other community volunteers. Using Pringle potato chip cans and oatmeal boxes, 18 people either wrapped up cookies, wrote Christmas cards or got the boxes ready. Bergin said her classes made five types of cookies: chocolate chip, oatmeal, sugar, peanut butter and no-bake. Soldiers based in Iraq, Afghanistan, Singapore and Germany will receive the cookies before Christmas, Bergin said. It took one day to make the cookie dough, one day to bake the cookies and two hours to assemble boxes, write cards and pack the cookies.

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