Thursday, March 24, 2011

UPDATE: Hazelwood Crackdown on Girl Scout Cookies

HAZELWOOD, Mo. (KMOX/AP) — The battle of the cookies is over in Hazelwood.

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that on Wednesday, the Rev.George Hutchings, who is known as “The Shoeman” for collecting shoes to benefit Kenya, bought the last 36 boxes.

Hutchings took some boxes and told the mother and daughters to give the rest to neighbors.

Previously Reported:

HAZELWOOD, Mo. (KMOX/AP) – The city of Hazelwood says they do support the Girl Scouts but not when they are violating the home occupancy code.

They’d been warned, but the city says the Girl Scouts Abigail and Caitlin Mills continued to sell Girl Scout cookies from a stand in front of their home. A neighbor complained anonymously because of all the people and the traffic and the dogs barking at all the people and the traffic.

“Based on this complaint, the city of Hazelwood had to take action,” says spokesman Tim Davidson. He says it is also against city code to sell products from home...[Full Article]