{"id":121063,"date":"2026-02-23T07:02:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T07:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/121063\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T07:02:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T07:02:11","slug":"girl-scouts-in-the-heart-of-pennsylvania-hosts-mega-drop-in-york-county-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/121063\/","title":{"rendered":"Girl Scouts in the Heart of Pennsylvania hosts Mega Drop in York County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Girl Scouts in the Heart of Pennsylvania held its annual Mega Drop in York County on Saturday, providing cookies to all the troops waiting to deliver them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Boxes of cookies were handed out by the thousands as the Girl Scouts geared up to deliver Thin Mints, Peanut Butter Patties and more.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Over 24,000 cases were loaded into the back of volunteers&#8217; cars as people came from over 30 counties.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">With over 300,000 boxes being delivered in total, organizers explained how a centralized hub simplifies the process.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;It&#8217;s one centralized hub,&#8221; said Cathy Hirko, director of marketing and communications with Girl Scouts in the Heart of Pennsylvania. &#8220;It&#8217;s one day. There are a lot of logistics that are involved in it, and, like I said, the volunteers have been great. They come, [and] they have a sheet of how many they have to pick. They actually have times that they come.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Girl Scouts will start distributing cookies on Feb. 27.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Girl Scouts in the Heart of Pennsylvania held its annual Mega Drop in York County on Saturday, providing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":67136,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[33713,57063,28,30,29,1386],"class_list":{"0":"post-121063","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pennsylvania","8":"tag-girl-scouts","9":"tag-peanut-butter-patties","10":"tag-pennsylvania","11":"tag-pennsylvania-headlines","12":"tag-pennsylvania-news","13":"tag-york-county"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121063\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}