No Thin Mints for you!

[Jangler]

http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/metro/4d95ab52-555b-11e0-bb81-0017a4a78c22.html

A Hazelwood woman said her teen daughters sold the last of their Girl Scout cookies this afternoon, despite the city's warnings to cease cookie sales from a stand set up in their driveway.

Carolyn Mills said the remaining 36 boxes of cookies - worth $126 - were purchased around 3:15 by the Rev. George "The Shoeman" Hutchings. Hutchings, of Manchester, is known for collecting more than 156,000 pairs of shoes, trading them at 35 cents a pound and purchasing hydraulic drilling rigs to dig water wells in Kenya.

"He said he likes to help out Girl Scouts and couldn't believe the city was doing something like this," Mills said Wednesday afternoon by phone.

Mills' daughters Abigail, 14, and Caitlin, 16, have run a cookie booth in their driveway at 8462 Latty Avenue for more than five years.

On March 7, Mills said she received a letter from Hazelwood's code enforcement division informing her of a complaint about the cookie stand and warning them that selling products from their home violates city codes.

"We're not making any money off this," Mills, 45, said Wednesday. "It's for charity. We're doing it for the girls so they have money in their troop."

Tim Davidson, a Hazelwood city spokesman, said Mills has been cautioned in previous years about selling cookies from her driveway. He said the city sent Mills an infraction notice after a neighbor complained to the city that the cookie booth had caused excessive dog barking and unusually high traffic volume on the street when customers stopped or parked to buy cookies.

The notice told Mills she had one day to comply or she would be issued a municipal court summons.

"We don't want to give the impression we're cracking down on Girl Scouts selling their cookies," Davidson said. "Normally, we would just let it slide and not do anything but since another resident made an anonymous complaint about barking dogs and a high volume of traffic, we had to take some sort of action."

Davidson said any plans to change the city code would have to be considered by Hazelwood's city council.

"There's always room for re-evaluation," Davidson said. "We want people to realize the city of Hazelwood strongly supports the Girl Scouts of America and the ideals it stands for."

[Mayor Qumiby]

That neighbor is a douche

[DC Amp]

Go after the owner of the dog making the disturbance & leave these girls alone!!! :incazzato:

[njpanther]

Give the dogs some cookies and they will stop barking.

[cookinwithgas]

mmm thin mints the are so good they should be illegal