Two little girls and over $1,000 for their Brownie Troop
UPN buried in pine cones while two little girl scouts strike it big.
All five members of tiny Brownie Troop #31 stared in amazement at the check for $1,000. Kayla Anderson, age 8, and her sister Natalie Anderson, age 6, presented their windfall earnings to their troop leader last week.
The industrious little girls came up with an idea to make “dues” for their Girl Scout troop. “We looked around for something we could sell on the Internet”, states Kayla Anderson. “We thought about selling drawings, but Dad said that could get hard if there were lots of orders”, the younger sister Natalie said.
So the girls chose something they loved about where they live: pine cones. The girls know that not everyone lives in the middle of a Ponderosa Pine forest. “People in the city don’t have pine cones around for doing crafts”, said Natalie. Being Girl Scouts, crafts are the order of the day. So they figured they’d sell pine cones on the Internet to earn money for their Brownie troop.
What the girls couldn’t have forseen was the imminent cancellation of the television series “Everwood”. After all, the two girls don’t even have television at home. The merger of the UPN and WB networks forced out several shows; one being Everwood. A prominent feature of the show was a newspaper called “The Everwood Pinecone”.
Everwood fans, up in arms with the cancellation of their beloved show, began sending thousands of pine cones to the executive in charge of the newly formed CW network, Dawn Ostroff. Early on in the campaign to “Save Everwood”, fans latched on to the website of the two girl scouts. Dozens of online forums started posting the URL for the two girls’ website, http://www.PonderosaPineCones.com. What resulted was nothing short of Internet magic.
“We just couldn’t believe it”, stated Kayla Anderson; “There are orders coming in every few minutes”. The little post office near where the girls live, a tiny town of about 500 residents, was shocked by the girls’ family minivan backing up to the post office doors every few days to drop off hundreds of boxes of pine cones. One of the postal workers stated, “Everwood is my favorite show. I hope this does some good!”
All the proceeds from the sales of pine cones from the two girls’ website have gone directly to their local Brownie (Girl Scout) troop. “Looks like Cookie Camp is paid for!” exclaimed their troop leader. “I don’t think I’ve ever seen a check for over $1,000 in this organization”.
Though fans continue to place orders on a daily basis, the Everwood show remains cancelled.