Rain and cold didn't dampen the spirits of volunteer workers distributing one million boxes of Girl Scout cookies today. A constant stream of vehicles from small cars to delivery vans came to Cal Expo to pickup pre-sold boxes of Girl Scout cookies waiting to to be delivered. Helen Whitelaw, Director of Sales and manager of today's cookie distribution, says initial orders are up 11% over last year. Whitelaw rode shotgun in a golf cart with Bob Carlson, owner of Carlson Logistics, supplier of the several dozen semi-trailers filled with the cases of cookies. American Red Cross Capital Region Chapter served the cookie workers breakfast and then spaghetti, garlic french bread, sala

One of the over 600 volunteers removes two cases of Thin Mints from one of the 36 semi-trailers that were each filled with 77,000 cases.   177 boxes of assorted Girl Scout cookies fill a van that will be delivering cookies to Troop #660 Brownies. 1,000 Girl Scout Troops picked up their pre-sold cookies.   Each case holds 12 boxes, a total of 924,000 boxes filled with cookies, were distributed to over 1,500 vehicles in one day.   Helen Whitelaw, Director of Sales and manager of today's cookie distribution rides in a golf cart with Bob Carlson, owner of Carlson Logistics, supplied the 36 semi-trailers filled with the case of cookies.   Over $3 million worth of cookies were picked