Someone in Nanaimo bought a Girl Guide troop鈥檚 entire stock of cookies simply to donate them to charity.

The Cedar Sparks 鈥� the youngest level of Girl Guides 鈥� recently sold 240 boxes of mint cookies for $1,200 to a person who wished to remain anonymous.

Sarah Pachkowsky, a Sparks leader, was at a coffee shop selling cookies to someone she knew who mentioned they might know someone else who would be interested. That person decided on the spot to buy the unit鈥檚 20 remaining cases of cookies.

Pachkowsky has been a Girl Guide leader for seven years and has never made a sale of that magnitude.

鈥淲e鈥檝e had businesses that will take on a case or two and sell them within their business, but I don鈥檛 think our district, which serves Cedar, Harewood and Chase River, has ever seen anything like this before, because when I notified the board, they were taken aback and overwhelmed,鈥� she said.

The anonymous buyer didn鈥檛 want any of the cookies.

鈥淭hey said they prefer the vanilla cookies, which come out in spring,鈥� Pachkowsky said. 鈥淪o, hoping [to sell] more cases come spring.鈥�

The buyer also didn鈥檛 indicate a charity to support, so the troop chose Loaves and Fishes Community Food Bank. The Cedar Sparks visited the Fry Street warehouse Monday night to drop off the donation and take a tour. Pachkowsky suggested it was a win-win-win in that the money helps the Cedar Sparks unit and the Girl Guides district, the cookies go to people who will eat them, and the girls get community service badges for learning about a charitable organization and helping deliver the donation.

Pachkowsky said she wanted to share the story to express thanks and show the community that good deeds don鈥檛 go unnoticed.

The Girl Guides鈥� fall cookie drive is now winding down, but the spring cookie drive is just a few months away, Pachkowsky noted.

鈥淧eople can preorder through units if they really want cookies, maybe, you know, 20 cases or so,鈥� she said.

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