California babyGirl Scout sells record 32,484 boxs of cookies in one season
March 29 (UPI) -- An 8-year-old California Girl Scout set a record for the organization by selling 32,484 boxes of Girl Scout Cookies in a single season. Lilly Bumpus, 8, a Brownie who overcame a form of cancer known as Ewing's Sarcoma when she was a toddler, sold cookies from a booth set up outside her San Bernardino home and collected orders online, many of which were donation orders for patients at various children's hospitals in the area. "A lot of people approached us saying we must have gotten big businesses or sponsors to buy from us, or big donations," the girl's mother, Trish Bauer, told the San Jose Mercury News. "The biggest order placed was 100 boxes. Lilly reached 32,000 boxes out of everyone seeing value in buying one box, two boxes, four boxes, and everybody working together to try to be a small piece of a really big puzzle. "That, to me, is magical." Bumpus' Girl Scout troop, which is composed largely of cancer survivors, gi...