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Mona Shield Payne / Special to the Home News
Boxes of Girl Scouts cookies sit on a table promoting the 60th cookie sale featuring the new flavor Daisy Go Rounds during the Cookie Kickoff Carnival Saturday at the Girl Scouts Frontier Council’s Training and Service Center.
By Ric Anderson (contact) 
Thursday, March 22, 2012 | 2 a.m.
Local Girl Scouts have hit a jackpot at Station Casinos, but don’t get the wrong idea.
The girls weren’t gambling. Instead, they benefited from a big order of Girl Scout Cookies from the casino company.
Station provided more than $100,000 to the Girl Scouts of Southern Nevada to offer a truly sweet deal for members of its Boarding Pass customer loyalty program, who this month are being allowed to earn points for cookies.
The casino company did not reveal how many boxes of cookies it received for its six-figure payout, but the order was enough for Station to offer the promotion on two nights. The second will be Friday.
Station officials said the company obtained its supply of cookies through the regional Girl Scout council as opposed to an individual scout or troop, with the understanding that the funding provided by the company would be used throughout the organization.
How many boxes of Girl Scout cookies did Penn Gaming buy?
Station Casinos did not pay for the cookies, all the Station Casino gamblers paid for the cookies out of their losses.
Well I'd rather see the Girl Scouts benefit this way than to see the Chinese benefit by having Stations buy up more of their chinese-made crappola to use as giveaways. At least this helps a worthy local entity instead.
Great idea! I'm happy to see them supporting a good cause!
I wonder if the cookies were made by a union bakery.......
Just another way that Stations has supported our local community. To many are willing to attack without looking at what this company has done over the years.
vegaslee, except that Stations is NOT the only gaming company to have a cookie giveaway. Stations is the only one buying the promotion advertisement from the local media. Stations does well in exploiting their good deeds and a better job of disguising the ugly fact that they pay wages and benefits, lower than industry standards.
This company has been a true "locals" joint going all the way back to the Bingo Palace days. It is great to read about how they support the community. Although I don't live there anymore, whenever I visit I stay at a Station's owned property because they still treat me like I am a local!!!
I'm waiting for the press release from Culinary slamming Station Casinos for this. No good deed goes unpunished especially when someone at Culinary has an axe to grind. And having talked to several people who work for Station Casinos and then seeing the Culinary attack efforts I'm thinking Culinary is clueless.
Stations should have just given the contribution. The gifts are worthless. I would like to give the Fertitas Bros one of their lousy gifts. BTW how did they write off 4BILLION and still retain ownership? Now that's an illusion worthy of David Copperfield.
It's always commendable when a gambling establishment makes a contribution to the welfare of tomorrows female leaders.
I salute Stations management for their action.
It's strikes me as odd the silence from the other casino's (like you could hear a pin drop) when you'd think they'd want to promote such a worthy effort.
I'm not saying they don't contribute to this cause, but name recognition means an awful lot in this business when they spend millions promoting their own casino's. Is somebody asleep at the switch?
@Chazbean, I agree their giveaways are usually nothing more than 'made in China' crapolla - this is why I'm glad to see they will be giving away Girl Scout cookies this time - this is a much better giveaway item (used to entice gamblers to visit the casino) and it's benefiting locally as opposed to overseas :)
Interesting discussion here, and thanks to everyone for their comments.
One point I'd like to stress is that Station did not reach out to the Sun with this story. In fact, it was the other way around. We contacted the company after hearing that Station was giving away a large amount of cookies.
We were curious about how much the company spent, so we called.
@ Walter, take a moment and look into what MGM Resorts have donated since the inception of the Foundation. They cover the costs of all employee donations so that 100% goes directly to the community. We are talking about millions of dollars. This is done without using product to help promote the company, they are cash donations.
Interestingly, Boyd Gaming was giving away Girl Scout cookies at Sam's Town weeks before Stations "got the idea".
Amazing that some people simply can't allow themselves to give Station any credit for doing something good. I'm as annoyed as the next person about how this whole bankruptcy process played out, but I have the ability to acknowledge when someone/company has done something good, even if they weren't the first ones to do it.
Who cares about unions, publicity, or who did what first?! They're helping a good cause...that's all that matters!
The Girls Scouts have been out in force out here. It's so tempting to buy a couple of boxes but being a diabetic, I cannot have the cookies in the house!! GOod stuff!! I did, however, find out that if you want to still buy a couple of boxes, you have the option of sending those boxes to our Troops overseas. The Girl Scouts will take care of everything. I thought that was a great idea!