Brownie Mollie Riggenbach, 8, gives officer Jeffrey Hollidge Jr. of the Harrisville Police Department some Girl Scout Cookies. Mollie collected donations for boxes of cookies to give to the first responders in Harrisville and Slippery Rock communities to show her appreciation for their work in the community. She delivered 78 boxes to the fire and police departments, according to her mother, Sarah Riggenbach.

While Mollie Riggenbach, a Brownie in GSWPA Troop 20462, was selling Girl Scout cookies, she was also collecting donations to give cookies to local first responders.

People could buy boxes for themselves, and they could also donate $5 for a box that would be given to first responders in Harrisville and Slippery Rock. Mollie and her mother, Sarah Riggenbach, who is the leader of Girl Scout Troop 20462, donated 15 boxes of cookies on their own, but were able to buy a total of 78 boxes to split between Harrisville and Slippery Rock officers.

And according to Sarah Riggenbach, the project was her daughter's idea.“There was someone who already offered to donate cookies to the hospital,” Riggenbach said. “She actually suggested the fire departments and police instead because she said no one had donated to the first responders.”Mollie wanted the cookies, which varied from Thin Mints to Samoas and Tagalongs, to be shared between the two borough's police departments and their respective volunteer fire departments.The troop meets at Highland Presbyterian Church, and is made up of mainly of students in the Slippery Rock Elementary School, but has members from Moniteau School District, and some from Grove City. The Riggenbachs are from Harrisville, which is why they chose the northern departments.Riggenbach said she was proud of her daughter for thinking of the firefighters as well as the police because they are volunteers who donate their time to respond to emergencies. She was also pleased her daughter wanted to personally thank them for their service.“It was her idea to do first responders and that meant a lot to me, that she wanted to give back to people who donate their time,” Riggenbach said. “And I liked the idea she wanted to deliver them herself because it could have just been mom, but she wanted to do it.”

Cutline: Mollie Riggenbach, 8 of Harrisville, is a Brownie in Girl Scout Troop #20462. Riggenbach collected donations for boxes of cookies to give to the first responders in Harrisville and Slippery Rock communities. She wanted to show her appreciation for first reaponders. Riggenbach deliver 78 boxes to the fire departments and police departments, according to her mother Sarah Riggenbach.