11-year-old donates 356 boxes of cookies to Lincoln Police

Sami Lee donated 50 boxes of Girl Scout cookies in 2018. For her, that wasn’t enough. She wanted to raise the ante. 

“We did this last year, but we decided to go up and do more this year,” Lee said.

At just 11-years-old, Lee wanted to give back more than she ever had before. Her goal, a box off Girl Scout cookies for every Lincoln Police officer.

Nearly a year later and she reached her goal. Box by box the cookies were loaded into the police department.

Police officers bringing stacks of three at a time and piling them inside. Thin mints, peanut butter patties, lemonades, thanks-a-lot, you name it they had it. There were some for everyone. 

Stacking on chairs and tables, each box had something special wrapped on them. A handwritten note on each individual box from Lee to the police department. 

“It was really fun,” she said with a smile on her face, “One for each cop.”

Officers will stop by the 9th Street police station building to pick up their box during routine meetings. 

Lee said trying to decide which flavors to get wasn’t too hard. Each box is what the Girl Scouts have available for donations.

“You kind of just pick what you think everyone else would want,” she added.

Chief Jeff Bliemeister thanked Lee and had a bag to gift her in return. 

“I can’t wait to see what she is like when she is an adult and the great things she is going to continue to do,” Bliemeister said.

Lee and her mom fundraised around Lincoln asking local companies to donate to the cause. 

In back-to-back years, she has sold 1,000 boxes of cookies. Something her troop leader says “leads the team.”