Julie Barchetto had a problem. She is a Girl Scout troop leader for three of her daughters in the Little Egg/Tuckerton area, representing Troops 276, 516 and 080, with a total of 51 girls. Due to the late start of the Girl Scout cookie season (Feb. 28) and the shutdown of the state on March 13, she had thousands of boxes of cookies left to sell for the girls to reach their goals.

“After a couple days of contemplating whether or not we should send the cookies back to our council, I decided to give…