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Girl Scouts to partner with Barnett’s for dinner JULIA VERGARA Staff Writer The Girl Scouts of Central Texas and Barnett’s Public House partnered up to bring a Girl Scout Cookie Specialty Dinner to Waco. The event is set to take place from 7 to 9 p.m. today at Barnett’s Public House, located at 420 Franklin Ave. “The moment we announce it [the dinner], it almost sells out,” Marketing Director of Barnett’s Public House John Hodges said. “Everybody loves this event because everybody loves Girl Scout cookies.” The dinner costs $25 for a fourcourse meal that includes dishes made with Lemonades, Peanut Butter Patties, Peanut Butter Sandwich and Caramel deLites. The Peanut Butter Sandwich cookies will be used to make Korean Glazed Pork Tenderloins and the Lemonades will be used to make Lemon Crab Crostini. “It’s really difficult to work such a sweet item into a savory meal. However, lots of really good flavors come out of the Girl Scout cookies,” Elizabeth Pannabecker said.
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It gives them opportunities they may not be able to afford otherwise.” MELISSA GREEN | MENTOR SPECIALIST
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LITTLE ENTREPRENEURS The Girl Scouts of Central Texas will host a dinner at Barnett’s Public House from 7 to 9 p.m. tonight.
Pannabecker said she has been in the cooking business since she was 15 years old and has had a lot of experience writing menus and creating new dishes. In order to make the menu for the specialty dinner, she draws on her experience and relies on the feedback she gets from people she works with. Program and Teen Mentor Specialist for Girl Scouts of Central
Texas Melissa Green said she was blown away at last year’s Girl Scout Cookie Specialty Dinner. “My least favorite cookie is the Lemonades,” Green said. “But she —the chef at Barnett’s— had created this dish where she basically crushes the cookies and wraps goat cheese in the cookies, then puts it with a light salad and it’s so delicious because you have this crunch that you like in the salad, but then it just has this fresh lemon taste. It just makes the salad
so fresh and really made me enjoy the cookies a lot more.” While this is the second annual Girl Scout Cookie Specialty Dinner, this is the third year Barnett’s Public House has partnered with Girl Scouts of Central Texas, Green said. “This whole partnership started with a friend asking a friend, ‘Hey, do you want to try to do something to help out our girls?’ and they said, ‘Absolutely’ and it’s just grown and blossomed from there and it just
keeps getting bigger and better every year,” Green said. The first year, the two partners hosted Cookies on Tap, which offers Girl Scout Cookies and beer pairings. Since then, Barnett’s had hosted the Girl Scout Specialty Dinner and a Girl Scout Cookie brunch buffet. “The entire weekend is to raise awareness and money for the Girl Scouts of Central Texas,” Hodges said. “A portion of all proceeds from the dinner and Cookies on Tap and
the brunch buffet will go toward Girl Scouts of Central Texas.” Green said the events with Barnett’s Public House help the Girl Scouts of Central Texas reach a different audience. “A box of cookies is more than just a fundraising item—It really helps these girls,” Green said. “It helps our girls go to camp, travel the world — It gives them opportunities that they may not be able to afford otherwise.”
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COMMON IDEAS Kimberly and Blake Batson share advice with business students. The Batsons are the owners of Common Grounds and Heritage Creamery.
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CG owners talk success MICAELA FREEMAN Staff Writer The Hankamer School of Business launched their three-part speaker event “Confessions of an Entrepreneur” Thursday, which will feature local entrepreneurs and is open to the public. The series will offer Baylor students the opportunity to hear local entrepreneurs speak about how he or she became successful. Each local entrepreneur will also speak about the unconventional path he or she took in becoming a successful businessman or woman. Each speaker event of the series is at 12:30 p.m. in Foster 143 for each speaker event. Two of the speakers were the owners of Common Grounds and Heritage Creamery, Blake and Kimberly Batson of Waco. They began their talk by addressing their challenges, and how two Baylor graduates came back to their small college town to open two successful businesses. Kimberly Batson spoke about the route she and her husband took to become successful entrepreneurs and the nontraditional path they took as Philosophy and English majors at Baylor. “ S o m e t i m e s , disappointments open doors to what is truly the best for
you and serving underneath someone else’s dream is what is going to equip you for what you’re passionate about. It taught me to be a learner,” Kimberly said. The Batsons, originally hailing from Waco, both came back to their hometown to pursue the goal of owning a local business and contributing to the culture of Waco. While studying at Baylor, Blake Batson fell in love with the culture and life of Common Grounds and the up and coming city. After graduation, he felt moved to become a bigger part of Common Grounds and in 2012 Batson purchased the coffee shop Kimberly Batson played an active role in the ownership of both and announced she will be opening a bookstore called Fable Books in the city in the upcoming years. “We have fallen into this passion for hospitality in Waco. I think there is a great need for new things happening in Waco, and we want to do that,” said the Kimberly Batson. As advocates of investing in a local economy, the Batsons were thrilled to share their journey of becoming staple business owners in their community. “We’re ‘grown here’ because we’re passionate about promoting the local economy by supporting our farmers and vendors, sourcing locally whenever possible,” Blake
Baston said. The event offered Shorty’s pizza and Common Grounds coffee and students were able to interact with the Batsons and ask questions following the speaking. Albany, N.Y. freshman Payton Czupil was thrilled about the opportunity the event had to offer. “The speech given by the Batsons really opened my eyes to how entrepreneurship works and showed me the dedication that they have for their company and its customers,” Czupil said. “I also learned that there are nontraditional ways a person can take to become effective in their local economy.” Upwards of one hundred Baylor students and Wacoans attended the event, and were excited to not only hear a story of success, but also ask questions and enjoy pizza and coffee. The Batsons explained what it meant to be where they are while sharing their journey of owning a business. “Being able to share our story and talk about and think through all the things that have happened the last six or seven years ... this charity is really amazing and fun,” Blake Baston said. The next speaker event of the series will be Feb. 22, featuring Brent Bankston, the owner of Bankston’s Sport Memorabilia, Comics & Collectibles.
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