The Blazer Stop Returns to GEHS
One of the three designs of Halloween cookies The Blazer Stop baked and decorated.
Nov 4, 2021
The Blazer Stop is returning Wednesday, November 10 after a year off due to Covid.
“I’m excited to just start selling stuff,” Ryan Beane, a senior and part of The Blazer Stop’s social media team said. “Nothing happened last year and the year before that they got cut off short.”
Covid-19 impacted The Blazer Stop by causing them to not be able to open. In 2020, the sales of The Blazer Stop got cut short due to schools closing down. In 2021, students at GEHS were participating in online school for almost the whole year. This made it not possible for The Blazer Stop to open, due to the lack of students at the school.
“We re-invented everything and started fresh,” Beane said. “Last year nothing happened, there was a lot of resources that weren’t used from last year.”
This year, now that the high school is fully in person, they are planning to sell various items such as cookies, t-shirts, and smoothies. These items will be available for students at GEHS.
In past years at GEHS, The Blazer Stop has opened in the mornings before classes begin.
“As of right now we are not planning on opening in the morning, at least not yet,” Mrs. Cole said.
The Blazer Stop will not be opening in the mornings yet due to problems they experienced with it.
“We saw that we lost sales when we did that,” Beane said. “We’re just going to cut out everything that doesn’t make us money.”
Seeing that The Blazer Stop being open in the morning lost them money, they cut it out to keep their profit. For now, they have decided to only open during lunch hours.
“We will be opening during lunch and we are going to sell smoothies during lunch periods usually about once a week, it would be on a blue day,” Mrs. Cole said. “The students are also going to be doing a vintage sale, we have a lot of leftover shirts from past years that we thought students might want at a large discounted price.”
For the month of October, The Blazer Stop members baked, decorated, and sold Halloween cookies. There were three designs for the cookies including a pumpkin, spiderweb, and skeleton. Overall, they sold a total of 210 cookies among students and staff at GEHS.
“We have basically baked them at a station in Ms. Bilger’s room, and then we’re gonna be using Chef Anne’s kitchen to decorate them,” Mrs. Cole said.
Other than the Halloween cookies, The Blazer Stop will also be doing a cookie delivery story called the “Blazer Dash”. Before they make these cookies available to order for students, they will be performing a test run with the teachers.
“They are going to be doing, they’re calling it “Blazer Dash” like delivery service, and so you can order chocolate chip cookies beforehand and we will deliver them during seminar, again that would usually be like once a week,” Mrs. Cole said.
Although these promotions are not coming quite yet, keep an eye out so you do not miss new opportunities at The Blazer Stop.