ONE FINE COOKIE MAKER.Byline: Krystn Shrieve Staff Writer The owner of a local cookie cookie File or part of a file put on a Web user's hard disk by a Web site. Cookies are used to store registration data, to make it possible to customize information for visitors to a Web site, to target Web advertising, and to keep track of the products a user wishes to business, who has lived in the Conejo Valley The Conejo Valley is a region spanning both Southeastern Ventura County and Northwest Los Angeles County in Southern California, United States. It was discovered in 1542 by Spanish explorer Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo, and eventually became part of the Rancho El Conejo land grant by for 15 years, said part of her job has always been giving back to the community. Kathie Hendrickson, owner of Cookies by Design Cookies by Design, formerly Cookie Bouquet™, is a producer of customizable cookies and baked goods solely in the United States. Founded in 1983 by Gwen Willhite and based in Plano, Texas, the company's first franchise opened in 1987. in Westlake Village, tries to do something special for the community nearly every month. Starting this week through Nov. 20, employees at Cookies by Design will give away a free gourmet cookie to each customer who brings in canned goods. The food will be donated to Manna Conejo Valley Food Bank in Thousand Oaks Thousand Oaks, residential city (1990 pop. 104,352), Ventura co., S Calif., in a farm area; inc. 1964. Avocados, citrus, vegetables, strawberries, and nursery products are grown. in time for Thanksgiving. ``Our cookies are made with no preservatives preservatives, n.pl food additives that hinder spoilage by reducing the growth of microorganisms. Include nitrates and nitrites, benzoates and sulfites, and many others. and oftentimes of·ten·times also oft·times adv. Frequently; repeatedly. Adv. 1. oftentimes - many times at short intervals; "we often met over a cup of coffee" frequently, oft, often, ofttimes , especially around the holidays, if we have some left over at the end of the day we'll give our cookies to Manna,'' Hendrickson said. ``We don't cut our prices and sell them for less the next day because we only sell the finest. This way they're going to people who need them.'' Cookies by Design, which has been open for three years, specializes in all types of cookies. The sugar cookies are made in many different shapes, including trains, planes, cars, flowers and flags. A hole is drilled into some cookies and a stick is inserted. These cookies on sticks are bundled together to create cookie bouquets  This article or section is written like an .Please help [ rewrite this article] from a neutral point of view. Mark blatant advertising for , using . . Hendrickson said her husband, Wayne, makes the cookie cutters. Once the couple made a bouquet of cookies shaped like feet so a customer could say thank you to the podiatrist Podiatrist A physician who specializes in the medical care and treatment of the human foot. Mentioned in: Shin Splints podiatrist who helped with a broken foot. The store's gourmet cookie flavors include chocolate chip Chocolate chips are small chunks of chocolate. They are often sold in a round, flat-bottomed teardrop shape (similar to a Hershey's Kiss). They are available in numerous sizes, from large to miniature, but are usually around 1 cm in diameter. , oatmeal, oatmeal and raisin raisin, in botany and cooking raisin, dried fruit of certain varieties of grapevines bearing grapes with a high content of sugar and solid flesh. Although the fruit is sometimes artificially dehydrated, it is usually sun-dried. , lemonade, snickerdoodle, peanut butter crunch and one called ``millionaire,'' which includes pecans, chocolate chips and bits of Hershey's candy bar. Hendrickson said she doesn't mind going out of her way for good customers. Recently she donated small square cookies, built into the shape of a pyramid, to a regular customer who needed them as a prop for a local theater production. On Mother's Day she gave heart-shaped cookies to all new mothers giving birth at a local hospital. In August she held a drawing and gave away a cookie bouquet each week and held a coloring contest, giving away a cookie to each child who participated. In September, to feature a regular customer who had written a children's book, she held a book signing and gave the children who who attended cookies in the shape of characters in the book. In October the cookie shop held a contest with a local radio station and encouraged people to draw and send in pictures of their bosses for National Boss Appreciation Day on Oct. 16. The winning artist and boss each won seven cookie bouquets each month for a year - which has a retail value of $1,200.The Manna Conejo Valley Food Bank is the current recipient of her generosity. ``Doing things like this is good for the community,'' Hendrickson said. ``Manna has been a good charity and the bottom line is there is so much food on so many people's plates, but there are so many others who don't have anything.'' Canned good donations may be brought to Cookies by Design from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday or 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday at 3671 E. Thousand Oaks Blvd. in Westlake Village. The store is closed Sunday. Call (805) 446-1131 for more information. CAPTION(S): 2 Photos PHOTO (1 -- 2) Cookies by Design, purveyors of these pumpkins, is giving a cookie to anyone who brings in canned goods now through Nov. 20. (top) Karin Urban decorates Halloween cookies at Cookies by Design in Thousand Oaks. The shop makes gourmet and specialty cookies.(left) |
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