35th annual Cookie Walk returns Dec. 1

One of Geneva's oldest and tastiest holiday traditions returns for its 35th year when the Unitarian Universalist Society of Geneva, 102 S. Second St., hosts its annual Cookie Walk from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. Friday, Dec. 1.

Held in conjunction with the city's popular Christmas Walk celebration, the Cookie Walk offers a wide array of festive holiday cookies for sale, home-baked by church members.

For $14, customers can purchase a box to be filled with cookies they select. Due to health department rules, "cookie elves" will place choices into customers' boxes as they walk through the cookie room. With hundreds of dozens of cookies to choose from, people often fill more than one box.

Money raised at the event goes to support the work of the church and the social justice programs it sponsors, including Habitat for Humanity homebuilding and local nonprofit organizations such as Lazarus House and the Northern Illinois Food Bank.

Each year, the lines to buy cookies form early and sell out fast.

The Unitarian Universalist Society of Geneva, established in 1842 and the oldest church in Geneva, is a diverse, welcoming community that endeavors to make its covenant a living reality. It provides religious education and opportunities for spiritual growth. They encourage individual and mutual responsibility as together they work to be a liberal religious voice in the community and a force for compassionate social justice. For more information, visit www.uusg.org.