While slow cookers of chili and ovens filled with wings hummed along in preparation for Sunday’s Super Bowl showdown between the Bengals and the Rams, the Palmerton Girl Scouts were busy filling a different kind of soup bowl.

The troop’s annual “souper bowl” Sunday canned food collection took place inside Country Harvest over the weekend in an effort to collect cans of food for the Christian Action Council of Palmerton Area Churches, housed at St. John Towamensing.

Palmerton Girl Scout Service Unit 728 includes 12 troops with 135 girls and 64 adult volunteers.

Organizing the event was Kim Carlson.

Service Unit Manager Patti Green said that “it’s been a slow weekend” and not that the girls “were not collecting as much as usual.”

She attributed the low collection to the weather and jokingly said, “if the weatherman would have made a big announcement of snow coming, that would have been packed.”

Those interested in registering their girls for Girl Scouts or buying cookies during the annual Cookie Campaign can reach out to PSU728@yahoo.com. There will be a Daisy information session on March 3 at 6 p.m. at Holy Trinity Church, and RSVPs are due by Feb. 28 at the same email.