Saturday, May 31, 2008

Alex's Lemonade Stand

Today at Albertson's we held a Lemonade stand to benefit Pediatric Cancer research. This stand was started because of Alex Scott, a little girl who lost her 4 year battle against cancer. When she got sick she told her parents she wanted to have a lemonade stand to raise money for her doctors to find a cure. In her 4 year battle, she raised 1 million dollars. Since then, almost 16 million dollars has been raised due to these lemonade stands. We dedicate this stand to Alexandra Scott and to Daniel Phillips who lost his battle 4 years ago to leukemia. To them and to all the children who have won, lost, or are still battling, our prayers go out to you. This nice lady was our first customer. Many people who stopped at the stand did not want any lemonade but gave generously. Some of our corporate sponsors included McDonald's ( Pictured here is Lo, a McDonald's representative, who brought us the cooler and the cups), Chick-Fil-A ( who donated 5 gallons of fresh squeezed lemonade.), and Walmart( who gave us a $25 gift card for supplies).

Kathryn is helping to make some more lemonade. All total we gave out about 100 glasses of lemonade. Thank you to all the children and parents of K12 , TCHF, and TEACH who came out to hand out lemonade. With all of your help we had lemonade, cookies, muffins, fresh fruit, brownies, coolers, a much needed tent for shade, lots of hands helping, and wonderful fellowship. The children passed out stickers, tatoos, and glasses of lemonade. They were just too cute.

Here is one of our little attention getters. Isn't she adorable.


As the Albertsons patrons would come up to the store the children greeted them with an American Flag sticker and invited them over for lemonade and to make a donation. All total today we raised $258.45. Tomorrow we will have a 2nd stand and raise even more for research.

This was the last group shot that we did that has all the children and parents in the shot.

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