Wednesday, June 8, 2005 | ||
Bad Links? | Cancer fundraiser set for this weekendAlexs Lemonade Stand will be set up Saturday from 9:30 a.m. until noon at the Wilshire Estates pool in Peachtree City to raise money for pediatric cancer. Locally the stand raised just over $250 last year, and organizers are hoping to double that amount this year. Similar stands will be in operation all over the United States this weekend. Anyone interested in helping at the stand should contact Sarah Cochran at 678-364-0473 or jscochran@bellsouth.net. Alexandra "Alex" Scott was the 8-year-old founder of Alex's Lemonade Stand For Pediatric Cancer Research. Two days before her first birthday she was diagnosed with neuroblastoma, an aggressive childhood cancer. At the age of four, Alex decided to do something to make that cure more likely. She opened her first lemonade stand in July of 2000 with the idea of donating the proceeds to "her hospital." Each year since, Alex has held an annual lemonade stand in her front yard. As word has spread, donations have poured in from around the world, and she has raised over $1,600,000 for pediatric cancer. Alex died Aug. 1, 2004. For more information, visit www.alexslemonade.com. |
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