Ready to set up their lemonade stand Sunday are, seated from left, Sofia Anderson, 6, Sam Payne, 5, Claire Payne, 2, James Wilburn, 4, along with, standing from left, Jonathan Anderson, 7, Luke Torbert, 11, and Sarah Torbert, 8. They look forward to participating in their first Alex’s Lemonade Stand at their Addie Pond subdivision’s tennis courts on Sunday afternoon from 1-4. Alex’s Lemonade Stand was started in 2000 by 4-year-old cancer patient Alexandra Scott, who wanted to help doctors find a cure for cancer.
Photo by Laura Moon
Photo by Laura Moon
In 2000, while recovering from treatment, Alex convinced her parents, Jay and Liz Scott of Wynnewood, Pa., to let her sell lemonade to raise money to find a cure for childhood cancer. That effort raised $2,000. A decade later, more than $30 million has been raised and 125 research projects funded by the Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation.
"Words can't express how amazed, grateful and humbled I am to see what Alex's stand has become and how her simple wish has changed lives," Liz Scott said. "As much as I feel grateful and fortunate, I feel equally sad and heartbroken at times when I think of all Alex went through in her life and of course, I miss her terribly every day."
In the belief that anyone can run a lemonade stand, Pennsylvania-based ALSF is seeking to expand its fundraising efforts by establishing a presence in metro Atlanta. Cobb is one of the first places it is setting up shop.
The first local ALSF event will be from 1 to 4 p.m. Sunday at the Addie Pond subdivision at West Sandtown and Villa Rica roads in Marietta. There will be a lemonade stand set up near the tennis courts that will be run by neighborhood kids. Any donation is accepted with proceeds given to the ALSF.
ALSF community outreach specialist Jenny Wilburn, 33, will host the lemonade stand in the neighborhood. Her job is to get more people selling lemonade in their own neighborhoods.
Siblings Luke and Sarah Torbert, both students at Dowell Elementary School, are selling - and helping make - regular and pink lemonades.
"I like selling lemonade and I want to help raise money for cancer," said Sarah Torbert, 8. Her 11-year-old brother said he is volunteering to "keep children from dying of cancer and help them get better."
From June 11 through 13, ALSF will host its seventh annual Lemonade Days, when thousands of volunteers nationwide are expected to sell lemonade during the same June weekend that Alex Scott first did.
To learn more about hosting a lemonade sale with Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation, call 1-866-333-1213 or visit: www.alexs lemonade.org. Participants are asked to register their stand at the Web site before hosting an event.
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