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- Alex’s Lemonade Stand began in 2000 in Philadelphia to raise money for a four-year old girl with cancer. Alex, the young patient, set up a stand in her front yard, and soon, people all over the nation were setting up their own stands to help fulfill her dream of finding a cure for childhood cancer.
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Across the country, kids took up the pitcher—sometimes most charitably: In 1910, the Indianapolis News lauded three young girls whose lemonade sales “realized 85 cents for the babies of...
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- High-Profile Lemonade Stand Becomes A Presidential Campaign Issue
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- Child-Run Stand Raises Relief Funds For Hurricane Katrina Victims
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Louisiana is synonymous with Mardi Gras parties and Cajun cuisine. In the near future, it might also become the lemonade stand capital of the world. Earlier this year, a Democratic state senator from the Bayou State introduced a bill that would exempt minors from needing to obtain an occupational license before setting up a lemonade stand—so long a...
In 1987, three brothers in Fort Worth, Texas, scored a sweet victory. To raise money for their church and fund a family vacation, the boys started a lemonade stand. Things were going well, until a neighbor anonymously complained to city hall about the tiny business. Once these remarks had been filed, zoning officials had no choice but to shut down ...
With a net worth of more than $66 billion, one of America’s most famous investors is easily one of the wealthiest men alive. In his youth, the Omaha native did what budding entrepreneurs often do: open a lemonade stand. But unlike most kids, this future businessman recognized the value of a good location. The child noticed that more pedestrians wal...
Historians don’t know where, when, or by whom the first lemonade stand was established. However, one journalist is often credited with popularizing the concept. Born in the Netherlands, Edward Bok (1863-1930) immigrated with his family to Brooklyn, New York as a boy. By the time he passed away, Bok had achieved national fame as the longtime editor ...
Naples, Florida, got some unwanted press in 2003. It all began when a neighborhood dispute resulted in the hasty closure of a six-year-old’s lemonade stand. The girl’s parents elected to shut down her business after their next-door neighbor informed the police that it was operating without a permit. A local station picked up the story and before lo...
When one American president ran for our country’s highest office in 1976, his daughter kept herself busy with a lemonade stand. Then just eight years old, the girl (and one of her friends) set up shop just outside of the family residence, where thirsty journalists made for reliable customers. At one point, a reporter lightheartedly told the candida...
A sausage stand owner in Salem, Massachusetts, faced some stiff competition in 2005. That summer, two local boys began selling homemade lemonade on his turf. Since the professional vendor also sold this citrusy beverage, conflict was inevitable. The sausage man asked Salem’s finest to talk the kids into relocating. Instead, the officers shut down t...
In July 2016, Canada’s National Capital Commission (NCC) found itself in hot water when it closed an Ottawa lemonade stand that was owned and operated by two little girls. The entrepreneurs were sisters—just five and seven years old—who’d been saving dough so they could attend summer camp. In order to take advantage of a public road’s foot traffic,...
In 2006, an 11-year-old humanitarian came up with one delicious way to raise funds for the Hurricane Katrina disaster relief effort. Determined to help out, the boy and his family rented some space at a merchants’ market near their Kyle, Texas, home. There, the whole gang opened up a charity lemonade stand that generated $540 for the American Red C...
For a $5 fee, anyone can set up his or her own lemonade stand within the city limits of Okmulgee, Oklahoma. But this wasn’t always the case. In June 2016, a local seven-year-old tried getting one off the ground but was told to cease operations by a police officer. That’s when her grandmother took action. When the woman complained to city hall, offi...
A lemonade stand is a business that is commonly owned and operated by a child or children, to sell lemonade. The concept has become iconic of youthful summertime American culture [1] to the degree that parodies and variations on the concept exist across media.
At the tender age of ten, Edward Bok, hailing from the Netherlands as an immigrant child, became one of the pioneering young proprietors to run a lemonade stand in America during the 1870s.
Aug 31, 2018 · One hot afternoon in July of 1941, a young woman—name and age unreported—opened up a lemonade stand in Western Springs, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago. The “little girl,” as newspaper ...
Alexandra "Alex" Scott, future founder of Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation, is born in Connecticut to parents Liz & Jay Scott. She is the second of four children. Just days before her first birthday, Alex is diagnosed with neuroblastoma, a childhood cancer.
Feb 17, 2020 · When Mikaila Ulmer was four years old, she received an old, tattered cookbook from her grandmother that contained a recipe for flaxseed lemonade. By the time she was 10, she had turned the recipe into an $11-million deal with Whole Foods. Here's how she did it.
