Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation for Childhood Cancer

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By Katie Sullivan
9/19/2011

People wearing shirts with "Remember Jolee" on their backs gathered Sunday to walk and raise money to fight pediatric cancer in memory of Jolee Boarder, a 2-year-old girl who died of the disease in April 2010.

The event hit close to home for the organizers, who are instructors at the Moosic campus of the Empire Beauty School. Jolee was the granddaughter of one of their supervisors, said Sandra Littci, a student service coordinator at the school.

"She captured my heart," Ms. Littci said about the little girl whose battle with stage-four neuroblastoma lasted less than a year.

More than 100 Empire students and instructors, along with family members and friends came out for the inaugural Alex's Lemonade Stand Walk-A-Thon at Nay Aug Park, sponsored by Empire Beauty School's Moosic campus.

Participants walked around the park, then met at the pavilion for music, food, face painting, hair wrapping, a basket raffle and games.

Proceeds from the walk benefited Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation, an organization dedicated to raising money and awareness for childhood-cancer causes.

The money raised from the basket raffle and other donations at the walk went to the Jolee Boarder Foundation, which aids the families of children battling pediatric cancer, Ms. Littci said.

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