Kelli Hoag says her friend Christina Anderson has turned tragedy into triumph.
“She was always so upbeat and so positive, and when I learned her story about her daughter dying, and I was just amazed at how she carried on,” Hoag said.
At age 4, she repeatedly pleaded with her parents to start a lemonade stand. When her mother offered to buy her whatever she wanted, Alex said she wanted to raise money for other kids with cancer and the hospital treating them.
Magicians from Berks County and the region will gather in Reading this weekend to perform a 24-hour Magic Marathon to benefit Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation.
The Magic Marathon is the brainchild of Wayne Shifflett, owner of the Mingus Magic Shop, 528 Lancaster Ave.
Endeavor Elementary Schools held its third annual "Kick It to Cancer" student-faculty kickball game on Friday to raise money for Alex's Lemonade Stand.
When Maya Rigler was two she fought and beat kidney cancer. Now 10, Maya has an unrelated, rare presentation of a different cancer—Ewing’s Sarcoma; and the tumor on her pancreas is too large, and compromises too many important blood vessels, to be safely removed.
The skies were blue and the temperatures comfortable on April 22, but it was the shining light of charity taking place at Birches Elementary School that stole the show. Carrying on a tradition that was started 11 years ago by second-grade teacher Marla Ruh, the second-grade teachers and students at Birches Elementary School hosted their third annual Lemonade Stand Fundraiser in the school playground area.
Students in Melissa Dench’s life skills class at the Valley View Intermediate School will practice these skills in a functional setting by hosting an Alex’s Lemonade Stand Thursday, May 7, 4-7 p.m., during the Valley View Cougars softball and baseball games.
Maribeth Callejas’s fourth-grade class will be working with the life skills students on this project.
Koa was an amazing little boy who could make anyone laugh. After he was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia, he fought through many life-threatening complications for five months. Sadly, Koa passed away. He's the strongest person his family knows.
