A year ago, brothers Tyson and Reece joined the fight against pediatric cancer when they baked a batch of chocolate chip cookies, mixed up some lemonade and hung their yellow banner above a lemonade stand.
It was just natural when Matt and Megan Williams had triplets they would compare their progress.
Brady, Cara and Eli arrived together on April 24, 2007, and together they learned to smile, to laugh and to crawl. They were happy, healthy siblings for their first 20 months.
“And then we noticed one stopped meeting his milestones,” Megan said.
This month, young cancer survivor and Greenville resident Brayden Bateman will represent his home state in the nationwide cancer-research fundraiser, Alex’s Lemonade Days.
A local volunteer is helping Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation for Childhood Cancer.
The second annual Simon and Borchert Family Garage Sale and Lemonade Stand will be held from 8:30 a.m. until 2 p.m. on June 12 and June 13 at 529 16th Avenue in Owatonna.
Ilaria Easom was just 3 years old when doctors found a fist-sized cancerous tumor in her chest. The tumor had collapsed her right lung, squeezed her heart and twisted itself around her trachea.
WHEN LIFE GIVES YOU LEMONS, GO TO CAMPBELL: There's a lot to do in Campbell this weekend. The monthly "Second Saturdays" event features plenty of music and art from 2 to 6 p.m. all along Campbell Avenue, and downtown boutiques and other merchants will have their wares on display outdoors as part of a sidewalk sale.
After six surgeries, 14 cycles of chemotherapy and 25 rounds of radiation, Brianna Mercado's doctors said she won her battle against Ewing’s sarcoma, a life-threatening bone cancer that affects mainly children and adolescents.
Even though 15-year-old Mercado missed her sophomore year in high school because of treatments, she always kept a positive outlook.
Brady Williams can be found many a summer day running around a T-ball diamond in Oakfield, but that just begins to tell the story of an 8-year-old triplet nearly paralyzed as a toddler.
Giovanni is a resilient 13-year-old whose strength has inspired his family and community. When Gio was 4 years old, he was diagnosed with medulloblastoma. ALSF's Travel For Care program helped Gio get to his treatments, and today he is cancer-free!
