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Article: Alex's lemonade stand: "fighting childhood cancer one cup at a time".(Alexandra Scott, Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation)
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- September 1, 2007
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The day after Alexandra "Alex" Scott's 4th birthday, inspiration planted a lemon seed in her. That day, she was in the hospital receiving treatment for her cancer. She told her mother, "When I get out of the hospital, I want to have a lemonade stand." Her goal was to raise money for the doctors at "her hospital."
She wanted to help find a cure, not only for her cancer but for all pediatric (childhood) cancers. Later that same year, Alex opened her first lemonade stand in her front yard. Her brother Patrick helped. That was in July 2000. By the time Alex was 8 years old, she had raised more than $1 million, one cup of lemonade at a ...