St. Albert families like the Kelloways and the Bass’s helped to raise $465,457 and 22 cents for children’s health last month.
The eleventh annual Simply Supper Lemonade Stand Day Aug. 25 saw hundreds of kids and their families sell lemonade and other treats and otherwise fundraise for the Stollery Children's Hospital Foundation.
More specifically, this year they were pooling their pennies to help the Pediatric Diabetes Education Centre (PDEC), where a three-year project to “enhance patient and family experiences, improve access to care and develop diabetes resources for kids, families and health-care providers” is underway.
Organizers hoped to see 600 lemonade stands run by “Junior Lemon Squeezers” across the Edmonton region; a few days before the event, 29 had registered in St. Albert.
Simply Supper and the sponsors of Lemonade Stand Day provide kits that include all the lemonade making supplies for kids to get their stands started.
Monita Chapman, founder of Simply Supper Lemonade Stand Day, attended a reveal party held at the West Edmonton Mall’s water park Sept 15 to thank all those JLS’s.
“It is the kids and people who participate every year who truly make Lemonade Stand Day such a success!” she said in a news release. “This year I was so grateful as nearly 30 percent of stands were hosted by families new to our event.”
The charity has raised nearly $2.5 million in total for SCHF.
