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6/9/2015
When Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation hosts Alex's Lemonade Days on June 12 – 14, the Rauch family — Brian, Kelly, Kristen and Kevin — of Sheboygan Falls will be the Hero Family State Representatives for the organization, hosting a virtual online "stand."
Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation (ALSF) was started by Alexandra "Alex" Scott, of Manchester, Connecticut, who was diagnosed with neuroblastoma, a form of childhood cancer, just before her first birthday. In 2000, when Alex was 4 years old, she set up a front-yard lemonade stand to earn money to find a cure for childhood cancer, raising $2,000 in one day. Sadly, in 2004, Alex passed away. But by then the organization she started had raised more than $1 million.
Alex took the "lemons" of her life and made lemonade, a philosophy embraced by the Rauchs. In March, 2006, their son, Kevin, then 3 years old, was diagnosed with neuroblastoma and given a 45 percent chance of survival.
