A Ladera Ranch teenager and cancer survivor will be honored in front of more than 90,000 football fans today at the Rose Bowl.
Eighth-grader Andrew Sprague will share his three-year battle with an aggressive form of leukemia and encourage the Rose Bowl crowd to participate in a text campaign to donate $10 for cancer research.
The 14-year-old said he isn't nervous at the prospect of appearing before the huge crowd.
Amy Newman, a nurse practitioner in pediatric oncology at the Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin, has won an $18,789 nurse researcher grant from Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation, a Pennsylvania-based nonprofit dedicated to fighting childhood cancer. Newman is also a doctoral student at Marquette University.
For more than three decades, Applebee’s franchisees have annually contributed millions of dollars and countless hours of effort to causes that are most important in their individual communities.
A Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children’s Cancer Center researcher was one of three inaugural recipients of the Bio-therapeutics Impact Award from the nonprofit organization Alex’s Lemonade Stand.
Northwestern Mutual’s Childhood Cancer Program and its nonprofit partner Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation will honor 13-year old cancer survivor Andrew Sprague for his heroic battle against the disease at the Rose Bowl, Jan. 1.
The 3 most memorable achievements in my life are,
1. Dealing with my baby bunny "Oreo" dying.
2. Starting violin
3. Doing a lemonade sale to raise money for Alex's lemonade stand foundation for cancer
On Dec. 6, Santa Claus landed his reindeer and sleigh to spread holiday cheer to help raise $5,000 for Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation during Applebee’s Breakfast with Santa.
Lauren is bright, strong and mature - she's been through more than most kids her age, and is still battling a low grade glioma. She plans to raise $100,000 for childhood cancer research before she graduates high school.
