MUSKEGON, Mich. — It’s been three months since 6-year-old Gavin Sima lost his three year-long battle with leukemia. But even in the face of such tremendous loss, supporters of Gavin and his family hoping to gain much more after coming together Saturday to raise money for “Alex’s Lemonade Stand,” a national foundation for pediatric cancer research, in memory and honor of Gavin.
And just like that, LA Loves Alex's Lemonade came and went, but not without a generous helping of fanfare only fitting of what has come to be known as LA's best food event. Though it was a scorcher of a day, free flowing lemonade from, well, Lemonade kept lucky attendees cool at UCLA's gorgeous Royce Quad.
Matt's Crew is running and walking again this year to raise awareness of childhood cancer and the need for research. This is the second year that Noel Bertucci of Kenner has joined the Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation for their Million Mile – Run. Walk. Ride. and formed a team in memory of her son.
I know I shouldn’t play favorites, but annual food event L.A. Loves Alex’s Lemonade, which will be held at UCLA this Saturday, is one of my top L.A. food festivals. And a big reason why is that it always has a stellar bartender lineup. Sure, they’ve got a huge wine selection AND actual craft beer; none of those huge macro beer buyouts. But it’s that inclusion of quality bartenders and craft cocktails that puts the event up and over.
MATTHEWS – Two local teenagers are teaming up to fight childhood cancer through the Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation for the fourth time, and this time they are literally taking their fundraising efforts to the streets as they participate in the Alex’s Million Mile initiative.
ORONO - A University of Maine sorority is partaking in a challenge throughout the month of September to help raise awareness and money for childhood cancer.
Gamma Sigma Sigma the Delta Nu Chapter is a supporter of Alex's Million Mile.
It's a campaign based from the Pennsylvania non-profit, Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation.
Lemonade Stand for a good cause. After learning the concept of “giving back” this summer, Westchester residents Connor (6), Emma (6) and Max (4) will be holding a lemonade stand benefiting Alex’ Lemonade Stand Foundation in support of National Childhood Cancer Awareness Month. The children have chosen Benjamin Gillman as their hero, a five-year-old twin who is in remission from acute lymphoblastic leukemia.
WEST HARTFORD — A decade after Alex Scott lost her battle with cancer, the foundation she started, Alex's Lemonade Stand, has raised millions to help find a cure for the disease.
Now, her uncle Aaron Scott is setting off on a bicycle journey from his home in West Hartford to Pennsylvania to help keep her dream alive.
While most kids her age were out playing or sitting in bustling pre-K classrooms, Alexandra "Alex" Scott waited, for days, in an isolated, lead-lined hospital room in Philadelphia.
Alex took her first steps toward that room three years earlier, on January 16, 1997, when doctors diagnosed her with neuroblastoma, a cancer that develops from immature nerve cells. She was just shy of her first birthday.
In an effort to raise visibility for the National Childhood Cancer Awareness Month, Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation is going the distance fighting childhood cancer this September by launching Alex’s Million Mile Run Walk and Ride.
Camryn is a strong-willed and empathetic young woman who wants to spend her life helping kids through tough times. She recently graduated from Clemson University with a degree in recreational therapy and hopes of becoming a child life specialist.
