Alex's Lemonade Stand

In 2000, a four-year old girl named Alexandra ("Alex") set up a lemonade stand to help her doctors find a cure for her cancer. She had a childhood cancer called neuroblastoma. She held an annual fund-raising lemonade stand each year until she passed away at the age of 8. Her family and supporters continued the crusade she began by founding Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation. You can learn more about her inspirational efforts at the Foundation's website: http://www.alexslemonade.org/lemonade_stand.php

The reason I'm telling you about this is that a very good friend of my sister Lia had a little boy named Lorenzo who lost his battle with neuroblastoma 4 years ago. We had the honor of knowing little Enzo during his courageous battle. Since then, his family has sponsored a lemonade stand in his honor. They held their annual lemonade stand this past weekend. We couldn't make it, but we donated online at this website set up by Lorenzo's aunt: http://www.firstgiving.com/enzoslemonade

Lorenzo was first diagnosed well before his first birthday, and in recent months, when Aaron reached the age at which Enzo was spending his days in the hospital, I had a new empathy for Enzo's parents. We are so fortunate to have a healthy little boy and I hope medical science can find a cure for this agressive childhood cancer. I urge anyone who can to help to donate to this foundation. And in honor of little Enzo, I ask you to donate in his memory through the link above. He passed away 4 years ago on May 21.