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Alex's Lemonade Stand Keeps Child's Dream Alive

Alex Scott's mission to help other pediatric cancer patients continues through the Wynnewood-based Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation.

About this sponsorship: In honor of the 60th anniversary of Sir Edmund Hillary’s historic ascent of Mount Everest, Patch and Grape-Nuts are teaming up to highlight those who inspire people around them to climb their own mountains.  Alexandra "Alex" Scott was not your typical 8-year-old. Diagnosed with neuroblastoma around her 1st birthday, she defied the expectations of her doctor's by beating the cancer and learning to walk. At 4, she suffered a setback when she learned the cancer had reappeared. In the hospital after her stem cell transplant, Alex told her mother of her dream—to open a lemonade stand to raise money for her hospital to help other children with pediatric cancer. Specifically, the little girl wanted to raise $1 million. And…

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'Spirit Team' Holds Lemonade Stand in Memory of Nick Mincarelli

Raises money to help fight childhood cancer.

As players, coaches, and parents approached the East Plymouth Valley Park playing fields for the opening day of little league baseball Saturday, they passed a bright yellow table with about a dozen youngsters selling lemonade. And on that table sat a large plastic jar, a pile of dollar bills growing quickly inside, and a black and white photo of an eight-year-old boy smiling at passersby. That boy was Nick Mincarelli, the Plymouth Elementary School third-grader who tragically lost his three-year battle with cancer on March 12, 2012. But that pile of money and those students were all there in his memory, moving the fight against cancer one day closer to the time when no child will lose their life to the disease. "This day has been awesome, …

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