Last year, 11-year-old Jackie Meeks was undergoing chemotherapy at the Children’s Hospital of the King’s Daughters (CHKD). This summer, she’s cancer-free and raising money for other local children at the hospital.
Jackie was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer last summer after she started feeling sick during a softball tournament. While she underwent treatment at CHKD, her friends hosted an Anthem LemonAid stand in her honor. The program raises money for local pediatric cancer treatment programs every year from July 18 to Aug. 3.
Her friends’ stand raised $22,000. As a LemonAid ambassador this year, Jackie and her family are hoping to beat that number. Jackie hosted a stand on Friday on the lawn outside CHKD so that children in the oncology ward could see…