When summer’s heat becomes too much to bear, a glass of iced lemonade is a welcome relief, but what tens of thousands across Ohio have learned is that lemonade can provide a different sort of relief as well.
For 8 years, children’s lemonade stands pop up all over the city in July as part of an annual fundraiser that has to date channeled $5 million worth of gifts and necessities to children facing economic hardship, or prolonged stays in the hospital battling illness.
It all began with Payton Obert’s hope that she could raise money through a lemonade stand to get toys into the hands of children in hospital, a simple act of support that she herself benefitted from immensely when she received a teddy bear from a charity that works with children’s hospitals…