Sunday, March 22, 2009

Think Pink!

Gayle's third graders were involved in a great project this week-end. A mom in the other 3rd grade class, Angela Petrucelly, died of cancer several weeks ago. Her daughter, Victoria, was in Gayle's kindergarten class 3 years ago. Victoria and her friend Jesse, who IS in Gayle's class this year, decided several months ago that they wanted to sell pink lemonade to help raise awareness for breast cancer to help her mom. After mom died, it turned into a fund & awareness raiser for cancer and the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center here in Orlando. They picked this week-end because Jesse lives across from the Henry Leu Gardens and the Leu Gardens has its annual plant sale. They knew that many, many people would be in the area! So both classes of 3rd graders and a great many others got involved. Weather was great! TV stations came, the head of the Cancer Center stopped by, Chik-fil-A donated lemonade and lunch for the kids, people were generous, and the kids raised a whole lot of money. Victoria had said that she hoped they would make "$50." Waaay beyond that! Way to go, kids!

Victoria is on the left in the pink hat; her good friend Jesse is on the right.



Teachers & parents a-plenty!

5 comments:

Katie said...

What a bunch of sweeties. How much did they raise?

Gayle and Rob said...

$23,856.73 -- outstanding, eh?

Anonymous said...

I've got tears in my eyes after reading that. What special little girls they are! It never ceases to amaze me what generous and thoughtful ideas kids have...we should listen to them more often.

Gayle and Rob said...

Wll, today they were on National TV - Fox network. I'll send you all a link to a video. The story just seems to continue and grow.

Anonymous said...

I found this blog while doing a search for Victoria's story -- we actually did a video with Victoria and her best friend Jesse, starting the day before the sales and ending with that unbelievable check presentation.

http://growingbolder.com/media/health/cancer/think-pink-lemonade-stand-252111.html

I'd grab a tissue ... this had people in the office weeping, but touched and inspired.

Thanks for taking a moment to check it out!

Katy Widrick
Executive Producer, Growing Bolder Media Group
katy@growingbolder.com