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05/02/09 Lemonade Day! (and Spring Festival update)

When life gives you lemons...

Our Spring Festival was originally scheduled for May 2nd, but was cancelled last week due to torrential rains that muddied the fields where we set up the festival.  It was an agonizing decision to cancel this long-planned and long-anticipated event...but recently, as we tried to mow those fields, our mowers sunk into the mud, and we knew we had made the right decision to cancel Spring Festival for this year.

We did everything we could to communicate the cancellation to the public through phone calls, emails, online social networking utilities, and local media...but we knew that there were limits to who we could reach, and wanted to make sure that if anyone did miss the message, we could welcome guests to our Home and spend time with them. 

We held tours, sold the baked goods originally intended for the Spring Festival bake sale, and held "Lemonade Day".

Michelle at the Lemonade Stand

Lemonade Day is a community event held in many cities to teach young people to start and run a lemonade stand, and is a project of Prepared 4 Life, a 501(c) (3) non-profit organization that prepares youth for life through fun, proactive and experiential programs infused with life skills, character education and entrepreneurship. 

We are grateful to those of you who were just passing through and came in to buy our kids' lemonade...and we hope that those of you whom we could not reach in the days between the date of our cancellation decision and May 2nd were still able to enjoy your visit to campus and Lemonade Day! 

Thank you to our friends at Prepared 4 Life for making Lemonade Day possible!

Lemonade Day Photo Gallery

Spring Festival Update:  You can still join in on the May 11th drawing for exciting prizes!  Contact George O'Neal at george.oneal@boysandgirlscountry.org or 281-351-4976 ext. 225 for more information. 

If you would like to help us raise the money ($200,000) we would have raised this Spring Festival toward the care of our children, please make a donation online or contact us Elaine Petranek at elaine.petranek@boysandgirlscountry.org or 281-351-4976 ext. 219.  We need your help! 

Robert helped with the advertising in a big way...a very big way...

...and he has the chalk-covered hands to prove it!

Evan helps with publicity by the gate!

Ms. Heidi, Crystal, Suzie, Raina, and Katelyn make a pitch for Lemonade Day