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WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP – Wedgwood Elementary School second-grade teacher Marla Ruh and her students recently hosted her 13th Annual “Lemonade for Sale” extravaganza for students, selling hundreds of cups of lemonade for 25 cents apiece.
The lemonade stand was open on Friday, March 24, 2017, and the class sold lemonade to fellow students and staff as part of a math unit on money, charts, and sales. The proceeds from the sale will be donated to the Alex’s Lemonade Stand charity. Students took turns as greeters and cashiers, as well as assisting with handing out the lemonade and collecting trash. They even kept a tally of every cup of lemonade they sold. The grand total of cups sold and funds raised will be calculated this weekend. The sale continued this afternoon until 1 p.m.
The sale has a special meaning in Washington Township, where a number of District students are survivors of neuroblastoma, the form of cancer that afflicted Alex Scott, founder of Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation. Scott died from her cancer at age 8. This is Ruh’s fifth year holding the event at Wedgwood, after hosting the stand the previous eight years at Birches Elementary School.
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The lemonade stand was open on Friday, March 24, 2017, and the class sold lemonade to fellow students and staff as part of a math unit on money, charts, and sales. The proceeds from the sale will be donated to the Alex’s Lemonade Stand charity. Students took turns as greeters and cashiers, as well as assisting with handing out the lemonade and collecting trash. They even kept a tally of every cup of lemonade they sold. The grand total of cups sold and funds raised will be calculated this weekend. The sale continued this afternoon until 1 p.m.
The sale has a special meaning in Washington Township, where a number of District students are survivors of neuroblastoma, the form of cancer that afflicted Alex Scott, founder of Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation. Scott died from her cancer at age 8. This is Ruh’s fifth year holding the event at Wedgwood, after hosting the stand the previous eight years at Birches Elementary School.
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