When the summer heat gets high, nothing cools you off faster than a nice, tall glass of lemonade. Two elementary school girls from Washington capitalized on this fact, but they used their profit to benefit local first responders.
According to KREM-2 News, Ruby Schneider took the $387 donation to Spokane County Fire District 4 after school on Sept. 14. Schneider and an unnamed classmate, both of whom are natives of Colbert, Washington, spent most of the summer selling lemonade and saving the money they earned from the stand.
Schneider told the news source that she was saddened by the news of the firefighter deaths in the West Coast wildfires, and she wanted to give the money to help her local firefighters.
The Spokane County Fire District 4 plans to use the money to benefit the Volunteer Association of Firefighters, a local nonprofit that conducts community outreach events.
"This has happened before and with a lemonade stand, you have to sell a lot of lemonade to make that much money so we're pretty impressed with them," Spokane County Fire Public Information Officer Megan Hill told KREM-2 News.
Schneider said she has plans to reopen her stand next summer and would be glad to give the money to the firefighters again.