Good news travels fast!

When so much of today’s news is so negative, it’s nice when there is something positive to report!  The Youngberg girls’ “little” lemonade stand has raised more than $6,000 to help pay for transportation for the family to their dad’s medical treatments.  And the news is nationwide, being picked up by the wire services this morning.  I found these posts on Fox News, a San Francisco news site, and the New Orleans Times-Picayune newspaper!  And all because everyone spread the news and gave what they could to help out another Pierre resident.  Wow!  What an inspirational way to end a week.

Have a great weekend, and enjoy the respite from the sweltering heat!

Children’s creativity helps out father

By Michael Neary michael.neary@capjournal.com | Posted: Thursday, July 5, 2012 10:30 am
When Rylee and Sydney Youngberg found themselves grounded – the first time ever, said their mom – they had a choice: They could stay grounded, or they could figure out something nice to do for someone in need.
“This is what they came with,” said Jen Youngberg, their mother, motioning to a lemonade stand set up on Tuesday afternoon near the corner of Church Street and Highland Avenue.

Rylee, 10, and Sydney, 8, teamed up with their 16-year-old brother, Ty. to create the lemonade stand so they could raise money to visit their father, Michael Youngberg. He’s slated to go to the University of Minnesota Medical Center in Fairview next week for cancer treatment. Jen Youngberg, his wife, said he’s endured a kind of cancer called Ewing’s sarcoma since he was a child, and it has recently traveled to his brain.

Michael Youngberg directs the Division of Securities in the South Dakota Department of Labor and Regulation.

“His prognosis is excellent,” Jen Youngberg said, but she noted that he’s scheduled to undergo six to eight weeks of chemotherapy and radiation treatment. It’s a treatment, she said, that he’s had to undergo several times in the past.

“We can’t afford to be out there as a family,” she added, “so they’re trying to raise money so they can go out and visit Dad.”

According to Rylee, the whole idea for a lemonade stand was not hard to concoct.  “It just came to me,” she said.

Jen Youngberg said that by middle afternoon on Tuesday, the children had made $1,500 from their stand – and the sun was still high overhead.  “People are donating,” she said. “And they’re not asking for change back. They’re just handing money to these kids.”

http://www.capjournal.com/news/children-s-creativity-helps-out-father/article_5efd87fc-c6b6-11e1-85e9-0019bb2963f4.html  Pierre

http://www.foxnews.com/health/2012/07/06/daughters-sell-lemonade-to-help-with-dad-cancer-treatment/  Fox News

http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Daughters-sell-lemonade-to-help-dad-s-treatment-3687568.php  San Francisco

http://www.nola.com/newsflash/index.ssf/story/daughters-sell-lemonade-to-help-dads-treatment/387061b8f2a44186893085744a355d9c  New Orleans