Students Raise Money For Classmate With Cancer
They want to help because it's the right thing to do. Yet this year, students at Washington Elementary School in Berks County have another reason to run Alex's lemonade stand. WFMZ's Joel D. smith reports. >> REPORTER: The coins and bills are worth many smiles for these ambitious third graders at Washington Elementary School in Barto. It's the third straight year of hosting an Alex's Lemonade Stand, and they're smiling, because they know where this money will end up.
>> Asia Swank: We're selling lemonade and all the money goes to the hospital so they can help the children if they have Cancer.
>> REPORTER: Alex's Lemonade stand as it says here, raises money for kids all over the place. But this year, these students are a little more concerned with classmates from this place.
>> REPORTER: A first grader here has cancer, and so does second grader Josh Gehman. In the last 7 months, Josh has been through two surgeries, chemotherapy and radiation.
>> MATTHEW GEHMAN: He was diagnosed with a brain tumor in November of last year. He's been through a lot, and doing very well.
>> REPORTER: Matthew Gehman is the Assistant Fire chief in the Barto Fire Company. He's supported the Lemonade stand in the past, but wanted to step up his efforts this year... he brought the big truck.
>> JOSH GEHMAN: Daddy brought it to get more people's attention.
>> REPORTER: In the past two years this school's stand has raised a combined 45 hundred dollars. All the pretzels and lemonade were donated this year, and the goal is to raise four thousand dollars in one day. But obviously this is more than about money.
>> ASIA SWANK: It makes me feel happy because you help the kids, and if you don't help the kids they'll not be cured.
>> MATTHEW: It really makes me happy that kids understand and want to so something for someone else.
>> JOEL D./JOSH: Is this better than a normal day of school? Yeah. A lot better? yeah.
>> MATTHEW GEHMAN: He has a lot of friends, he loves them , and they love him too.
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