Country Music brilliant Billy Dean launches the Sunkist Lemonade Stand Program to account charities above the country.
Sherman Oaks, CA -- The Sunkist lemonade army is aback and kids are acquisitive to advertise glasses of their home-made, freshly-squeezed drinks through the Sunkist "Take a Stand" affairs that allowances a claimed charity of their choice. Back by accepted appeal for a third year, kids ages 7 to 12 can annals at www.sunkist.com/takeastand and abide their "Take a Stand" agreement for a adventitious to accept a chargeless Sunkist lemonade stand, while food last.
Take a Stand is alarming because it gives kids a adventitious to advice added beneath advantageous kids and their families It's a advantage to abutment a affairs that puts acceptance and assets into the easily of accouchement so they can act with their hearts. I attending advanced to alive with Sunkist and accepting added humans to crop a angle for charities that charge our help. We're allowance kids and their claimed charities about-face lemons into lemonade with our program. And with country music brilliant Billy Dean on board, our achievement is to accord the kids an even louder articulation to accession acquaintance about issues abutting to their hearts To admission this year's lemonade angle season, Sunkist appear that Grammy® Award acceptable country music brilliant Billy Dean will serve as the new official agent for the "Take a Stand" program. On May 20, 2006, Billy will be in Nashville at the Hwy. 100 Harris Teeter alive with bounded charities to advice barrage the affairs with a achievement and lemonade sales from apex to 3:00 p.m.
"Take a Stand is alarming because it gives kids a adventitious to advice added beneath advantageous kids and their families," said Dean. "It's a advantage to abutment a affairs that puts acceptance and assets into the easily of accouchement so they can act with their hearts. I attending advanced to alive with Sunkist and accepting added humans to crop a angle for charities that charge our help."
In adjustment to accept the chargeless lemonade stand, kids are asked to abide a abrupt article that explains how they plan to accomplish their angle and how it will account their charity. The aboriginal 3,000 kids who assurance up online will accept a complimentary, bound copy Sunkist Summer Fun Lemonade Kit complete with the accoutrement they'll charge to be successful: a specially-designed stand, a duke juicer, peeler, faucet, a ‘how to' advertisement and a compound booklet.
"We're allowance kids and their claimed charities about-face lemons into lemonade with our "Take a Stand" program. And with country music brilliant Billy Dean on board, our achievement is to accord the kids an even louder articulation to accession acquaintance about issues abutting to their hearts," said Robert Verloop, carnality admiral of marketing, Sunkist Growers.
Last year, Sunkist gave added than 2,000 chargeless lemonade stands to accouchement who capital to accord aback to their communities through the "Take a Stand" program. And if accouchement above the country saw the confusion of Hurricane Katrina in the Gulf States, they were already afresh acquisitive to help. Throughout the year, the "Take a Stand" affairs participants appear adopting an estimated $400,000 for hundreds of charities throughout the country.
In accession to acknowledging victims of Hurricane Katrina, some of the a lot of claimed and affecting belief from endure year included allowances for bounded causes that had greater acceptation for partcipants, including:
Kennedy Jett, 8, of Lancaster, Pa., apprenticed to advertise fresh-squeezed lemonade to account the American Heart Association, a alms abutting to her affection back her adolescent brother Kaeden suffers from a affection problem. After audition about Kennedy's lemonade angle on the radio, a bounded acclamation band came out to advice accession added than $1500 on account of Kaeden. Juan Reyes of Morris, Ill., apprenticed online to advertise fresh-squeezed lemonade to account the American Cancer Society, back his aunt afresh anesthetized abroad from cancer. He capital to account her anamnesis and through the lemonade angle he aloft abutting to $150 for the cause. Evan, 8, of Troy, Ohio, aloft money for his little brother who suffers from Eosinophilic disorder. Evan donated all of the gain from his fundraiser to C.U.R.E.D., which aids in analysis and accessible acquaintance for Eosinophilic disorder. Evan aggressive others abutting to C.U.R.E.D. to address a weekend to lemonade stands above the country to accession money for the cause.As the summer progresses, kids are encouraged to acknowledgment to the Web website and forward in success belief and pictures showcasing their adroitness with their lemonade stand. Selected belief will be accent on the Sunkist website at the cessation of the program.About Sunkist
As one of the world's oldest and better citrus business cooperatives, Sunkist Growers is endemic by added than 6,000 citrus growers in California and Arizona, a lot of of whom are baby ancestors farmers, with about 2,000 of those growers bearing lemons. For added advice about Sunkist, appointment www.sunkist.com. Sunkist is a registered brand of ©2005 Sunkist Growers, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
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