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Like many youngsters, 8-year-old sisters Lucy and Aspyn Shelton had considered ways they could earn money to pay for fun summer activities. They had planned to set up a lemonade stand in their neighborhood and try their entrepreneurial efforts that way.

But their plans changed when they learned the news of the catastrophe flooding that has hit so many in the Hill Country.

They were heartbroken to hear about the families and young girls around their age whose lives and dreams were suddenly destroyed.

“We go to Hunt every summer and stay at The River Inn,” Lucy said of the accommodations along the Guadalupe River. “This could have been us.”

The girls decided that instead of trying to make money for themselves for activities and toys, they could instead help a family affected by the flood by donating 100% of their proceeds from a lemonade stand.

Lucy and Aspyn baked more than 200 cookies and made 10 gallons of lemonade. They opened their stand at 9 a.m. before the Spring Ho Grand Parade and didn’t stop until 4 p.m. Lemonade and cookies were free with a donation, and the girls were able to raise $440.

The sisters also made a “Texas Strong” sign that donors could add their family’s names to that would show their support. The sign will go along with the lemonade stand proceeds to the struggling family.

“I just hope we can help just one person just a little,” Aspyn said.

The girls’ family also has a non-profit organization set up online — http:// www.rayemartin.org/– in honor of their great-greatgrandfather and will be donating through this nonprofit from the Lampasas community.

If anyone missed out on donating at the lemonade stand, the girls said there is still time to go to the website and make a contribution that way.

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