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3-Year-Old Girl's Adorable Lemonade Stand Raises $700 For Police K-9 Unit

Updated August 16, 2021

There are a lot of ways to refresh ourselves on a hot day, but lemonade is an ice cold classic. It's also pretty much the only way to actually make use of a whole bag of lemons should you somehow end up with one.

But if anything gives us fonder memories for our recently departed summer than making lemonade for ourselves, it's getting it from either an adorably happy or an adorably serious-looking kid with a makeshift stand.

But while a successful lemonade stand might help your average kid afford a new bike or some video games, one Wisconsin girl had a different purpose in mind for hers.

Considering what heights 3-year-old Lainie Stephens' lemonade stand would reach, the reason it began seems almost quaint.

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As CNN reported, her mother Molly was hosting a three-day yard sale in Germantown, Wisconsin and needed a way to keep Lainie occupied during the day.

So she decided that a lemonade stand would be a good learning opportunity.

Although the proceeds were always going to go to the Germantown Police Department's community funded K9 Unit, Molly figured the stand would raise maybe $40.

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Those expectations changed, however, when the chief of police stopped by and this photo of him and Lainie ended up on the police department's Facebook page.