For the second year, a B.C. boy is using his summer vacation to raise money for the Victoria Hospitals Foundation.
Anders Yee, nine, hosted his second-annual lemonade stand on Shelbourne Street on Monday afternoon.
This year, he branched out to sell ice cream and freezies to raise funds for the Royal Jubilee Hospital and Victoria General Hospital.
“So we have pink lemonade and regular lemonade and then we have strawberry ice cream and vanilla ice cream,” Anders said.
For Anders and his family, the cause is very dear to their hearts.
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Two years ago, Anders lost his father, who was 55, after he spent a short time on life support at Royal Jubilee Hospital.
Years earlier, Anders himself spent five weeks at Victoria General Hospital’s neonatal intensive care unit as a premature infant.
Last year he raised about $1,000 from the lemonade stand.
“It feels really good,” Anders said. “Because it just makes a difference and the Victoria Hospitals Foundation is just a great place to donate.”
He said he knows his dad would be really proud of him.
Mom Susanna said the lemonade stand was her son’s idea and they wanted to host it in August around the anniversary of her husband’s passing.
“It’s a way of remembering his dad and memorializing him,” she said. “It’s a way of remembering and celebrating,” adding that Anders is “an amazing little individual.”