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A Sweet Sale: Brownie Troop Fundraises for Food Allergy Research

By Jordan Magaziner Steinfeld, Staff writer | June 13, 2016

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Brownie Troop #125096 at their troop “sleep under” party. (Top row, from left): Zoe Ostrosky, Laine Wise, Cate Schmidt, Mayes Beeler, Olivia Kim, the Texas Children's Hospital representative, Isabel Werlin, Harper Brown, Ayala Presley, Millie Frankel, Olivia Hamilton, Katherine Hull, Whitney Sturm, Lucy Dannenbaum, Ellie Ott; (middle row, from left): Cameron Dillon, Caroline Letzerich, Eliya Gibson, Jasmine Nguyen, Mary Elizabeth Villa, Taylor Edwards, Tabitha Orange, Elizabeth Marshall, Gretchen Merman; (bottom row, from left): Kayla Edwards, Lindsey Morgan, Nancy Claire Fertitta, Mia Adham. (Troop members who are not pictured): Virginia Kasselakis, Paige Smart, Grace Essalih, Sara Ghauri, Unaissah Saeed and Finley Ryman.

This spring, Brownie Troop #125096 held multiple lemonade stands all over town to benefit food allergy research at Texas Children’s Hospital. The girls, all rising third graders at The Kinkaid School, voted to pool their proceeds for this special cause because many of them have friends who live with serious food allergies, including some troop members. This cause is close to their hearts.

The troop raised more than $700 from their lemonade stands, and matched the money raised from the troop portion of their cookie sales money.