Two boys donate lemonade stand earnings to help repair Del. zoo Monkey House

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Two boys donate lemonade stand earnings to help repair Del. zoo Monkey House


The Brandywine Zoo in Wilmington says two boys have donated the proceeds of their lemonade stand to help repair the zoo's Monkey House, which was damaged by a tree.

Radio station WDEL-AM reports 7-year-old Jared DeStafney and 10-year-old Ryder Hickey stopped by the zoo Friday afternoon to donate $300 in cash and change they collected at a lemonade stand earlier this week.

The zoo's director says officials are in the process of assessing the damage after a tree crashed into the zoo's Monkey House building. For now, some animals have gone to live at two zoos in Pennsylvania. The zoo still has another 14 to 16 monkeys and is working on a way to put them back on display.

http://www.newsworks.org/index.php/local/item/57541-two-boys-donate-to-help-repair-del-zoo-monkey-house-

[pitbullgirl1965]

1. How sweet. :)

Their parents must be proud.

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2. Hmmm by your username

(and welcome to DU) guessing you are a girl, who likes pit bulls (and Olive Garden?) born in 1965....so, wanna go out sometime?



Always good to see new folks around here, thanks for commenting!

[pitbullgirl1965]

6. Thank you. :)

All of the above, except I'm boycotting Olive Garden.

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7. Wait, when you say all of the above....

Is it a date

Yeah, I am bad at times....

[treestar]

3. How adorable

My nephew was about five and he decided to save some money for the poor. He asked us how to get it to them! It was so cute.

Those kids did pretty good for a lemonade stand!

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5. When I was a young kid

I got a beagle for Christmas (when I was in first grade). Parents smuggled it home 80 miles in the car with me and I was convinced Santa brought it with him on his sleigh (they got it from my dad's friend).

Well, at one point she had puppies (no idea how, we didn't have another dog - but then I was young). We went out in front of Gold Circle to give them away to people.

I was dressed in crappy jeans and a t-shirt and one nice lady who took one gave me some money and told me she was just trying to help us out. Upset dad because she thought we were poor (we weren't rich to be sure).

I don't know if it was that, but something triggered me to help others out at that age. Me and Jackie (girl down the street) raised money several years in a row for the Jerry Lewis telethon (went door to door, lord knows we ticked off a few people because we went out one year at like 7 am knocking LOL). We started a club to clean up the neighborhood of trash with our wagons one year during the summer. I have always, when able, given money to strangers to help them out when I could.

I think part of it was talking to my dad and learning that there were poor people who sat at stores like that to beg for money and it just hit me. I didn't know poor people really (though I felt less fortunate than some I knew at school). That all changed rapidly as I did pay some attention from there on out to things I hadn't before. It taught me empathy, which carried through to me at school and other kids that before I never really understood (not to mention my mom who was constantly on me about treating others the same and telling me to see things through their eyes - to the point she made me hang out with some kids at school that others didn't like, she was very active at our school. The only Jewish kid at our school was out of sorts there and mom got me playing with him and doing sack races at picnics with him and such and told me don't I dare treat him like the other kids did).

These boys have a good start and good hearts.

[KoKo]

4. What a positive story...thanks for this...it's a feel good what those two boys

were able to do!