III Corps hosts Lemonade Day ribbon cutting ceremony

FORT HOOD, TX, UNITED STATES

04.22.2015

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Fort Cavazos Public Affairs Office

FORT HOOD, Texas - III Corps and Fort Hood officials will host a Lemonade Day Fort Hood Area ribbon cutting ceremony to officially kick off Lemonade Day weekend at 11 a.m. May 1 in the front entry area of III Corps Headquarters here.

Deputy Garrison Commander Mary Himic and Garrison Command Sgt. Maj. Michael Cosper will provide opening remarks.

Following the ceremony, a select group of Lemonade Day participants will set up their lemonade stands and sell lemonade to VIP guests and III Corps Soldiers and staff. These young entrepreneurs have been preparing for Lemonade Day by learning the basics of business through the Lemonade Day Entrepreneur Workbook and have unique stories to tell the guests. This event is a snapshot of what the coming weekend will look like with lemonade stands dotting the Fort Hood community.

Fort Hood was the first military installation to actively promote Lemonade Day, and the success of the program at Fort Hood is now being modeled for other military communities across the country. Lemonade Day participants have spent the last few months learning how to start, own and operate their own business – a lemonade stand. Participants are encouraged to spend a little, save a little, give a little of their profits.

Lemonade Day is an educational initiative designed to introduce youth to entrepreneurship. Children of all ages learn to set goals, develop a plan, secure an investor, create a product, make a profit and give back to their community.

This will be the sixth year that the Fort Hood area has participated in the program. Lemonade Day is sponsored by Fort Hood National Bank, Fort Hood Family Housing and local sponsors H-E-B, CenturyLink and Smile at the World Orthodontics with support from the Directorate of Family, Morale, Welfare and Recreation.

Lemonade Day is an international program founded in 2007 by Michael Holthouse and his foundation, The Holthouse Foundation For Kids in Houston, Texas. Lemonade Day now has more than 150,000 youth across the U.S. and Canada participating each year.

For more information about Lemonade Day, visit forthood.lemonadeday.org or call Amanda Stephens, Lemonade Day city director, at [phone] or Nieomi King, Fort Hood Family Housing Community Services manager, at [phone].

Media who wish to cover this event should register here: www.forthoodpresscenter.com/go/survey/3439/22802/

The gate time is 10:30 a.m. May 1 at the southside parking lot of the Fort Hood visitor's center.

• Date Taken: 04.22.2015
• Date Posted: 04.22.2015 16:38
• Story ID: 160872
• Location: FORT HOOD, TX, US