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Olivia Ohlson, 10, Raises More Than $4K Through Bake Sale to Help Fight Breast Cancer

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Olivia Ohlson, 10, Raises More Than $4K Through Bake Sale to Help Fight Breast Cancer

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When 10-year-old Olivia Ohlson learned that her mom Gini was diagnosed with breast cancer, she jumped at the chance to help. Olivia, a fifth-grader from Evanston, Illinois, made pink lemonade and baked shortbread cookies with her grandmother to sell outside the family’s home. “I always wanted to have a lemonade sale and when my mom got cancer I wanted to raise funds for women like her,” Olivia told ABC News. “I thought that since I wanted to raise money, I could have a lemonade stand.”

She also contacted local bakeries to ask that they donate cookies for her to sell in the shape of pink ribbons for breast cancer awareness.

“It was very touching,” Gretchen Vetter of Tag’s Bakery in Evanston said. “I was very moved by…

Please read original article Olivia Ohlson, 10, Raises More Than $4K Through Bake Sale to Help Fight Breast Cancer posted on Healthy Black Girls on 30 October 2017 | 4:44 pm —

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