Lemonade Dave Justus

For most children, playing soccer at the Lucas County Recreation Center would make for a fairly typical weekend afternoon — but 6-year-old cancer survivor Connor Bell’s game of pass Saturday was far from ordinary. Connor was diagnosed with osteosarcoma, a cancerous bone tumor, in July, 2009 — the day after his mother signed him up for a soccer team. His parents had to recall the paperwork as the youngster underwent treatment for two years. Now, with his cancer in remission and the prosthetic leg he received after doctors performed surgery in May, he tested out his soccer skills beside a 2,614-foot-long lemonade stand. Set up to raise awareness and funds for cancer research, the lengthy lemonade stand was the work of David Justus, and others — all of whom the Bells met while Connor was treated at Toledo Children’s Hospital. Click on the title for the full story