‘Makes me ill’: Saskatoon girl’s lemonade stand robbed

On Monday, Madison (Maddy) Vandendungen group up her lemonade stand arsenic usual.

“She is large successful this community,” Maddy’s mother Jade Floata said. “Everybody knows her, she has her regulars – we person a dada adjacent door, he comes complete and buys from her each azygous clip she’s out.”

But things quickly took a move for nan worse erstwhile she was robbed by 2 teenagers.

The family says she was taunted and accosted astatine her lemonade stand; portion cups were thrown astatine Maddy, her antagonistic was trashed and her money was stolen.

“I was telling them to get retired of here, spell distant but they were intimidating – they were not going away,” Floata explained.

The mother of 5 took her girl wrong nan location and called nan remainder of her children successful arsenic well.

Madison was scared. She sewage a stomachache and vomited.

Floata said her girl was calved pinch 15 defects and has undergone 50 procedures. She is medically fragile.

“I had to do her regular attraction and I thought we mightiness really extremity up going to nan infirmary because I couldn’t fig retired what was going connected pinch her stomach,” Floata said. “It conscionable ended up being she was very, very worried.”

Floata called nan constabulary and nan 2 boys aged 14 and 16 were caught and charged.

Saskatoon constabulary said nan younger teen was charged for carrying a weapon and for breaching a tribunal bid while nan 16-year-old was arrested connected outstanding warrants.

“Hearing they did person weapons connected them afterward makes maine ill,” Floata said.

Officers later returned to her location to fto Madison cognize they made arrests.

“She wholly relaxed correct aft and was capable to spell to sleep,” Floata said.

But nan bad acquisition hasn’t kept her down. She has been retired erstwhile again trading lemonade to nan community.

“She’s specified a small businesswoman. She loves being retired location and she loves her customers and greeting people,” Floata said.

Now, nan organization is gathering astir Maddy and nan family.

The Saskatoon Berries invited Maddy to group up her lemonade guidelines astatine Thursday night’s game.

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“Jam Fam! We’re not gonna fto a mates rotten berries ruin this gals summer,” nan squad said successful a societal media post. “Let’s show her really saccharine we each cognize Saskatoon tin be.”

GlassMasters is besides mounting up a safe abstraction for Maddy to waste lemonade connected July 31.

An online fundraiser has been group up to support Madison and her large dreams. She’s sewage galore ideas, including having a ample mobile lemonade motortruck immoderate time that she tin return astir nan city.

“She loves numbers and is ever talking astir really she wants to beryllium a millionaire,” Floata said.

“All of our different kids usually inquire for money, but Madison’s mind is simply a small different. She thinks of thing and past asks support if she tin spell up and do it.”

— pinch files from nan Canadian Press’ Jeremy Simes