In Aberdeen, you can find that kid, a 10-year-old boy, along Sixth Avenue. But the profits this young businessman takes home fill a much greater need.
It's where Sixth Avenue meets Second Street that Aberdeen meets Ethan Westby.
"Amazing, delicious Rice Krispy bars," Ethan yells.
Come rain, come shine, if the 10-year-old has an urge to put up his lemonade stand, that's where you'll find him. And whether they're passing through or driving around town, Ethan somehow draws people in every time.
"My first year, my average was about $30. My second year was average about $25. Now this year is averaged about 18," Ethan said.
And that's in one day. It's 50 cents for a cup of lemonade, a dollar for a bar.
"They're delish," Ethan said.
He doesn't charge for his charm, but usually gets something for it anyway.
"Why don't I do two lemonades and then here's a tip for you," a customer said.
His biggest tip to date is $50, making his most productive day nearly $60 in profits.
"Keep the change," another customer said after handing Ethan $5.
He may have other ways of earning tips at times.
"I've got to run back to my house and get some cash" Ethan said when a customer needed $4 in change.
"Hey he don't need change man," the customer’s friend said.
"Yeah keep it," the customer said.
It's safe to say, several have come to appreciate him and his lemonade in the Hub City. But there's one boy living across the world who probably appreciates Ethan's lemonade stand more than anyone here in Aberdeen.
"We have carefully chosen a little boy for you named Allan Agaba. We met this little sweet guy in a poor island village," Ethan read from a letter.
Three years ago, the Westby family decided to sponsor an orphan boy from Uganda through Harvest Ministry. The family would keep a money jar at home. It was Ethan's job to count it and make sure $30 were there when the time came each month to send it.
"He started going through all the couch cushions and everywhere he could find throughout the house to find loose change, and we were still four dollars short,” his mother Tiffany Westby said. “So he began to obsess about the four dollars.”
Eight years old at the time, Ethan had in his mind if Allan didn't get that last four dollars, he'd die.
"Their home was so poor you couldn't even imagine," Ethan read from another place in the letter.
And that's where the lemonade stand comes in. Four more dollars he needed, four more dollars he was going to get, one 50-cent cup of lemonade at a time.
"I was too worried that he wouldn't live, that he would die if we didn't get the right amount of support in," Ethan said.
He made a lot more than four dollars his first time out, and a lot more ever since, giving half of the money to Allan every time.
Maybe it's the prayers he says as he waits, asking for customers to come. Maybe it's his sheer determination that brings them in.
"He does everything himself- makes all the lemonade himself, he'll go bike over to Kesslers to buy the cups or supplies by himself," Tiffany Westby said.
But there's something about that lemonade stand on Sixth Avenue and Second Street, that meets success every time it's open for business.
"I just sit here," Ethan said.
Earning half for himself here in Aberdeen and the rest for Allan so many miles away.
Ethan has single-handedly earned a years-worth of support for Allan with his lemonade stand.
