Local preschoolers will be selling lemonade Saturday to benefit cancer research.

Joe Smith, a preschool teacher at Busy Bees Academy in Columbus said that his four and five year old students were inspired by a book, Alex and the Amazing Lemonade Stand which chronicles a little girl with cancer selling lemonade to support her own parents, who were struggling financially due to medical bills..

Smith said that the children in his class were so affected by the story that they wanted to help.

Smith said he worked with the C4 program at Columbus North who built two Lemonade stands for the kids. Businesses in the community have also gotten on board.

You can find the Busy Bees Academy students at their two stands from 11 to 1 Saturday at the Whitfield Drive Walmart in Columbus.

Money raised will go to benefit the Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation. You can find more information here www.alexslemonade.org