{"id":331622,"date":"2026-07-07T10:39:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T10:39:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/331622\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T10:39:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T10:39:14","slug":"tampa-girl-raises-money-for-friends-brain-cancer-treatment-with-lemonade-stand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/331622\/","title":{"rendered":"Tampa girl raises money for friend’s brain cancer treatment with lemonade stand"},"content":{"rendered":"

TAMPA, Fla. \u2014 Lucy Barnett and Lexi Frisby have been best friends for nearly a decade.<\/p>\n

One of their favorite activities has always been putting on lemonade stands together.<\/p>\n

When Lexi was diagnosed with a rare form of brain cancer last August, Lucy knew she wanted to help raise money.<\/p>\n

Lexi went through radiation and then got dropped from a clinical trial when the cancer progressed to her spine.<\/p>\n

Her best option now is a costly treatment in Germany that is not covered by insurance.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s when Lucy stepped up and put on a lemonade stand for her best friend.<\/p>\n

Lucy has raised more than $2,600 so far.<\/p>\n

A website<\/a> has also been set up to make a tax-deductible donation if you\u2019d like to support Lexi\u2019s treatments.<\/p>\n

For more information, click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Florida law now requires restaurants to disclose fees upfront<\/p>\n

Starting July 1, Florida restaurants must disclose all fees \u2014 including service charges and credit card surcharges \u2014 before customers order.<\/p>\n

Florida restaurants are now required to disclose added fees<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA, Fla. \u2014 Lucy Barnett and Lexi Frisby have been best friends for nearly a decade. One of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":331623,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[1158,136870,136869,11680,135,5910,137,136,208],"class_list":["post-331622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-cancer","tag-lemonade-stand","tag-lexi","tag-lucy","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-bay-28","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news","tag-wfts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=331622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331622\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/331623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}