Idaho
This boy’s lemonade stand raised nearly $2,000 for Idaho Humane Society
Ben Miller has operated a lemonade stand for 3 years in a row, elevating $1,950 for his favourite trigger.
For this 12 months’s donation, he introduced a plastic bag full of a whopping $1,150 in money, constructing on his earlier donations of $600 in 2021 and $200 in 2019. He took a break from the venture in 2020 due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
The thought for Miller’s fund elevating marketing campaign began in 2019, when he was visiting the Idaho Humane Society together with his grandmother. “I noticed that some cats did not have toys,” stated the younger entrepreneur in an interview with CNN. He had already deliberate to open a lemonade stand, however then determined he would donate the proceeds to the shelter in order that they may buy all of the cats toys and different provides.
In keeping with Ben’s mom, Amy Miller, Ben has spent hours promoting lemonade — even providing lavender taste — alongside treats like cookies.
The donation shall be used for veterinary care, meals, and different provides for cats, in accordance with the Idaho Humane Society. “We’re in the course of kitten season,” Kristine Schellhaas, the communications supervisor for the Idaho Humane Society, advised CNN. “We undergo a ton of provides. In some weeks in the summertime, it isn’t unusual to undertake between 60 and 90 kittens per week. That is a number of life-saving care that we do.”
After Ben’s second 12 months working the lemonade stand, the shelter highlighted his efforts on its social media accounts, attracting different animal lovers who despatched donations to Ben through Venmo in the event that they could not cease by his lemonade stand.
“A whole lot of our supporters had been thrilled he was giving again,” stated Schellhaas.
Miller was “blown away” by the response to her son’s initiative. “Individuals traveled from nearly an hour away, saying that that they had heard about it on the radio, and it was completely unimaginable,” she stated.
“He is all the time had a giant coronary heart,” stated Miller. “Nevertheless it actually simply blew me away.”
Schellhaas defined that particular person donations like Ben’s are essential to the shelter’s operations. “A whole lot of our particular person donations do add up,” she stated. “Each greenback counts.”
“Seeing youngsters like that is actually heartwarming for us,” she added. “We’re so grateful, particularly for our youth.”
Ben hopes to proceed the custom subsequent 12 months, his mother stated.
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It was a rainy week with intense showers passing through the Treasure Valley. Sunday is expected to be clear but cooler weather and more precipitation is on the way.
I got to capture a phenomenal rainbow coming into the station today after some of the rain we saw on Saturday clear out.
The start of this wee will see some more rain on the way for Boise. Twin Fall will see their precipitation arrive between Monday and Tuesday with chances of rain snow/ mixes and possible accumulation.
A cold front will move in this week dropping temperatures. 40’s will turn into 30’s for the Magic and Treasure Valley’s. Mountains will expect a cool down as well. Thanksgiving is looking like a clear day though for most parts of Idaho.
Colder is coming this week, make sure to bundle up!
An Idaho teen is behind bars after a dead baby was found in a hospital drop-off box meant for the anonymous surrender of newborns.
Angel Newberry, 18, was arrested in Twin Falls more than a month after medical officials found the dead baby girl wrapped in a blanket with her placenta still attached in the Safe Haven Baby Box at the Grove Creek Medical Center in Blackfoot, authorities announced Friday.
“The Safe Haven Baby Box is intended to safely and anonymously allow custodial parents to surrender a newborn under 30 days old without legal repercussions, provided the child is unharmed,” the Blackfoot Police Department said in a social media post.
“Unfortunately, the placement of a harmed or deceased infant is not protected under the system of Idaho law.”
Hospital staff immediately responded to an alarm on Oct. 13 indicating a baby had been placed in the box — making the disturbing discovery that the newborn had been dead long before she was abandoned, according to Safe Haven Baby Boxes.
Idaho law only allows for the surrender of an infant who is unharmed.
“We are heartbroken,” Safe Haven Baby Box founder Monica Kelsey said last month.
“Let this be clear: this is an illegal, deadly abandonment.”
The accused teen was charged with failing to report a death to law enforcement officials and the coroner, police said.
Additional charges could be filed as the investigation into the circumstances surrounding the baby’s death is ongoing.
She is being held at Bingham County Jail.
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