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Pink Lemonade provides meals to Solano County cancer patients [Video]

Pink Lemonade works out of and operates within Solano County to help cancer patients and their families “make life a little sweet during a sour time.”

SOLANO COUNTY, Calif. — When life gives you lemons… help your community! It’s what Donna Quintero decided to do when she launched her nonprofit, Pink Lemonade, back in 2012.

She works out of and operates within Solano County to help cancer patients and their families “make life a little sweet during a sour time.”

After losing her mother to breast cancer when she was 7-years-old, then going on to battle the same type of cancer in 2008, Donna decided she wanted to make a change to the lives of those in similar situations.

“I remember how helpful it was to have friends and family doing things for me when I had cancer, so I thought I’d pay it forward,” she said.

Those helpful things? Making meals, mowing her lawn, …

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