Around Annapolis: Eastport girl is a veteran activist at the age of 14

It isn’t often that a teenager is considered a veteran of something. Josalyn Bonney, however, is precisely that – an eight-year veteran activist. At the age of 14, she has raised over $11,000 for the Rainforest Foundation US with a lemonade stand she sets up for Naptown visitors on the Fourth of July.

She started her lemonade stand at the age of 6 when her first-grade teacher at St. Martin’s Lutheran School taught about the rainforest. “We learned how people were destroying the rainforest and I thought it would be fun to try to help stop it,” Bonney said.

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During April PetValu’s Pet Appreciation Month, local Bay Ridge, Edgewater, and Gambrills stores raised $3,076 dollars to donate to Cats R US who will contribute these funds to their emergency medical fund.

Cats R Us is a local organization which finds homes for kittens and tame mother cat from in the wild.

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