We need a 'feel good' story. Here's one about a kid in Ohio...

 Last summer, when he was 8 years old, Colby Mitchell spent his days slinging ice-cold lemonade to his community... 

Colby Mitchell proudly poses behind his aptly named drink stand.

 

Dayton, Ohio: Last summer, his hustle came to a sudden halt when his stand went missing one August afternoon. "Colby came inside to grab something, and when he went back, his srand was gone," says his mother, Hannah. (In Colby's glass-half-full interpretation, someone must have mistaken the unattended stand for a giveaway irem and driven of with it.) Hannah immediately posted on Nextdoor to plead for its safe return, and her message was met with dozens of donations from concerned community members wanting to help Colby rebuild his business. The most generous offer came later that week, when local handyperson Ron Siegel pulled into the Mitchells' driveway with a custom-made, hand-painted lemonade stand he'd built. "We were blown away by the support from complete strangers," Hannah says. Ever the enterprising businessperson, this year Colby pivoted his focus for winter weather, and turned his stand into a hot chocolate outpost.

Hannah (Colby's mom) had posted  Colby’s story to the social media app NextDoor, and what happened next she was never expecting. 

“I felt compelled to respond,” said Ron Siegel (pictured above on his bike). Siegel saw the post and felt like he was able to help. “I just felt…encouraged to build him something he could really use,” Siegel said. Thursday Siegel delivered a hand-built lemonade stand that will allow Colby to resume his lemonade stand operations this weekend. “I spent the last two days cutting gluing and painting for him,” Siegel said.

Colby was so thankful for the new stand and his parents, they were blown away. “It’s really incredible…just… kind of leaves me speechless…we’re just so grateful,” Hannah said. Colby’s dad Mark Mitchell also was thankful.

“It’s what I love about this community how people get involved with each other and work together it’s been great,” Mark said. Siegel said he did all of this for just one reason. “They’re complete strangers but when It comes to neighborhood and community they’re like family,” Siegel said.

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