Eight-year-old Daniela Ernest of Tulare, a central California city just south of Fresno, had a good idea. She opened a lemonade stand in front of her house to help raise money for a family vacation to Disneyland.
Daniela priced her product, made of freshly squeezed lemons, at $2 for a 32-ounce cup. What a deal, what a deal!
Then, along came Tulare code enforcement officer Richard Garcia, who shut her down because she didn’t have a business license. The city claims he wasn’t on lemonade patrol, but just happened to be in the neighborhood on another case. And, he called city officials to see where she could relocate her lemonade stand.
It turned into a big deal, with Daniela eventually appearing before the City Council, which is now contemplating a nominal license fee (or possibly even a fee waiver) for kids under a certain age who want to open a lemonade stand.
All’s well that ends well. A Visalia radio station bartered a deal with Daniela. They provided Disneyland passes for her and her family in exchange for 30 cups of lemonade.
2 comments:
Hurray for the radio station! Poor kid. No one should be introduced to bureaucracy that young.
Ditto Rebecca! Crazy!
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