CONWAY — When Allison Streeter, 9, and Ainsley Leavitt, 10, set up a neighborhood lemonade stand in Redstone a couple weeks ago, they were playing out a story told countless times across America.
Two kids with a makeshift table and handmade sign go into business to offer refreshment to passersby.
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