First Lemonade Shut-Down of the year – Boston MA

Apr 17, 2012 by Robert Fernandes

Well, it looks like we have a lot more work to do. This didn’t get much media attention, but it looks like we have the first lemonade stand shut-down of the year.  We have to stand strong together and put an end to this nonsense!

 

While the Boston Marathon start line puts Hopkinton in the limelight and is a source of pride for the town, residents also have to put up with a few inconveniences and annoyances each year as hosts.

So Jeanne Westbury of Hayden Rowe Street in Hopkinton was nonplussed when local health agents shut down a lemonade and baked goods stand run by her daughter and friends at the end of the driveway. The agents told the group they lacked a permit to sell cookies, brownies, banana bread and other items.

“We had done this every year,” daughter Eliza Westbury, a sixth-grader, said, citing no previous problems and plans this year to donate to the Relay for Life cancer fundraiser.

Down the street, meanwhile, a High School Relay for Life bake sale encountered no problems despite also lacking a permit. Hopkinton Town Hall was closed yesterday for Patriots Day, and the Board of Health could not be reached.

 

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