WENTZVILLE, Mo. - With Missourians beating the September summer heat, a neighborhood in Wentzville is serving up iced pink lemonade.

It’s all for a cause surrounding a 12-year-old girl named Ella Schafluetzel. Those who know Ella describe her as kind, funny and resilient.

She was born at just 27 weeks and later was diagnosed with periventricular leukomalacia and faced other medical challenges.

Despite receiving extensive medical care at such a young age, Ella did not allow these forms of adversity to change her.

Instead, she made pink lemonade and is serving up smiles—it’s all in response to a life-changing stem cell treatment that can change her future.

“Right before my son was born, we learned about cord blood for siblings at Duke, and they were doing transfusions for siblings with

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