A six-year-old at Leisure Park Elementary turned a lemonade stand into more than a thousand socks for people in need. Deven Pierce, a first grader in Broken Arrow, sold 304 cups of lemonade and spent every dollar of the proceeds on socks for his school's annual Socktober drive.
Pierce's haul helped push Leisure Park Elementary's Kindness Club to a campuswide record of more than 1,500 pairs of socks collected this year, according to 2 News Oklahoma KJRH Tulsa. His own contribution came to 1,081 socks purchased directly from his lemonade earnings, a haul that helped him help set the record for the club's socktober sock drive this year.
A Tradition Five Years in the Making
The Kindness Club at Leisure Park Elementary has gathered socks every October for five years running, according to the same report. The club says its mission is to spread kindness and help people in the community through projects like the sock drive.
Before this year's final tally came in, club leader Stacee Ray said the group was hoping to collect at least 1,000 pairs to beat its previous record. The campuswide total of more than 1,500 pairs cleared that goal, with Pierce's lemonade-funded socks counted among the contributions that helped get there.
Where the Socks Are Headed
The Kindness Club plans to deliver the collected socks next week, with the goal of helping people in need stay warm during the winter months, per the station's report. The socks are set to go to Arms Around BA, a Broken Arrow organization that describes itself as a food pantry and assistance center serving families in Broken Arrow, Bixby, and Coweta, Oklahoma.
On its website, Arms Around BA says it accepts donations of clothing and food to help support local community needs, making it a natural destination for a sock drive built around keeping local families warm. For one first grader with a pitcher of lemonade, that mission turned into over a thousand socks for neighbors he'll likely never meet.
