http://www.wimbledon.com/en_GB/news/blogs/2013-06-29/201306291372518740297.html Young Liam Stephan, aged three and a very important fraction that makes him nearly four years old, is oblivious to the admiring comments he’s attracting from people passing by his front drive en route to the All England Club. Dressed in patriotic red, white and blue – with a club-colour purple jumper to hand – he’s far too busy lining up his glasses of homemade lemonade and manning his toy till to revel in the attention.
Instead, he’d like some business please. From behind the counter of his eye-catching stall – built last weekend by his father Keith to resemble a Wimbledon scoreboard – Liam is raising money for charity. Many shops and businesses in Wimbledon village and Southfields put out their own visual tributes to enter the spirit of the Championships, but rarely with such appealing pure enthusiasm as young Liam.
“It started because we wanted to teach him about charity and donating money – and counting!” says his mother Peggy, who hails from New York. “We let him choose his own charity and he picked St John’s Ambulance.”
http://www.wimbledon.com/en_GB/news/blogs/2013-06-29/201306291372518740297.html I saw this story and we are trying to contact the boy's family via Sarah Edworthy at the Telegraph.
Based on information supplied by Kath Stipala.
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