9-Year-Old Lemonade Star Gets Spirit Of Detroit Award

Nine-year-old Joshua Smith, who delivered a $2,832.64 check to the City of Detroit on Friday, received the "Spirit of Detroit" award Tuesday.

Joshua's efforts attracted the attention of basketball stars, local government and a scholarship foundation when he first started his lemonade stand to help clean up and mow his neighborhood park.

While driving to piano lessons one day he heard a radio report about the sorry state of Detroit's finances. 

"I heard the city was in crisis because the city is broke and I was really upset," Joshua, who lives in the Russell Woods neighborhood with his parents, Flynn and Rhonda Smith, and two brothers, told Fox 2 Detroit.