A couple of Portland children took advantage of the hot weather to set up a lemonade stand to help the Oregon Zoo.

Jared and Karina Friel set up a “lion-ade” stand at Jamison Square to raise funds to help the Oregon Zoo bring back the lions.

For a dollar, customers received a cup of lemonade and a custom-made lion-ade sticker.

The children won the use of a vendor stand for a week as part of Umpqua Bank’s Lemonaire program, which is meant to teach children how to share, save and spend their money responsibly.

When asked what the twosome planned to do with the money, Jared Friel said, "Give some of it to the zoo, some of it in our savings and some of it to spend.”

The Friels have raised almost $74 to donate to the zoo’s Predators of the Serengeti fund, and they hope to raise even more money by the end of the week.