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Ten downtown Roanoke restaurants have teamed up with Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield and the Children's Miracle Network to sell specialty lemonades to benefit children with cancer.

All of the proceeds will go to Children's Miracle Network, which will hand off the money to the cancer treatment program at Carilion Roanoke Memorial Hospital, said Erin Hildreth, director of community service for the network's Roanoke office.

Although the lemonades are a bit pricey (they start at $5 a glass), the restaurants won't be making any money from the sales, Hildreth said.

The participating downtown restaurants and their featured lemonade flavors are:

• Martin's Downtown Bar & Grill -- peach lemonade

• Awful Arthur's -- strawberry lemonade

• Table 50 -- strawberry-rhubarb lemonade

• 202 Market -- pineapple pomade (made with pomegranate)

• Blue 5 -- blueberry mint lemonade

• Cornerstone -- fresh fruit lemonade (similar to a sangria)

• Little Dipper -- lemonade smoothie

• Blues BBQ -- pomegranate lemonade

• Zak's Cafe -- mango lemonade

• Corned Beef & Co. -- cherry lemon-limeade

The featured lemonades will be available through Sunday. Also, both Chick-fil-A locations in the Roanoke Valley are participating, but they are only taking part Friday. The proceeds of all lemonade sales at both locations will be donated to Children's Miracle Network.

Interested in the recipes for those very special lemonades? They will be posted on the Fridge Magnet blog on Roanoke.com after the fundraiser has ended.

Check out the blog at blogs.roanoke.com/fridgemagnet.

-- Lindsey Nair