When life hands you lemons, make lemonade — and then sell it and give half of it to a worthy cause. That’s at least how Montesano 6-year-old Emma Hall treats the situation.

Lemons, rocks —you name it and Hall likely can sell it for donations.

During the Montesano Citywide Garage Sale last month, Hall set up her own lemonade stand.

She didn’t get fancy with fresh lemons from the produce section, and she didn’t cut the calories with stevia from the garden.

“Just water and the powder stuff,” said told The Vidette.

She had a plastic pitcher and a cooler of two kinds of lemonade, both the pink and the yellow varieties. She also sold Oreos, again with two kinds — the original and vanilla.

She received donations of between 50 cents and $5.

While her dad, Mark Hall, estimated some 30 customers patronized the lemonade stand throughout the day, Emma disagreed.

“It was more than 30,” she said, but she didn’t wager a guess as to how many.

All told, Hall raked in a touch more than $50.

She split her earnings in half, giving $25.10 to the Montesano Police Department.

When asked why she gave half to the local police, Hall said, “They’re really nice.”

With the donation, she also included a note to the department thanking them for keeping her safe.

Emma Hall had wanted to donate the funds to buy pizza for the officers and the staff, but the department said it couldn’t accept the funds for that. Instead, the department offered her a few options as to which fund the donation could be allocated (the Bike Rodeo or the department’s scholarship fund, for example).

The scholarship fund was the lucky recipient of the donation.

While at the police station, Hall met Police Chief Brett Vance and Lt. Jay Staten. They thanked her for her donation.

It’s not the first-grader’s first charitable act: last year, Emma Hall donated half her lemonade stand earnings to Progressive Animal Welfare Society (PAWS) of Aberdeen.

Earlier this year, at Hog Wild in Ocean Shores (a motorcycle rally), she collected rocks and drew smiley faces on them. She sold the rocks to raise funds for Seattle Children’s Hospital where one of her friends had been treated a few years back. A person at Hog Wild didn’t want a rock, but he donated $20 to Emma and told her to go buy ice cream.

“And I did,” she said.

Hall’s mother, Lisa Rock, said they encourage the lemonade stands and her interaction with other people.

“She has some anxiety and so we try to do things like this to get her to put herself out there,” Rock said.

Emma Hall may be charitable, but she also knows how to treat herself.

Using the other half of her recent earnings, she bought a new doll with kinetic foam dresses.