“I feel like a Verizon commercial,” Jenn Wettergren said yesterday, describing the support from people in North Kingstown since her daughter was diagnosed with leukemia.

“There’s us,” she said of her husband, Tom, and their two daughters, Georgia, 6, and Maggie, 4, “and then we have our network with us all the time.”

That network is taking a stand for Georgia’s family this weekend — four stands in fact, from which they’ll sell lemonade to raise money for the family’s estimated $1,000 a month in expenses not covered by insurance.

“Half of the people of this community who help,” Wettergren said, “have never met us and don’t even know us. You hear things about communities falling apart, but here in North Kingstown, it’s a community that just rallies.”

In February 2007, Georgia started getting sick. Her legs ached so much that she sometimes couldn’t walk, or she would wake up screaming. Then in May, the night before her diagnosis was made, she had a fever of 105.

“Right away, friends and family tried to figure out what they could do,” Wettergren said, “which has been incredibly helpful.”

She doesn’t remember the first two weeks after the diagnosis. “We were able to function” because people came by with food and offers of help. It made her uncomfortable at first, but Georgia’s case worker told Jenn Wettergren to accept help, explaining “it’s not all just for us. People needed to feel like they were doing something.”

What they’re doing this weekend is selling lemonade from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Tockwotton Farm stand on North Quidnessett Road, in the Signal Rock neighborhood on Mesa Drive and in the parking lot of Oatley’s Restaurant, at Route 2 and Route 102. During the same hours on Sunday, the place to go for lemonade will be the St. Francis De Sales Church parking lot on School Street, where Georgia and her family attend Mass.

“I have a very strong faith, a very strong Catholic faith,” Jenn Wettergren said. She learned from life challenges to “put my faith in God, a higher power, and then I don’t waste my time having to worry.”

Georgia’s anti-nausea medicine isn’t covered by insurance. Clothes were an issue when Georgia gained and lost weight. The appetite of a child on a 21-day cycle of steroids sends grocery bills up, and the gas to drive to Providence and back, at first three times a week, and now only for spinal injections, adds up.

Jenn Wettergren said Georgia has about a year of treatment to go, and her prognosis is fabulous. “If you had to pick [Georgia’s form of leukemia, known as ALL] out of a grab bag, you’d pick that one. It’s the most curable,” she said.

JoAnne Hanrahan said organizers hoped to sell enough lemonade to qualify for the maximum $1,000 that Cranston philanthropist Alan Shawn Feinstein has pledged in matching money.

And they’re planning an event called Georgia’s Fun Day for Sept. 14 at Shriners Hall in Cranston.

Jenn Wettergren said she hoped the Sept. 14 event would allow them to make a donation to the Tomorrow Fund, which runs the children’s cancer clinic at Hasbro.

Georgia is impatient with her mother’s spending time on the phone. “One more minute!” the daughter warns, “and no phone for the rest of the day!”

“This whole thing has just kind of helped us see the good in everything,” Jenn Wettergren said.

Donations can be made at Bank of America, by sending a check to Georgia Wettergren, either in care of the Chen Family, 90 Carriage Hill Rd., North Kingstown, RI 02852, or 149 Beacon Drive, also in North Kingstown.

dnaylor@projo.com