Author: Diane Rossi
Arkansas’ Nancy Loomis and Patsy Thornton: Log A Load’s 2016 Volunteer Champions
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The Log A Load For Kids Foundation today named Nancy Loomis of Clearwater Paper Corporation and Patsy Thornton of Potlatch Corporation as their 2016 Volunteer Champions. Log A Load’s chair, Sherri Hansen, made the announcement on January 26, thanking the joint-award winners “for their more than two decades of leadership and service in Arkansas Log A Load’s charitable efforts.”
Log A Load for Kids is an annual campaign, which began in 1988 when loggers and others in the forest products community donated the value of one load of logs to local Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals (CMN Hospitals).
Today, Log A Load for Kids is a national leader in CMN Hospitals’ fundraising, raising more than $2 million annually in 39 states through golf tournaments, fishing events, dinners, truck loads of log donations, and other events.
Since 1988, Log A Load has raised more than $44 million for CMN Hospitals and other charitable hospitals.
Thornton said “we do this because we want to help the children of Arkansas” and added that her work with Log A Load had enlightened her on “how much each of us should count our blessings every day if we have healthy children and grandchildren.”
The Arkansas Forestry Association (AFA) and the Arkansas Children’s Hospital Foundation nominated Loomis and Thornton.
AFA Executive Vice President Max Braswell said that the Warren, Arkansas team has been a “consistent driving force” in Bradley County Log A Load, bringing “new energy and ideas to their local committee and the statewide program, which has raised more than $7.5 million for Arkansas Children’s Hospital since 1993.”
Fred Scarborough, president and chief development officer of the Arkansas Children’s Hospital Foundation, noted that “their exemplary volunteerism in Log A Load for Kids has brought life-saving and health restoring care to thousands of children.” He added that “there are generations of young patients who will be served through the resources they have provided.”
Loomis and Thornton will be honored by the Log A Load Advisory Group at the CMN Hospitals’ Momentum celebration in Orlando, Florida, February 23-26.
In May, the pair will be recognized at the Forest Resources Association (FRA) Annual Meeting in Colorado Springs, Colorado, and will be presented with a plaque and a $250 check.
FRA President Deborah Hawkinson added that “Log A Load has become an important way for our forestry community to rally together to support the work taking place at these amazing hospitals and to help make the world a little brighter for the children and families they serve.”
“Nancy and Patsy embody the passion and spirit of Log A Load volunteers nationwide” she added
Nancy Loomis says her goal is to “do as much as possible to keep Arkansas Children’s Hospital the top-notch facility that it is.”
“I’m glad to be a small part of that.”
photo: “Log A Load 2016 Volunteer Champions (left to right) Nancy Loomis and Patsy Thornton”
For more information, please visit www.logaload.org.
CONTACT:
Diane Rossi
202.296.3937
A Word from Log A Load Foundation Chair, Sherri Hansen
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May 2016
I would like to thank all of our state Log A Load For Kids® sponsors and vendors and all of our dedicated volunteers for a great 2015 fundraising year. Total raised in 2015 from 24 states supporting 64 Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals (CMN Hospitals) was $2.2 million dollars. We are thrilled with the donation total and are looking forward to another successful fundraising year in 2016.
A donation of $2.2 million dollars could mean 3,351 chemotherapy injections were covered or 1,610 pediatric wheel chairs were purchased. It could mean funds were used to help find a cure for the many diseases or illnesses, such as leukemia, which today has an 80% survival rate.
Your donation is greatly needed! Each of the CMN Hospitals, which are all non-profit hospitals, relies on wonderful partners and donors like the Log A Load Foundation to keep the doors open to be able to create the miracles for the sick kids in our communities. By donating or helping with fundraisers you are helping your own neighbors, family members, and friends of your communities. If you are not participating or donating, please join us in this partnership!
This February, the Log A Load For Kids Advisory Committee and volunteers met for our annual national meeting in February at the CMN Hospital’s Momentum celebration in Orlando. We had a great National Log A Load For Kids annual meeting and networked with other CMN Hospitals partners, as well as visiting with Champion children and their families from all 50 states and Canada. These Champion children have been, or are currently being, treated at one of the CMN Hospitals. It was most inspiring to see hear the Champions’ stories about their experiences, as it was to meet many new friends.
I would like to thank all of you for your contributions and for volunteering to make miracles happen for our children. I would also like to thank Deb Hawkinson and Diane Rossi from the Forest Resources Association and Kelley Mitchell, Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals, Director Corporate Partnership, for all of their support for our Log A Load For Kids Foundation.
I wish all of you a wonderful, successful 2016 fundraising year.
Sherri Hansen, Chair
Log A Load For Kids® Foundation
Support your state’s Log A Load For Kids® campaign! To find your state’s Log A Load organization and contact person, visit www.logaload.org/pages/Participating_Hospitals.html.
Florida 21st Annual Log-A-Load Classic Golf Event
21st ANNUAL
LOG-A-LOAD CLASSIC
MAY 3, 2016
12:30 P.M.
SUNNY HILLS GOLF COURSE
FOUR-MAN SCRAMBLE
HOLE SPONSOR – $600
(INCLUDES TEAM FEE & HOLE SIGN)
ENTRY FEE – $400/TEAM
$100/INDIVIDUAL
(INDIVIDUALS ASSIGNED TO TEAMS)
REGISTRATION AT 11:00 A.M.
Lunch Included
ALL PROCEEDS GO TO THE CHILDREN’S MIRACLE NETWORK
SACRED HEART HOSPITAL
SPONSORED BY FLORIDA FORESTRY ASSOCIATION
AND
FLORIDA LOGGER’S COUNCIL
DEADLINE FOR ENTRY MAY 2, 2016
TEAM (NET AND GROSS) AND INDIVIDUAL PRIZES
WILL BE AWARDED
FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT:
JIM COTTINGHAM 850-832-7675
BILL WALLER 850-832-8346