Category: Old Site News

The Tennessee Log A Load For Kids Committee, under the sponsorship of the Tennessee Forestry Association, hosted its first-ever equipment auction in Kingston, Tennessee on March 1.  Over 300 people attended the auction, and almost 400 items were auctioned off, raising over $64,000.  Tri-State Auction of Kingston, Tennessee managed the auction, including advertising the sale in advance and encouraging donations.  During the auction, Tennessee Log A Load volunteers sold food, Log A Load shirts and caps, and raffle tickets for a chain saw donated by Husqvarna.  The event was great for families attending and for the children at the various CMN hospitals that will benefit from the funds raised.  (Tri-State Auction has conducted Log A Load For Kids equipment auctions in North Carolina, too.

One summer, several forest-related enterprises hosted an in-the-woods equipment demonstration in conjunction with a Log A Load For Kids charity harvest.  Lyons Equipment and Pioneer Machinery teamed up with the West Virginia Mountain Loggers Group and several FRA member-company foresters to show off some new machines working on the West Virginia-Pennsylvania border.  This harvesting demo, on a site provided by Coastal Lumber Co., generated over $8,000 for the Morgantown, West Virginia Children’s Hospital, and it attracted newspaper and TV attention.

The media gave the loggers and truckers who volunteered their services some positive publicity.  Attendees to this event observed tracked feller-bunchers, new cutting heads, a stroke delimber, and a prototype eight-wheeled skidder in operation.  The Log A Load For Kids charity timber harvest and equipment demo is a great project that ought to be repeated in other states.

LOG A LOAD FOR KIDS® RAISES OVER $2 MILLION IN 2007

RELEASE: February 15, 2008

CONTACT: Linda Gibson (301/910-5502)
lrgibson@forestresources.org

Rockville, MD — Loggers from 26 states, working in coalition with forest products businesses and forestry equipment dealers, raised over $2 million for local Children’s Miracle Network (CMN) hospitals during the 2007 Log A Load For Kids campaign.

Since the campaign’s beginning in 1988, state Log A Load For Kids programs have raised a total close to $25 million for approximately 70 local CMN hospitals. “Thanks to your support and generous contributions, the lives of numerous children have been enriched during the last 19 years,” Log A Load For Kids Advisory Group Chairman Robert Williams told donors nationwide. “This year we are celebrating the 20th anniversary of Log A Load For Kids. Let’s strive to carry the load for the children, our most precious resource, even higher these next twenty.”

Log A Load For Kids is an annual campaign which encourages loggers and others to donate the value of a load of logs, or any amount, to local non-profit Children’s Miracle Network hospitals.

Total funds raised by 26 participating states during 2007 follow:

The Forest Resources Association Inc. is proud to be the national sponsor of the Log A Load For Kids® program. FRA promotes the interests of forest products industry members in the economical, efficient, and sustainable use of forest resources to meet the needs of the wood fiber supply chain through private enterprise

LOG A LOAD FOR KIDS® RAISES NEARLY $2 MILLION IN 2005

RELEASE: February 3, 2006

CONTACT: Linda Gibson
301/838-9385
lrgibson@forestresources.org

(Rockville, MD) — Loggers from 26 states, working in coalition with forest products businesses and forestry equipment dealers, raised nearly $2 million for local Children’s Miracle Network (CMN) hospitals during the 2005 Log A Load For Kids campaign. Since its beginning in 1988, Log A Load For Kids programs have collectively raised over $24 million for approximately 70 local CMN hospitals. “Each tree and dollar invested into this noble cause brings that much more growth into the future of a child,” says Log A Load For Kids Advisory Group Chairman, Sam Cooke.

He adds that “growth in a child’s future is growth in each of our future. For children are the future of tomorrow. Thank you for caring about the future and the children.”

Log A Load For Kids is an annual campaign which encourages loggers and others to donate the value of a load of logs, or any amount, to local non-profit Children’s Miracle Network hospitals.
Total funds raised by 27 participating states during 2005 follow:

NATIONAL TOTAL $1,906,129

The Forest Resources Association Inc. is pleased to be the National Sponsor of the Log A Load For Kids program. FRA is a nonprofit trade association concerned with the safe, efficient, and sustainable harvest of forest products and their transport from woods to mill. FRA represents wood consumers, independent logging contractors, and wood dealers, as well as businesses providing products and services to the forest resource-based industries.