Log A Load golf tournaments raise record amount for children’s cancer

AUGUSTA — The Professional Logging Contractors of Maine’s Log A Load golf tournament Sept. 16 raised $72,767, for a total of $116,724 for the Children’s Miracle Network this year.
The PLC’s second Log a Load was held at JATO Highlands Golf Course, in Lincoln, and raised money for Northern Light Eastern Maine Health System’s Children’s Miracle Network. The PLC ‘s other, newer Log A Load golf tournament, held Aug. 26 at Kezar Lake Country Club in Lovell, raised a record $44,207 for the Barbara Bush Children’s Hospital at Maine Medical Center.
The PLC’s Log A Load efforts have raised more than $1.925 million since 1995. In addition to setting records at both golf tournaments this year, the PLC Annual Meeting Log a Load for Maine Kids Auction also set a record, raising $144,399.
The South Carolina Forestry Association started the Log A Load for Kids program in 1988. Originally, the concept was for loggers, wood-supplying businesses, and other industry supporters in various states including Maine to donate the value of a load of logs to their local Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals.
Nationally, Log A Load for Kids raises more than $2 million annually through golf tournaments, fishing events, dinners, truckloads of log donations and other events.
For more information, visit www.logaload.org.