Record Funds Raised at PLC LogALoad for Maine Kids Golf Tournaments!

The Professional Logging Contractors (PLC) of Maine raised a record $109,047 at its two Log A Load For Maine Kids Golf Tournaments this fall, putting 2021 fundraising for Log A Load on track for a great year with the Annual Log A Load Auction still to come Oct. 29.

The tournaments, held Aug. 27 at Kezar Lake Country Club in Lovell and Sept. 17 at JATO Highlands Golf Course in Lincoln, raised $41,696 and $67,351 respectively for Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals in Maine.

The PLC partners with the Barbara Bush Children’s Hospital (BBCH) and Northern Light Health Foundation to hold the golf tournaments. BBCH in Portland and Northern Light’s Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor are Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals.

“It is truly inspiring to see how the support and generosity of our PLC Members, Supporting Members, partners and friends have grown these events into a major fund raiser for Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals in Maine in such a short period of time,” PLC Executive Director Dana Doran said.

“These are difficult times in the logging industry, yet this group always comes through and continues to devote an incredible amount of time, effort, and resources to the Log A Load cause.”

This year, the PLC dedicated the southern tournament to the memory of Randy Keenan of PLC Supporting Member Katahdin Fire Company, and the northern tournament to the memory of of Sharon Hanington and her mother, Irma Hanington, both of Lincoln. The Hanington family were founders of the PLC’s Log A Load efforts and remain strong supporters of those efforts today.

The PLC’s Log A Load efforts have raised more than $1.5 million since 1995.

Two years ago, the PLC expanded its fund-raising efforts to hold two Log A Load golf tournaments each year, adding a new southern tournament thanks to the partnership with Barbara Bush Children’s Hospital.

The golf tournaments and the PLC’s annual Log A Load Auction – this year set for Oct. 29 at the PLC’s Annual Meeting in Bangor –raise the majority of the funds for the effort each year.

The PLC and the Northern Light Health Foundation (formerly Eastern Maine Health Systems Foundation) have partnered in the Log A Load fundraising effort since 1996. Donations have gone to support research and training, purchase equipment, and pay for uncompensated care, all in support of the mission to save and improve the lives of as many children in Maine as possible. Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor is a

Children’s Miracle Network Hospital and includes a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit that has received support for years from the PLC’s Log A Load efforts.

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 is a leader in CMN Hospitals’ fundraising, raising more than $2 million annually through golf tournaments, fishing events, dinners, truckloads of log donations and other events.

For more information, please visit www.logaload.org.