1998 Check Presentation

1998 Check Presentation
Log A Load for Kids Raises $2.4 Million For Children's Hospitals

CMN Champions host Merlin Olsen (right) congratulates loggers Chip Capps (left) of North Carolina and Log A Load for Kids National Chairman Jim Mooney (center) of Virginia as they present a $2.4 million check to CMN Champions on behalf of loggers across America.

Contributions by State

Alabama
Arkansas
California
Florida
Georgia
Indiana
Kentucky
Louisiana
Maine
Maryland
Michigan
Minnesota
Mississippi
Missouri
Montana
New York
North Carolina
Ohio
Oregon
Pennsylvania
South Carolina
Tennessee
Virginia
Washington
West Virginia
Wisconsin

NATIONAL TOTAL

$535,000
305,000
20,000
110,000
90,000
9,116
17,000
33,200
30,000
2,000
2,114
40,000
32,000
1,000
22,000
1,000
531,000
44,500
100,370
33,000
90,000
87,361
204,480
56,587
52,500
5,162

$2,454,395

Orlando, Florida - North Carolina logger Chip Capps and Virginia logger Jim Mooney presented a $2.4 million check on behalf of America's loggers to Children's Miracle Network (CMN) host Merlin Olsen during the CMN Champions National Television Broadcast on May 31. "Log A Load For Kids is working miracles in Children's Hospitals in 26 states across the country," Capps told CMN's national audience. The total raised significantly exceeds last year's $2 million total.

Through Log A Load For Kids, loggers and forest products businesses donate the value of a load of logs to their local non-profit Children's Miracle Network Hospital to be used in treating critically ill and injured children. Log A Load participants also organize special fundraising events to supplement donations to hospitals. Their generosity receives recognition both through local media coverage and in the Annual CMN Champions National Broadcast.

The Alabama timber harvesting community reclaimed its title as champion fundraiser, raising $535,000. North Carolina--last year's champion--was a close second at $531,000. Third place fundraiser Arkansas boasted a huge increase this year, raising $305,000. Total funds raised as of June 3 follow, including sponsoring organizations. This year's 26 states include first-time participants Indiana and New York.

The American Pulpwood Association, Inc. (600 Jefferson Plaza, Suite 350, Rockville, MD 20852), a national sponsor of the Log A Load For Kids program, is a nationwide nonprofit trade association responsible for issues surrounding the safe and efficient harvest and transportation of forest products from the woods to the mill. APA members include the nation's pulp and paper mills, wood dealers, iridependent logging contractors who harvest and transport pulpwood and timber, and equipment companies that manufacture pulpwood and timber harvesting and processing equipment.