BRADLEY COUNTY LOG-A-LOAD FUNDRAISER – September 27th

The planning committee for the Bradley County Chapter of Log A Load For Kids has announced its annual fundraiser for the Arkansas Children’s Hospital. It will be held on Saturday, September 27, 2014. The doors will open at 5:30 p.m. with the log auction taking place at 6:00 p.m. and meal at
6:30 p.m. For ticket and other information please call Patsy Thornton at (870-226-1177), Nancy Loomis (870-226-2709) or Clint Horn (870-226-7520).

Arkansas Log A Load For Kids Celebrates 21 Years and $7 Million Raised for Arkansas Children’s Hospital.

In 1993, a group of Arkansas loggers and forest product industry representatives came together to start the Log A Load For Kids program to benefit Arkansas Children’s Hospital (ACH). That year, the campaign raised $42,000. In 2013, the group raised a record $500,000. To date, the program has raised $7 million for ACH.


Arkansas Log A Load For Kids has funded two $1.5 million endowments at ACH—one in pediatric cardiovascular surgery and another in support of the Angel One helicopter transport program—and one $1 million endowment in support of the hospital’s imaging and radiation program.
The program pledged to contribute all funds raised from 2008 to 2013 ($2 million) to help create a new Trauma Unit, a state-of-the art facility that will treat the state’s most seriously injured children as part of the new South Wing. In late 2011, ACH asked Log A Load to extend this commitment and add an additional $2 million from 2013-2017 fund raising efforts, designated as follows: $1 million to Emergency Services and $1 million to the Trauma Program. To honor this pledge, ACH named the new Emergency Department for Log A Load For Kids of Arkansas.
Arkansas is one of 27 states involved in Log A Load For Kids, which is celebrating its 25th anniversary nationally. The program started in South Carolina in 1988 when two loggers donated the value of a load of logs to their local children’s hospital. Log A Load For Kids is a national sponsor of Children’s Miracle Network (CMN), a nonprofit fundraising organization. ACH is a member of CMN.

The Arkansas Forestry Association (AFA) and Arkansas Timber Producers Association sponsor Log A Load For Kids in the state. For more information, look online at www.arkforests.org or www.facebook.com/arlogaload, or call the AFA office at (501) 374-2441.