PLC raises $60,982 at Log A Load for Kids Northern Maine Golf Tournament Friday, Sept. 12
LINCOLN, ME – The Professional Logging Contractors (PLC) of the Northeast raised $60,982 at its 29th annual Log A Load for Kids Northern Maine Golf Tournament Friday, Sept. 12.
The sold-out event raised funds for Northern Light Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor, Maine that will go to support research and training, purchase equipment, pay for uncompensated care, and benefit the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit in a mission to save and improve the lives of as many children as possible. More than 40 teams competed in the tournament.
PLC Executive Director Dana Doran announced the total at the end of the tournament, which took place under sunny skies at the scenic JaTo Highlands Golf Course.
“This is a fantastic number, we couldn’t be happier,” Doran said. “I know many of you have an experience with the hospital with a child, grandchild, niece or nephew, someone in your lives who has been impacted, and that’s why we do this. Thank you so very much and we will see you at the tournament again next year.”
The event included a visit from a new state of the art ambulance, Miracle II, Northern Light has added to its emergency vehicle fleet that is specially designed to transport the tiniest and most vulnerable patients. This specialized ambulance was 100 percent donor funded, made possible through the generosity of the Northern Light Eastern Maine Medical Center Auxiliary, Professional Logging Contractors of the Northeast and the dedicated support of local communities.
As the only Level III Neonatal Intensive Care Unit north of Portland, the medical center provides essential care to over 450 premature babies and critically ill newborns each year. Roughly 150 of these infants are born at community hospitals, necessitating specialized transport to the medical center’s NICU.
The PLC holds two Log A Load golf tournaments each year, including a southern Maine tournament at Lake Kezar Country Club in Lovell, Maine in addition to the annual northern Maine tournament at JATO Highlands Golf Course in Lincoln, Maine. The southern Maine tournament was held on Aug. 22, and raised $55,211.
All funds raised go to support Children’s Miracle Network (CMN) Hospitals. Northern Light Eastern Maine Medical Center is a CMN hospital.
The PLC also raises funds for the cause at a live auction at its Annual Membership Meeting each year and this year raised $165,386 at the event.
The PLC’s Log A Load efforts have now raised more than $2.7 million since 1995. In 2024, the PLC raised a record $297,519.
The PLC partners with the Barbara Bush Children’s Hopital in Portland and Northern Light Health Foundation in Maine for its annual Log A Load fund drive as well as the University of Vermont Children’s Hospital in Burlington, Vermont.
The PLC and the Northern Light Health Foundation (formerly Eastern Maine Health Systems Foundation) have partnered in the Log A Load fund-raising effort since 1996. BBCH joined the Log A Load effort in 2019. The University of Vermont (UVM) Children’s Hospital, a regional referral center for most critically ill or injured pediatric patients, houses a Level 3 neonatal intensive care unit, a pediatric intensive care unit and a wide range of pediatric specialties and sub-specialties.UVM Children’s Hospital became a partner with PLC’s Log A Load efforts in 2024.
Founded in Maine in 1995 by a handful of loggers who were concerned about the future of the forest economy, the PLC has grown steadily to become a regional non-profit which provides independent logging and forest trucking contractors a voice along with a suite of other forest certification programs which are grounded in responsible forest management. Board membership consists of only loggers, making it an organization that is run by loggers on behalf of loggers.
