PLC raises record $55,407 at Log A Load for Kids Southern Maine Golf Tournament Friday, Aug. 28
The Professional Logging Contractors (PLC) of the Northeast raised a record $55,407 at its eighth annual Log A Load for Kids Southern Maine Golf Tournament Friday, Aug. 28.
The funds raised for the Barbara Bush Children’s Hospital (BBCH) in Portland, Maine exceeded the previous year’s record of $55,360, and the event sold out with 36 teams signed up.
PLC Executive Director Dana Doran announced the record total at the end of the tournament with Jacob, a young cancer survivor who was the Barbara Bush patient champion for 2023; and Stella, a child with cystic fibrosis who is the Barbara Bush patient champion for 2026, by his side.
“I couldn’t be more proud of these kids and the families that joined us here today, anyone that played today, our sponsors, and our teams,” Doran said. “Every single year we’ve held this tournament we’ve beat the prior year’s record, and I couldn’t be prouder because the loggers who are in this room know how tough it is out there.”
The PLC holds two Log A Load golf tournaments each year, including the 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 northern Maine tournament will be held on Sept. 18.
All funds raised go to support Children’s Miracle Network (CMN) Hospitals.
The PLC also raises funds for the cause at a live auction at its Annual Membership Meeting each year and this year raised $134,610 at the event.
The PLC’s Log A Load efforts have now raised more than $3 million since 1995. In 2025, the PLC raised $292,746.
The PLC partners with the BBCH 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 and all 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 as possible. BBCH and Northern Light in Bangor both have Neonatal Intensive Care Units that have received support for years from the PLC’s Log A Load efforts. 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.
Learn more about the PLC at www.plcloggers.org
