The Alabama Loggers Council (ALC) Annual Meeting at the Birmingham Marriott on Saturday, June 9, will commemorate the 20th anniversary of a program that has sent more than $6 million to Children’s of Alabama in Birmingham and Children’s and Women‘s Hospital in Mobile.
The meeting is being held in Birmingham so that the celebration can involve both Children’s of Alabama and the CHIPS Center (Children’s Hospital Intervention and Prevention Services) through the “Log-A-Load For Kids” campaign. The CHIPS Center was started with Log-A-Load funds and the program remains its primary sponsor. The partnership began in 1992 with a donation of $45,000, and has since contributed over $5 million dollars in financial support to Children’s and the CHIPS Center, and approximately $1.5 million to Children’s and Women’s Hospital in Mobile.
Log-A-Load-For-Kids unites loggers, landowners, foresters and wood products manufacturers with the Alabama Forestry Association (AFA) in a common effort to benefit all of Alabama’s critically ill, injured, or abused children–regardless of ability to pay.
Each of AFA’s ten districts is involved in a friendly annual competition to see who can raise the most money. Fundraising events over the last 20 years have included golf tournaments, auctions, trail rides, archery competitions, skeet shoots, motorcycle rallies, and a host of other activities scattered across the state.