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ARKANSAS LOGGER WINS LOG A LOAD FORD DRAWING
RELEASE: June 11, 2004
CONTACT: Linda Gibson (301/838-9385)
lrgibson@forestresources.org
 Rockville,
MD – On April 30, logger Steve Richardson’s ticket came first out of a
drum—making him the very lucky winner of a new 2004 Ford F-150 pickup,
culminating a year-long national fundraising push to support Children’s
Miracle Network hospitals through Log A Load For Kids®.
Steve operates Richardson Wood Company, based in Warren, Arkansas—and by
coincidence the momentous drawing took place in Hot Springs, Arkansas’s
Convention Center, across the state, at the national Log A Load For Kids
fundraiser held in conjunction with In-Woods Expo 2004. The $82,500 raised
through that drawing has been dedicated to CMN hospitals in all
contributors’ home states.
Steve has been a leader in Log A Load fundraising in Bradley County since
Log A Load started in Arkansas 11 years ago. “In the beginning, we raised
three or four thousand dollars, and we thought we were doing pretty good,
but we hit $43,313 this last year,” Steve noted. “It’s developed a real
good competition with other Arkansas Log A Load fundraising committees,
and all that has been good for children’s hospitals.” Steve, along with
logger Frank Burt and Potlatch forester Rob Loomis, has co-chaired the
Bradley County Log A Load campaign since the beginning. The Bradley County
campaign culminates in a special event held each year in the town of
Hermitage.
“The Log A Load program seems to touch everyone in the logging business,”
Steve commented. “Loggers, saw operators, skidder drivers, truck drivers,
mill people, and other community members—everyone has in some way been
involved with or been touched by a children’s hospital—because of a son, a
daughter, a grandchild, or a neighbor.”
Steve can’t say enough about Ford, either. He already owns four other
F-150 pick-ups, as well as an F-700 utility truck for his business, and “I
wouldn’t use any other automobile product than Ford.”
The Forest Resources Association Inc. is proud to be the national sponsor
of the Log A Load For Kids® program. FRA is a nonprofit trade association
concerned with the safe, efficient, and sustainable harvest of forest
products and their transport from woods to mill. FRA represents wood
consumers, independent logging contractors, and wood dealers, as well as
businesses providing products and services to the forest resource-based
industries.
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