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Mississippi
Logger Wins Log A Load Carolyn Horn, of Charles Horn Logging and Trucking, based in Golden, Mississippi, became the owner of a new 2003 Ford Expedition following a May 5 Log A Load For KidsŪ drawing. Ford's Jack Palazzolo drew a ticket stub with her name on it from a drum at the Forest Resources Association's 2003 Annual Meeting at Lake Tahoe, Nevada. "I could not believe that this could happen to me," Mrs. Horn recalled, on taking possession of her vehicle at Fulton, Mississippi's Davis Ford dealership on June 5. "I've never won anything. I went from being totally shocked to being completely thrilled. I want to thank Ford Motor Company for being so community-minded that they would donate a vehicle like this to be given away to raise money for those less fortunate." She selected a white "Eddie Bauer" model with "every option." Log A Load For KidsŪ is an annual campaign through which loggers and others in the forest products community provide financial support to their local Children's Miracle Network hospitals. Log A Load has become one of CMN's leading national fundraisers. The Ford Expedition drawing followed twelve months' vigorous fundraising by Log A Load programs nationwide. The total raised for local Children's Miracle Network hospitals by this means eventually reached $85,000. Mrs. Horn says she heard a presentation about the Ford Log A Load benefit drawing at a Mississippi Loggers Association meeting and donated a hundred dollars.
Photo shows Mrs. Horn, at center, in front of her new Ford Expedition, with (left to right) Billy Sanford, Mississippi state Log A Load For Kids Chairman; Langston Kilgore, President, Mississippi Loggers Association Northern Chapter; Cecil Johnson, MLA President; and Jason Cutshall, MLA Executive Director. The Horns have supported Log A Load since 1993, when Mississippi's program started up. Mrs. Horn recalled her family's poignant involvement with a children's hospital in Memphis, Tennessee in 1976, when her 16-year-old daughter was diagnosed with bone cancer. "We started chemotherapy right away, and she did go into remission for a short length of time. But we lost her that September." Mrs. Horn remembered the sympathetic treatment her family received during those painful months and that "because we did not have any insurance to cover any of the hospital costs, the hospital never asked us to pay for anything." Ford Motor Company has agreed to provide a Ford F-150 pickup as the prize for a similar drawing, to be conducted at a special Log A Load event to be held April 30, 2004 in Hot Springs, Arkansas, in association with next year's In-Woods Expo 2004, a world-class forestry and logging demo.
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