Posted on 12/8/2022
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – The Mountain Loggers Group, Inc., marked the vacation season by constructing upon its longstanding custom of giving to WVU Drugs Youngsters’s. This 12 months’s contribution included a $170,480 present, a large Christmas tree and extra.
WVU Drugs Youngsters’s management welcomed the Mountain Loggers Group Saturday, Dec. 3, for a verify presentation and vacation celebration outdoors the brand new nine-story, 150-bed WVU Drugs Youngsters’s Hospital in Morgantown. Group members embellished the tree, shared sizzling chocolate, and loved reside music by the Voices of Victory choir of Victory Baptist Church in Fairmont.
The Mountain Loggers Group raises cash for WVU Drugs Youngsters’s every year on the Log-A-Load for Children Public sale held as a part of the Mountain State Forest Competition in Elkins. This 12 months’s present was the group’s largest single contribution thus far.
“This has grown from one thing small to one thing we’re very obsessed with,” Danny Sines, president of the Mountain Loggers Group, mentioned. “We get to choose and select the place the cash goes, what’s essential to us, what hits house. And this doesn’t occur with out all of the members that work very arduous. There are lots of people that give to this and make it occur. Every particular person contributes.”
The majority of this 12 months’s funds might be used to rework doubtlessly intimidating imaging services into inviting areas for youngsters, that includes a woodsy open air theme that displays the work of the Mountain Loggers Group and enhances different areas throughout the hospital.
The remaining funds will present specialised gear for pediatric oncology and surgical procedure, in addition to Baby Life assets – together with coloring books and crayons, iPads, and plush variations of the Mountaineer mascot’s canine, Musket – to assist youngsters take care of the challenges of surgical procedure and hospitalization.
The Mountain Loggers additionally contributed greater than $2,500 in toys and Amazon present playing cards to profit the Baby Life program.
“We respect the continued help from the whole Mountain Loggers Household. Their super generosity continues to raise our sufferers’ and households’ spirits and helps guarantee we ship the absolute best outcomes for the kids who want our care,” Amy L. Bush, B.S.N., M.B.A., R.N., C.N.O.R., WVU Drugs Youngsters’s chief administrative officer, mentioned. “The location of the primary inaugural vacation tree with all its lights and decor supplies a logo of hope for all who enter our hospital doorways and a particular ‘thanks’ to all our workers and physicians who present life-changing care to these in want.”
The Mountain Loggers Group contains about 50 members spanning three states – West Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania. Because the mid-Nineties, its members have contributed greater than $2 million to profit WVU Drugs Youngsters’s. Presents made lately have supported the brand new hospital, the place the cafeteria and a convention room are named in recognition of the group’s generosity.
Sines prolonged particular because of Willa Grafton, who donated this 12 months’s Christmas tree; Craig Marple and J.R. Gordon, of The Welding Rod, who made the tree stand; and Ryan Savage, who made an indication for the tree.
The Mountain Loggers’ items are made via the WVU Basis, the nonprofit group that receives and administers personal donations on behalf of the College and its affiliated entities.