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The 2025 Log A Load for Kids event for the Piedmont District will be held on April 5. The annual skeet shoot and live auction event will raise money for the Children’s Hospital of Alabama for the ninth year.

Located at The Oak’s Farm in LaFayette, visitors are invited out starting at 8 a.m. CT to join the festivities. 

Local businesses and artisans have already begun donating items for the live auction, from a handcrafted tomahawk made by Vipers Tomahawk to three stays at Norte Hunters hunting lodge. 

Students in the Wadley High School FFA (Future Farmers of America) even built a picnic table for the Log A Load live auction. 

Other auction donations and sponsorships came from Chris Clark Grading and Paving, Lafayette Main Street, Thompson Cat, Mitcham’s Auto Parts, Thank Sugar Momma’s, Dobbs Equipment, Guthrie’s Chicken, Tallasee Power and Equipment, West Fraser, 56 Nutrition, Edge’s Gas and many more. 

The announcements will begin promptly at 3 CT and the auction will follow from there at approximately 4 CT. 

Log a Load for Kids is a state and nationwide annual fundraising event for children’s hospitals across the country. Loggers, landowners, foresters and wood product manufacturers come together to raise money for the Children’s of Alabama’s CHIPS Center (Children’s Hospital Intervention and Prevention Services Center). 

The CHIPS Center provides forensic medical evaluations, social work and support services and prevention education services for child abuse and neglect. The center, staffed by licensed counselors, doctors, licensed social workers and sexual assault nurse examiners, was first established in 1995 as an outpatient services center.  

Each year, the Log A Load for Kids Piedmont District has steadily increased its fundraising numbers from the year before. Since 2016, the organization has raised a grand total of $621,720.21. 

Mandy Cain, the organizer of the event, has humbly said that each year’s goal is to break the record set by the previous year. 

Last year’s whopping $130,345 in funds raised casts a long shadow. Still, if history continues to be an indicator, the 2025 Log A Load for Kids stands to be the biggest fundraiser yet.