$1M Offers Hope at the Crossroads for Carolina Kids

Longtime lumber industry leader George Ragsdale says children and the hospitals that care for them “touched a special place in my heart.”

Since the mid-1980s Ragsdale, who also co-founded the Carolina Crossroads mega-music and entertainment venue in Roanoke Rapids, N.C., has been a regular and generous contributor to Duke Children's and the Children's Miracle Network through the N.C. Log-a-Load for Kids program.

Now Carolina Crossroads has donated $1 million in profits from last year's outdoor concerts to provide unrestricted support through the Children's Miracle Network - $500,000 for Duke Children's and $500,000 to University Health Systems of Eastern North Carolina's Children's Hospital.