“My family did everything they could to give me what I needed and make me strive, so I think every kid deserves to be cherished and welcomed—even if they don’t have a family to wake up to on Christmas.”
Christopher Scott of Mathews is a hunting dog enthusiast, so he turned to that passion to raise money and gifts for this goal, collecting $11,000 and a lot of gifts at what he hopes to become an annual Virginia Hound for Christmas Benefit Hunt.
He organized a field trial on Nov. 1 in Sussex County where 110 hunting dogs were entered in an enclosed pen with significant acreage to run foxes, he explained. Judges out in the woods kept track of what order the hounds, who were identifiable by numbers on their sides, crossed a certain point after a fox.
Scott charged $100 per dog entered into the field trial and also raffled off prizes and sold merchandise. “All together so far—with money still coming in, we’ve got around $11,000,” he said.
The benefit had 22 sponsors, both businesses and ind...