Last Thursday was Miracle Treat Day at the Dairy Queen in North Windham, where patrons raised $1,881 for Barbara Bush Children’s Hospital at Maine Medical Center in Portland.

All the sales from blizzard dairy desserts went directly to the hospital. Customers were also able to make donations and purchase Children’s Miracle Network bracelets for $1.

Lending an enthusiastic pair of hands was Logan Jordan, 14, of Windham Center Road.

“It’s a fun thing to do, and it’s giving back to the hospital that’s helped me a lot,” said Jordan. He’s a veteran of a decade’s worth of Children’s Miracle Network telethons and a patient at the children’s hospital.

Jordan has hypoplastic left heart syndrome, in which the left side of the heart is underdeveloped and doesn’t function properly. He had heart surgery less than a week after he was born and uses a pacemaker.

“I think it’s important that someone in the community is doing something, because helping is contagious,” said Stephen Napolitano, the owner of the North Windham Dairy Queen. He’s been participating in the nationwide Miracle Treat Day for seven years, but said the message hit close to home a few years ago.

At Christmas time in 2004, his 5-month-old son, Brady, was hospitalized with bacterial meningitis at the Barbara Bush Children’s Hospital.

“It was devastating,” he said. “Financially is one thing, emotionally is quite another.” His son was released after 10 days and just turned 3.

Napolitano said the funding of the children’s hospital is important to every family in Maine. He said his wife’s 17-year-old cousin from Bangor died recently of bone cancer. He had to be moved to Boston and then Seattle for treatment.

Last year Napolitano’s store raised $4,066 with year-round fundraising. He said this year’s total has just surpassed that, with a full three months left in the year.

DQMiracle1-3: Logan Jordan, 14, of Windham puts together a blizzard dairy dessert during Miracle Treat Day at the North Windham Dairy Queen. Jordan was born with a heart problem and has been helping raise money for the Children’s Miracle Network and Barbara Bush Children’s Hospital since the mid 1990’s.DQMiracle1-3: Logan Jordan, 14, of Windham puts together a blizzard dairy dessert during Miracle Treat Day at the North Windham Dairy Queen. Jordan was born with a heart problem and has been helping raise money for the Children’s Miracle Network and Barbara Bush Children’s Hospital since the mid 1990’s.DQMiracle1-3: Logan Jordan, 14, of Windham puts together a blizzard dairy dessert during Miracle Treat Day at the North Windham Dairy Queen. Jordan was born with a heart problem and has been helping raise money for the Children’s Miracle Network and Barbara Bush Children’s Hospital since the mid 1990’s.