Jay County Chainsaw Carving Invitational

02/24/2026

Mark your calendars ya’ll! 💥
🔵Sept 11-13, 2026
🔴 Jay County Fairgrounds- 806 E Votaw St, Portland IN.
🔸Free Friday night movie.
🔸Free Saturday night concert.
🔸Your favorite vendors.
🔸8 awesome chainsaw carvers.
🔸Carving auction Sunday!
This event is on track to be the best year yet!

09/15/2025

Thumbs up for community working together!

Community working together!! ❤️

09/15/2025

Thank you all! ❤️
Couldn’t have made this event possible without all of you. The carvers, the Sponsors, our community, and everyone behind the scenes. Thankful for a successful event, and thankful to be able to present the Jay County Cancer Society with this gift in Alysia’s honor.
This event is looking forward to next year!

09/15/2025

📸 Enlightened Lens Collective 🎞️ did another AMAZING job capturing the event! Thank you for coming out! Todd Skirvin and Darlesia Lee

Loy Auction 🎤 came out to handle the sales at sundays auction. GREAT job to all and thank you for your support! Your auction experience sure helped raise the funds we needed to make our vision successful! Thank you!

09/15/2025

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Other Sponsors for this event included:
🔵Crossroads Financial Federal Credit Union!
🔴 Warren Farms!

Thank you so much for your sponsorship!

09/14/2025

❕Platinum Sponsor Shoutout ❕

The Jay County Visitor & Tourism Bureau has been a HUGE help in supporting this event. They work tirelessly, helping to support and push this event along with so many other exciting events and community engagements. Thank you! !

09/14/2025

❕Sponsor Shoutout!

Ohio Valley Gas- Fueling Your Future.. Naturally!
Thank you so much for your support, OVG’s community engagement and support is greatly appreciated!

09/14/2025

Another Sponsor shout out! 💥
Fifer Services returning for year two of sponsoring the Jay Co Chainsaw Carving Invitational! Thank you for all that you do! Utilizing Fifer’s skid loader for clean up and moving around these big logs sure helps this event run smoothly!
Reach out to them for all your tree work needs!

09/14/2025

They got breakfast ya’ll!! Chef Steve whippin up for B’s&G’s and sausage/cheese biscuits!
And flavored hot coffee!