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ECHO Chain Saw Carving Team Joins Pocono 500 Weekend To Carve for Victory Junction Kids Camp & “Keeping the Dream Alive”
CHICAGO, IL (April 2010) - The ECHO Chain Saw Carving Team plans on “Keeping the Dream Alive” by carving masterpiece wood sculptures at Pocono Raceway from June 4-6 to benefit Victory Junction, a special camp for children with serious medical conditions, founded by Kyle and Pattie Petty and now a NASCAR community project.
Competing and using their special talents to carve for a charity is not new to ECHO Carving Team members Mark Colp (Lakeport, CA), Jason Emmons (St. Croix, IN), Bob King (Edgewood, WA) and Mike Bihlmaier (Marengo, IL). Comprised of four of the best professional chain saw carvers in the US, they are contracted by ECHO Outdoor Power Equipment to serve as ambassadors for the brand  and to showcase their art form. Their completed sculptures typically are auctioned at the conclusion of an event, benefiting a non-profit helping children or conservation.
The ECHO Carving Team members are both commission artists and competition carvers. So what’s a competition carver? A chain saw artist would work on a commission piece for months in his studio. The challenge of high level competition is to carve extremely well against the clock, while bringing out a personal interpretation of a pre-chosen theme. ECHO calls this type of chain saw carving “Full Throttle Art.”
During Pocono Raceway’s June 4-6 NASCAR Sprint Cup weekend, the ECHO team will compete against each other, with their final masterpieces to be judged on the interpretation of the theme “Keeping the Dream Alive.” A live auction will be held on site Sunday, June 6 at 11:30am. Tickets for the weekends events start at $45 and are on sale now by calling the Pocono Raceway ticket office toll free at 1-800-RACEWAY (1-800-722-3929) or logging on to Pocono’s website, www.poconoraceway.com .
Victory Junction in Randleman, NC was recommended by Pocono Raceway as the beneficiary of the ECHO team’s appearance. The carving theme is based on Victory Junction’s 2010 fundraising campaign in honor of Adam Petty. The campaign goal is to raise funds to send kids to camp for free. It costs $2,500 per child for the weeklong camp. The auction goal is to raise at least $2,500 per final masterpiece sculpture.
You can read more about the ECHO Carving Team at www.echo-usa.com/carvingteam and follow them on Face Book at www.facebook.com/echocarving. ECHO Incorporated has manufactured outdoor power equipment for discerning homeowners and professional users for more than 30 years in the Chicago, IL area. The corporation is known for its technology development, particularly two-stroke engine design.
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