Lumberjack Feud: Inaugural Fundraiser Calls for ‘Black-Tie with Lumberjack Attire’

PIGEON FORGE, Tenn. (Aug. 4, 2011) – Lumberjack Sports International’s Great Smoky Mountain Lumberjack Feud will host a benefit aimed at raising $50,000 for Helen Ross McNabb Center’s Service County Services on Thursday, Aug. 25, 2011. 

General admission tickets are available to the public at $25 and include a show at 7 p.m. Tickets are available to the public by calling 865-329-9120. 

The benefit takes place on Thursday, Aug. 25, the eve of Lumberjack Feud’s Aug. 26 public grand opening. The $10 million, 34,000-square-foot Lumberjack Feud arena will begin offering dinner shows every evening of the week, with performances by world-champion ESPN lumberjack athletes.   

The Aug. 25 fundraiser for Helen Ross McNabb Center will provide the public’s first glimpse of Lumberjack Feud’s new facility and action-packed show, which features thrills and competition while telling the story of two feuding 1930s Smoky Mountain logging families. 

“We are thrilled to have Lumberjack Feud’s support for this exciting fundraiser to benefit our Sevier County clinic, which just celebrated its one-year anniversary,” said Shellie Hall, the assistant director of Sevier County Services.  

Helen Ross McNabb Center’s Sevier County Services facility, located at 707 Dolly Parton Parkway in Sevierville, Tenn., provides quality mental health care, addiction treatment and social services for both adults and children in Sevier County. 

“Our team feels especially proud to launch Lumberjack Feud by directly benefiting such a respected and vital non-profit organization as the Helen Ross McNabb Center,” said Lumberjack Sports International President Rob Scheer, who was the first man to win the IRONJACK World Championship and holds numerous world titles.   

“Our guests will see a show at Lumberjack Feud like no other – and we especially look forward to seeing everyone’s creativity on Aug. 25 with the ‘black-tie with lumberjack attire’ dress code that has been set for the evening!” Scheer said. 

Based on actual historical events of the 1930’s, the Lumberjack Feud dinner show features thrills and competition while telling the story of two feuding Smoky Mountain logging families competing for rights to log the last remaining timber tract before the Great Smoky Mountains National Park closes the region’s timber industry. 

The  athletes will perform more than 10 different lumberjack sport events, including  tree-climbing, axe-throwing, chopping, sawing and log-rolling.  

Located at 2713 Parkway, in the heart of Pigeon Forge, between lights 3 and 4, the attraction is sponsored bySTIHL, the number-one selling brand of chain saw worldwide.