Join in on one of Indiana’s favorite past times and join the 2010 Turtle Days Cornhole Tournament!

Break it down in the 2010 Turtle Days dance contest! Dance in the 12 and Under category or the 13 and Over category!

The 2010 Turtle Days festival welcomes the I.T.P.A. to the festival this year and invites the public to come out and support the tractor pullers Saturday, June 19 from 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. on Washington Street.

There will be two big nights with one big finale night of karaoke at Turtle Days this year! Think you have what it takes to win the Karaoke Contest? Give it a shot! The top winners will receive recording time at Sweetwater Sound in Fort Wayne!

The BBQ Cook Off is among other events that will be making their return to the Turtle Days Festival this year, so grab your apron and your cooking gear and get ready!

Definitely a town favorite, the Beer Tent will be making its return to the Turtle Days Festival this year! This year the Beer Tent will also feature BackWater, Northern Indiana’s hottest country band.

* Kal Ramsey, Jeff Bonar, Mike Ressler, and Mike Smith

The Turtle Days cornhole competition proved to be a popular event. Turtle Days officials are contemplating a fall fundraiser that will include a cornhole tournament.

Check out our gallery of Kids Day in the Park and other activities and events at the Turtle Days Festival.

There was a little of this, and a little of that in this year’s Turtle Days Festival parade, with many decorating their entries in this year’s theme, “The 60th Celebration of Oscar.”

Hundreds of cars and people turned out for the first annual car, truck & bike show at Brady’s Auto on U.S. 33.

Vickie Powell was the grand prize raffle ticket winner of $750 at the Annual Turtle Days Festival. Three members of the Brumbaugh family swept the karaoke contest and six winners in two age divisions were announced at the Turtle Days Talent show.

The Turtle Run 5K has become a popular addition to the annual Turtle Days Festival and this year was co-sponsored by Youth For Christ and the Fort Wayne News-Sentinel.

They flocked by the thousands … and thousands … to the Annual Turtle Days Festival to help celebrate the 60th annual hunt for Oscar, the giant turtle spotted in Fulk Lake in 1949. Watch this site for exciting coverage, exclusive video and photos galore of all Turtle Days events!

Whitley County tornado warning can’t keep local citizens from having a good time and good food at the Smith Twp. fire department fish fry

The Turtle Days Festival Association is sponsoring a girls softball tournament on Saturday, June 20, at Churubusco Community Park.

The brochures and raffle tickets and posters are printed, registrations for festival events are rolling in, and children are busy catching that enthusiastic, fast-sprinting turtle that just might win the big race at the Churubusco Turtle Days Festival June 17-20.

I SAW the Beast of Busco … I think. Snowflakes rode out a cold wind as Gale Harris shoved the rowboat out on the choppy water of Fulk’s Lake which covers seven acres of his farm.

Oscar the Turtle will be this year’s Grand Marshal of the 2009 Turtle Days Festival parade and the 60th anniversary celebration of the Hunt for Oscar. And, another famous turtle, Crunch, will be the special guest at an exhibit at this year’s Turtle Days Festival, June 17-20.

Register now for these Turtle Days events – Turtle Run/Walk and 5K, 5th Annual Car, Truck & Bike Show, BBQ Chicken Cook Off, Horseshoe and Cornhole Tournments and the Turtle Days Royalty Contest for kids ages 5-13.