Christmas came early for Kevin Dunn as Graphic Publications, Inc. notified him on Monday, Dec. 12 that he had won the Around the House promotional giveaway and would be receiving a new Tanaka chain saw as a result.

It was the perfect gift for the Dover resident, who cuts wood fairly often and describes himself as an outdoors kind of guy. “The (chainsaw) I’ve got is pretty worn out. It’s five or six years old. I cut a lot of wood, and I paid about $350 for it and that was a steal. So I was looking on the Internet for these ones.”

When he learned of the good news, Dunn couldn’t believe he was receiving the Tanaka chain saw absolutely free and explained that if the weather cooperated, he would be out the very next day to try it out. Both Dunn and his brother have wood-burning fireplaces in their homes, and Dunn’s mother has a camper as well. Whatever wood Dunn doesn’t use among his family members, he then sells.

Dunn entered the competition the old-fashioned way, noticing the entry form in The Tuscarawas County Bargain Hunter, filling it out and mailing it back in. “I never win anything, but I thought my chances might be pretty good,” he said of registering for the contest the mail-in way. “A couple years ago, you guys had a weed eater, and I had been looking at buying one, but they were pretty expensive. Then I saw your contest, but didn’t win that one.”

Well, he won this one, and this Christmas, it’s going to be a little more difficult for Dunn’s wife, Kathy, to top the exciting new present.

“She keeps asking me what I want and I say, I need a new pair of slippers,” Dunn explained, somewhat sarcastically. “She’s learned not to buy me hunting and fishing stuff because she’ll get the wrong thing and I’ll have to take it back anyhow. I’ve got so much of that stuff though, I’m pretty much set.”

Dunn lives in Dover with his wife Kathy and children, Shelby and Dylan, as well as grandson Tristen.