Revving engines on tap this weekend
Limaland Motorsports Park is scheduled to start its 2021 season Friday night.
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Jared Horstman celebrates winning a race at Limaland Motorsports Park in May 2018.
Mike Campbell | Courtesy of Limaland Motorsports Park
LIMA Engines will be roaring around Lima this weekend, as you consider your entertainment options:
• The Edge of Summer Power Elite & Super Hooligan motorcycle racing is slated for 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Saturday at Allen County Fairgrounds, 2750 Harding Highway, Lima. Tickets are $20 for adults, $10 for kids with 5 and under free, or get a family pack of four (two adults, two kids) for $40. Racers can sign up between 8:30 and 10:30 a.m., with practice at 11 a.m., heats at 1 p.m. and mains to follow. The pit gate fee is $20, amateur registry is $40, power elite class is $50 and money class is $50, with a $7,500 purse on the line.
John Grindrod: A look under the production hood of the LCC play
By John Grindrod - Guest Columnist
Despite all the negatives of this past year caused by something none of us would have ever thought possible, it seems that there occasionally can be found some silver linings. Such was the case for the Lima Central Catholic seniors who bonded and delivered a terrific play, “You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown,” on last month’s second weekend.
As for the T-Bird silver lining, for the first time in the history of Veterans Memorial Civic Center, a high school was able to use Lima’s grandest stage for a class play. As to how a venue that has seen scores of professional Broadway-caliber performers present their talents many times over the 30-plus years the facility has been open, the play’s producer, Jim O’Neill, points to two factors.