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Lasagna Dinner Will Be Served Drive-Through Style BY ANN MEAD ASH
Some of the most important features of the annual Salem Hellers Evangelical Reformed Church lasagna dinner fundraiser will be the same this year. Organizers will still prepare up to 100 pans of lasagna in three varieties - hamburger, hamburger and
sausage, and vegetable with a red sauce - on the day of the sale. Meals will each include a square of lasagna, a salad, garlic bread, and a homemade dessert. Individual pans of each variety of lasagna will also be sold at a special price. Changes will include the method of delivery for the food and the date the event will be held. See Lasagna Dinner pg 3
Logan McGrane of Gap is a national motorcycle racing champion who comes from a family of men who have garnered top honors in the sport.
A Family Tradition
Preparing for the drive-through lasagna meal to be held at Salem Hellers Evangelical Reformed Church on Feb. 20 are (from left) Lisa Tully, Jim Buckwalter, Betty Snyder, and Margaret Sensenig.
Local Student Is Motorcycle Racing Champion
hen Logan McGrane of Gap was not yet 4 years old, he started riding motorcycles. By the time he was 4, he was racing motorcycles. Over Thanksgiving weekend, Nov. 26 through 29, 2020, the 15-year-old Pequea Valley High School (PVHS) freshman smoked the competition during three days of racing in Travelers Rest, S.C. “He won three national championships,” said Logan’s grandfather Thomas McGrane. Logan is the son of Thomas McGrane Jr. of Gap and Laurie Wilson of Honey Brook. Logan bested all the other racers in five of the nine main events at Travelers Rest, and he placed
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second or third in the other four. Logan’s winnings included the College Boy National Championship for young men ages 14 to 29. McGrane also won the Open Amateur National Championship,
Racing motorcycles runs in Logan’s blood. “It’s what we do,” noted his grandfather. where riders must be 12 or older on a 250 to 450 cc (cubic centimeter) bike, and the 450 Amateur National Championship, where racers must be 14. He also raced short track and half-mile events, along with the TT (Tours Trophy) race, which features
a jump and a right-hand corner. Off the track, Logan plays basketball for PVHS, and he was the only freshman to start with the PVHS football team in the fall of 2020, earning his varsity letter. Logan said that racing has not interfered with schoolwork or school activities. Racing motorcycles runs in Logan’s blood. “It’s what we do,” noted his grandfather, adding that Logan uses the motorcycles that were ridden by his late uncle Kyle McGrane, a champion racer in the Ice Racing Series, and a multi-Amateur National Champion, among other titles. Kyle was killed while racing in Santa Rosa, Calif., in 2016 at the age of 17. Logan’s father was also a national champion, and his uncle Warren Diem was a world champion. See Family Tradition pg 4
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