Garfield Lake Ice Racing Club looks back on 25 years, celebrates milestone on unique surface

Mar. 17—LAPORTE — It was approaching noon on Garfield Lake's slowly-melting surface on Sunday, March 8, and Tom Lindahl needed to gather the competitors for a pre-race drivers' meeting. He he did what anyone else would do. Lindahl grabbed a 12-gauge shotgun. "This is my starter pistol," he quipped. "I would use my .45, but it's 50 cents a shell now." He fired two shots in the air, easily ...