Page 4 April 13, 2017 TORRANCE TRIBUNE TerriAnn in Torrance Easter Celebrations in Torrance Story and Photos by TerriAnn Ferren This year, Easter Sunday falls on April 16. The most important celebration in Christianity is a movable feast, so to speak. Every year the date is different, but Easter always falls on a Sunday between the 22nd of March and the 25th of April. Why, you ask? Simply put, the date is set by marking the first Sunday following the full moon after the vernal equinox on March 21. Got that? Long ago, Christians turned the ancient ritual Donna Duperron. Happy Easter. Carol Floerch. of celebrating the spring equinox and the worship of Ishtar (Easter), and reclaimed it to celebrate and commemorate Jesus Christ rising from the dead. I have loved Easter since I was a little girl. Because Easter falls during springtime, I think of all the flowers, such as daffodils, calla lilies and tulips blooming in gardens all over town. When I was young, Easter was a very special time and my mom worked hard getting everything ready for the big day. Waking early Easter morning, my sister Linda and I would run to the front door where the “Easter Bunny” had dropped off our baskets, which were usually covered with either yellow, purple or green cellophane tied with a big bow. Inside our baskets were all sorts of wonderful treats and I admit we always ate some of the candy before breakfast. We would get ready for church in our matching Easter dresses with our new white patent leather shoes and little white socks--then after church, we would all pile into the car and visit all the relatives. I also remember watching epic movies on television at my Aunt May and Uncle Millard’s house, like The Robe. It was always a big, special, eventful day filled with love and celebration of all that Easter means. This year, the citizens of Torrance seemed busy with their Easter preparations too, so I asked some residents what they had planned for Easter Sunday. John Kalinsky told me he was looking forward to Easter because he had given up so much for lent, he couldn’t wait to have some treats. “Normally for Easter I go to church at 8 a.m. mass, and after church, I am going to CVS and get a candy bar, and then get an ice cream from Handel’s on the way home. I will have Easter dinner with my uncle and might see my cousins,” said John. John told me he hasn’t received an Easter basket since he was little, but does hide eggs for his nephews and his friends’ children. Later that day, Gail Shota told me she and her husband Rodney and their daughter Samantha are driving down to San Diego to visit her brother and family. Everyone I asked seemed to have plans of some sort. Later that night, while waiting for my Chinese takeout, I spoke with Michelle Alfers, who was also waiting for her order, and she told me, “For Easter, we go to church as a family and then we spend the day typically at my parents’ house and we have our extended family come over and we do an Easter egg hunt for the kids and for the adults as well. We do Easter baskets as well. You know, it is funny, my parents never did Easter baskets for us when we were little, but they do them ever since they got grandkids.” Michelle told me they usually have a potluck dinner so no one person has to cook everything. The next day, I spoke with Suzie Rather, who said in her charming, smooth Texas accent, “I am going to serve the snacks at church and be at my church which I love. They are my people--it is a new church called Captain’s Wheel, and I feel such a connection there. It is like a small group of maybe 30 people, and then I will cook my husband a nice meal and relax in the backyard.” Carole Floersch told me, “Usually, my boyfriend and I host a dinner for his family, and [especially for] his 100-year-old mother. He hasn’t brought it up yet, as he is kind of a last-minute person.” Across the table from Carole, I spotted Donna Duperron, who told me she and her husband Gary have a special Easter planned this year. Their so Luke and his wife Shatera and their young son Hezekiah will be joining the family along with their church in their backyard for an Easter Service, and then the entire family will be coming over later in the afternoon for an Easter party. “We are going to have the entire family over, even my mother from Hemet is coming to celebrate Easter with the two little grandkids. We are going to color eggs the old-fashioned way, we are going to have an Easter egg hunt, and I went online to ‘Current’ and actually have all different kinds of games that we are going to play. The ‘funnest’ one is an Easter Bunny that you put up on the wall and there are Velcro Nerf balls that you throw at the Easter Bunny,” said Donna, beaming. There are traditions we hold close to our hearts and new traditions we make every year that one day are memories for our children. On Saturday, April 15 in the Toyota Meeting Hall from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m., the Torrance Community Services Department is hosting its annual Breakfast and a Visit with the Bunny where adults accompany children and enjoy Easter music, a yummy breakfast, egg hunt, cookie decorating and a special performance by Buster Balloon. All for $20. Registration is a must. Make reservations at 310-618-2930 or access www.Recreation.TorranceCA.Gov. Happy Easter! • Up and Adam from page 3 for their Pioneer League opener against the Torrance Tartars. After beginning the regular season by winning four of their first five games, the Spartans have recently tumbled. Dating back to last Saturday morning, South has now lost five of their last six, including a matchup against Chatsworth in the Chatsworth Tournament. South failed to score a run in the 6-0 shutout as Nathan Critchett struggled from the mound. The senior gave up four earned runs, all in the bottom of the sixth inning, and allowed six hits and four walks, with four strikeouts in three innings of work. The Spartan offense has been struggling to get anything at all going lately. The 6-0 loss at the hands of Chatsworth marked the team’s fourth shutout loss in its last five games. Coach Sain will have to find a way to get something going at the plate before the red-hot Tartars come to town this week for a two-game set that will mark the beginning of league play for both teams. West High vs. North High If there is any team that is going to give the Torrance Tartars a run for their money this season, it may just be the West High Warriors. Last year’s Pioneer League champs showed again last Wednesday afternoon that they simply have a knack for coming through in the clutch and pulling out close victories. The team’s latest close victory couldn’t have come at a better time. An extra-inning 3-2 win gave head coach Juan Cueva and West their first Pioneer League victory of the season. What made the victory even sweeter was that it was over their hated rivals from North High, the Saxons. It wasn’t until the fifth inning that either team was able to get any offense going when junior Shea Estrin tripled to centerfield for the Warriors. Estrin would later score on a sacrifice fly to give West a late 1-0 lead. Rivalry games never end easily, though. The Saxons, led by head coach Mike Neily, battled back in the very next inning. A sacrifice fly by Arturo Alvarez quickly tied things up. West would score again in the top of the seventh inning, but the Saxons never-say-die attitude was on full display when Kyle Hatai doubled in teammate Mitchell Mashiko to tie the game once again. In the end, Sean Whorley was the hero for the Warriors. Not only did Whorley save the game for his team on the mound, but he also knocked in the game-winning run in the bottom of the eighth inning with a single to left field. North eventually went on to lose to the Saxons in the second of the back-to-back games. Kyle Hatai pitched a 1-0 shutout to split the series between the two teams. Both North and West will take a brief break from league play before the Saxons (9-4, 2-1) take on the Torrance Tartars in the beginning of May. 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