TORRANCE TRIBUNE September 22, 2016 Page 5 VALENTINO S Pizza, Pasta & More Catering Available ANY SMALL “A Taste of Brooklyn” 1 LARGE 16” PIZZA with one topping $1549 Plus Tax. Extra toppings additional cost. No substitutions and coupon must be presented. Please mention coupon when ordering. One per customer. Expires 10/6/16. EL SEGUNDO 150 S Sepulveda Blvd. 310-426-9494 COLD 6” SUB made on our daily fresh homemade bread with bag of chips and small drink $695 Plus Tax. One per customer, must present coupon, not valid with any other offer, no substitutions please. Expires 10/6/16. 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Summer flowers fade and the leggy growth of the oleander trees in my garden remind me of the downhill ride of 2016 is upon us. The end of September usually means school has been in full swing for a few weeks, summer holidays are done, and the beat of life’s routines begin again. At least that is what I thought. Sept. 22 marks the beginning of autumn. With that, comes my annual flu shot, buying new calendars for 2017, and realizing daylight savings time ends soon, on Nov. 6. How do others feel about summer’s end? Timothy McCauley MPT, OCS, told me he doesn’t make many changes for the seasons because he works year round. His daughters are off of school, so that is the only change for him. The same can be said for my parents. They are retired and every day could be summer, or so I thought. But my mom told me, “It is kind of a fun time – autumn. I would get ready for October, when you kids were small, and I would polish the furniture. I think of fall birthdays and I like that feeling.” I never knew that. Ronnie told me, “Summer is my favorite season of the year. Ever since I was a little boy I’ve always loved the summer, whether it was the warmer weather which always made me happy, or the 4th of July, which is my birthday – I just want it to last forever, I don’t want the summer to end.” Later that night I asked Tommy and he said, “I will miss the longer days. When you are not in school, there isn’t much difference in seasons.” Sherrlyn, a teacher told me, “What I think of is getting back to work, and having a paycheck, but a little sad because summer’s ending - but I always look forward to a new class.” I called my friend Vickie and she said, “I consider September still summer. September has always been my favorite month because it is starting to feel ‘fallish’ and you can wear scarves in the evening. And I love to travel in the month of September because the kids are back in school.” Nadia Krispel added, “For me, the end of summer signals the coming of fall, my favorite season – cool and brisk, big sweaters and scarves, and the beautiful autumn fall colors.” The next day, while visiting my bank I asked the teller, Genevieve Pedroza how she felt about the ending of summer and she was quick to tell me, “I feel like it is never ending. Summer never ends here!” That comment was reminiscent of a phone conversation I had with Kathy, a customer service representative, earlier in the day - who lives in Wisconsin. She told me she and her husband just spent nearly two weeks on holiday in Los Angeles. They spent a couple days in Las Vegas and then headed to our wonderful Southern California. She told me, “I miss Los Angeles so much. I love it! It is a different environment than Wisconsin, so relaxing. I have always lived in Wisconsin and had never been on a vacation. There is so much to do [there]. We just relaxed and went with the flow.” We spent quite a few minutes discussing all the attractions around our wonderful area and I think if she could, she would have hopped on a plane and returned right then. Winnie Van Heerden and her husband, Andre live by the ocean and love it. Winnie told me, “It hasn’t been as warm as usual this summer. And although I usually look forward to summer’s end because the traffic by the ocean lessens - I will miss summer.” Admittedly, we do have superior weather and the ‘seasons’ are quite mild but we can see changes on the horizon. Our cloud cover from the west hangs on a bit longer in the mornings and then reappears at night. And much to the chagrin of Scott Villalva, our daylight hours are diminishing by the minute. As fall approaches with Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, Hanukkah, and the New Year right around the corner, we might want to stop a moment, take a deep breath and savor the very last moments of the summer of 2016. • End of Summer. Genevieve Pedroza.
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