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🌱 Torrance's Gizelle El Assal earns college soccer all-conference honors

Torrance, California Patch AM: a 4 min read

Hello Torrance! Here's our latest buzz. Let's get into it. ☀️

In today's newsletter:

  • Torrance's Gizelle El Assal earns college soccer all-conference honors
  • Teen pianist takes top honors at Torrance's talent showcase
  • Gardena honors longtime VFW leader with ties to North Torrance High

Also on today's calendar: How High is Your Tide - From Self-Preservation to Self Transcendence and 9 more events.

Today's riddle: What kind of shoes do frogs wear? 🤔 (Answer below!)

Weather forecast:

  • Monday: Mostly sunny and very warm, with a high of 84 and low of 62 degrees.
  • Tuesday: Sunny and very warm, temps: high: 84, low: 61.
  • Wednesday: Sunny and remaining warm, with a high of 83 and low of 61 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

1. Speight voted UAC Defensive Player of the Year (roarlions.com) — Torrance native Gizelle El Assal earned Second Team All-UAC honors after leading North Alabama's women's soccer team with 34 shots this season. The junior midfielder also contributed three assists, receiving her first all-conference recognition as one of three Lions players honored by the league's coaches.
   

2. South Bay's Got Talent highlights SoCal performers of all ages (dailybreeze.com) — Fourteen-year-old pianist Abigail Tenn won South Bay's Got Talent at Torrance's Armstrong Theater on Saturday, topping a field of 19 contestants. Hosted by the Torrance Cultural Arts Foundation, the competition also recognized singer Isabella Luna in second place and father-daughter performers Luna and Paul Suhr in third.
   

3. City of Gardena Honors VFW Commander Moriyama (rafu.com) — Gardena honored VFW Commander Stephen Moriyama for 15 years leading a veterans post whose community work includes supporting North Torrance High's JROTC program. The Oct. 24 ceremony recognized his service to veterans and local families, while the post also honored longtime volunteers Sue Watanabe and Linda Moriyama.
   

4. A Fender Bender Cost Matt Farah's Taycan $35,000, and Nearly $8,000 Was Battery Labor (motorbiscuit.com) — A sideswipe left automotive journalist Matt Farah's Porsche Taycan needing more than $35,000 in repairs, with work involving a Torrance body shop. Farah says removing its undamaged battery added nearly $8,000 in labor, raising concerns about repairable used EVs being written off. He says he has no complaints about the shops' work.
   

5. US starts at 'basically zero' in building cheap military drones (kansas.com) — Torrance-based Neros is among the drone makers winning Pentagon orders, including an Army contract worth up to $500 million awarded in June. The company says it has significantly increased production, while the broader U.S. industry faces supply-chain hurdles and pressure to manufacture inexpensive military drones much faster.
   

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-- The Patch AM Team

P.S. The answer to today's riddle: "What kind of shoes do frogs wear?" — Open toad (Thank you Kevin M. for sending it in!)
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