Mindful of what happened in Monterey Park a week earlier, Alhambra holds its Lunar New Year Festival and honors a hometown hero.
The festival took place just around the corner from Lai Lai Ballroom & Studio, where, just after his deadly rampage on Jan. 21 in Monterey Park, gunman Huu Can Tran, 72, burst in.
“The situation still is so surreal to me. ... I realized that life is fragile. I feel that we as a community should spend our precious time reaching out to one another. “And Lunar New Year is about spending time with family,” added his sister, Phannie Wang, 44, of Rosemead, who was sharing roasted chestnuts with her three children, ages 13, 10 and 3.
With the recent Lunar New Year mass shooting in Monterey Park on many minds, a message stands out among the notes hanging from the wishing tree at the Tet Festival in Costa Mesa. “You have to look in front of you and all around you when you’re outside or running errands. ... We planned to go here, and we’re not changing plans,” said Ahmed, who is Pakistani American.
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