A free city-sponsored SpringFest takes place Saturday at Lions Park, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., while Torelli Realty's annual Egg-Citement Easter Event takes place at Tanager Park from 9 a.m. to noon.
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For local Realtor Valerie Torelli, celebrating Easter in Costa Mesa is usually cause for mass egg-citement.
That’s because, since she opened Torelli Realty in the city’s Mesa Verde neighborhood in 1986, the business has sponsored a number of community events, most notably Costa Mesa’s annual “Torelli Realty Egg-Citement Easter” celebration.
The springtime spectacle typically draws upward of 500 people to Tanager Park with a dizzying array of activities, from train rides to bounce houses to egg hunts for kids big and little that register on the scale of chaos somewhere between “mad dash” and “absolute free-for-all.”
“Bands would play, schools would participate. We’d have the Easter bunny,” Torelli recalled in an interview. “It started out small but then we just took over the whole park.”