Mark Patton: Strand Clan Made East Beach Volleyball Courts a Family Gathering Place

Mark Patton: Strand Clan Made East Beach Volleyball Courts a Family Gathering Place

East Beach may be a playground, but twin sisters Kelly and Lisa Strand had to work their way there a half-century ago. They’d follow their older siblings by riding their bikes for six miles, packing nothing but a sack lunch and the hunger to play some beach volleyball. “We wouldn’t even bring a towel, just an apple and a peanut butter sandwich,” recalled Kelly, who was a junior-high teen at the time. “We’d stay all day.” Older brother Warren and…