Huron Expositor, 2017-04-19, Page 7Wednesday, April 19, 2017 • Huron Expositor 7
Parents were equipped with umbrellas while the children sported Hundreds of parents and children packed in at the side of the
their rain gear at the 2017 annual Community Easter Egg Hunt Seaforth Agriplex last Saturday in the rain to fill their baskets and Joel Botelho, 7, and four-year-old Ryder Botelho meet the Easter
April 15. bags with candy. bunny.
One -year-old Lorne Elliott sits with the Easter bunny last
Saturday.
One -year-old, Achilles May smiles for the camera.
The hunt for eggs
111 Hundreds participated in the 2017
Allr annual Community Easter Egg Hunt
Shaun Gregory
Huron Expositor
It rained so they brought
umbrellas, mud filled the
egg hunt area so they wore
rubber boots - showers only
made the hundred or so kids
and parents in attendance
move more slyly and care-
fully in their quest for
chocolate.
For the third year in a
row, the 2017 annual Com-
munity Easter Egg Hunt
was held at the Seaforth
Agriplex. This successful
and popular event took
place last Saturday morn-
ing, thanks to the store
merchants and members of
the BIA.
Seaforth Coun. Bob
Fisher played the Easter
bunny role again so the
youngsters could have a
picture and the Ex-Cente-
naires served pancakes for
a donation fee.
The forecast didn't look
promising the day before,
however vice chair of the
Seaforth BIA, Melody Hodg-
son said by 8 a.m. they were
proceeding with or without
rain.
"It's spring a little rain
never hurt anyone," she
said during the closing
minutes of the event April
Thomas Schoonderwoerd, 5, receives some tickles from the
Easter bunny April 15.
15.
Plotted off at the side of
the Agriplex, the space for
the egg hunt was separated
by age groups, by 9:59 a.m.
the children were given the
okay to collect candy, and
in four minutes a $1000
worth of candy
disappeared.
Besides a couple candy
wrappers and empty eggs,
the spot was empty.
The BIA budget is about
$250, but since the commu-
nity donated so "generously,"
Hodgson said they usually
spend anywhere from $1100-
$1300 more on the event.
This includes the hall
rental, food and candy.
Next year the event will
most likely take place at the
Seaforth arena.