Saturday April 8, 2023 | COLWOOD, BC
by Mary P Brooke | Island Social Trends
Hundreds of families swarmed through the meandering Meadow Park in Colwood today for an Easter egg hunt.
The littlest kids are always delighted with wonder at activities like this, and the older kids a bit more intense with their egg-hunting strategies. Parents and grandparents enjoy the fun too, many tagging along with strollers.
It was kind of like families being out for Halloween trick or treating, but easier on parents (no costume requirements)!
On hand at the 11 am start were Colwood Mayor Doug Kobayashi, Colwood Councillor David Grove, and local MLA Mitzi Dean (Esquimalt-Metchosin).
And of course a full-size Easter Bunny, making its way through the crowds for photos and selfies. There was live music by one singer-guitarist being performed at one end of the park (near Latoria Road).
About 20 to 30 teenage volunteers had custom egg hunt event T-shirts and mingled about to help out where needed. They had volunteered through their schools. That was a nifty way for them to enjoy the fun (for which they might have otherwise felt too old!).
The City did a good job of promoting the event, and passively managing the flow of people with signage of where the event was and where the candy was for certain ages!
There is rain in the weekend forecast — that some people were talking about — but the precipitation held off.
Crowd event that had been scaled back during the pandemic in 2020 and 2021 seem no longer a concern. A few days ago the remaining social restrictions of the pandemic were lifted in BC.
===== RELATED:
Easter Messages 2023 from political leaders (Apr 9, 2023)
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Among many other qualifications, Mary Brooke holds a B.Sc. in Foods & Nutrition, as well as a Certificate in Public Relations and an industry certificate in digital marketing. She reports with the BC Press Gallery.
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