Here Comes Peter Cottontail, Hopping Down the Bunny Trail
Photo: At Mariners Church Easter Egg Scramble in Irvine, Calif. they distribute over 40,000 eggs!
Hippity, hoppity, Easter’s on it’s way! From Apple Valley to Agoura Hills, the Easter Bunny is hopping into cities and towns all over California, ushering in cheer, and tons of eggs & candy for kids to hunt for and place in their baskets. One of the biggest annual events that most cities host or at least offer (thanks to good Samaritan groups such as Kiwanis, Rotary, Chambers of Commerce or maybe a church,) is also one of the best attended events for families with children. The amount of eggs and candy purchased for kids to hunt in California is literally in the tons!
It is no secret that economy has taken a toll on some city budgets and municipalities have made the tough decisions to drop annual Egg Hunts. Ojai is one city that did so, but there are many more. In the absence of city-sponsored Bunny Breakfasts and Egg Hunts, citizens pull together and do amazing things! At the annual Delano Egg Hunt, civic and youth groups boil and color over 4,000 eggs by hand just days before the big event occurs. In Oakland not all children can afford the $3 fee charged at the Dunsmuir-Hellman Historic Estate Egg Hunt. As a free alternative Mosswood Easter Egg Hunt is produced by volunteers who send out emails blasts asking for help from the public to purchase eggs and candy for disadvantaged kids. For those who are as crazy as that wacky wabbit, Bug Bunny, about California Egg Hunts, get hopping! Pitch in and make someone happy.
