Easter egg hunts? Yes, but with a few tweaks

Communities creative in planning for renewal of popular traditions.

BUTLER COUNTY — A second Easter holiday under the threat of coronavirus has changed from last year’s cancellations to some creative accommodations to the pandemic.

Liberty Twp. officials, foe example, gave the traditional Easter egg hunt a pro-local business tweak with a game for families to find “eggs’ at area shops.

“We knew our traditional egg hunt that we hold at Liberty Park annually would need to look different this year due to the pandemic,” said township spokeswoman Caroline McKinney.

“We wanted to give the community a socially-distanced, safe, activity that families could do together — and we decided to add some local small businesses to the mix. We put a call out to

Liberty Twp. businesses to see who wanted to collaborate and we got a great response,” said McKinney.

Participants can go to the township website and print out a sheet listing 25 businesses and their Easter eggs. Then if they visit 15 of the 25 and fill in their sheet their families are eligible to win prize packages from local shops, gyms, spas and restaurants.

Liberty Twp. Marketing & Events Manager Christy Gloyd said setting up the novel holiday approach has “been so fun to interact with the businesses and see them think outside of the box and really making their egg hunt stop their own.”

“For example, Skyline Chili at 5488 Liberty Square Drive is handing out coupons for a free kidsway (meal) when families mention participating in the egg hunt. And there are more special goodies along the way at other participating businesses,” said Gloyd.

“The egg hunt is providing a

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