Kids enjoy annual Easter Egg Hunt event

The Easter Bunny must have worked double time littering Veterans Memorial Park in Avon April 15 with a rainbow of brightly colored eggs strewn across the grass.

Luckily, hundreds of children and their parents gathered to collect the eggs as part of the annual Community Easter Egg Hunt hosted by the Avon/Avon Lake VFW Post 7035.

The children lined up separated by age group, wearing mostly pastel colors, and when the signal was given scoured the grounds collecting 100 dozen real, colored eggs. It took a matter of minutes for the field to be swept clean.

Shannon Scheetz, chair of the event and treasurer of the auxiliary, said she doesn’t know how many years the event has been held.

“I’m 35 and they’ve been going on since before I was around,” she said.

According to Scheetz, the event is normally held at the post, 36950 Mills Road in Avon, but due to some recent sewer work at that location, this year they moved to the park, 3701 Veteran’s Memorial Parkway.

Scheetz said the hunt

was open to the community, and usually draws between 150 and 200 kids. Six adults and six children dyed all of the eggs yesterday in preparation.

“We have a system,” she said “It takes about a half hour (to) 45 minutes.”

The Easter Bunny was on hand for photos with children; and Dunkin Donuts matched the post’s purchase of donut holes for the event and gave them a discount supplying the assembled with 500 of the pastries, according to

Scheetz.

Many of the eggs were specially marked as winner eggs and children who found them were entitled to a special prize.

“The older groups got chocolate bunnies, and the other age groups got stuffed animals,” Scheetz said.

Everyone who participated got a goody bag to

take home.

The Forward Bound 4H group based out of North Ridgeville supplied a live petting zoo for the children. They brought goats, rabbits and a single chicken.

Treasurer Frank Krupka, 15, said the children were loving the animals.

“It’s something they don’t get to see every day,” he said.

KEITH REYNOLDS — THE MORNING JOURNAL Children scoured the fields of Veterans Memorial Park, 3701 Veterans Memorial Parkway in Avon, on April 15 as part of the annual VFW Post 7035 Community Easter Egg Hunt.