By Lisa Carolin
They came by the dozens with their baskets, buckets and bags. Children scattered over the grounds of the Chelsea Retirement Center Saturday, March 26, to meet the Easter Bunny and to participate in the Annual Kiwanis Club Easter Egg Hunt, which is sponsored by the club along with the Chelsea High School Key Club.
Sloan Tichenor, age 4, came because, “I like to pick up eggs in the field.”
For 7-year-old Haiden Castleberry, “It gets my legs going fast and I can get eggs for my Easter basket.”
Julie Gallup brought her great niece Emily Gallup, 5, and great nephew Alex Gallup, 7.
“I’m hoping to get 30 eggs,” said Alex.
“I want 100,” said Emily. “We really like Easter eggs.”
“They thought they were coming for hard boiled eggs,” said Julie Gallup, who said that their grandmother used to live at the CRC.
Members of the Chelsea Kiwanis Club visited the CRC earlier in the week to stuff Easter eggs with the help of residents.
“Kiwanis is all about helping children, and this is a fun activity for kids,” said Jim Randolph, Kiwanis president-elect. “It’s a little chilly today but there’s no precipitation and that’s what matters.”
The Easter Bunny arrived at 9:30 a.m. and attracted both kids and parents and then kicked off the egg hunt at 10 a.m. There were two separate hunts, one for kids 4-7 and another for kids 8 and older.
The egg hunts were finished in minutes despite Randolph’s estimate that there were as many as 2,000 eggs to be found.
