An eggs-tra early start to Easter in Valley Stream

The Recreation Department hosted its annual Easter egg hunt last Saturday morning.

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Justin Cruz was one of silver egg finder in the third- and fourth-grade group.

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Valley Stream Mayor Edwin A. Fare and Deputy Mayor Dermond Thomas joined gold and silver winners from the K-2 group, Mikayla Weiland, Cohn Mills, Dylan Cittadino, Syed Ali, Syedah Ali

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Valley Stream Mayor Edwin A. Fare, Deputy Mayor Dermond Thomas and Trustee Virginia Clavin-Hggins joined gold and silver egg-finders from the grades 3-4 group, Mikayla Cittadino, Adam Li, Christian Ballew, Alyssa Posligua, Brandon Veh, Justin Cruz

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After Finding many eggs, children took a break to admire their haul including, from left, Elena Seosankar, 6, Samantha Allen, 6, Madison Kaminsky, 8, Karlie Grahan, 5, Blair Grahan, 8 and Kelsey Pierre, 6.

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There were not one but two Easter bunnies to greet the children.

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Anxious children lined up at the starting line eager to gather as many eggs as they could.

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About 250 children participated in Valley Stream’s annual Easter egg hunt last Saturday morning at Hendrickson Park, collecting all they could in their baskets and hoping for prize-yielding gold and silver eggs.

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The east side of Hendrickson Park was covered by thousands of colorful plastic eggs for the Valley Stream Recreation Department’s annual Easter egg hunt last Saturday morning.

Even with the holiday two weeks away, it still drew about 250 children to the two sessions. The weather was sunny, but cool and breezy. “I think more people would have come out if it was not quite as windy,” Recreation Director Tom Roberts said.

Those who did come on April 5, he noted, had a great time. Finders of gold and silver eggs received chocolate Easter bunnies donated by the Elks Club. Two much larger and far less edible Easter bunnies were there to greet children. Teens from the Youth Council also helped out.