With Easter coming up at the end of the month, the Delacour General Store is once again organizing a community Easter Egg Hunt at the Delacour Community Centre for all to enjoy and celebrate the season.
Visitors to Delacour Community Hall on March 30 will be treated to the Easter Egg Hunt, food, music, and opportunities to win prizes, starting at 1 p.m.
AM/PM Limousine, which is sponsoring this year’s hunt, will be dropping off the Easter Bunny at some point throughout the day's events.
“This will be our eighth year [organizing the Easter Egg Hunt] and each year we try to do a little more and get more involvement from everybody,” said Amanda Tatton, one of the hunt’s organizers.
Tatton said that organizers are hoping to get more involvement from the community this year, and to help facilitate involvement, this year’s hunt will also feature an adult egg hunt.
“We try to have involvement [from everyone] within the community,” said Tatton. “Community is really what we try to be based on when it comes to this egg hunt and being able to enjoy everything.”
According to Tatton, the Easter Egg Hunt will be done outside the community hall, with food, coffee, tea, and other things available inside the community hall.
“We do the hunting outdoors but [people] can come in for their coffee or tea. Last year [we] decorated cookies indoors.”
While organizers have outlined what is in store for the hunt in promotional material shared on Facebook, Tatton added that people contributing their own special flair to the event has become a bit of an Easter Egg Hunt staple.
“There are usually one or two different ladies that bring a lamb or a sheep with them,” Tatton said, adding that adults can also walk around holding chicks. “[We’re] trying something different…to see if we can get them more involved.”
Tatton mentioned that the community inspired elements of the Easter Egg Hunt is not something that organizers specifically thought of, but welcome anyway.
“That was not something that we're trying to set up,” she said. “People just kind of bring it and people love it and we enjoy that they do that. So that's usually a surprise.”
If you are interested in helping out with the event, contact the Delacour General store at 403-831-8523, or by messaging them on Facebook.
