Hundreds gathered in Canarsie Park on Sunday afternoon, April 27th, for State Senator Roxanne Persaud’s annual Easter Egg Hunt, which had to be rescheduled twice due to those typical April showers that bring May flowers.
Refusing to let the children down, unperturbed by naysayers who would scoff at the idea of an after-Easter egg hunt, the senator hosted a beautiful event anyway. “Easter is over when we say it is,” she told the crowd as she kicked off the celebration, to raucous cheers.
There was truly something for everyone: a live DJ, a popcorn and cotton candy station, cornhole games, face painting, beverages and hot food, raffles, giveaways and pictures with not one, but three, dancing Easter bunnies. Naturally, the hunt itself was the main event though, as kids aged 3 to 12 were invited to scour the park in search of several elusive golden eggs, found hidden beneath piles of leaves and behind rocks, earning them some great prizes. All the children left with smiles and baskets of colorful candy-filled eggs — more than 6,000 eggs were collected — and intentions of returning next year to do it all over again.
