How many people do you recognize?
It was a chilly, blustery March 31 when Osoyoos celebrated Easter Eggstravaganza the Saturday before Easter. Many residents still turned out for the Rotary Pancake Breakfast, children’s games, entertainers, bouncy castle and the highlight — the Easter Egg Hunt. (runs 19:54) (Richard McGuire video)
Eager children and their just as eager parents wait for Mayor Sue McKortoff to give the “go” signal to trigger the Easter Egg Hunt. (Richard McGuire photo)
Many children and their parents had fun searching for Easter eggs in the lower playground at Osoyoos Elementary School, a highlight of Easter Eggstravaganza. (Richard McGuire photo)
Most eggs are grabbed up in seconds, but children comb the playground looking for ones that got missed. (Richard McGuire photo)
Two Easter Bunnies and a chicken were in high demand as children sought celebrity photographs after the Easter Egg Hunt. (Richard McGuire photo)
Little Elizabeth Hebig, two and a half, sat on the Easter Bunny’s knee for a photo after the Easter Egg Hunt. Bunny Ken Baker of the Osoyoos times has been posing with children, hugging them and giving them high fives for years. (Richard McGuire photo)
Singler Mat Duffus likes to bring children up to make music with him. He’s become a regular at Easter Eggstravaganza. (Richard McGuire photo)
Bennett Saunders, 14 months old, got a chance to sit in a fire truck as his father, Matt Saunders showed him the amenities. What’s a fire truck without a cuddly Dalmatian. (Richard McGuire photo)
Easter Bunny Crystal Zimmerman, 10, of Osoyoos did time in a pillory at Easter Eggstravaganza, but she didn’t seem too upset about it. The pillory belongs to the Desert Park Exhibition Society and was being used to promote the Osoyoos Medieval Faire taking place in May. (Richard McGuire photo)
