Finders, keepers at the hunt!

March 24, 2008|By JULIE E. GREENE

Ah, let's go to the hunt
Let's go to the hunt, oh baby.
Well, you can rock it, you can roll it
You can bag it, you can hoard it at the hunt.

Hunters at Hagerstown Community College Student Government Association's Easter egg hunt earlier this month were too young to remember Danny & the Juniors, but they still had a hoppin' good time searching for 2,500 candy-filled plastic eggs.

More than 200 children attended the March 8 hunt around the College Center, said Heather Barnhart, HCC's student activities coordinator. For the egg hunt, children were divided into age groups: 2 years old and younger, 3- and 4-year-olds, 5- and 6-year-olds, 7- and 8-year-olds, and 9- to 12-year-olds.

For each age group, a specially marked egg won its finder a grand prize. For ages 2 and younger that was a big stuffed duck. The other grand-prize winners received a large Easter basket containing toys and candy, Barnhart said.

Photos by Colleen Helf/Staff Photographer

Jeff Starliper of Hancock carries 2-year-old son Mason through Hagerstown Community College's College Center after the Easter egg hunt.

Families gather on a rainy Saturday at Hagerstown Community College for an Easter egg hunt put on by the college's Student Government Association on March 8.

Ava Hainline, 2, of Hagerstown, holds her basket of eggs. "(She) didn't know what to make of it at first," said mom Heather Hainline. But with a little coaching, Ava got the hang of her first Easter egg hunt. "She had a great time," Hainline said.

Hagerstown Community College SGA member Kristen Hughes, right, wears bunny ears as she lines up the 7- and 8-year-old group after the end of the Easter egg hunt.

Twenty-three-month-old Abe Jones, the son of David Jones and Karen Coyne of Hagerstown, smiles as the Easter bunny waves at him. Abe was having so much fun at his first Easter egg hunt, his parents had to persuade him to go inside to meet the Easter bunny. "He just wanted to stay outside and run around," David Jones said.

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