Weather sends Snye Recreation’s Easter Egg Hunt indoors

With unusually cold weather for the month of April putting a damper on outdoor activities, the Snye Recreation’s annual Easter egg hunt was moved indoors this past Sunday and was a success nonetheless.

The event has been held for the past five years and has normally taken place outside with little plastic eggs scattered throughout the lawn for children to run and find. However, the wet lawn and cold air would have made that a muddy, unpleasant experience.

This year, every participant gathered in the gymnasium and large bins of eggs were placed on tables by age category. Participants from infants to elders had a bin to rummage through gathering as fast as they could although it wasn’t a race. In past years, some eggs contained a number letting the participant know they had won a door prize. It wasn’t until after all of this year’s participants had collected all their eggs that organizers said the door prizes would be drawn at random by picking names out of a basket. That method gave many participants the opportunity to win a door prize, as previously children who were faster or who had a bigger basket to hold eggs in had won more than one door prize while others won none.

The Snye Recreation’s Easter Egg Hunt includes all ages of participants, so even parents had the chance to win something, and elders from Iakhihsohtha were brought to the event by bus.

Volunteers at the Snye Recreation spend hours packing hundreds of plastic eggs with candy, and they watched as the participants tore through them excitedly in a matter of minutes.