The Salem Lions Club plans to add more prizes to this year’s Easter Egg Hunt on Sunday in Bryan Memorial Park as the event celebrates its 90th year. The event is set to begin at two near the Bryan Park Band Stage.
Lion Leon Chapman has been involved in the Easter Egg hunt on and off for the past 50 years and is chairing this year’s event.
“This year we’re doing some special new things because of it being our 90th year of having the egg hunt,” Chapman said. “We’re going to have 90 prizes for the total three age groups. We will have six bicycles total to give away, and also this year, there will be $90 in cash in each of the three age categories, so some lucky kids are going to be finding eggs with $10 bills in them.”
The age brackets are two to four, five to seven and eight to ten years old.
Chapman says there have been a number of changes in the eggs hunted over the years.
“I’ve worked on it for the past 45 to 50 years, and I can remember originally, we used to actually hand color all the eggs out at Holsapple Motors. We’d have big vats and hand color real eggs, and we used to stuff marshmallow hard eggs in plastic bags to give out. Of course, those are both things of the past now.”
Chapman thanks the Residents of High Point adult living for once again stuffing the eggs with candy and prizes for the event. You are asked not to arrive at Bryan Memorial Park until 1:30 on Sunday to give the Easter Bunny time to hide the eggs.
