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Monday-Tuesday, April 21-22,2014 | Editor: Eli Pace | 270-887-3235 | epace@kentuckynewera.com
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Thirteen-year-old Julie Stagner plays the role of the Easter Bunny at the WHOP’er Egg
Hunt. Stagner posed for photos and spoke with children throughout the event at Tie
Breaker Park.
Brandy
Smiley
points out
eggs to her
sons Xavier,
7, and
Dai’marrius,
8, Saturday
at Pembroke
Baptist
Church.
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| KENTUCKY
NEW ERA
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Chandler Reagan, 22 months, surveys his take at the conclusion of the WHOP’er Egg Hunt on Saturday at Tie Breaker Park. Chandler
was among hundreds of children who participated in the egg hunt.
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Jakassidy Anderson (above, left), 6, picks up an egg hidden in the tall grass Saturday at Pembroke Baptist Church. Nyleeoma Jackson
(right), 7, Daeshia Burse, 11, and Anderson, race in the bunny hop sack race (above, right)before the church’s egg hunt.
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Parents and children scramble around the baseball field looking for brightly colored
plastic Easter eggs Saturday during the WHOP “Lite 98.7” WHOP’er Egg Hunt event at Tie
Breaker Park.
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Children in kindergarten through second grade race around the yard behind Pembroke Baptist Church during Saturday’s Easter egg
hunt. More than 50 children came out for the hunt and the church hid about 2,500 eggs around the grounds.
Kerry Lindsey helps his
daughter, Paxton, 1, find
eggs hidden around the
playground Saturday at
Pembroke Baptist Church.
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Children in the youngest age group, walking to 2 years old, collect Easter eggs at the
WHOP “Lite 98.7” WHOP’er Egg Hunt. It took the children about five minutes to clear one
of the baseball fields of hundreds of plastic Easter eggs Saturday at Tie-Breaker park.
Boys, girls hunt Easter eggs with Kings and Queens
BY ZIRCONIA ALLEYNE
NEW ERA COMMUNITY WRITER
ZIRCONIA ALLEYNE | KENTUCKY NEW ERA
Nyla Croney, 2, Hopkinsville, runs with her eggs Saturday after the Kings
and Queens Motorcycle Club Easter egg hunt.
More than 2,000 eggs were laid in the football field of
the Boys and Girls Club and in a matter of minutes they
were collected and hatched — well, opened — by children eager to see what was inside.
The Kings and Queens Motorcycle Club hosted its
third annual Easter egg hunt Saturday morning for
nearly 200 neighborhood youngsters.
Nyla Croney, 2, Hopkinsville, had a bag full of candyfilled eggs and happily pranced around the field as she
opened each one. Her dad, Tim Croney, followed close behind in case she needed help getting to her treats.
“I’m glad the Kings and Queens do this each year,” he
said. “It makes people think motorcycle clubs aren’t
bad.”
Information officer Bettye McGowan said the turnout
was a little smaller than last year, estimating they had
about 200 children come out. But, McGowan said she
could tell everyone enjoyed themselves.
“The kids had fun and that’s all that matters.”
Aside from the stuffed eggs, the motorcycle club raffled off four bicycles.
Aniyah Welch and Jaquavis Pryor, both 7 years old and
of Hopkinsville, won bikes in the girls and boys ages 6-12
category. Pryor couldn’t wait to ride his new bike.
Takeeyah Palmer, 5, Hopkinsville, and Brayden Knight,
19 months, Louisville, won the girl and boy bikes for ages
6 and younger.
Knight’s mother, Teketria Joiner, said she was going to
get him training wheels for it.
“This was his first Easter egg hunt, but he did good,”
she said. “I thought he was going to cry, but he went right
out there picking them up. He just wanted to open them
and eat them as he found them.”
REACH ZIRCONIA ALLEYNE at 270-887-3243 or zalleyne@kentuckynewera.com.