Wick Park aburst with color for first egg hunt

YOUNGSTOWN

The last several days of unseasonably warm weather has brought an array of colors to Wick Park, but grass that was dotted with orange, purple and blue?

Well, the hundreds of Easter eggs spread throughout much of the North Side park had a lot to do with that.

It didn’t take long, though, before 2-year-old Michaela Moran of Youngstown did her part to make them more scarce.

Michaela was one of an estimated 150 children age 1 to 10 who participated in Saturday’s first Wick Park Neighborhood Association’s Easter egg hunt. Sponsors were city Councilman Jamael Tito Brown, D-3rd, and Councilwoman Annie Gillam, D-2nd.

Michaela, who bagged 27 eggs, came with her grandmother, Hope Moran of West Middlesex, Pa., whose ties to Youngstown remain strong.

“I came because I love Youngstown,” said Moran, a massage therapist. “I like to support anything going on in Youngstown.”

She has many clients in the area, she noted, and attends the nearby Unitarian Universalist Church, on Elm Street.

Four-year-old Nicholas Foster didn’t do too badly, either.

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