Thousands enjoy Boardman Park's Eggstravaganza today

BOARDMAN

It was a picture-perfect scene.

Multi-colored eggs glistening in the sun, children gleaming with excitement like it was Christmas morning, and mud. Lots of mud.

But the mud didn’t stop thousands of youngsters from diving in on 50,000 Easter eggs filled with joy and candy. In the end, some of them walked away with heaps of eggs, and others a few. But all of them — with mud-caked shoes — feasted on the spirit of spring at the Boardman Park Eggstravaganza sponsored by Greater Life Church of Boardman Saturday afternoon.

“It’s a great opportunity to celebrate the spring season and to enjoy the green oasis [Boardman Park] as a community,” said Karen McCallum, the park’s recreation/outdoor education specialist.

This was the first time the park joined with Greater Life Church to put on the egg hunt. In the past, both entities had separate egg hunts and decided to combine for an even larger event with an expected 3,000 guests, inflatable slides and rides, games and live music, in addition to the hunt.

The event is starting to become one of the largest, and some 90 church and park volunteers were there to help.

Four separate egg fields were set up for different age groups between infant to 12.

Read more about the event in Sunday's Vindicator or on Vindy.com.