7th annual Wick Park egg hunt, breakfast provides hours of family fun today

YOUNGSTOWN

It’s probably not surprising that given this year’s mild winter and early advent of spring, Wick Park has become a bit more colorful than is typical for mid-March.

But light blue, pink, purple and yellow?

Enhancing the large urban park’s increasingly noticeable hues of scattered green – not to mention a sense of overall excitement in the air – were thousands of plastic Easter eggs strewn about, as well as children of all ages who fanned out and collected as many as they could get their hands on.

That was the main theme that played out several times during Saturday’s seventh annual Easter egg hunt and pancake breakfast at Wick Park Recreation Center, 260 Park Ave., on the city’s North Side.

Hosting the three-hour funfest for youngsters and adults were the Wick Park Neighborhood Association, Ursuline High School, Youngstown Rotary and Youngstown State University’s chapter of Sigma Tau Gamma, about 30 members of which passed out prizes and picked up litter.

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