Mark your calendar. It’s just about time for parents and children to get ready for the Noblesville Parks Dept.’s annual free Easter Egg Hunt, to be marked by a visit from the Easter Bunny. This year’s event is scheduled for March 23. A host of activities is planned for the kids at this feel-good community event, which gets under way at 10 a.m. In addition, the Noblesville Sunrisers Kiwanians will play host to a pancake breakfast, whose proceeds will go to Riley Hospital for Children ($5 per person between 8 a.m. and 10:30 a.m.) Among the attractions of the day: a bounce house and a deejay. If Mother Nature cooperates, the Forest Park Carousel will be in operation, with rides costing just $2. The Noblesville Fire Dept. will have one of its fire trucks on display, and its firefighters will be distributing child DNA kits. For more information, contact the parks office at 776-6350.
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Quick! Name the nation’s second-largest U.S. employer behind Walmart. If you chose the United States Postal Service, you’re on the money. Some in Congress, such as Sen. Jerry Moran (R-Kansas), want Saturday delivery, a possibility for the chopping block, maintained. Bad idea. Since Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe is stuck with a 2006 law Congress passed during the Bush II administration, he is in the middle of pre-paying, across 10 years, 75 years’ worth of anticipated retiree health benefits. With handcuffs on. Granted the union environment often is counterproductive to customer service and the chance at longevity for the USPS, but the Republicans of the last decade foisted this upon all of us. We’ve taken our share of shots at the shoddy business practices at the USPS, but that with which Donahoe has been encumbered defies logic, just as Moran’s demand to retain Saturday delivery in the face of mounting deficits does.
