The 33rd Annual Fishers Station Kiwanis Club Easter Egg hunt will take place April 19 at Holland Park. The hunt is for all children in the second grade and younger. The event will begin promptly at 1:15 p.m., when the children take off to find the fifteen thousand scattered eggs hidden in the park. Rick Fain, Fishers Station Kiwanis Club president, is overseeing the event and encourages all attending to be on time. “Especially for the older kids, it only lasts about five minutes, you want to get there early,” he said. Prior to the hunt, pictures with the Easter Bunny will begin at noon; parents and hunters are expected to bring their own cameras if they wish to take a picture with the bunny.
Fain and his team expect roughly two thousand people to attend this year. The event relies heavily on volunteers, which include the Key Clubs of Hamilton Southeastern and Fishers High School, along with 4-H members of Hamilton County. In preparation the volunteers will meet two times to stuff all the eggs before the big day when the students will hide the eggs and corral the hunters to their specific age groups. In addition to the Easter Bunny and the hunt, the Kiwanis Club will be conducting a food drive as they have done in the past. “I’d like for it to be more. We have a great big bin,” Fain said. “I’d like for people to start making this an opportunity to donate to the local food pantries.” The Kiwanis Club is happy to be back at Holland Park. Last year the hunt was relocated to Billericay Park due to construction. “Being that it is late in the season there is a chance it will be warmer,” Fain said.
The Kiwanis Club will award special prizes to the winners of each age group at the end of the Easter Egg hunt. For more information on the event, or the Fishers Station Kiwanis Club. you can email Fain at [email protected] or visit the Club’s website at www.Fisherskiwanis.org.
