5,000 Easter eggs fill Norwich parks
NORWICH - Norwich Fire Department's Volunteer based Maydole Hose Company planted over 5,000 plastic Easter eggs filled with candy in Norwich's parks to ensure the children of Chenango county had an Easter egg hunt to remember.
On Saturday around 8 a.m., members of the Maydole Hose Company met for breakfast and then set out for the City of Norwich’s West and East parks to hide the Easter eggs filled with treats and grand prizes for the children attending the hunt two hours later.
This year's grand prize was a brand new bicycle, and each park had a grand prize egg hidden in it.
To help keep things fair for the youngest children, the event organizers required four-year-old children to start in the West Park at 10 a.m., and five through eight year old children to start in the East Park at 10:15 a.m.
“This is something we really enjoy doing,” said Norwich Fire Department Assistant-Chief and Maydole Hose Company President Patrick Ford, “prior to the Maydole Hose Company resurrecting the Easter egg hunt, Norwich didn’t really have anything like that for families to take part in, and the company really wanted to change that.”
Ford said when he was a child Norwich always held Easter egg hunts, and after getting involved with the Norwich Fire Department and realizing that the tradition had stopped, he enjoyed being able to take part in the change and help create positive memories for the children in his community.
"This year's Easter egg hunt was a success," he said, "the turnout was incredible, and when I said go, we had 2,500 eggs per park that were gone in a matter of two and a half minutes."
He said that the egg hunt wouldn’t have been possible without the community’s support, and urged anyone interested in fighting fires and helping the community in unique ways, to consider going down to the Norwich Fire Department to fill out an application.
On Saturday around 8 a.m., members of the Maydole Hose Company met for breakfast and then set out for the City of Norwich’s West and East parks to hide the Easter eggs filled with treats and grand prizes for the children attending the hunt two hours later.
This year's grand prize was a brand new bicycle, and each park had a grand prize egg hidden in it.
To help keep things fair for the youngest children, the event organizers required four-year-old children to start in the West Park at 10 a.m., and five through eight year old children to start in the East Park at 10:15 a.m.
“This is something we really enjoy doing,” said Norwich Fire Department Assistant-Chief and Maydole Hose Company President Patrick Ford, “prior to the Maydole Hose Company resurrecting the Easter egg hunt, Norwich didn’t really have anything like that for families to take part in, and the company really wanted to change that.”
Ford said when he was a child Norwich always held Easter egg hunts, and after getting involved with the Norwich Fire Department and realizing that the tradition had stopped, he enjoyed being able to take part in the change and help create positive memories for the children in his community.
"This year's Easter egg hunt was a success," he said, "the turnout was incredible, and when I said go, we had 2,500 eggs per park that were gone in a matter of two and a half minutes."
He said that the egg hunt wouldn’t have been possible without the community’s support, and urged anyone interested in fighting fires and helping the community in unique ways, to consider going down to the Norwich Fire Department to fill out an application.
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