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Two Easter Egg hunts planned for LIC Saturday, organizers have 20,000 Easter Eggs

April 14, 2017 By Hannah Wulkan

The Easter Bunny is coming to Long Island City tomorrow.

In an annual tradition, a local community group will host two Easter egg hunts for local kids tomorrow at Gantry Plaza State Park and at Queensbridge Park, inviting families out to not only hunt for eggs, but to enjoy free games, face painting and entertainment.

“It’s really our gift to the community, and a great way to bring everyone together to celebrate springtime and the Easter season,” said organizer Seth Bazacas, the director of the new community center Renew Queens, which is hosting the event.

Over the course of the day, the event will serve about 1,000 to 1,500 kids between the ages of 2 and 10, said Bazacas, adding that the Community Center has stuffed about 20,000 Easter eggs for kids to hunt throughout the day.

The free event will run from 10 a.m. to noon at Gantry Park and from 2 to 3:30 p.m. at Queensbridge Park, and will have live music and games in addition to the Easter Egg Hunt, Bazacas said. He added that the event is run completely by about 100 volunteers that will ensure everything runs smoothly throughout the day.

This is the eighth year the hunt has been held in Gantry Park and the fourth year in Queensbridge Park, but this year for the first time it will be run by the new LIC community center that opened early this year, Renew Queens.

“Renew is brand new, and this is the first big event we will be hosting so we are very excited,” Bazacas said, adding that he hopes to host many more community events in the future.

The event is funded through local businesses and donations to Renew Queens, and Bazacas said that he is always looking to get more community members involved. “We are always looking for ongoing sponsorship and partnership to make more events like this a reality,” he said. “The future and vision for Renew Queens is primarily based on community partnership to help expand programming moving forward.”

For more information and to register for the Easter egg hunt visit http://www.queenseasterfestival.com/.

 

For more information on Renew Queens visit http://www.renewqueens.org/.

 

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Ishy Christine

Quick Observation, looking at some of these events they are quite pricy, i.e. 40 dollars for a scavenger hunt in a church? Granted we have pockets of Western Queens that are very affluent most of our community is working class. If you want to bring the whole community of Western Queens together, wouldn’t you think to make such events economically accessible to all?

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MRLIC

Get your own name. Why STEAL someone else’s and have to be exposed on every post? What happened to this site supposedly adding a password so people can’t POST as others?

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MRLIC

I see THE FAKE MRLIC or a new FAKE MRLIC has appeared again. I did not write the APRIL !4 4:27 pm post on the Easter Eggs.

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MRLIC

Wow these 1-percenters can afford 20 THOUSAND easter eggs. In my day I only got two or three, and they were all gray, we couldn’t afford multi-color. My parents would only hide nickels in them and once I collected all the nickels they put them in a sock with a picture of Bill de Blasio on it and beat me with it.

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