EGG - DASH
Tue, 2016-03-22 05:00
News Staff
Hundreds attend annual Easter Egg Roundup
By BRITTANY FHOLER
Cove Leader-Press
Parents pointed out all the eggs scattered on the field to their kids as the Easter Bunny and Cow from Chick-Fil-A wandered through the crowd Saturday morning at Copperas Cove City Park.
“Look at all the eggs! Can you count them?” Nicole Holt asker her son Liam, 2, before the Easter Egg Roundup started. This was the first time for the Holts who said they thought it was fun.
“1…2…3!!” he said.
There were 15,000 eggs altogether, divided among four age groups on three of the baseball fields: 0 to 3 on Field 1, 4 to 6 on Field 2, 7 to 9 on Field 3 and 10 to 12 back on Field 1, according to Nic Cantrell, Parks and Recreation Superintendent. He estimated that there were 500-600 people in attendance and thought that there could have been up to 900 had the weather been nicer instead of the chilly 43 degrees on Saturday morning.