Hundreds of youngsters plus thousands of eggs equal big Easter event

BREWSTER – Take hundreds of youngsters, stir in more the 2,000 colored eggs, pour them onto a playfield and plug them in. What you get is a mad scramble like the one that unfolded Saturday morning, April 20, in the field across from the Brewster Boys and Girls Club (BBGC).

With help from the Columbia Post 97 American Legion and Hermanos del Arte Masonic Lodge No. 314, the BBGC distributed more than 2,000 colored plastic eggs filled with candy and prizes throughout five taped off quadrants of the playfield north of BBGC headquarters for five age groups ranging from toddlers to 12-year-olds.

Event coordinator Heather Carrington issued instructions through a portable microphone and called the start for each successive age group beginning with the 0-1-year-olds through those 9-12. Thirty special prize eggs entitled the finders to trade them in for special prize buckets.

Following five consecutive swarms of youngsters sweeping the field, it was all over until next year.