Sun comes out for egg hunt
Jett Dowling, left, of Dresden bites a plastic egg as he and his twin brother Jaxx Dowling and cousin Danielle Kotow go over the eggs the boys collected March 26 at Wiscasset’s Easter egg hunt. SUSAN JOHNS/Wiscasset Newspaper
Jeanne Hoxie of Hallowell with sons James, 2, and Eli, 10, take part in Saturday’s hunt. SUSAN JOHNS/Wiscasset Newspaper
The Easter Bunny tries to answer a question from Wiscasset’s C.J. Marcoux during the hunt. SUSAN JOHNS/Wiscasset Newspaper
Jett Dowling, left, of Dresden bites a plastic egg as he and his twin brother Jaxx Dowling and cousin Danielle Kotow go over the eggs the boys collected March 26 at Wiscasset’s Easter egg hunt. SUSAN JOHNS/Wiscasset Newspaper
Jeanne Hoxie of Hallowell with sons James, 2, and Eli, 10, take part in Saturday’s hunt. SUSAN JOHNS/Wiscasset Newspaper
The Easter Bunny tries to answer a question from Wiscasset’s C.J. Marcoux during the hunt. SUSAN JOHNS/Wiscasset Newspaper
The last time Dresden twins Jaxx and Jett Dowling hunted for Easter eggs in Wiscasset, the brothers were 1 and got one egg apiece, their mother Taylor Alley recalled.
On Saturday, they were back at the hunt, on what is now the Wiscasset Middle High School track. Alley estimated the two got 20 eggs each.
“This time, we got success.”
Besides the eggs, it was another Easter memory made, she said.
The boys, who turn 5 in May, occasionally bit at the pastel-colored, plastic eggs before opening them and showing family members the gum, rings, candy and erasers they found inside.
“A frog,” Jett Dowling, toy in hand, announced to cousin Danielle Kotow, another of Alley’s several family members who joined in the fun Saturday.
Jaxx Dowling said his favorite part of the event was the Easter Bunny. His brother liked the eggs best.
Wiscasset Parks and Recreation’s facility and programs manager Bob MacDonald moved about with a bullhorn, encouraging the participants; they had bags and baskets and either held an adult’s hand or ran back to their adult then headed off for more of the 6,000-plus eggs. Those who found one of 24 sparkled eggs met up with organizers for a stuffed animal prize. They’re bunnies, MacDonald said as he held up one that sported a football and was still up for grabs in the waning moments of the hunt.
The event filled the school’s parking lot.
MacDonald said it looked like the turnout may have surpassed last year’s count of 177 participants. “We had a wonderful time,” he said as Wiscasset’s Easter Bunny, silent as always, gave a thumbs up in agreement.
The sky changed on the gray morning shortly before the event. “I called it,” MacDonald said about predicting sun. “And it was the weirdest thing, it wasn’t five minutes and then the sun came out. The Easter Bunny came through,” he added.
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