Egg hunters fill up baskets

Despite earlier false scheduling-change phone calls, Kathryn Braisted MATAMORAS — Approximately 250 area children scrambled for plastic eggs, had their face painted, spent time with the Easter Bunny or challenged a neighbor to a coloring contest during the first of what is planned as an annual Easter Egg Hunt last weekend. Undeterred by cloudy weather, community members crowded the athletic field on Matamoras’s Avenue H last Saturday for the 1 p.m. event. Easter egg hunters were divided along the field according to age, and were periodically set lose on the dozens of colored eggs filled with chocolates, raffle tickets and other surprises. After the hunt, baskets donated by local businesses, including Pocono Oral Surgery, Sunshine Station, Citizens Bank, Voltron Electric, Heads Up Hair Salon, Foodalicious, and Commissioner Harry Forbes, were raffled off. Other area firms passed out advertising fliers. The day was sponsored by the Matamoras Republican Club and CAAN, the new Pike Citizens Alliance for American Neighborhoods. “We had wanted to schedule the egg hunt because our community has sorely been lacking family-friendly events,” said Lynn Homer, a founder of Pike CAAN and organizer of the Easter egg hunt. Bogus caller told of rescheduling Apart from the menacing weather, Homer says another force attempted to put off the Easter event. “Friday night I received several phone calls from friends who had received phone calls by someone who identified themselves as Lynn Homer. They were advised that the egg hunt was postponed to Sunday,” said Homer. “I had to assure people that the egg hunt was still scheduled on Saturday...” Homer said she did not know who the caller might have been. For more information about the new community group, visit Pike CAAN on the web at www.pikecaan.org.