Welridge Residents Association host fantastical family Easter egg hunt
Combined efforts of committee, volunteers and security companies make it a yearly highlight on the calendar.
A week after schedule, the Easter Bunny made a special stop for the Welridge Residents Association (WRA).
Originally scheduled for Easter Monday, WRA treated young and younger to their annual Easter Egg Hunt on Sunday, April 24. Happy to oblige, the Easter Bunny provided a table full of chocolate-filled joy for the eager egg adventurers who scoured the banks of the stream running through the Rooihout Avenue Park looking for tasty treasures.
With the help of volunteers, almost 600 collectable cut-out trinkets were scattered along the riverbank. Children waited in anticipation at the start line before Sarah McGregor cut the ribbon to release the hunters down the slope. Children went in two batches – little ones under five went first before the older of the children had to fight for the less obviously hidden tokens.
Each child needed to find five of the bunny or egg shaped cut-outs and return them to the awards table where they were presented with their eggs. An extra stipulation to collecting the prize was a sincere please and thank you from the youngsters before they ran off with their bounty. To cap off the morning, special chocolate bunny prizes were awarded and a raffled prize of a buffet lunch for two at Glenburn Lodge was given out, happily taken home by Charmaine Mawela.
The morning was made possible by the combined efforts of the committee and the dedicated members of WRA. Keeping the park in pristine family-friendly condition is a full-time task made possible by multiple-entity collaboration.
Emphasising the point, Chairlady Audrey Vrachionidis said, “The greater our membership in numbers, the greater our success will be in combating crime. More eyes and ears equal greater network in seeing and reporting suspicious activity before it translates into a preventable crime stat.”
