This Saturday, April 23rd beginning at 10:30 AM join the fun at Heatherwood Middle
School Football Field for the annual Eggstravaganza Egg Hunt! Presented by the City of Mill Creek Parks and Recreation and sponsored by numerous community event sponsors, this event is *Free for kids – aged 1 year old through fifth grade – accompanied by parents/guardians. [*Please bring a non-perishable food item or a new or gently used clean blanket to donate.]
The Eggstravaganza Egg Hunt will go on rain or shine and will begin at 10:30AM with face-painting and balloon animals. Then at 11:00 1 to 4 year olds will begin their hunt. Kindergarteners through fifth grade children will follow at 11:30. After the hunt there will be music and a special visit from the Easter Bunny! Do tell.
Heatherwood Middle School football field – 1419-Trillium Blvd Mill Creek, WA 98012
A big thank you to all the community event sponsors: Gold Friends of Mill Creek Library, ABBA International, Doggy Haven Resort, Nancy’s Noah’s Ark, Mill Creek Rotary, Windermere-Mill Creek, Central Market, Sullivan Orthodontics, Waste Management. Silver Copiers Etcetera Inc, Frost Doughnuts, Just2Dads Insurance, The Little Gym-Alderwood, The Goddard School, Budget Blinds Mill Creek, Bronze People’s Bank, Donaldson Clinic, Jet City Pizza In-Kind Starbuck’s, Applebee’s, Skyhawk Sports Academy, Mill Creek Living Magazine, The Journey Church, and Canyon Creek Church.
This was the first time I took my girls to this location. It is near our new home and it sounded like a good time for a family. I couldn’t have been more disappointed. Organizers and most of the parents should be ashamed of themselves. This wasn’t an easter egg hunt. This was a shotgun mad scramble for candy. At 11:ooam, the countdown for 3-year-olds began. The ribbon boundary was pulled up by some parents and trampled down by others. My 3 year-old daughter became tangled in the legs by the ribbon. I was shocked to see parents rush the field with their kids. I freed my child from the ribbon and encouraged her to go pick up eggs ALONE with the rest of the seeming hundreds of people in the swell of inhumanity. She was overwhelmed by the number of large adults scrambling for eggs. I even saw parents rushing to pick up eggs for their kids and put them in their baskets. My child did even get a chance to pick up ONE SINGLE EGG. We immediately left in disgust and will never return. I read an article recently about how Easter Egg hunts across the country have been canceled due to hovering and despicable competitiveness of parents. Congrats to you Mill Creek and Co. for you are no different. Parents should have remained on the sidelines and let the kids ONLY participate. Nothing here today resemble the teachings of Jesus Christ and my family is not even religious. This was a lesson in selfishness and next year we’ll return to the Edmonds egg hunt were the adults have class and remain on the sidelines.