Easter Egg Hunt, Parade Are Saturday
“On your mark, get set, go!”
With those words, Elton Collins, CEO of Community Bank and Trust, will launch the 2008 Commerce Easter Egg Hunt Saturday at about 11 a.m., at the First Baptist Church of Commerce, located at 1345 South Elm Street.
Several hundred children up to age 12 will scramble to find thousands of candy eggs and hundreds of prize eggs — some of which hold gift certificates from local merchants — and within five minutes, every bit of candy and every prize egg will be removed.
But the day’s event starts with a parade that begins at 10:45 at Community Bank & Trust’s drive-through office on North Elm Street. The kids, Easter baskets in hand, will walk or ride bicycles or battery-powered vehicles (no gas-powered vehicles allowed) south to the church. The egg hunt will begin when the last child in the parade has arrived.
Ribbons will be awarded for the children with the best-decorated wagons, bicycles and battery-powered vehicles, but parents who want their children judged for those contests must be at the Community Bank & Trust starting point by 10:00, according to Hasco Craver, executive director of the Commerce Downtown Development Authority.
Children participating in the parade should be accompanied by an adult.
The DDA and the Commerce Area Business Association are co-sponsors of the event, along with the bank.
In the event of rain, the parade and egg hunt will be cancelled.
