Candy clean-up on Aisle 3 - Co-op Kids Club Easter Egg Hunt

Co-op Kids Club members line upfor their turn at the Easter Egg HuntT. Lucas photo

Toni Lucas

Members of the Co-op Kids Club had a personal invitation sent to them to join in the third annual Easter Egg Hunt starting at 6:30 pm Wednesday, March 28.   The 88 children  assembled for the event were excited by a surprise visit with Cooper the Co-op mascot in the Ranchland Mall entrance, where registration for the event was set up.

Billie Nickerson meets the newestCo-op customer, Brooke, just 26 hours old
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Kids waiting in the hallway behind the closed grates were thrilled to see the booty through that partition.  They recognized that a part of the bountiful treasure would become theirs soon .

Cooper eggs on the crowd before the gates open
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The children gathered in front of the grocery store, and waited till their age range was called up. That age group were let in to hunt, starting with small toddlers.  Like musical chairs, they could run and hunt from the time the music started, till the music ended.  That group would then leave the store and the next older batch of egg-hunters came through, with Co-op staff reloading the aisles with fresh candy between each group.

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