Egg hunts brighten Easter for children

AUBURN - More than 9,000 multicolored eggs were spread across the lawns of Hoopes Park early Saturday morning

as hundreds of eager children gathered for the annual Owasco-Fleming Kiwanis Easter Egg Hunt.

Willard Schwarting, club president, said that the hunt has been going on for nearly 60 years, while he and his wife, Jean, have been involved for 35.