ABATE Easter Egg Hunt fills Latham Park with families

[April 24, 2022]    On Saturday, April 16, Salt Creek ABATE hosted their annual Easter Egg Hunt.

Families flocked to Latham Park and then lined up at various fields filled with brightly colored plastic eggs.

At 11 a.m. the scrambles began to fill baskets and bags with the eggs chocked full of goodies or containing a special prize tokens to claim one of 10 bicycles or cuddly stuffed animal.

After the eggs were all gone, and the prizes claimed, ABATE members agreed this may have been the best turnout with the most kids yet and plans began on how to make next year's hunt better.. The cool and delightfully spring morning was counted a great success.

There was a steady flow of people at the table with boxes of glazed donuts served free.

The donut station faced the ABATE's banner with the message for every biking season, "Start seeing motorcycles." The motorcycle season increases as the weather warms. Awareness saves lives.

Salt Creek ABATE wanted to thank all the event sponsors.

“A big shout out to all the major sponsors, Harold Rosbaugh and all the Iron workers from the Wind Mill Unions, Gerry Miller Construction (Gerry Miller), Stuffed Aria Pizza (Chad Batson), Picture this photography (Stephen E. Klemm), Lucky Dog Tavern (Holly Maestas), State Farm (Chris Coyne), Agree Farms (John Agee), Ramlow Lawn Service (Tom Ramlow), Nut Hatch Hill BBQ (Jennifer Walton Luckhart), Bradney Lee Luckhart; OK Tavern, Chances R, Sons of Legions, and Stage Coach.”

“A big thanks to Mel-O-Cream Donuts and Top Hat Creamery for providing the refreshments.”

Kids were divided into five age groups with a boys and a girls brand new bicycle complete with helmets given away for each age group.

The goods:
10 total bicycles
10 helmets
5 giant stuffed Easter Bunnies
3,000 stuffed Eggs with candy and Prizes.

The local motorcycle group emphasizes and promotes safety, provides social opportunities, fun runs, collects from its membership all year for community service projects like the egg hunt. Theodore Graff is this year's president. Consult ABATE of Illinois https://www.abate-il.org/ for further information.

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