This weekend will be full of religious, secular and family Easter activities.
Ecumenical Good Friday services will be at First Baptist Church at noon.
On Saturday is the Iola Kiwanis annual Easter egg hunt — wrapped candy will substitute for the real thing — on the Allen County Courthouse lawn. The signal to hunt, in shifts according to age, will sound at noon. If foul weather intervenes, the event will be moved to the Red Barn activities building on the Allen Community College campus.
Participants are warned to get to the hunt on time. In years past, the lawn is scoured of treats in a matter of minutes.
Events at two care homes will be open to the public, Windsor Place, 600 E. Garfield in Iola, and Moran Manor, north edge of Moran along U.S. 54. Windsor residents will hand out treats as children parade past from 10 to 11 a.m. Moran Manor will have a family Easter egg hunt at 11 a.m.
Sophisticated Rose, 19 S. Jefferson Ave., will add to the fun in downtown Iola with what’s billed as an Eggciting Easter Egg-Stravaganza.
From 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. children may have their photographs taken with either of two Easter bunnies, Hoppsie and Loppsie, or a live bunny or baby chick. Children who try on a current spring/summer outfit will receive a free 5-by-7 photo. A special sale also will be part of the event, with savings ranging from 10 to 50 percent.
Easter observances a staple of weekend
