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Zilch. Every. Dang. Year. We’ve entered the White House Easter Egg Roll lottery for years now, hoping each time that we would be one of 35,000 families lucky enough to get tickets to play on the South Lawn, to post those glorious Facebook pictures in front of the South Portico.

Having returned from their Cuban holidayand their Argentinian dancing with the stars road tripWhiskey! Tango! Foxtrot!the Wons arrived home in time for Big Guy to hit his annual Holy Saturday round of golf. They also got home in time to attend the bi-annual Easter church service and sing-along. Although I think that may have been just a rumor started by the media as the only picture produced - in People magazine…- is actually from 2014; trust me on this, your mirror never forgets an image. Butt what’s one more little white lie when nobody cares?Obamas go to church on Easter,...

PEZ Candy abruptly canceled its third annual Easter egg hunt Saturday after parents stormed the field in Connecticut, according to a company news release. Children as young as 4 were pushed aside by parents eager to grab as many of the 9,000 eggs hidden in three fields. It was originally advertised to be three separate events, to be broken up by age groups, beginning at 10:30 a.m., before a visit from the Easter Bunny, according to the PEZ Company. Instead of waiting for their designated time, people chose to enter the first field before anyone from PEZ starting the event,...

SIERRA VISTA — Parents and families with young children are invited to the Mall at Sierra Vista Saturday morning to hunt for some of the 10,000 eggs filled with candy and prizes. “I can’t find them all by myself,” said Ken James, who coordinates Sierra Vista Leisure and Library Services’s annual Easter Eggstravaganza. He recommends parents bring an Easter basket or something to carry the prizes and treats offered at free carnival games and Easter egg hunts, which start at 9 a.m. “Otherwise mom and dad’s hands get full real quick,” James said. In its third year at the mall,...

MEMPHIS, April 9 (UPI) -- Memphis police said an Easter egg hunt ended with a brawl between two families and a woman's arrest for taking a hammer to a man's head. Police said the man argued with Annette Pearson, 43, Sunday because he thought she was giving the children too much help finding the grand prize golden egg containing $7, The Memphis Commercial Appeal reported Monday. The families broke into violence after the man slapped the woman twice and police said Pearson retrieved a claw hammer from her house and struck the man in the head, leaving a wound that...

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - A free annual Easter egg hunt held in Old Colorado City was canceled because "aggressive" parents were grabbing too many eggs for their children. Thousands of candy-filled plastic eggs are scattered across Bancroft Park every year for children to find and collect, KXRM reported. But organizers said some parents were too aggressive and took too many of the eggs, leaving some children empty-handed.

It's time to hunt for some eggs in Heather Farm Park. The newly retooled Walnut Creek Youth Council, now operating as the Rotary Sunrise Interact/Youth Council, will hold an Eggstravaganza Hunt . . . The spring bunny will be available for photos...

4/9: Cluster Bomb, WMD&bin Laden Hunt outside White House's Easter Egg Roll -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Reply to: event-294810909@craigslist.org Date: 2007-03-15, 11:47PM EDT We're doing a new kind of demonstration outside the White House to bring attention to the civilian costs of war and cooked "intelligence" as an excuse to bomb and invade. It's called a Cluster Bomb and WMD/bin Laden Hunt and it will take place April 9 outside the White House Easter Monday when the White House is doing their Easter Egg Hunt. We expect 40,000 people to be crossing Lafayette Square and dozens of media. It's very family-orientated and designed...

Clifford the Big Red Dog and Sesame Street's Cookie Monster will provide the Bush administration's first line of defence as the White House Easter Egg Roll is flooded by hundreds of protesting homosexual parents. Faced with the prospect of the 128-year-old tradition being hijacked by gay pride advocates, aides to President George W Bush have carefully scripted the event to limit the political damage. Homosexual parents seeking public acceptance of their families have already secured many of the 15,000 tickets available to the public. But it was clear yesterday that protesters would be kept far away from the First Lady,...

Easter after fire Sunday-school children had to hunt Easter eggs indoors this year. By KAREN MULLER Daily Record/Sunday News Monday, March 28, 2005 The area surrounding the burned sanctuary at Fawn United Methodist Church in Fawn Grove was fenced off Sunday. Investigators said the church fire on March 3 was arson. Easter services were held in the fellowship hall. bigger version Lisa Cooper wanted to make Easter special for the first- through third-graders in her Sunday-school class at Fawn United Methodist Church. So she joined in the games and shared some Easter treats. And she laughed when she didn't win...

CONCORD (AP) - For the second year, Gov. Craig Benson has canceled a New Hampshire tradition: the Easter egg hunt at Bridges House, the governor’s official state residence. This year, though, he’s sponsoring a substitute: a virtual Easter egg hunt. During Benson’s hunt, children will be able to log onto the New Hampshire Web site and browse pages of legislation, court rulings and Executive Council biographies to find Benson’s hidden virtual eggs. Children who discover the special golden egg could receive a signed letter from the governor. “The virtual egg hunt will teach our children about New Hampshire and its...