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Published on 03/25/1996 All articles from this issue

23rd annual Easter egg hunt set for Saturday in downtown Los Altos

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Town Crier Staff Report

The Los Altos Village Association will sponsor the 23rd annual Easter Egg Hunt & Children's Entertainment from 10 a.m. to noon Saturday in the Community Plaza.Thousands of brightly colored Easter eggs will be hidden in front of stores on Main and State streets awaiting to be found by children aging from toddlers to 10-year olds. All the eggs will be filled with wrapped candies and 2,000 of the eggs will contain slips of paper good for free children's prizes. More than 20 Village Association merchants and Kidstar Radio have included prize slips. The prizes should be redeemed during business hours on March 30.Immediately following the Easter Egg Hunt, the Los Altos Village Association will host children's entertainment in the Community Plaza (corner of State and Main streets in front of Citibank) at l0:15 a.m. Entertainment will include a puppet show, face painting, a jelly belly bean guessing contest, bunny balloon sculptures, Kidstar Radio giveaways and music by the Los Altos High School Pep Band.This year's event will include carrot tasting demonstrations by renown culinary artist Alison Reich. Reich graduated from Ecole de Gastronomie Ritz-Escoffier and also completed an internship at the Michelin two star restaurant, L'Espadon. Currently, Reich is busy behind the scenes working on projects at Draeger's and demonstrating cooking techniques as a representative for the California Milk Advisory Board. Carrot tasting demonstrations will include minted sweet carrots, Moroccan carrots, carrot coins, zesty orange carrots and baked carrots. Packages of carrot seeds will be given to children participating in the promotion sponsored by Draeger's.As in years past, the, 5,000 Easter eggs were hand filled by volunteers at the Senior Center. Student volunteers from the Los Altos and Mountain View high schools will assist with face painting. The Los Altos police dog, Disco, and the Easter bunny will be on hand for the festivities.The event is sponsored by the Los Altos Village Association. For more information, call 949-5282.