Eggs

Last Friday, Sept. 29, Lincoln Elementary School held "The Second Annual Lincoln Camp Out and Egg Drop." This annual celebration consists of students, their families and faculty having a barbecue and camping out overnight on the blacktop of their school playground. This was the first year Bill Card has attended the event as the new Lincoln principal. "[This event is] a great get together for staff to get closer with the families," said Card. "How many events do you get to spend overnight time together?"

Gary Moskowitz GLENDALE -- Lisa Gladstone's students have been learning how to protect a free-falling egg with basic supplies like paper and straws. Gladstone, a physical science teacher at Wilson Middle School, will take 15 of her seventh- and eighth-grade students to a state Science Olympiad competition Saturday at Cal StateLong Beach. Gladstone's students will have to show proficiency and knowledge of things like small rockets, "battery buggies," small airplanes, bridges, tectonic plates, water pollutants and volcanic activity.

Two Strike Memorial Park in La Crescenta is hosting an Easter egg hunt tomorrow, Saturday, April 7 from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. Children from ages 2 to 12 years are invited to bring their Easter baskets to the park and plan to hunt for delicious treats. Parents are reminded to bring a camera as there will be a special visit from the Easter Bunny. Two Strike Memorial Park is located at 5107 Rosemont Ave. in La Crescenta. This event is part of festivities presented by the Los Angeles County Department of Parks and Recreation, North County Community Services Agency.

Children dressed in their Sunday best romped around the courtyard of St. Mark's Episcopal Church looking for Easter eggs to put in their baskets. The egg hunters collected plastic Easter eggs filled with candy and stickers. Wearing a pastel floral dress, Maya Calvo, 6, ran from one end of the grass to the next looking for eggs. She piled one egg on top another until there was no more room left in her basket. Her mother, Lara, saw her daughter's egg collection and called out to her. "That's way too many, Maya," Calvo said.

From far away, it seemed that a tiny village had taken refuge inside of Lincoln Elementary School Friday, setting up tents and having dinner in an oasis amid the surrounding residential community. But actually the commotion was the school's second-annual Family Camp and Egg Drop — an event where families and staff alike came together for a night of fun and camping. Nearly 300 Lincoln students, parents and teachers got together under the shroud of darkness to celebrate.

La Crescenta children who want to get a head start on Easter egg hunts can visit two area parks. The Los Angeles County Department of Parks and Recreation will have an Easter Egg Hunt from 10 a.m. to noon April 15 at Crescenta Valley Park. CV Park is at 3901 Dunsmore Ave. in La Crescenta. Later that day, the Department will host another Easter Egg Hunt at Two-Strike Park. This event will be from 2 to 4 p.m. at Two-Strike, at 5107 Rosemont Ave. in La Crescenta. The events will be for children ages 2 to 12. It will give children the opportunity to hunt for eggs, win prizes and visit the Easter Bunny.

Ryan Carter Uncle Eddie and the kids are doing pretty well these days, without dairy and honey but with "pure love." Otherwise known as the Jacobs family, Glendale resident Edward Jacobs, his wife Rhoda and their grown children work from their modest baking factory on the western fringe of Glendale to create what they hope will be a vegetarian delight that appeals to vegans and carnivores alike. In 20 years, a failed cookie store in Westwood and his son Robbie's commitment to eating no animal products evolved into "Uncle Eddies Vegan Cookies."

We agree with the op-ed written by Garry E. Ackerman in the News-Press on Sunday titled “Float association has had enough.” This hard working, loyal and dedicated group has had nothing but verbal abuse and smear tactics plumbed against it for the past six months. For what? Well, its members had the audacity to select an animal that looked like Dumbo the elephant with a happy smile. This long-standing volunteer group has devoted time, energy and money to Glendale's Rose Parade float.

Easter Weekend at Descanso Gardens will be filled with laughing children hunting for eggs and happy families enjoying sumptuous brunches and spring flowers. The annual Easter Saturday Egg Hunt, April 7, will find children, armed with baskets and high expectations, joining one of seven hunts throughout the day. Families will want to arrive early to get the first-come, first-served basket-tickets for the hunt time of their choice. Each basket costs only $4, they are not available until that morning and demand is high.

More than a dozen children gathered Sunday around the Rev. Anne Cohen at First Congregational Church-United Church of Christ for a quick lesson about the Easter egg. As Christians who believe Jesus Christ emerged from a tomb resurrected three days after being crucified, the egg too symbolizes the emergence of new life. It was a story of particular significance at a time when households throughout the region grapple with the worst recession in decades. In what is typically the most jubilant Christian holiday, congregants across the city Sunday came away with messages of hope that they would emerge from the financial hardships stronger and better.