About 2,000 people work behind the scenes. In Marion, Ind., a cast of almost 1,000 people will be featured in this year’s Easter pageant, which is to be broadcast around the world by the Armed Services radio network. Officials hoped to control the fire by Sunday afternoon. Sunrise services were scheduled across the nation, including one for hundreds of firefighters battling a blaze that has scorched 7,500 acres in Kisatchie National Forest in west-central Louisiana.
In the excitement the children may forget where they are and climb over a fence into a pen, she said.Įaster finery was being prepared for promanades, parades and Easter bonnet competitions Sunday on New York’s Fifth Avenue, Indianapolis, and the boardwalk in Atlantic City, N.J. ″Easter egg hunts for kids at zoos can be dangerous,″ said Nancy Gholson Miller, a zoo spokeswoman. The Indianapolis Zoo, meanwhile, planned an egg hunt Sunday for baboons. Foti had off- duty deputies hide more than 80,000 boiled eggs and 50,000 candy eggs nestled in baskets made by jail inmates for Saturday’s public hunt in Audubon Park. In more traditional activities, Homer, Ga., population 750, expected 20,000 guests Sunday to hunt for 72,000 hen eggs, 60,000 candy eggs and 100 prize eggs on the 40-acre Garrison family farm, an event billed as the world’s largest Easter egg hunt.Ĭompetition came from New Orleans, where Sheriff Charles C. The rabbits were destined for research, a statement said. In Bloomington, Calif., about 50 rabbits were taken from a breeding farm Saturday, police said, the Animal Liberation Front, which claimed responsibility for the action, said the number was 115. ″The Easter Bunny has vowed to continue collecting hens instead of eggs until all of his hen friends are free from the brutality of factory farming,″ read a message on a videotape of Friday’s raid released by Farm Sanctuary, a national animal rights group based in Rockland, Del. In Milan, Pa., members of a group calling itself the Farm Freedom Fighters dressed in bunny outfits and stole 40 hens from a poultry farm to protest what they called the cruelty of egg production. Undated (AP) _ A New Jersey town held a drive-through depiction of the Easter story Saturday, and Vietnamese-Americans in Mississippi held an observance interweaving ethnic and Christian traditions, while sunrise services and parades were planned for Sunday across the nation.Ī Ukrainian Catholic church in Philadelphia planned to broadcast its Easter Sunday service to the Soviet Union and other Eastern bloc nations via Voice of America to reach those unable to celebrate the holiday.
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