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| The "Cunningham Crew": Noelle (2), Jade (6), Gavvin (6), Preston (4) McKenna (5) and Jordan (10) are the grandchildren of Deputy Prothonotary Marie Cunningham |
In addition to candy, kids were treated to pony rides. Dana McCloskey, age 7, is saddled atop Flash, age 6.
Bethlehem DCED Director Joe Kelly, along with wife Amy, brought his twin daughters Beatrice and Abigail to pick up some pointers on egg hunting techniques.
No Easter Egg hunt would be complete without an appearance from the Easter Bunny who was seen with 6-month old Aliyah and her foster mother.
These kids are happy with their catch.
17 comments:
Money well spent by NORCO council.
Waste of taxpayers $$. If the Norco deputies wanted to foster good will with the public they would have paid for it themselves. But they are too busy filing grievances.
Oh man. Are u serious?? Waste of money as something good for our kids? No u are a waste on space in both reality as well as on here.
Whoever posted that was looking for exactly the kind of rise you just gave. We all know this is a good thing, and though I am highly critical of the deputy union, this is one of the nicest things they do. They volunteer a lot of their own time, and the smiles on kids' faces tell me a lot more than some troll's comment.
I cannot believe that taxpayers money was given in furtherance of, promotion of, endorsing or in concurrence of, a religious point of view. "We all know this is a good thing", I guess, as long as you are a christian. But, if you are not a christian, you are lambasted for speaking up against the use of public funding for christian events. I find the principle of the separation of church and state does not apply in the County of Northampton. In your words, BO, I guess non-christians are trolls, when they speak against the misuse of public funding. If the deputies wish to expend their own money, well good for them. I'm sure the children deserve the outing. I'm just opposed to public revenue for religious purposes. And if this makes me a troll, so be it. If public money was spent the furtherance of Shinto or Taoism, I would say the same.
You must be a troll bc you are equating an Easter Egg hunt and pony rides with a religious point of view. Since when does the frickin' Easter bunny or Easter eggs have anything to do with any specific religion? Your complaint is pure nonsense, and if you have anything between your ears, you should know that. This custom has its roots in pagan fertility rites that come with every Spring, but it has long ago lost that meaning and it is now simply an annual tradition. Your attempt to equate it with Christianity is sheer idiocy.
Yes, by all means, if you can't have a cordial discussion on the matter, then denegrate the one that opposes your view. Call me a troll, say I don't have anything between my ears and say my point of view is idiocy.
I, however, will try to be civil in this discourse.
Then why call the event an "Easter" egg hunt? This custom rewards children for believing in a christian viewpoint. I'm not opposed to the event, but I am opposed to taxpayers dollars which were expended for the event. If you don't understand that, then my argument is lost on you.
First, you try to claim that this promotes a religious point of view. When it is clearly established that you have no idea what you are talking about and there really is nothing between your ears, you complain about the name.
It is a tradition that has nothing to do with Easter except that it is conducted around the same time. It could just as easily be called a Spring Egg Hunt or a Passover Egg hunt. Your attempt to inject religion into this is absurd on its face. It does not reward children for believing in a Christian viewpoint. And it is Christian, not christian.
Nothing about this hunt has a damn thing to do with the resurrection of Jesus Christ. in fact, many Christian denominations condemn this tradition for that very reason.
I gave you the benefit of the doubt when I called you a troll. Let me amend that. You are an ignorant troll.
You are complainging the sheriffs don't have the money to do a good job on gun permits but spend it on eggs and ponies? By the way, nice promo for the next County Director of Administration. Anther new IPad for you Bernie.
So will Lamont McClure, Glenn Reibman or John Brown do away with the annual Easter Egg hunt on the basis that it is too Christian? Please tell me. Let's hear it.
The $800 spent for this came from the Council's budget, not the Sheriff's. They donated their own time and energy to make this happen, and i find it incredible that some asshole would complain.
And yes, Joe Kelly was there His mother-in-law works in Revenue. Do you want to slam his twin daughters, too?
Bwrni jusst tok myy drugh coktale and it feewlz fanttastic!
I will delete all additional nonsensical claims that an Easter Egg hunt is an endorsement of a specific religion.
anon 8:09, is really Mr. Ass!
Where are the black and latino kids? Don't they get to celebrate Easter also? Guess they couldn't ante up the bus fare to suburbia.
I didn't stop to count them. There were lots of kids of all ethnicities at this event, and pictures of them are on my F/B page.
OK..it's just that the pictures here are all of white kids.
The foster mom holding the infant is Hispanic, as is her husband. There certainly was a preponderance of white children, but there was a wide variety of ethnicities on hand.
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