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By Leah Sander
InkFreeNews

SILVER LAKE — Dave Spangle started an Easter egg hunt in Silver Lake 40 years ago shortly before his daughter, Melissa Fleming, was born.

Now Fleming helps her dad with that same event put on by the Silver Lake Lions Club.

Kids ages 0-sixth grade took part in the club’s hunt on Saturday morning, April 12, at the site of the former Silver Lake school.

Fleming said helpers hid “between 3,000 and 4,000 eggs roughly.”

Oaklyn Miller looks up during the Silver Lake Lions Club’s Easter egg hunt at the former Silver Lake school grounds on Saturday, April 12. The club hid several thousand eggs for kids to find.

Along with the traditional candy-filled eggs, kids also could seek special gold and silver eggs. If they were lucky to find the eggs, younger kids got stuffed animals and premade baskets filled with toys. Older children received money for locating the special eggs.

Fleming noted local businesses donated gift cards for the event, with The Igloo Ice Cream Shop having gift certificates hidden in special ice cream cone-shaped eggs at the grounds.

“My dad started it for me, because I was going to be born, and I’ve been to pretty much all of them,” said Fleming of the hunt.

“It’s just something for the community,” she added of why the club continues to have the event. “Growing up here, we didn’t have a lot (of events in town), and it’s pretty far to go to the other hunts.”