Volume 27, Number 15
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Friday, April 9, 2021
Easter egg hunt a breath of fresh air for young and old By Bronwyn Commins Special to Town Times
The look was a bit different, but the feeling was the same. The Easter Bunny. Children and parents eager to run across the grass at Allyn Brook Park on a cool April morning in search of treasure.
It’s Giving Garden time The start date for the Middlefield-Durham Giving Garden is Saturday, April 17. Weather permitting, volunteers will prepare the beds and plant cool weather crops: peas, kale, chard, radishes and spinach. Work will take place from 9 a.m. to noon. The Giving Garden is located behind the comin the garden will continue munity center on Main weekly every Saturday and Street. Wednesday from 9 a.m. to noon. We hope to see “New projects this year many familiar faces and will be a cut flower bed welcome anyone interestand tomato trellises. We ed in volunteering and are excited to develop learning more about garand experiment with dening.” growing tomatoes eight feet off the ground! Last Last summer, 1,197 year we harvested 365 pounds of organic propounds of tomatoes. duce grown in the Giving Hopefully this new Garden was distributed method will produce 500 pounds or more,” a Giving through Durham and Middlefield Social Services Garden press release and senior centers and states. Mauro Meadow and Sugarloaf Housing, with over“The Girl Scouts will be back with us this year and flows going to Middletown’s Amazing Grace will help maintain and distribute flowers from the Food Pantry and soup kitchen. new cut flower bed. Work
Enveloped by the safety of open air and planners who had the wisdom to make sure that pre-registration was part of the plan, children, tightly grasping the baskets they brought for the occasion, were able to seek out eggs, and their parents were Prized golden eggs soon to be hidden at Allyn Brook Park. able to find themselves embracing the same traditions that shaped their own child- was the same: community and celebration. An open hoods. arm embrace of warm Parents Jon and Linsdey say weather and mornings unentheir motivation was in cumbered by gloves and mitrecreating an experience tens. they had as children. UnThroughout the morning, doubtedly, they echoed the those lucky enough to find a thoughts of the many pargolden egg exchanged their ents encouraging a photo session with the Easter Bun- find for a stuffed bunny or ny, or the search for a bright- pig, but the real prize was for anyone who attended. Each ly colored egg. left with the memory of Such comfort. Tradition pol- standing on the edge of a ka-dotted with memories of field scattered with color, untethered runs near a pavil- welcoming a day imbued ion and a small stream. with hues so vivid and potent that the grayness of the Yes, the eggs were plastic this year (except for the gold- past year could almost be forgotten. en ones of course), and yes, anyone over a certain age wore a mask, but the feeling See Easter, A20 A special visitor.
Memorial Day Parade called off For the second straight year Durham’s Memorial Day Parade has been cancelled due to COVID-19. However, a Memorial Day service will be held on the Town Green Monday, May 31 at 10 a.m. Further details will be published approximately two weeks
prior to Memorial Day, a holiday honoring the men and women who died while serving in the U.S. military. Questions regarding the parade cancellation or the service can be directed to parade chairman Bob Francis: 610295-3904, rfranwp80@yahoo.com.