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Derby attracts youth anglers

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Taking in refugees

Annual ice fishing contest held

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Indian Lake ready to go green next weekend

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Maple Weekends sweeten up area Minerva event planned

Out on a limb

Films, food and fun on deck for St. Patrick’s Day celebrations By Christina Scanlon

christina@suncommunitynews.com

INDIAN LAKE — Get ready to be Irish for a weekend. Whether it’s your heritage or not, all are welcome for Indian Lake’s St. Patrick’s Weekend Celebration. It’s the 11th year for the event, which kicks off Friday, March 18 with an afternoon parade. Parents as Reading Partners will be the focus of this year’s parade, with students for Indian Lake Central School participating. All kids are welcome to join the parade. Friday evening, a volleyball tournament at the Indian Lake Central School Gymnasium will be held. Attendees are encouraged to form a team of eight players to compete or just come out and cheer on your friends and neighbors. Participation is $2 per person or $16 per team. For those not competing, there’s $1 admission charge. Proceeds from this event will benefit Community Action and the local food bank. Saturday’s events include the always-popular Irish Road Bowling. Registration and check-in will be at the town hall starting from noon to 12:45 p.m. Play starts at 1 p.m. This four-member team competition will have four categories this year: men’s, women’s and mixed teams must be comprised of adults over the age of 16. Family teams must consist of four, with no more than three children under the age of 16 and at least one adult over the age of 18. The members must be immediate family. Pre-registration forms are available at the town hall. This year’s course has yet to be determined. >> See St. Patrick’s | pg. 7

On the hunt for Easter eggs Long-running holiday event slated for March 19 By Christina Scanlon

christina@suncommunitynews.com

OLMSTEDVILLE — It’s About Thyme’s annual Easter Egg Hunt gets bigger and better every year, say organizers. This year’s installment is set to feature more than 4,000 eggs. For Diane and Steve Colletti, owners of the farm located on 32 Smith Road in Olmstedville, the growth is welcome. “It’s all about Easter, it’s all for the kids,” said Diane as she finalized the stuffing of those thousands of eggs. Colletti estimated she’s been holding the free event for about seven years. “We’ve learned some things along the way,” she said. Colletti now prepares some extra baskets

for children that may arrive late and miss the hunt. The hunt itself is arranged to maximize fun for the kids. “We go single file around the field,” she said of the start to make sure the littlest ones don’t miss out on the eggs. “We put some bigger things in the middle, which attracts the older kids to dash to the center of the field.” That style of egg hunt came from an experience when her now 17-year-old son was young, and came away from a similar event where the children were lumped together. The tiniest ones came away with just an egg or two. With 4,000 eggs on the Minerva Central School field for an anticipated 100 children, there should be plenty to go around. There’s more than eggs in store, though, with baskets filled with prizes and bikes to be given away. Homemade goodie bags are avail>> See Easter Eggs | pg. 10

A Bald Eagle was spotted in a tree in the Moxham Pong wetland off State Route 28N in Minerva recently. Another eagle was flying around while both were being watched carefully by a group of crows. The pair were spotted a week earlier off the Morse Memorial Highway in Minerva. Photo by Mike Corey


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