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your homegrown newspaper April 5, 2023
Vol. 19, No. 29
Marijuana pg. 6
Courts pg. 8
Kids ring in spring with Ronan egg hunt Story and Photos by Taylor Davison / Valley Journal
Beading pg. 9
RONAN — Kids big and small turned out in droves despite chilly weather to participate in this year’s Ronan egg hunt on April 1. Put on annually by Mission Mountain
Enterprises, a local non-profit that provides community-based services to individuals with intellectual disabilities, Gayle Mock of the organization said that they’ve been holding the event since before she started 15 years ago. “It’s just one of Mission Mountain
Enterprise’s ways of giving back to the community,” Mock said. “It’s just a lot of fun.” The Mission Valley Popcorn Kitchen attended this year’s event selling their treats, and the Easter Bunny made a special appearance to sit with kids and take a photo
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with him. Around 300 kids show up every year to the event. Children up to 12 years old engage in separate egg hunts according to their age group. Two lucky kids in each group,
found a ticket in one of their eggs and won a prize basket. Mission Mountain made sure that every kid had a small brown sack full of trinkets and candy to take see page 2