Whitehall Recreation Center was the place to be last Sunday, March 26.
More than 150 children braved the morning’s cool and damp conditions to seek plastic eggs filled with candy and collect prizes.
The hunt was sponsored by Whitehall Elks Lodge 1491.

Some of the more than 150 children who turned out for an Easter egg hunt at the Whitehall Recreation Center sprint onto a field where brightly colored plastic eggs were scattered. (Photo by EJ Conzola II)

Violet Raymond, 10, stoops to scoop up one of the plastic eggs scattered about the fields at the Whitehall Recreation Center during an Easter egg hunt Sunday morning. Organizers said more than 150 children – and their parents – braved the cold, damp weather to try to grab up some candy and participate in a scavenger hunt with prize giveaways. (Photo by EJ Conzola II)

Seven-year-old Grace Arquette checks out one of the plastic eggs she gathered during an Easter egg hunt at the Whitehall Recreation Center on Sunday. Unfortunately for Grace, someone had beaten her to it and the egg’s candy contents were gone. (Photo by EJ Conzola II)

Eleven-year-old Leyla Chapin checks the contents of one of the plastic eggs she gathered during an Easter egg hunt at the Whitehall Recreation Center on Sunday. (Photo by EJ Conzola II)

Eleven-year-old Ella Wiskoski puts in a basket one of the plastic eggs she collected during the Easter egg hunt at the Whitehall Recreation Center on Sunday – after removing its candy contents, of course. The hunt, sponsored by Whitehall Elks Lodge 1491, drew more than 150 children to the ballfield adjacent to the center despite Sunday morning’s cool and damp conditions. (Photo by EJ Conzola II)