The weather was ideal, the crowd was big…and weeks of work came to its culmination, in just a few minutes.

Hundreds turned out Saturday afternoon for the annual Easter egg hunt sponsored by the Knoxville Noon Kiwanis Club; they once again set out thousands of plastic eggs in the field at South Lincoln and Madison, and turned hundreds of children loose to find the candy inside.

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Curt Schwanebeck from the Kiwanis Club says they had plenty of volunteers to help the eighteen members of their club fill these eggs over the past six weeks; men, women and even children came to help out, with the latter joining in the hunt.

Schwanebeck tells KNIA/KRLS News the event is as much an occasion for adults as it is for the kids.

“There will be mom, dad, grandma and grandpa, aunts, uncles, friends or relatives, neighbors, they all come; and some years, after the egg hunt’s over, they just don’t want to go home. They just enjoy sitting here and standing here and visiting,” Schwanebeck says.

Earlier in the day, about a hundred children came to the Accura Healthcare site at 606 North 7th Street for its traditional egg hunt.

Residents watched from inside or outside the nursing home as the kids scurried around the front lawn collecting eggs.

And thanks to some last-minute donations, they were able to offer a number of prizes; five big bicycles, two small ones and four scooters were given away to a few lucky kids who claimed golden eggs…along with gift and meal coupons, donated by various companies around town.