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Bear Mountain Egg Hunt Draws Happy Children - 5 April, 2009
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The Journal News (lohud.com)
James Walsh
April 5, 2009
BEAR MOUNTAIN - Spring was in the air yesterday, even if it was still chilly enough to warrant a winter coat.
A raw wind didn't keep 6-year-old Lorenzo Peressini from enjoying his ice cream, one of many prizes won by youngsters at the Spring Egg Hunt.
Dozens of children sifted through bales of hay and searched nooks and crannies outside the Bear Mountain Inn for colorful plastic eggs packed with candy.
Lucky ones also held prizes for Easter baskets, rides on the hand-carved carousel and, like Lorenzo's, for ice cream.
He and his brother, Nicholas, 3, also won rides on the carousel, said their mother, Nicole Peressini of Middletown in Orange County.
"They didn't get one of the big prizes like that one," Peressini said, pointing to a man carrying an Easter basket in one arm and a child in the other. "But they're happy."
Lorenzo agreed.
"It was fun digging in the hay," he said between licks of his ice cream.
Amy Peahl said she didn't know about the egg hunt. She and her husband, John, came to explore the park with their daughter, Alexandra, 4.
The Peahls, newly transplanted from Oregon to Rutherford, N.J., were enjoying the Trailside Museum and Zoo.
Alexandra took a particular interest in the porcupine, while Ann McErleane and her cousins, Rebecca, 5, and Sophie, 10, were drawn to the frolics of the zoo's three bears.
"We came for the Easter egg hunt," said McErleane, a former Stony Point resident, "and thought we'd swing by the zoo."
Right about then, a raucous explosion of howls erupted from the coyote cages, as bloodcurdling as the soundtrack of a werewolf movie.
It was the windy chill, though, that made McErleane shiver.
"When does it become spring for me? When it's 90 degrees out," she said.
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