By Kathleen E. Carey | [email protected]| delcotimes.com
PUBLISHED: April 19, 2025 at 4:56 PM EDT
Lansdowne’s first Egg-Nostic Egg Hunt hopped off Saturday at the Lansdowne Winter Market across from the Lansdowne Theater.
The hunt was the brainchild of Madi Eads of the Lansdowne Economic Development Corp.
Participants were given a list of spring-related joke questions and to find the answers, they needed to visit each of the 20 vendors to get the answers, waiting in stickers housed in fabric eggs at each table.
“When you answer all of the riddles, you get a little plastic 3-D prize that we did down at our MakerSpace,” Eads said.
Having a finesse of working with children, she’s worked in event management for some time.
Clare Finin is executive director of the LEDC.
“We’re really excited about it because we are really investing in doing more community events this year and chances to bring the community together in third spaces,” she said about the hunt. “We have such a diverse community. After COVID, people still are reporting that they feel lonely at least one out of every five days and we really think that events like this where you connect with your neighbors and find new friends … resolidify community bonds and be stronger together.”
Although the event was a part of Lansdowne’s Winter Market, the regular Lansdowne Farmers’ Market is gearing up to open May 24, a week after the last Winter Market on May 17, itself a tandem event with a walk for kids’ cancer, the Kent’s Cause Foundation’s STRONG WALK.
“Going into this market season, we’re going to have a theme every week,” Finin said. “We’re trying to be really thoughtful about making sure there’s intergenerational concepts.”
Finin said she was responsible for coining the term “Egg-Nostic,” noting that Eades came up with all of the ideas for the scavenger hunt.
“We do have a diverse borough,” she said. “We don’t want to be exclusionary. Who doesn’t like finding candy?”
Even her almost-4-year-old daughter, Juju, was involved in the day, hiding eggs, for those not quite old enough to read.
“We’ve been practicing all week that we’re hiding eggs,” she said. “We want people to find them. It’s OK for people to find them but we can’t tell them where they are and she’s instantly telling kids where they are.”
Meghan McCormick was carrying a basket full of colorful plastic eggs as she followed her 9-year-old daughter, Allie Faust, going from one stand to another.
“I just like that the farmers’ market always has something kid-friendly,” the borough resident said. “I go shopping while she’s occupied with something. As a single mom, that’s a huge thing. I just like that it’s kid friendly here. She can kind of be wild and free and … I like that it’s local.”
Not even a half-hour into the hunt and they had all of the answers, except two.
Allie gave the egg hunt a thumbs-up.
“You get to find eggs and you get to do a scavenger hunt and at the end of the scavenger hunt when you find all the stickers, you get a prize,” she said.
Also, at 5:30 p.m. Thursday, April 24 and at 1 p.m. on Sunday, April 27, the Lansdowne Economic Development Corp. is inviting the community to view their five-year strategic plan as part of their Main Street Matters designation renewal and to offer feedback of what their thoughts and vision for the borough are.