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Mill Creek parks and recreation unveils spring events, sponsors and an overhauled egg hunt
Summary
Communications manager outlined a full spring events calendar, new and returning sponsors, and a redesigned 'eggstravaganza' featuring themed hunts and longer event hours to reduce crowding; staff rolled out sponsorship tiers and an Adopt-A-Street kit donation from Lowe’s.
The city’s communications, marketing and recreation manager, Jody Hawkins, presented the spring events calendar, a revised sponsorship structure and a reworked egg hunt intended to reduce crowding and improve family experience.
Hawkins said the city streamlined sponsorship tiers and named JL Remodeling and Mill Creek Sports as signature sponsors; other sponsors include Community Transit, Nothing Bundt Cakes, State Farm, Starbucks, Town & Country Markets and Nancy's Noah's Ark. Lowe’s donated supplies for the city’s Adopt-A-Street program, Hawkins said.
Hawkins described a redesigned eggstravaganza that will run 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. with themed egg hunts running throughout the event so families do not have to wait for a single mass race. “We decided… the egg hunts are going on the entire time. So they're gonna be themed egg hunts… People will come in… they'll be limited so you'll be able to actually hunt for the eggs,” she said. The city will partner with YMCA and Kiwanis and has sponsors running individual themed hunts (for example, Mill Creek Sports will run a spring-training themed hunt).
Other spring items included a Coffee with a Cop event at Town & Country Markets, a Touch-a-Truck event at Penny Creek Elementary, an Earth Day cleanup, a Kiwanis electronics recycling event, and a City Chat open house. Hawkins said event details and swag items, including a new license plate cover and pet-waste kits, will be available on the city website and social media.
Council members praised the redesign as responsive to resident feedback about crowding at past egg hunts; Hawkins said staff surveyed attendees after last year’s event and redesigned logistics accordingly.
What happens next: staff will post event pages and schedules, finalize sponsor placements and publish the eggstravaganza schedule; volunteers and sponsors will be confirmed in coming weeks.
