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Waiting to Get Easter Eggs
The kids lined up at the starting line just before the recent Easter egg hunt sponsored by Cargill Council 64, Knights of Columbus, at St. Mary Church of the Visitation in Putnam. Photo by John D. Ryan.



PUTNAM — Dozens of young children waited on the lawn at St. Mary Church of the Visitation on Providence Street, bags in hand, waiting for the Easter Bunny to come with his big basket of eggs. This time he brought a really big basket containing something special: 800 plastic eggs with candy inside.
Every year, around Eastertime, Cargill Council 64 Knights of Columbus make sure that the children from St. Mary Church of the Visitation in Putnam and Most Holy Trinity Church in Pomfret get to run out on the church lawn and collect as many eggs as they can. The Pomfret egg hunt will be held later this month.
With about 30 children participating this year, each girl and boy got to keep the candy in the eggs they found, plus a small toy or a stuffed animal to take home.
The annual event has been held at both parishes for over a decade, part of the year-round spate of youth programs sponsored by Cargill Council.
“We love doing this at Easter time,” said Cargill Council 64 Grand Knight Douglas Bergstrom. “Cargill Council has programs all year for children and young people. It’s a pleasure to make the kids happy with an event like this. We’re proud to do it.”
Cargill Council Knights put candy in the plastic eggs, bought the toys and stuffed animals, set up everything at the two parishes and ran the events.

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