Around Town: City hosts annual egg hunt Around Town: City hosts annual egg hunt (March 23, 2005)

There are other ways of getting your daily dose of protein, but few are more entertaining.

Hunting for eggs will be the sport of the day on Saturday, March 26, when the city of Menlo Park hosts its annual Easter egg hunt at Burgess Park. That rabble-rousing rabbit, the Easter Bunny, kicks off the festivities at 10 a.m., along with a bounce house and craft activities.

Youngsters ages 2 and under (accompanied by a parent) get to hunt for eggs at 10:30 a.m., with those ages 3 and 4 hunting at 10:40, ages 5 and 6 at 10:50, and ages 7 and 8 at 11.

The mathematically minded may also wish to take part in the revered tradition of looking at a host of jelly beans and guessing how many there are.

For more information, call the city's community services division at 330-2200.
They're hunting in Atherton, too

The annual Easter Egg hunt, sponsored by the Atherton Dames/Holbrook-Palmer Park Foundation, will be held Saturday, March 26, from 10 a.m. to noon at Holbrook-Palmer Park, 150 Watkins Ave. in Atherton.

Activities include photos with the Easter bunny, entertainment for kids by Daffy Dave, and face-painting. Noah's bagels and juice, and specialty coffee drinks will be served.

The hunt, for children 8 and younger, is $5 per child; kids should bring their own baskets.

Shirley Carlson and Tania Boghosian are chairpersons. The Atherton Dames/Holbrook-Palmer Park Foundation raises funds for capital improvements to the 22-acre Holbrook-Palmer Park. For more information, call Shirley Carlson at 321-1327.

Celebration of spring at Menlo College

Menlo College will hold its eighth annual rites of spring and celebration of peace at 7 p.m. Tuesday, March 22, in the Russell Center, El Camino Hall, on the campus.

Speakers will include Laura Strom, a leader of drumming circles, and Evie McDonald, a co-founder of the event. Ms. McDonald will show the short film poem "Into Being -- The River." Marla Lowenthal, professor of mass communication and cultural studies at the college, will moderate the evening.

The event is free and open to the public -- men, women and children. Light refreshments will be served. Menlo College is at 1000 El Camino Real in Atherton. For more information, call 543-3840 or e-mail mlowenthal@menlo.edu.
Edward O. Wilson speaks on biodiversity

Edward O. Wilson, a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner and Harvard professor emeritus of biology, will speak at the Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts at 8 p.m. Thursday, March 24, as part of the 12th annual Peninsula Open Space Trust/Wallace Stegner lecture series.

Dr. Wilson, often called "the father of biodiversity," uses arguments from science, economics and ethics to show that stewardship of biodiversity is a necessity.

Bill and Jean Lane of Portola Valley are again sponsoring the series. For more information, call POST at 854-7696.

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