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ELKINS — Youth Well being Services’ very first significant occasion of the year will be on April eight with a Family members Exciting Spring Fling occasion at the Elkins Rotary Amphitheater in Town Square.

The occasion will be from ten:30 a.m. till 12:30 p.m. and will function a scavenger hunt for young children of all ages. The hunt will take participants to an array of downtown organizations and ultimately back to Town Square.

“Last year was the very first year that we held this occasion,” Hannah Dodson, Youth Well being Households Help Center director, told The Inter-Mountain.

“It was the very first factor we did resuming spring activities just after COVID. And whilst we are all for Easter Egg hunts, typically they are type of tougher to tailor to additional than one particular age group. So we are going with the Scavenger Hunt once again, exactly where the little ones can go to the similar areas, but there will be distinct riddles for them to resolve. So they type of get to choose what difficulty level they would want to do.”

When arriving back from the Scavenger Hunt, participants’ parents can take a stroll about a Resource Fair that will be set up subsequent to the Town Square Amphitheater.

“Those setting up at the Resource Fair will have quite a few sources for households in the neighborhood to advantage from,” Dodson mentioned. “They will have tables set up behind the Train Depot to give away their info.

“We have quite a few distinct participants organizing to set up, like a person from the Treasury Workplace who will be coming down to assistance people today search unclaimed properties. We are seeking at anyplace from ten to 15 tables to be set up there.”

There will be reside entertainment and goodies for these who want to stay at Town Square just after finishing up the scavenger hunt. Any kid who participates in the scavenger hunt will obtain a prize.

“Last year we had some larger prize baskets that had tailgating games, water guns and items like that in them,” mentioned Dodson. “Some of these will be offered once again, but every single kid who comes out will leave with a smaller sized goodie bag, no matter how they do in the scavenger hunt. The smaller sized bags final year had items like a small parachute troopers, slime, fidgets and small knick knacks.”

For additional info on the Family members Exciting Spring Fling, contact Youth Well being Solutions at 304-636-9450.

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