Susanville’s annual Community Easter Egg hunt will be held Saturday, April 16th, at the Lassen County Fairgrounds with lots of candy-filled eggs thanks to some wonderful volunteers who spent Thursday afternoon at the fairgrounds stuffing the plastic eggs.

Nearly fifty volunteers came to help stuff the 11,000 eggs that will be strewn about the fairgrounds’ lawn on the morning of the hunt.

Thanks to our volunteers from Richmond 4-H, Lake 4-H, FFA, CSF, LHS Drill Team, Junior Fair Board, CACC, Lassen County Public Health, Judge Mallery, Eskaton Manor and several really nice families and individuals who showed up. Thank you to everybody for your help!

The Community Egg Hunt is free to all local kids to participate, just come on down and join in the fun.

The gates open at 8:30a.m., on Saturday, April 16th, and groups start at 9:00 with a different age group starting every 10 minutes.

Soroptimist International of Susanville is a non-profit women’s organization with the sole purpose in bettering the lives of women and children in our local community and around the world.

Each year the club’s dedicated members work diligently on contributing to our town through a multitude of service efforts which include $6,000 in scholarships and education awards, providing necessities for 5-6 families in need during the holiday season and supporting other local non-profits like Lassen Family Services and senior services programs.

The group also works closely with the young women and girls of the community – hosting empowerment workshops, and sponsoring the S-Club; a group of junior high, high school and college student community service clubs.

Tickets for Margarita Fest are available at Axia Home Loans and Haven Salon and are $25. You must be 21 to attend.

The Easter Bunny will be at the fairgrounds so bring your cameras for a photo opportunity.

Each age group has a chance to find the ‘gold egg’ to be turned in for an Easter basket filled with assorted goodies and prizes.

This year the Community Easter Egg Hunt is adding a new session for Children with Special Capabilities. This session will be held inside in a calmer environment. There will be sensory bins, balloons on eggs, toys and candy in eggs, safe spaces for wheelchairs and walkers to maneuver. For more information contact Ronda Hall 1.530.260.0646.

Admission to the event is free.

Elmer Doty, Lassen County game warden, has just finished distributing nearly two tons of block salt in 50-lb. blocks to the deer over a wide area between Secret Valley and Red Rock. The project which took two weeks to complete, was done in a jeep which took him to places normally could not be reached in a car.

The salt was made available through Lassen County Sportsmen’s Conversation League, Mr. Doty said, and is placed out now because the deer herds are in the poorest condition of the year. They cannot get enough of the essential salt from natural licks because they are too few in this area.

While the deer in this particular area are in poor shape, those in the territory beyond Doyle are in a worse condition, Mr. Doty said.