April showers don’t spoil annual Easter Parade and Egg Hunt
April 21, 2025 | Photos by Gordon Miller 
Photo by Gordon Miller
Rotarian and state Rep. Theresa Wood, D-Waterbury, accompanies an Easter Bunny through the crowd along Stowe Street. Photo by Gordon Miller
True to organizers’ emphasis that the event is rain or shine, Waterbury Rotary’s annual Easter Parade and Egg Hunt proceeded despite some April showers rolling through downtown on Saturday morning.
Several hundred local youngsters and their parents, siblings, family members and friends took part in the springtime ritual complete with two Easter Bunnies to take part. They gathered at Brookside Primary School for a short parade down Stowe Street and Main Street to Park Row and the field at Pilgrim Park where thousands of plastic colored eggs filled with candy awaited.
Taking their places behind yellow tape in groups organized by age, the children — smallest with parents, and older egg-hunt veterans in packs of friends — waited excitedly for the “Go” signal. Once they were set loose, it was mere minutes before the field was bare, eggs collected and being emptied.
Rotarians supplied some prizes as well for those who were lucky to pick up eggs with special tickets.
Click the photos below to see how it all unfolded. Photos by Gordon Miller
Special eggs come with special prizes. Photo by Gordon Miller