THOMASVILLE — Last Saturday, the City of Thomasville worked together with 23 community partners to host their annual Easter Eggstravaganza at Paradise Park.

Community Outreach & Recruitment Manager Ricky Zambrano said that the event was one of their biggest outreach events and brought people together to celebrate Easter.

“The Easter Extravaganza is really a pinnacle of outreach events, we bring together the community to celebrate Easter,” he said. “We’ve got 23 community partners that have come together to help us put this all together.”

From face painting to an inflatable slide, Zambrano said that they had plenty of vendors and activities to entertain and educate all who joined the celebrations at the park, all of which led up to the Easter egg hunts.

“So we’ve got anything from face painting to prayer stations, we’ve got clothes giveaways, we’ve got kids activities obviously, and Blue Bell is here too,” Zambrano said. “The highlight of the day will be the Easter hunts.”

With over 5,000 eggs split up between different sections of the park for different age groups, Zambrano said that 3 and below began at noon, with young children hunting eggs alongside their parents, and the four different groups for 4 and up hunting alone at 12:20 p.m.

“For 4 and up, we’ve got four different age groups,” he said. “Over 5,300 eggs, stuffed eggs, and then 50 of what we call golden eggs with special prizes. Gift cards, bicycles, scooters, all of it donated by a variety of different partners throughout our community.”

At the event, Zambrano said that he was thankful for the lack of rain and went onto thank the like-minded community partners that made such an event possible each year.

“First and foremost, it feels great that there’s no weather so far,” “Our community is great, we’ve got community members that, they’re like-minded in our goals, the city, and the mission that we have to provide the best environment for our kids and our citizens, it’s no shock that we’ve got 20+ vendors here, community partners that have the like-minded approach to it.”

He said that partners had donated prizes and supplies, alongside investing their time and effort into participating vendors. Community partners included Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc., Blue Bell Creameries, Ambetter from Peach State Health Plan, Barberitos Central Point Church, Chicken Delite, Church’s Chicken, Diablo’s Southwest Grill Flower’s Food, Food Lion, Goodwill Career Center, Marguerite Neel Williams Boys & Girls Club, Heritage Foundation, Henderson’s, The Hub, Moonspin, Nina’s Creamery, Peach State Health Plan, Pineland Baptist Church, The Salvation Army, Thomasville YMCA, Thomas County Public Library, Trinity Anglican Church, Vashti Center, Thomasville First Baptist Church, Woodhaven, Thomasville-Thomas County Humane Society, Walmart, Wellcare, 1915 South-Ashley and Willow Head Missionary Baptist Church.

“A big thank you to all of our community partners, present and not present,” Zambrano said. “It takes a community to impact our community and that’s what we’re doing today.”