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Grab a basket and get hunting this Easter Sunday, March 31. There are two exciting egg hunts happening, one at 9 a.m., hosted by the Elks Lodge of Ukiah, and another at 2 p.m., hosted by the Ukiah Host Lions Club.
The Elks Lodge of Ukiah is holding an Easter egg hunt at the Elks Lodge on Talmage/Hastings at 9 a.m. The Elks have been hosting an Easter egg hunt for more than 15 years. Marie Bolstad, exalted ruler of the Elks, has organized the Easter egg hunt for the past several years.
"I love to watch the kids waiting for the hunt to begin. They're like wild horses trained to race," she says before she warns that children should arrive before 9 a.m. because the egg hunt lasts five minutes at most. The first 250 children also receive an Easter basket filled with goodies donated by the Elks Lodge members, like stuffed animals and plastic eggs filled with candy and money.
In addition to the baskets, there are plenty of eggs to be found -- hard-boiled and plastic. The eggs are hidden across the Elks Lodge grounds -- in tree limbs, picnic tables and throughout the pee-wee golf course.
Children up to age 14 are invited to participate. The Elks Lodge lawn will be divided into four age groups: 0 to 3 years old, 4 to 6, 7 to 9, and 10 to 13 years old. After the younger groups have found as many eggs as they can, a special group of 14-year-olds called the "Sweepers" come in to clean up the remaining eggs that couldn't be spotted by the little ones.
There is also an Easter breakfast at the Elks Lodge at 9 a.m. The breakfast includes French toast, scrambled eggs, bacon, juices, coffee and more. The cost is $6 per person.
"We'll be there rain or shine!" Bolstad reassures.
Later in the day, the Ukiah Host Lions Club will be hiding 400 dozen eggs for local children at Anton Stadium. Eggs hidden in four-inch-long grass don't seem like they would be too difficult to find, but if you're only two feet tall, the task may be a challenge. Luckily the children are separated into age groups (2, 3 and 4- year-olds are on the soccer fields, 5 and 6-year-olds are on the Little League field and 7-10 year olds are in Anton's main baseball field). The 400 dozen eggs that the Ukiah Host Lions Club colors and hides every year apparently get found very quickly by the hundreds of local children who attend. It's more of a race than a hunt really.
"Make sure you get there by 2:00 because the eggs are all found by 2:02!" warns Gary Mirata, a Lions Club volunteer in charge of the egg hunt (sound familiar?).
Two-hundred dozen of the eggs are generously donated by Raley's in Ukiah, and another 200 dozen are bought with Lions fundraising money. The eggs are then hard-boiled and dyed by Lions volunteers at Pleasant View Dairy on Saturday. The next day, the colored eggs are hidden before the children arrive. Several prize eggs are hidden throughout the fields, which can be exchanged for a classic chocolate bunny. And speaking of bunnies, the Easter Bunny is sure to take time out of his busy schedule that day to make his annual appearance.
Go to one, go to both. The Elks egg hunt is perfect if you're looking for an early hunt with breakfast, great prizes and a fun course, while the Lions egg hunt is great if you'd prefer to sleep in and go to an afternoon hunt that has been a Ukiah tradition since the 1940s.


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Why the Bruins feel so bad for Tuukka Rask
|01.06.11 at 11:54 pm ET
Shawn Thornton felt sorry for Tuukka Rask. But, more to the point, Thornton – one of the true team leaders in the Bruins dressing room – felt ashamed of the effort in front of him.
Thornton called out the rest of the team for non-support of goalie Tuukka Rask. The Bruins netminder made several athletic saves, including a spectacular one on Martin Havlat to keep the Bruins tied. But the save was for naught as the Bruins fell, 3-1, Thursday night to the Minnesota Wild.
"Tuukka was awesome again," Thornton said. "I think its awful that that kid plays so good for us all the time and we don't get the wins for him its'¦we care about him and we should probably show it in a better way, he stood on his head for us pretty much every night and I don't know his save percentage is .940 or something stupid like that.
"That should be good enough to win a lot of hockey games so we have to look ourselves in the mirror as far as that goes."
Not that anyone is nit-picking at this point, but his save percentage is .928 after stopping 31-of-33 shots he faced, not including the empty-netter by Mikko Koivu with less than a minute to go that sealed Boston's fate.
"It has been disappointing for him all season," B's benched center Marc Savard added. "He comes in and gives us a solid effort. We can't seem to score at all when he is in there. I feel bad for him. He is one of the best goaltenders in the league."
What about the man himself?
"I always try to have a good feeling, you know?" Rask said. "We definitely'¦ we talked about playing better after the second period and, you know, digging deep but, an awful'¦ an awful mistake there went in and cost us the game. I don't even know what happened, it's just, I guess we just lost our focus."
As frustrated as he gets, Rask said he is doing everything in his power to stay upbeat – though the stat sheet shows otherwise, at least in terms of wins and losses.
"Yeah, you know I try to feel good about myself everyday and think positive, and you know, the past couple games have been solid," Rask said. "Tough to lose like this, it's kind of frustrating but you always try to feel good about yourself, but the last three games have been a step in the right direction."
Rask has stopped 67-of-70 shots in his last two games, showing Claude Julien that he might just be ready to pick it up for the second half of the season. There was no better example of that than his save on Martin Havlat late in the second period to keep the game tied, 1-1. From his stomach, he put his left hand up at the last moment to rob the man who already had beaten Rask for the first goal of the game.
"I saw him at the last second, and I just dove there, and I guess the puck was bouncing a bit for him too, and he didn't get enough wood on it," Rask said. "But, you know, it's'¦ you got to be lucky to make those saves, too, but, I guess, half luck, half skill."
In just his 13th game – and 12th start – Rask fell to 3-8-1 despite a 2.58 goals against average, a record neither Thornton nor their coach – Julien feels Rask even remotely deserves.
"This is a goaltender tonight that was outstanding for us, deserving a better fate and gave us a chance to win," Julien lamented. "And so I feel bad for him because he deserves probably to be in the win column tonight, not in the loss column."

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I have an 'issue' with one of my hives that I've never seen before... Hoping for a bit of advice.
I have three hives in my yard. 2 are behaving normally and are issue free. But with the third there are bees all over the ground around it in about a 10' radius. Hundreds of them. The bees seem unable to fly if I blow on them but they will buzz and try to get away. They tend to be clustered together in little groups and appear to be grooming each other in the group. I cannot see any DWV or K wing, cannot see any visible mites, and this hive had the lowest mite count of the three last year. They do not return to the hive at night, and since it is so cold at night still they are dying at night.
3 weeks ago we were still in the low 30's and today we were in the mid 70's so I suppose they could just be hanging out. But the fact that they won't fly away and won't return to the hive tells me something is up.
Has anyone seen this before? I would guess pesticide exposure but the other 2 hives are behaving normally. This one is closest to my neighbor's fence and has an exposed entrance to their fence (forcing them to fly up) so it's also possible the kids next door did something to the hive. Can't smell any residue though.
Thanks for any advice you can give. I'll try to take video or photos tomorrow.