From News Nation:
“Easter Egg Roll returns after
2-year, COVID-induced hiatus”
(President Joe Biden appears with
first lady Jill Biden and the Easter Bunny on the Blue Room balcony at the
White House April 5, 2021, in Washington. The White House Easter Egg Roll is
returning on April 18, 2022, after a 2-year, COVID-induced hiatus. The Biden’s
will welcome some 30,000 kids and their adult chaperones for the egg roll, an
egg hunt and other activities.)
The White House is hoping to stir
up some “egg-citement” when the Easter Egg Roll returns on Monday after a
two-year, coronavirus-induced hiatus. President Joe Biden and first lady Jill
Biden expect to welcome some 30,000 kids and their adult chaperones for the egg
roll, an egg hunt and other activities. The first lady, who is a teacher, is
calling it the “Egg-ucation Roll,” aides said, and is turning the South Lawn
into a school community with a variety of educational stations.
It’s the first Easter Egg Roll to
be hosted by the Bidens, who are expected to address the crowd and join in some
of the activities, although rain was in Monday’s weather forecast. The COVID-19
pandemic led the White House to cancel the event in 2020 and 2021. Besides the
egg roll and hunt, the all-day event will include a schoolhouse activity area,
a reading nook, a talent show, a place to teach children how farmers supply
food, a photo-taking station, a physical “egg-ucation” zone with an obstacle
course and other exercise stations, and a “cafetorium” where children and their
families will learn to make and eat treats.
The “egg-stravaganza” will get a
celebrity splash through the participation of “Tonight Show” host Jimmy Fallon,
singer Ciara and actor-singer Kristin Chenoweth. More than two dozen costumed
characters will roam the grounds, including Dr. Seuss’ The Cat in the Hat, the
Racing Presidents mascots for the Washington Nationals of Major League
Baseball, Rosita and Cookie Monster from “Sesame Street” and Snoopy and Charlie
Brown, among others.
Military families will be among
the 30,000 participants, including crew members of the USS Delaware and their
families. The first lady serves as sponsor of the nuclear attack submarine,
which the president commissioned during a ceremony this month in Wilmington,
Delaware. Members of the general public received their tickets through an
online lottery.
The egg roll will be the largest
event to date at the Biden White House and will unfold in five waves beginning
at 7:30 a.m. and ending at 6:30 p.m. Resumption of this Easter tradition is a
sign that the White House is opening up again, despite a recent spurt of
COVID-19 cases among members of the Cabinet, the White House staff, Vice
President Kamala Harris’ husband and members of Congress, including House
Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Some of those cases stemmed from the return this month of
the Gridiron Club’s spring dinner. Self-guided, public tours of the executive
mansion are set to resume on Friday in a limited fashion, after they also were
halted in 2020 because of the pandemic. The White House Easter Egg Roll dates
to 1878.
^ I’m glad this Centuries-Old Tradition
is continuing. ^
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