Eggs

Laura Sturza MEDIA DISTRICT WEST -- Easter egg hunts are not only for children at the city's holiday celebration. The free event includes egg hunts for children and adults at 10 a.m. Saturday, games and activities throughout the day, an Easter bonnet parade at 11 a.m., live music at 11:15 and an egg toss at 11:45. Photos with the Easter Bunny will be available for $3. Co-sponsored by the City of Burbank and Radio Disney KDIS-AM (710), the celebration runs from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday at Johnny Carson Park, 400 S. Bob Hope Drive.

blr-aword03TextA522E4EKA WORD, PLEASE I can't make a decent egg foo yong to save my life. I can't pave a sidewalk, repair a computer or dry-clean a suit. And you sure as heck don't want me to groom your poodle. So who am I to tell people with all these skills and more how to use quotation marks in their business signs? In the more than three years that I've been writing this column, never once have I been tempted to write about the errant quotation marks you see around words like "free," "special," "please," "exit" and "crab meat."

Throughout the last week of March, 4-year-old Wyatt Anderson Wyatt Anderson was busy preparing for the Egg-Cellent Magnolia Bicycle Tour and Treasure Hunt that was held Saturday in Magnolia Park. While event planners, headed up by Burbank Business District Manager Gail Stewart , were deep in the final logistical preparations for the treasure hunt tour, Wyatt was equally engaged. ?He practiced riding all week to make sure he would be able to take the training wheels off his bike for the first time today,?

Bands of bicyclists descended upon the Chandler Bikeway at California Street on Saturday for the third annual self-guided bike tour of the Magnolia Park business district. Hundreds of bicyclists, after registering at a tent on the Chandler Bikeway, got their “passports” stamped at participating shops along Magnolia Boulevard in what organizers said has become an increasingly important marketing tool for the district, especially given the unfolding recession. As opposed to the Be-Boppin in the Park car show event, which typically draws thousands of people from throughout the region, Saturday’s “Egg-Cellent” Magnolia Bicycle Tour was conceived to take aim at the more immediate area, said Robin Faulk, marketing director for the Magnolia Park Partnership.

Fresh produce and a festive atmosphere are calling people to the farmers market in Burbank, which last month celebrated its 27th year of bringing farmers to town each week. Sarah Dornbos, manager of the market held Saturdays behind Burbank City Hall, said she has a years-long list of farmers who want to get in. While other farmers markets offer everything from kettle corn to custom jewelry, the Burbank market focuses on produce and allows few non-farm stalls among its 34 vendors.

Parks program offers Easter activities Easter-themed activities for children are planned for the Spring Eggstravaganza continuing from 9 to 10:30 a.m. today in the lower playground area of McCambridge Recreation Center, 1515 N. Glenoaks Blvd., Burbank. There will be egg hunts for ages 1 to 10, games and prizes. Children ages 3 and younger will be hunting for Easter eggs in the playground area. Participants can enter the park off Amherst Drive. Ages 3 to 5 will be searching for eggs on Diamond #1. Enter from Andover Drive.

Burbank Unified is reviewing its head lice policy after a mother appealed to the school board for more conservative rules, especially as class sizes get bigger and more students are crowded together. Under the district's current policy, students “shall be excluded from attendance” when their heads have active, adult lice, but the rule doesn't apply to eggs, also known as nits. Undine Petrulis, who has three children enrolled in Burbank Unified, appealed to the school board to change the policy to send students home, even if the eggs haven't hatched.

Molly Shore Their small hands were a rainbow of colors Tuesday afternoon as children dipped hard-boiled eggs into cups of red, orange, yellow, green and blue dye. Then it was down to serious business at the spring break Easter egg dyeing and decorating class at Verdugo Park. Sandra Allen, a senior recreation leader with the city of Burbank, assured the youngsters that they couldn't mess up their eggs because each one was their own unique creation.

Fall brings crisp air, falling leaves and gatherings of family and friends. It's time to cozy up to the fireplace and set the dinner table with hearty comfort foods and harvest centerpieces. Autumn welcomes the harvest moon and delicious fall recipes such as sweet potatoes and yams, green leafy vegetables like kale and chard, pork chops, ham, roasted chicken and pumpkin and apple pies. The secret to fall entertaining is sharing family recipes, old traditions, and new, with loved ones.

Molly Shore MEDIA DISTRICT WEST -- Peter Cottontail might be bringing every girl and boy a basketful of Easter joy, but it doesn't compare to Shawnda Hughes' and son Dakota's annual Easter egg hunt. As they have done for six previous years with their neighbors' blessings, they will hide several thousand plastic eggs in yards along the 500 block of North California Street. "Each egg will have something in it," she said, explaining candy, key chains and necklaces are among the prizes.