An egg-cellent day for Easter fun!

Thank goodness Easter came later this year. Had it fallen a week earlier, the parking lot at Cloquet's Pine Valley would have been covered in snow.

Instead, the day was bright and sunny - although there were still puddles to be jumped in - offering children and their parents the warmest Easter egg hunt since the city of Cloquet, Cloquet Chamber of Commerce and Cloquet Community Ed started the free annual event seven years ago.

Brightly colored plastic eggs littered the ground at the woodland park, which was divided into sections according to age groups. When the gates were opened at precisely...