Great Eggs-pectations:

With A Little Help From The Centerville Lions, The Easter bunny Delivers

By Deb Barnes

CENTERVILLE - If Easter seemed to come a tad too early this year, the Easter Bunny responsible for hiding the five thousand eggs buried in the fresh snow at Laurie LaMotte Memorial Park in Centerville would likely agree with you.

The earliest Easter in 95 years was preceded by not one, but two accumulations of the white stuff.

A tisket, a tasket – the egg goes in her basket! This little bunny had no trouble at all figuring out how it all worked.

Photo by Greg Granger

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Celebrating National Poetry Month

By Deb Barnes

"The best words in the best order," said Samuel Coleridge.

"Not the thing said, but a way of saying it," said A.E. Housman.

"Painting with the gift of speech," said Simonides.

That's poetry.

In celebration of April and National Poetry Month, The Citizen issued an invitation to local poets to submit their work for publication in our paper.

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