Hundreds of people of all ages packed a portion of Oliver Street Sunday afternoon (April 17) to take in the Realm of Toys Annual Easter Festival in Williams Lake.
Following a two-year hiatus due to the pandemic, the festival was well-received by community members and visitors alike in town for Easter.
Organizers Jazmyn Lyons and Joan Douillard were on hand throughout the event, which ran from noon to 3 p.m.
“Its going great. It’s going as well as we could possibly hope,” said Lyons.
This year is the fifth downtown Easter festival and it has grown in popularity every year.
“We were so desperate for an event that we said if we are allowed to, and public health orders have been lifted for events, we’re doing it this year,” she said of the decision to move forward with the event.
“People were so excited to be able to do something that is was actually really, really easy to throw an event together. Everybody that we asked, they said ‘ya we’ll be here.’”
The festival included everything from food and product vendors, multiple bouncy castles, a video game bus, face painting, pet roosters, a magician and, of course, the Easter bunny.
“We filled the street.”
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