Riverside’s Easter Egg-Stravaganza will offer three blocks of family fun — including kids’ activities, pictures with the Easter Bunny, crafts and storytelling — from noon to 4 p.m. April 16.

On Main Street, between University and Mission Inn avenues,  there will be activities including a Water Wars; cookie decorating at the Mission Galleria Café; and artisan vendors.

Between Mission Inn Avenue and Sixth Street will be an animal-adoption station; the Easter Bunny;  face painting; and island music and dancing.

Finally, between Sixth and Fifth streets, will be “paw-traits” (animal portraits); photos with the Easter Bunny; egg decorating at the Art Works and Gram’s Mission Barbeque Palace; storytelling just outside the Downtowne Bookstore; and papier-mache crafts at Curves.

There will also be prizes. Participating businesses will give away eggs, with one from each location containing a prize; winners will then be entered in a drawing for a grand prize. (You must be present to win.)

The Easter Egg-Stravaganza is sponsored by the Downtown Riverside Partnership; for more information, go to www.riversidedowntown.org.

Earlier in the day is the sixth annual Salute to Veterans Parade, featuring Grand Marshal Jack Brown, a Navy veteran and Stater Bros. CEO. The parade — which includes bands, military vehicles, flyovers, floats, vintage cars, bagpipers and more — begins at 10 a.m. at Magnolia Avenue and Ramona Drive (at Riverside Community College) and ends at the historic Court House. A 7:30 a.m. pancake breakfast will be held in the RCC parking lot at Ramona and Olivewood Avenue. For more on the parade, click here.

The day begins with the weekly Farmer’s Market on Main Street (between Fifth and Sixth streets) from 8 a.m.-1 p.m.

– posted by Cathy Maestri

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Thursday, March 31, 2011

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