The Easter bunny’s helpers

Throw together 10,000 colorful plastic Easter eggs, 250 pounds of candy, 17 pizzas and more than 40 kids and you’ve got the makings for 2 1/2 hours of hard work, with lots of fun and laughter thrown in along the way.

Each spring, members of Camas-Washougal Boy Scout Troop 562 and students from the Washington State School for the Blind in Vancouver descend on the Camas Community Center to fill their stomachs with pizza, and then spend the rest of the evening filling plastic eggs with sweet treats and prizes. The eggs are then used during the city’s annual hunt at Crown Park on Easter Sunday, which typically draws up to 1,000 people.