The Adeler Jewelers and Great Falls Optimist Club join forces with the Great Falls community to host the 31st annual Children’s Spring Festival on Sunday, March 29, 1:30-4:30 p.m. at the Village Centre.

Welcoming the community to the Great Falls Egg Hunt 2015, Jorge Adeler, of the Adeler Jewelers, said:

“Thirty years ago we invited children of the community to a small ‘Egg Hunt’ to show our gratitude to Great Falls for making us feel so welcome when we decided to open our doors in the Village Centre. Thirty-one amazing years later, and eventually with the wonderful partnership of the Optimist Club and the support of many, many local businesses, friends and neighbors, this event has become a tradition of this community.”

The program of this year’s Children’s Spring Festival includes games, rides, food and fun, culminating with the Egg Hunt from 4-4:30 p.m. with more than $8,000 worth of gemstones donated by Adeler Jewelers, mixed with candy and stuffed into 8,000 plastic eggs that will be scattered around Village Centre for children ages 1-10 to find.

TK Cook, president of the Great Falls Optimist Club, said the event has become a family tradition in Great Falls:

“It is not unusual to see parents that previously participated as children now enjoying the festival with their children. We hope some day they may bring their grandchildren.”