PENDLETON — When Caylah McAdams heard there was a real, live, 11-pound bunny rabbit in the Easter parade in Pendleton on Saturday, her eyes opened wide, and her mouth dropped to her chest.
Stunned into silence, the 6-year-old and her cousin Tykeria Porter, 7, couldn’t believe it.
The two girls already had Easter baskets full of eggs and candy from the Easter egg hunt earlier in the day’s festivities. A live bunny would just simply be too much.
Soon enough, though, the snow-white, 11-pound Miss Jeri and her “sister” 5-pound Betty Boo came rolling through downtown Pendleton sitting on the laps of their adoring grandmother and her friend.
The two rabbits rode in a convertible at the head of the parade as the official grand marshals. The costumed “Easter Bunny” rode a few cars behind.
Missy Nail has owned Miss Jeri and Betty Boo since they were just wee things and calls herself their grandmother.
“They watch TV, they run around the house, and they’re littler-box trained,” Mrs. Nail said. “They give us kisses and hugs. They go everywhere I go.”
Three-year-old Miss Jeri, an Austrian giant rabbit, is the quiet one, laid back and calm. Two-year-old Betty Boo, a dwarf rabbit, is a hoot, Mrs. Nail said.
“She reminds me of my middle son,” Mrs. Nail said. “When I’m driving and she wants to go, and you don’t go, she’ll scratch the pillow (on which she sit). And if you don’t go again, she’ll look at you then bite — well, nip — the pillow.”
As Mrs. Nail talked, children crowded around the two bunnies, who looked extremely content being petted continuously. If a child quit petting one of the bunnies, the rabbit simply would hop over to someone else who would pay some attention.
Early Saturday afternoon in Anderson, another group of children went tearing across the grass and grabbed as many Easter eggs as possible during the Easter egg hunt at VFW Post 5996.

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The Truro Daily News
TRURO – The Truro Wal-Mart is one of 175 stores in the chain to extend its holiday shopping hours.
To help last-minute shoppers prepare for the holiday, the earliest Easter since 1818, Wal-Mart Canada is extending its holiday hours in nearly 60 per cent of its locations.
“We expect to see more last-minute shopping this year and are responding to customer need,” said Jim Thompson, Wal-Mart Canada’s senior vice president of operations.
Stores will be open two extra hours; one hour early (7 a.m.) and closing later (11 p.m.) on Thursday, March 20 and Saturday, March 22.
This is the first time the company has introduced extended Easter store hours. In recent years, Wal-Mart Canada has tested extended hours during busy retail periods such as Christmas and back-to-school.
Easter is the Number 2 holiday for food spending and confectionery purchases and the third busiest shopping time of the year.
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This week’s new spotlight DVDs:
Writer-director Wes Anderson’s aesthetically beautiful, emotionally layered fifth feature didn’t get the critical or commercial love that came with his Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums, and The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou. Nonetheless, although The Darjeeling Limited ambles with a seeming meditative aimlessness more than its brethren, you can spot that distinctive and fanciful Anderson DNA they all share. The dryly comic director’s now-familiar eccentricities — the flip and deadpan tone, emotionally isolated and foible-rich characters’ jangled blend of feeling and intellect, the slow-mo pop music moments, the architecturally composed widescreen frames, the study of a family that bonds in its disunity — here move the brothers into new geographic and spiritual terrain.
The three estranged Whitman brothers (Owen Wilson, Jason Schwartzman, Adrien Brody) have not spoken to one another in a year. So they set off on a train voyage across India with a plan to find themselves and bond with each other — to become brothers again like they used to be. (”I wonder if the three of us would’ve been friends in real life. Not as brothers, but as people.”) Their “spiritual journey,” however, veers rapidly off-course and they eventually find themselves stranded alone in the middle of the desert with eleven suitcases, a printer and a laminating machine. A new, unplanned journey of self-discovery begins, even though “We haven’t located us yet.” Also worth noting here are two other members of Anderson’s hand-woven repertory company — Anjelica Huston as the Whitman mom whose identity crisis has spirited her off to the Himalayas, and Bill Murray in a funny recurring bit.
On the DVD, preceding The Darjeeling Limited is Anderson’s fine 13-minute prequel short, The Hotel Chevalier (a.k.a. The One With Natalie Portman Nekkid). Also here is a behind-the-scene featurette, “The Darjeeling Limited Walking Tour” (21 minutes).

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LOS ANGELES (KABC) — Many churches across the Southland opened their doors for Easter vigil services Saturday night.
One of the largest gatherings was at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels in downtown L.A., where a large crowd of Roman Catholics gathered.
Cardinal Roger Mahony presided over the Mass, which included the lighting of the Easter candle and the blessing of the fire at the Easter fire hearth on Cathedral Plaza.
Sunday morning, Cardinal Mahony will celebrate Easter Mass at 10 a.m.

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Happy Easter, West Tennessee, and happy fourth day of spring.
This is a tad better than last Easter Sunday on April 8 when folks attending sunrise church services had to deal with record-low temperatures in the low 20s. It warmed up to the 50s during the day, but the wind was still a bit nippy for the kiddies hunting eggs outside.
With a morning low of about 32 today and a high of about 55, Easter will still be on the cool side this year. But there’s nothing like the warmth you feel on this special day if you celebrate the resurrection of Christ.
For many, Easter is the first family gathering of the year. That, of course, means favorite foods in abundance.
At my mother-in-law’s house after church, her clan will be treated to ham, potato casserole, deviled eggs, fruit salad and other goodies, including a new recipe for a rich chocolate cake. I’ve been thinking about that for three days.
After enjoying that “buffet” and a quick nap, the plan is to motor over to my mama’s house in Middle Tennessee. Most of her company will have gone home by then, but the dinner-table leftovers will be waiting. They include a chicken casserole with rice, corn pudding, steamed veggies, spiced peaches and a cherry-pink salad. Aunt Buck will bring her famous potato salad, and Aunt Fluff will provide chess pies.
If a family meal isn’t on your schedule but you’re up for a special Easter treat, you might consider taking a drive to an area Tennessee State Park restaurant for its Easter buffet. Selections and prices vary, but they all start serving at 11 a.m. and continue until closing. Prices do not include drinks.
West Tennessee parks serving the buffet are Paris Landing State Park ($14.95) outside Paris (731-642-4311), Pickwick

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The Archbishop of Wales Dr Barry Morgan has attacked “immoral” money lenders as the worldwide mortgage crisis deepens.
Speaking during the Easter celebrations Dr Morgan said it was immoral “to encourage people to borrow more money than they could afford”.
He added there was something wrong with a system that allowed this to happen.
In Dr Morgan’s Easter sermon he will say that while there is no absolute proof the resurrection of Jesus happened, faith is more important.
Dr Morgan said those who had been allowed to borrow more money than they could afford were the first people to go to the wall.
His comments come as the United States sub-prime mortgage crisis, where borrowers were granted mortgages inappropriately, has lead to plunging property prices, a slowdown in the US economy and billions in losses by banks.
According to a draft version of the International Monetary Fund’s world economic outlook report, the US economy is “close to a possible recession”.
Mortgage lenders in the UK have also tightened their lending criteria, making it harder for first time buyers to get on the property ladder because a larger deposit is required.
Dr Morgan said economic uncertainty like this could force people to address eternal questions.
“It’s like when people are sometimes faced with the prospect of dying through a fatal disease and you just realise you’ve been worrying about 1001 things. We put our trust in all kinds of things except the things that matter,” he told the Western Mail newspaper.
In his Easter sermon to be delivered at Llandaff Cathedral in Cardiff on Sunday, Dr Morgan will highlight to his congregation the varying Gospel accounts of the life and death of Jesus, saying it is more essential to look at the truths they convey and not if they happened.
The archbishop will take St John’s story of Mary Magdalene’s encounter with Jesus outside the tomb in the garden on the first day of the week after his Resurrection to illustrate his point.

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CANADA: Niagara Network churches celebrate Easter in their buildings
Anglican realignment in Niagara, Ottawa and Toronto
By Sue Careless
The Anglican Planet
On Maundy Thursday a judge in the Ontario Superior Court in Hamilton, decided to allow three Ontario parishes belonging to the Anglican Network in Canada (ANiC) to continue worshipping in their buildings for Good Friday, Holy Saturday and Easter Sunday.
On March 20 Madame Justice Jane Milanetti reserved her decision on whether the parishes of St George’s Lowville in Milton, St Hilda’s in Oakville and Church of the Good Shepherd in St Catharines will retain exclusive use of their church facilities while the bigger legal issues of who owns the buildings are sorted out. The Diocese of Niagara is contesting the property.
The earlier decision of Mr Justice James Ramsay from Feb. 29, in which two of the ANiC parishes were given exclusive use of their properties until this motion was heard, will remain in effect until this decision is issued. The third parish, Good Shepherd in St. Catharines, was not part of the initial litigation but has since been added to the proceedings.
“We are very thankful that we are able to maintain our ministries in the buildings through Easter as there was much uncertainty,” said the Rev Canon Charlie Masters, rector of St George’s Lowville. “We look forward to continued worship there as long as the courts permit us to do so. He acknowledged the prayers offered from across the country. “We are deeply grateful for the prayer support and trust God no matter the outcome.”
The small minority of parishioners from the three churches who wish to remain with the ACC are currently attending Anglican churches within a six-minute drive of their original churches.
Madam Justice Milanetti needs to examine the evidence presented by lawyers John Page for the Diocese and Peter Jervis for ANiC. Her ruling could come down as early as the Tuesday after Easter. No exact date was indicted.

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Park City Mountain Resort celebrates Easter this Sunday, March 23, with an on-mountain Easter egg hunt featuring great prizes, a little kid’s Easter egg hunt in the Kids’ Corral, and free hot beverages for adults. But if you plan to hunt for eggs, you better get on it quick. Those things are swiped almost immediately. They’re pretty much gone by 10 a.m. Resort employees lay them delicately within view of any intermediate skier throughout the hill and the locals make it a game to swipe as many as they can regardless of the rule of one egg per guest. Each egg contains prizes ranging from T-shirts to a season pass. Lifts open at 9 a.m. for the All Mountain/All Ages hunt and prizes are redeemable until 5 p.m. at the information desk located inside the Legacy Lodge. Your little ones might have better luck in the Little Kid’s Easter egg hunt in the Kids’ Corral (ages 6 and under) at 9 a.m. Get there early for your chance to meet the Easter Bunny. He arrives 8:45–9:00 a.m. to give out treats. Lifts open at 9 a.m. for the First Time Easter Egg Hunt (candy inside the eggs for kids) at the First Time lift.
The Easter Bunny also will make stops at Deer Valley Resort, Alta, Snowbird, and The Canyons Sunday, March 23.
DV guests are invited to bring a camera and have their picture taken with him around the Snow Park Lodge from 9-11 a.m.
The Canyons will have Easter Brunch at The Cabin Restaurant from 11 a.m.-4 p.m., so drop in after their kids’ hunt at 11 a.m. at Red Pine Lodge. There are two categories: Infant (4 years old) and 5-10 years old. The Easter Egg Hunt will be complimentary for participants, family, and friends. However, guests will not be able to bring ski or snowboard equipment with them on the gondola. Pick up your complimentary gondola-only passes at the Mountain Concierge. The Easter Bunny also will be hanging out at Red Pine Lodge.

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Simpsonville — It will be a happy Easter for Cookie Man and Bunny.
The two rabbits, which are the pets of Sharon Richburg, receive proper care and attention, unlike many of the bunnies that are cute and cuddly on Easter Day, only to be forgotten and discarded as they grow older.
“They can be wonderful companions, if you do your homework,” said Ms. Richburg, who is a volunteer at the Rabbit Sanctuary in Simpsonville.
For more than 30 years, Caroline Gilbert has operated the sanctuary on her farm, caring for abused and abandoned rabbits.
The sanctuary has a “home for life” policy for the rabbits. More than 50 rabbits now are at the farm.
Ms. Richburg said thousands of rabbits are sold as children’s pets, and ultimately about 90 percent of the bunnies that join families at Easter end up homeless or dead.
Jessica Medford, assistant manager at Saluda River Pet Food Center on U.S. 123 in Seneca, said proper care will help ensure a healthy pet.
“You need to make sure they have a healthy diet,” Ms. Medford said. “Iceberg lettuce does not have the nutritional values they need. Some fruits and vegetables are good, and a good brand of rabbit food is needed.”
A ceramic or metal water bowl is important because rabbits gnaw on just about everything. Ms. Medford said blocks of wood in the rabbit’s pen or cage will help the rabbit keep its teeth from growing too long.
Nicky Walthall, who also works at the Saluda River Pet Food Center, said rabbits should have bedding of cedar, aspen or North American pine shavings, and a rabbit should have its own pen or cage.
Ms. Medford said a rabbit cost roughly $20 and can be outfitted with cage and supplies for about $100. “That’s for the onetime expenses,” Ms. Medford said.

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It seems that the problem-prone Easter Bunny is once again experiencingdifficulties. He’s spent so much time redecorating his warren that he hasn’tnoticed critters burrowing in and devouring his entire chocolate stockpile.
Now, devoid of cocoa stocks, the chocolate egg production has ground to a haltand the forecast for Easter celebrations looks bleak. No need to worry, though -the Easter Bunny is an inventive sort, and has come up with an eggs-emplary newidea: use a chocatrice! These fearsome creatures, incubated from achocolate-coated cockatrice egg, can turn their targets into chocolate with onelethal, chocifying gaze.
It falls to you, then, to create this curious creature. You’ll need to trackdown some of the lost chocolate to make a chocatrice egg and then carefullyincubate it. The critters who ate the chocolate supply are sealed in the EasterBunny’s tunnels and will prove a suitable target for your chocatrice.
So, this Easter, you will come to the aid of chocolate lovers everywhere,incubating your own chocatrice, guiding it around the Easter Bunny’s tunnels andturning the greedy rats into something altogether more delicious…
Where to start the Easter Event 2008:
Investigate the rabbit hole, between Falador’s southern gate and the Rimmingtonmine.
None - this update is available to members and F2P!
A new emote and Easter item!
In other news…
The music system now has a counter which keeps ‘track’ of how many songs you’veunlocked. You’ll have the Air Guitar emote in no time!
Players will now always receive a TzHaar fire cape and 8,000 TokKul afterdefeating TzTok-Jad. You can keep any extra fire capes you win as spares in caseyou lose them, or speak to TzHaar-Mej-Jal, master of the Fight Cave, who willpurchase spare fire capes from you for 8,000 TokKul a piece.
We’re constantly looking at item prices on the Grand Exchange and how they matchup with similar items and those that are unfinished versions of other items.Prices for some of these sorts of items have been adjusted following thispattern. For example, an unstrung necklace will more closely follow the price ofthe strung version.

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