Steven Milton helps his daughter Maelea pick a gift following an Easter candy hunt in Victor city park Saturday. Nolan Beatty watches at left.

Children in Williamsburg and Victor raced for candy on a warm, sunny Saturday in March, fulfilling an Easter-season tradition.

Kaylee Timm finds a bag of candy during an Easter event in Victor city park Saturday.

In Williamsburg, the Easter bunny greeted children before they were turned loose in the city park on the square to pick up plastic eggs filled with candy.

Dennis Maxwell offers Reese Schmidt a plastic egg while mom Jess Schmidt watches. Reese emptied the eggs of their candy Saturday in Williamsburg.

In Victor, children picked up bags of candy and then received pencils, bubbles, toothbrushes and kites as gifts. Officials asked that everyone make sure each child found at least three candy bags before snatching up the remainder of the 200 placed in the park.

Each child at the Victor event also received a gift card for a free meal at Texas Road House in Coralville.

(Photos by Winona Whitaker/Hometown Current.)