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Pl. Vly. basketball team will ‘egg’ your yard — for a fee

Have you ever wanted to have an Easter egg hunt for your children or grandchildren, but just don’t have the time to buy the eggs, stuff the eggs, and hide the eggs — all without the little kiddos seeing you?

Well, members of the Pleasant Valley High School Boys Basketball team will do it for you.

This is the second year the Pleasant Valley Boys Basketball Booster Club is running the fundraiser “Egg My Yard.”

For a small fee, members of the team will hide candy-filled plastic eggs in the yard the night before Easter. The next morning, the children wake up to an Easter egg hunt in their own yard.

“The community absolutely loved it,” said Carmen Solt, the outgoing vice president and treasurer of the booster club. Her son, Marcelus Solt, who is on the basketball team and a senior this year, helped hide eggs last year.

Solt said the idea was that of Melissa DeSanto, whose son is on the basketball team, too.

Solt said DeSanto got the idea from another booster club and loved it. She presented it to their booster club, and it was a great success last year.

“It’s one less thing for a busy parent to do,” Solt said.

The booster club advertised the fundraiser on Facebook, and they already have 13 families signed up for this year, and many of them are repeat customers, she said.

People who are interested in having their yard “egged” are asked to complete an order form.

Prices range from $20 to $45.

They also are asked to indicate how difficult they want the eggs hidden; where in their yard to hide them; or if they just wanted the candy-filled eggs to be left on their porch for the purchaser to hide.

Payment can be made by giving cash or a check to a booster board member.

The form does ask about allergies, but people are told that some candy may contain or have come in contact with allergy-related ingredients.

Anyone with questions can email the booster club at pvbearsbballboosterclub@gmail.com.

Solt said the plastic eggs have been donated, but the booster club purchased all the candy for the sake of safety.

All of the money raised by the fundraiser is used to pay for the basketball banquets for the teams from middle school on up through the high school, senior banners and gifts, team clothing and team-building events, Solt said.

The order form must be completed by March 21. Eggs will be delivered between 7 and 10 p.m. on April 4 to the houses in Effort, Brodheadsville, Kunkletown, Kresgeville, Saylorsburg and Gilbert.

“I’m really excited about,” Solt said.

“I like building up the sense of community in the Pleasant Valley School District.”

Solt said the logistics of getting all of the yards done in that time frame takes some planning, but it’s all worth it.

“They truly enjoyed it,” Solt said about the boys who volunteered to hide eggs last year.

“I thank them for stepping up to make the community happy.”

Last year was the first year the Pleasant Valley Boys Basketball Booster Club held the “Egg My Yard” fundraiser. Pictured are members of the basketball team who hid eggs on the night before Easter in 2025 for children to find the next morning. They are, from left, Kellen Green, Class of 2025; Marcelus Solt, Class of 2026; Jaxson Haines, Class of 2026; Jake Loch, Class of 2026; William Breuer, Class of 2027; and Ajani Wheeler, Class of 2026. CONTRIBUTED PHOTO