Egg hunts, petting zoo and a block party: The Bay Area came out this Easter weekend to celebrate the holiday after a long pandemic delay, giving some much-needed love to small businesses that had a tough go.
Animal rescue advocates are warning people to think twice about gifting a real-life bunny for Easter this year."It's something to do to celebrate Easter, it's nice out here, I wanted to bring the kids to explore and get to know the city a bit," said Ortega.
That's exactly what the Castro Merchant's Association was hoping for. The block party designed to give some love to small businesses which have had a tough go. "The Castro has been one of the hardest hit districts during the pandemic, we need to get people off Amazon and back to shopping with small businesses, it's a great step forward," said Castro Merchant's Association co-president Dave Karraker.Jeffrey's Natural Pet Foods on Noe Street was seeing a lot a new customers.
"Events like this really brings people in with good moods and it lightens up the neighborhood, after three years of silence," said Jeffrey's employee Emily Martinez.
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