“Who has red number twenty?” Bennie Menke shouted to the children from the stage last night, after he gave the wheel a swing. The children who participated in an Easter egg hunt just before are eagerly awaiting. Does the number on their Easter egg match the number on the wheel? If so: then they may light the Easter fire.
Around 8.30 pm the time had come: ten children, accompanied by firefighter Sam, who previously showed himself as Easter bunny Jordy, were allowed to set fire to the bump. “It was really fun,” says Leya, who was one of the lucky ones. “I went with fireman Sam and then we threw the torch on the hump. And then I took a picture with him.”
“I’m really enjoying myself,” says a woman standing at the gate. “I think of the past and the Easter bumps. I hope this tradition continues.”
It’s more than just the Easter fire, says Bennie Menke of the ice cream association, who organized this evening. “We enjoy the ice cream here two days a year, everyone in the village is a member of the ice cream club. So we would like to give something back,” he says. “We not only have the fire, but also bands that perform and the dance maries of the carnival association will dance.”