Springfield Spirit’s Shea Ralph, WFSB’s Scot Haney Are Scheduled to Appear At 8th Annual MDC Awesome Egg Hunt for the MDA  

WEST HARTFORD – Former University of Connecticut basketball star Shea Ralph, now the Assistant Coach and Director of Community Relations for the Springfield Spirit of the National Women’s Basketball League, and Scot Haney, meteorologist with WFSB-TV 3, are the scheduled featured guests at the Metropolitan District Commission’s (MDC) eighth annual Awesome Egg Hunt on Saturday, April 12, at the West Hartford Reservoir, 1420 Farmington Ave.

The event will be 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Shea Ralph and Scot Haney are scheduled to appear in the afternoon.

“We are excited to have Shea and Scot join us this year,” said MDC Chairman Albert F. Reichin. “Both are delightful people and are well-known throughout the state and New England, and are extremely generous with their involvement in worthwhile civic projects. I’m sure that visitors to the Awesome Egg Hunt will enjoy meeting them.”

The $4 donation per child per hunt, as well as proceeds from the sale of refreshments, photos with the bunny and gift raffles, are donated to the Muscular Dystrophy Association for its fight against neuromuscular diseases.

Participating sponsors include: Buckley Radio and its stations WDRC, WSNG, WMMW and WWCO; Adams IGA Supermarkets, Walgreens, Imprint Newspapers and WFSB-TV. The Awesome Egg Hunt will be held rain or shine.

In the past seven years, the event has raised a total of more than $70,000 for the Muscular Dystrophy Association’s fight against neuromuscular diseases.

Shea Ralph, who also is employed by the Hartford Board of Education, earned many honors during her career at the University of Connecticut. She ranks 6th on the all-time scoring list with 1,678 points. She was named an Honorable Mention All-American in the 2000-01 season, and was named to the All-Big East second team. In the 1999-00 season, she was named Kodak first team All-American, Big East Player of the Year; Sports Illustrated women’s player of the year and Big East Player of the Year. She was named Most Valuable Player in the National Collegiate Athletic Association’s Final Four, when UConn went on to win the national championship over Tennessee.

Scot Haney is a veteran weather forecaster. He has experience in New York and Midwest markets. He received his bachelor’s degree from St. John’s University and completed his master’s degree at Syracuse University. He provides weather forecasts on Eyewitness News This Morning from 5 a.m. to 8 a.m. and Saturdays and Sundays from 7-9 a.m.

Besides the egg hunt, the event features games, raffles, a disc jockey and plenty of refreshments, for a small fee.

The MDC’s West Hartford Reservoir is on Farmington Avenue, near the West Hartford-Farmington town line, about one mile east of the University of Connecticut Health Center.

For more information, contact the MDC at 278-7850, ext. 3209.

A non-profit municipal corporation chartered by the Connecticut General Assembly in 1929, the MDC supplies water and sewer services to its eight member municipalities: Bloomfield, East Hartford, Hartford, Newington, Rocky Hill, West Hartford, Wethersfield and Windsor.The MDC also supplies treated water to the Town of Portland and to portions of Glastonbury, East Granby, South Windsor and Farmington.

The MDC also operates two hydroelectric facilities and, under contract to the Connecticut Resources Recovery Authority, waste processing services for the Mid-Connecticut trash-to-energy project.

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