With a weekend filled with eggs hunts and a sunrise worship service on Fort Hill, spring is officially in full swing.

The season will usher in a plethora of events in Vicksburg including the annual Old Court House Flea Market, where Marissa Rudd, the six-year-old daughter of Casey and Christopher Rudd will be selling crosses.

In an interview on Wednesday, Marissa said she got the idea for the craft project after learning about Jesus in her Sunday school class.

“Well, when I started to think about the idea, it was because we went to church, and we started talking about Jesus. So I came home, and I told my mom and my dad that I have an idea to make the cross that Jesus died on.”

Marissa has been making the wooden crosses since January and will be one of the many vendors at the annual event scheduled for April 23. In addition to selling the crosses, the kindergarten student has committed to donating 50 percent of the proceeds she earns to the Blair E. Batson Children’s Hospital in Jackson.

The spring season will also usher in the 80th season of “Gold in the Hills,” the longest running melodrama as listed in the Guinness Book of World Records.

According to a first person account written by Frances Ethridge, who was a performer in “Gold in the Hills” from the start, said the idea behind offering the melodrama was to promote the River City.

A special 80th anniversary showing is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. tonight.

The regular 2016 season begins at 7:30 p.m. Friday and will continue on Fridays and Saturdays through April 16 and on Fridays and Saturdays beginning July 8 through 23.

Positive happenings for Vicksburg this week included:

4The senior class of St. Aloysius High School hosted the annual prayer labyrinth Wednesday night on the school’s Balzli Field. The labyrinth — a spiritual tool used to facilitate prayer, meditation and spiritual transformation with a single path winding from the edge to the center— was outlined in luminaries with a cross draped in a purple cloth at the center.

4Vicksburg High School raised more than $1,000 for the school’s Relay for Life Team Thursday, during a lip sync battle, between Vicksburg Mayor George Flaggs Jr. and Warren County Sheriff Martin Pace.