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2010 - Lilydale Regional Park

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Discuss the 2010 Medallion Hunt Here 

13th Annual Rehash Bash and Other End of the Winter Carnival Festivities 

Sunday, January 31, 2010 
Newell Park Pavilion 
900 N. Fairview Ave. 
Saint Paul, MN 55104 
11:30am-2:30pm 

The 13th Annual Rehash Bash will be held on Sunday, January 31, 2010, at Newell Park, from 11:30am to 2:30pm. As always, its a potluck, and since we\'ve got the building, there will be plenty of power indoors for crock pots. Donations will be accepted to cover the $136 cost for renting the facility. MrMnMikey has some door prizes available. Since this isn\'t Super Bowl Sunday this year, if people want to stick around past the 2:30 closing time, we can start a fire in one of the fire rings. 

In addition, many of us long-time Coolerheads are loyal servants of Vulcanus Rex. Join us for the Vulcan Victory Torchlight Parade, followed by the Vulcan Victory Dance. Information on the Parade Route is from the 2006 Vulcan Krewe. The best places for viewing the parade are going to be at the end of the parade route, as His Majesty, Vulcanus Rex LXXIII, the true King of the Winter Carnival, overthrows that other guy on the steps of the St. Paul Central Library, across from Rice Park 

 

Conference Call Info for Clue 11:

There was no conference call scheduled for clue 10.


 

  • Phone Number: 1-517-417-5000
  • Pass code: 859597 (clue 12 may be different
  • Everyone will be muted initially
  • Lines open at 11pm
  • lilslim will read the clue twice from start to finish
  • After the clue has been read, she will unmute the call
  • 60 ports are available for the teleconference



Line Placeholder Schedule 

1/26/2010- 
5-6 Redbear 
6-7 Jake 
7-8 Jerilyn 
8-9 Kathy 
9-10 Mikey 
10-Clue Steph 

1/27/2010- 
12-1 Redbear 
1-2 Andrea 
2-3 Nimrod 
3-4 jengerm 
4-5 Barefootguy 
5-6 Wicked Nick 
6-7 Chris Digger 
7-8 Art V 
8-9 CM & Me2 
9-Clue Sara 

 

 
First Video - The Deed is Done 

When January’s slanting snow, 
Makes us dream of Mexico 
St. Paul emerges from Wintery sleep 
To search for treasure buried deep 

Notice to every hunting battalion, 
We have hidden the Pioneer Press Medallion 
Where? You ask in husky shout, 
That’s for us to know, and you to find out 

Turn off the tube, leave your hovel 
Grab your walking stick and shovel, 
Whether you be giant or runt, 
The only way is to join the hunt 

For to the hunter belongs the spoil, 
Hunt by day, or Midnight oil, 
Hunt in boot and sturdy glove, 
Hunt with pal, or old true love 

For you who hunt each and every year, 
We raise a lusty St. Paul cheer 
“Good Luck” 

And now, let us be blunt, 
Get off thy duff, and hunt, hunt, hunt
Clue #1 

All hail, O Fire King, of thee we sing 
Thy blast of winter heat scorches 
When ice was like concrete it would\'ve been so sweet 
If the Vulcans plowed with their torches 

Emerge from the den as we once again 
Offer a bodacious bounty 
And this tip to the frozen: bring thick lederhosen 
To public land in Ramsey County 

Clue #1 Video

Hear ye all crews, now come the clues 
For this task I am the Czar 
With each rhyming gift, this shape I will shift 
Listen well to each avatar
Clue #2 

Kissed by a Vulcan, she left him sulkin\' 
\"Sir Soot, I\'ll not forgive these sins!\" 
Her airs Elizabethan, her language, bleepin\' heathen, 
Our mother once blessed us with twins.
Clue #3 

Look high, look low, wherever you go 
Follow a picturesque route 
There are ways to travel away from the gravel 
That keep you in hot pursuit
Clue #4 

Code by Morse should set your course 
To long dashes that dot the landscape. 
You or your avatar should park your car 
On your way to this great escape.
Clue #5 

Take a westerly tack up from the stack, 
A landmark most uncouth. 
Figures grand in scale point to a trail 
Of footprints left by our sleuth.
Clue #6 

You\'ll want to go shopping where things are hopping 
And storeowners once dropped anchor 
Go down the main drag, but be sure not to lag, 
You\'ll have plenty for which to thank her
Clue #7 

Escape your troubles where the water bubbles 
Or gurgles like a stream. 
You may be chargin\' right up to the margin. 
Look for a productive seam.
Clue #8 

Down on the delta where there\'s no ice to melta 
The purple horde raids a golden legion 
Today before kick off the prize you\'ll pick off 
If you search in just the right region 

To find the seed, energy you need 
In search for your clues to glean 
What once was planted is taken for granted 
Stored in one of fifteen
Clue #9 

Not far from stones and ancient bones 
Lay clues that are fit for Jim 
Lure the egrets to yield all secrets 
And you should satisfy him 

Get your kicks by hitting the bricks 
Admiring the trees and view 
Be ever glad hopping pad to pad 
Like amphibians in\'52
Clue #10 

Stonehenge tumbled down near a crumbled town 
Not far from the lights of the city 
If you would hike away from the pike 
You might stumble on something pretty 

Upstream from the landing lay a place in good standing 
Where people prayed, God willin\' 
Now midst the cocklebur and rusted spur 
Is nothing by murder and killin\' 

This park is a sliver, from ancient beds to a river 
In neither is the prize to be found 
Look for the goods among timber and woods 
Do not dig in the fossil ground
Clue #11 

Go for a lark in Lilydale Park 
Between Water Street and the river 
The city boundary sign and the old rail line 
Define the zone that will deliver 

You\'re outside the pale if you\'re close to the rail 
It\'s not to be found near the tracks 
Be nice and cooperative, respect private property 
On public land launch your attacks 

Within this area lies medallion hysteria 
A tangle near the river - not too close! 
About four dozen paces from the waterline to places 
Where you should tromp, dig and freeze your nose
 



 

CerealKiller

ok so where is the Video Clue!?!?! I want to see that!!!
Sun, 01/17/2010 - 9:38 PM Permalink
lilslim

Sweet, now your wifey doesn't have to make you call me.

And they're off!!!
Sun, 01/17/2010 - 9:38 PM Permalink
queenmalley

Ares: video or paper?
Sun, 01/17/2010 - 9:39 PM Permalink
Tatergirl

Thanks Ares!!!

Wow this one is wordy!
Sun, 01/17/2010 - 9:39 PM Permalink
New Daddy

O

K
Sun, 01/17/2010 - 9:40 PM Permalink
ares

Malley, paper. I web double checked spellng captalisaton and punctuation before posting.
Sun, 01/17/2010 - 9:41 PM Permalink
Tatergirl

Our mother once blessed us with twins...... Oh Great HERE COME THE BOOBY JOKES.
Sun, 01/17/2010 - 9:42 PM Permalink
Allison Wonderland

Civil lawsuit over Vulcan harassment in '05 settled

November 30, 2007

Three female bartenders who sued the St. Paul Winter Carnival and its 2005 Vulcan King have resolved their civil cases, their attorneys confirmed Thursday.

The women worked at Alary's Bar in February 2005 when they were inappropriately touched by Vulcan King Tom Trudeau.

One lawsuit, filed in October 2006 by Jamie Kissel and Kate Richardson, claimed that Trudeau poked at their genitals, grabbed their breasts and forcibly kissed them during the Vulcan Krewe's "garter ritual."

Trudeau pleaded guilty in 2005 to fifth-degree criminal sexual conduct in connection with the incident and was sentenced to probation and community service.

The women's lawsuit had asked for more than $50,000 in damages. It is not known how much they received in the resolution because the agreement was confidential, the women's attorney, Lori Peterson, said Thursday.

A lawsuit brought by a third bartender, Cassandra Lee, was resolved last summer. That suit was filed last March. That also involved a confidentiality agreement "and I am of course not going to violate it," said attorney Bob Espeset.

The Vulcan Krewe is no longer allowed to perform the garter ritual. Other rule changes in the wake of the incidents include not allowing carnival royalty to drink alcohol except at the end of the day's schedule and they must have scheduled appearances approved by carnival staff.

A statement from the St. Paul Festival and Heritage Foundation, producer of the Winter Carnival, said the foundation was abiding by the resolution.
Sun, 01/17/2010 - 9:43 PM Permalink
OT

And you did a wonderful job. It's Susie, right?
Sun, 01/17/2010 - 9:43 PM Permalink
queenmalley

Be thee in Phalen! (Say that while pointing your finger in a stern gesture)

Laughing so hard I am in tears!
Sun, 01/17/2010 - 9:43 PM Permalink
green

ROFLOL!!!
Sun, 01/17/2010 - 9:44 PM Permalink
OT

Oh Lord, let's not stir up that can of worms.
Sun, 01/17/2010 - 9:44 PM Permalink
Terry

In '71 there was reference to twins. That was the year it was on the lake at Wakefield.
Sun, 01/17/2010 - 9:45 PM Permalink
Inasuitcase

So. Ares, that was tonight's clue? Why so short?
Sun, 01/17/2010 - 9:45 PM Permalink
OT

Her airs Elizabethan, her language, bleepin' heathen,

Kind of sounds like Klondike Kate, doesn't it?
Sun, 01/17/2010 - 9:45 PM Permalink
excavating stud

Klondike Kate keeps coming to mind
Sun, 01/17/2010 - 9:45 PM Permalink
queenmalley

I, too, was looking for that, ND.....
Sun, 01/17/2010 - 9:46 PM Permalink
queenmalley

HaHa, Tater. Twins and Bodacious!
Sun, 01/17/2010 - 9:47 PM Permalink
OT

She had beauty, charm and a man who "done her wrong". She was Kathleen Rockwell, and she made her way across the mountains to Dawson City and gold fields around the Yukon and Klondike Rivers, just as many others did during the Gold Rush of 1898
Sun, 01/17/2010 - 9:49 PM Permalink
queenmalley

great memory, Terry.
Sun, 01/17/2010 - 9:49 PM Permalink
lilslim

Vulcan created Pandora and her box.

haven't found anything about twins yet...looking for something that ties Apollo and Artemis to him...
Sun, 01/17/2010 - 9:49 PM Permalink
diggorius rex

mmm klondike
Sun, 01/17/2010 - 9:51 PM Permalink
Terry

That was the first hunt I did with my soon to be spouse. You tend to remember things - and all the snow we shoveled straight out from those twins.

Just ran out of steam before we got to the treasure.
Sun, 01/17/2010 - 9:51 PM Permalink
Allison Wonderland

2006: Clue 3

Published on Jan. 24, 2006

Men with a garter should have been smarter

Than to mix drink with their vulcanic activities.

You would be wise to look for the prize

By taking up a child's proclivities.

Explanation: A red garter � a reference to the infamous �garter ritual� that got the Vulcan Krewe leader in trouble last year � is wrapped around the medallion. It is near a sliding hill behind Battle Creek Elementary School and rec center, a favorite of neighborhood children.
Sun, 01/17/2010 - 9:52 PM Permalink
lilslim

I thought about that whole thing too, Alison, but I wouldn't call those women "Elizabethan".. and would they really admit they used that whole thing as part of a clue? They won't have to, if people see it as a double entendre.

Annnnnd, I take it back. Totally forgot the proclivities clue...
Sun, 01/17/2010 - 9:52 PM Permalink
OT

Is the Prom Center on the Maplewood side of 494? Isn't that where they crown Kate?
Sun, 01/17/2010 - 9:53 PM Permalink
diggorius rex

heirs? or airs?
Sun, 01/17/2010 - 9:54 PM Permalink
Posen

Twins, bodacious...sounds like Mounds park
Sun, 01/17/2010 - 9:54 PM Permalink
queenmalley

Twins Pro Shop, 2401 Fairview.
Sun, 01/17/2010 - 9:55 PM Permalink
l and a mommy

Antoher international clue with the Elizabethian reference...maybe we need to look for areas that these groups settled or we need to stay away from them...I don't know don't listen to me tonight I don't make much sense when I'm sick all sorts of weird ass things pop into my head :wink:
Sun, 01/17/2010 - 9:55 PM Permalink
Allison Wonderland

Other than what seems to be an obvious reference to this incident, the clue seems to make no sense. Even the phrase "our monther once blessed us with twins" doesn't make much literal sense.
Sun, 01/17/2010 - 9:55 PM Permalink
excavating stud

There were two klondike kates
Sun, 01/17/2010 - 9:55 PM Permalink
Mad_Dach5und

Vulcan - Birthing Twins - Doctor Spock?

Sarek and Amanda were Spock's Parents on Star Trek
Sun, 01/17/2010 - 9:57 PM Permalink
excavating stud

Prince of Soot (Sooty) - The recorder of past memories. The "ladies" man. Usually the oldest member of the Krewe.
Sun, 01/17/2010 - 9:57 PM Permalink
queenmalley

great, Posen!
Sun, 01/17/2010 - 9:57 PM Permalink
OT

"our monther once blessed us with twins"

Ma Press
Sun, 01/17/2010 - 9:58 PM Permalink
CerealKiller

ANYONE rember the Twins Gold ticket hunt a few years back lol!! What park was that Turtle lake park lol!!

my park pick!!
Sun, 01/17/2010 - 9:59 PM Permalink
excavating stud

Wasn't there two St Paul papers before? A morning and an evening paper?
Sun, 01/17/2010 - 9:59 PM Permalink
Tatergirl

I believe that's Oakdale -Washington county
Sun, 01/17/2010 - 9:59 PM Permalink
diggorius rex

twin cities? astrological signs?
Sun, 01/17/2010 - 10:00 PM Permalink
OT

Yup. I used to deliver the afternoon edition for my son when he had after school activities.
Sun, 01/17/2010 - 10:00 PM Permalink
diggorius rex

pioneer press and dispatch?
Sun, 01/17/2010 - 10:01 PM Permalink
blackmamba

Hello Everyone:

I am new to the Cooler Crew discussion Board. My husband and I started hunting together last year but I am a N. St.Paul baby. Thought I would say hi.

I am very confused with this one and I have to say: I suck at noodling! But I see I am graced with the presense of the legendary Brass Monkey! Nice to meet you :grin:
Sun, 01/17/2010 - 10:01 PM Permalink
Brassmonkey

We are looking for a person in the flesh with twins in their history. Its out there...
Sun, 01/17/2010 - 10:01 PM Permalink
OT

Yes, that's what they were called.
Sun, 01/17/2010 - 10:01 PM Permalink
Terry

The astrological sign for twins is Gemini.
Sun, 01/17/2010 - 10:02 PM Permalink
Redbear

What "twins" it's probably referring to is two tetherball poles that St. Paul assistant comptroller Eunice VonCrabbywrinkle allocated to this park in 1953
Sun, 01/17/2010 - 10:02 PM Permalink
Brassmonkey

I'm just like everyone else, nice to meet you and welcome!
Sun, 01/17/2010 - 10:03 PM Permalink
Terry

OT - I like the Ma Press angle and the two daily newspapers.
Sun, 01/17/2010 - 10:03 PM Permalink
queenmalley

hello Billie!
Sun, 01/17/2010 - 10:03 PM Permalink