Jim Henkemeyer and his daughter, Stephanie and her friends Lynea and Bridget McCulloch, all 14 years old, found the medallion today at about 1 p.m. on the Koch Minnesota Trail between Central and Erickson parks.
Jim said he found the medallion, which was resting sideways on a retaining wall facing Erickson Pond. He said the medallion was very hard to see, but he reached down to see what it was.
To his surprise, it was the medallion.
The crew won the $500 prize offered by Sterling State Bank for finding the medallion. This is the fourth year in a row that the bank has offered the prize money.
Having the medallion found on the first day of the hunt is very rare. In recent years, the medallion has been found on the fourth, third and second days of the hunt. Previous to those years, the hunt was only slated to be five days long and it rarely went that long.
Jim said they were very lucky to have found it since the clue didn't offer any specific information that pointed to this location. He also said what he saw didn't look like it could be the medallion since only the top side of it was visible.
He said they were in the park looking around for about 15 minutes or so until they found it. They had already been to Jaycee, Camfield and Charlie's parks before going to Central Park and continued to the trail.
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