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2025 Tasty Pizza/Columbia Heights Jamboree Medallion Hunt

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Todd Estrem Tasty Pizza Medallion Hunt Rules and Information

  1. This is a family friendly hunt in the spirit of celebrating community. Take time to meet your fellow hunters. Perhaps compare ideas about the hunt and learn about others and the community. We are all one in community.
  2. Any conduct by participants deemed unlawful, unethical or inappropriate will eliminate participants' eligibility in the hunt.
  3. Medallion hunt participants must conduct their hunt in accordance with local municipal rules, ordinances, and laws.
  4. When you find the medallion take a photograph of it where you find it and text the photo to 763 464 8766. You will be given further direction at that time.
  5. Staff at Tasty Pizza are not eligible for this hunt and have no information as to its whereabouts.
  6. Clues will be posted at 11 am and 5 pm at Tasty Pizza. Clues will be posted an hour after that on the Tasty Pizza Facebook page.
  7. One bonus clue per day will provided. This clue is meant to be an "elimination" clue.
     
2025 Columbia Heights Finders
2025 Columbia Heights Finders
2025 Columbia Heights Finders
Hunt Information
Dates
Scheduled Dates
Wednesday, June 25, 2025
Finders
Name
Ed Brodie
Name
Mike Nowak
Name
Coldest Hunter
Name
Skylar Sanftner
Prize
Maximum Prize
$1000
Awarded Prize
$1000
Location
General Location
Gauvitte Park
Pinpointed Location
South Side of the Hockey Rink
Concealer
Wedged between the boards

45.046455046924, -93.265229799772

Clues
Clue 1
Published Date
Wednesday, June 25, 2025, 11:00 AM

Todd was fellow from Brooklyn Center who liked to bike and ride (motorcycles).

Based on his unprecedented life of giving to others in the Columbia Heights Community he may have had the most Hites Pride.
 

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Clue 2
Published Date
Wednesday, June 25, 2025, 5:00 PM

Todd's father and his business partner Jon Huff opened the first Tasty Pizza in 1963, a former soda pop salesman was he.

They assumed the former location of Rocket Pizza for all to get together and eat.

Bonus clue - Rocket Pizza was located near 40th Avenue and Mill Street. The Medallion is not at huset Park.

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Clue 3
Published Date
Thursday, June 26, 2025, 11:00 AM

Todd enjoyed walking his dogs in the parks, he trained and he did so with glee, the great bond they had with one another was really something to see

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Clue 4
Published Date
Thursday, June 26, 2025, 5:00 PM

"Todd's the name, pizza is the game", was a phrase Todd would exclaim when you met him.

He had great interest in World War Two. He was a collector of World War Two aviation art.

He opened and named his bar "Hanger 45" in the sprit of aviation. The 45 part of the name was in reference to the bars proximity to 45th Avenue.

Bonus clue-the alternative name to the Hanger 45 was, "The Officer's Club". Todd did not want to take away any attention from the nearby VFW so went with Hanger 45.

The medallion is not hidden near the Hanger 45.
 

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Clue 5
Published Date
Friday, June 27, 2025, 11:00 AM

Rain, reign go away, it's going on for two days.

Todd also enjoyed spending time on the playground with his daughter when she was younger, watching sports, hunting, fishing, and spending time in his hot tub. He lived life to the fullest and we were lucky to know him.
 

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Clue 6
Published Date
Friday, June 27, 2025, 5:00 PM

Day three, clue six, small pieces of a tree are also known as twigs or sticks.

As mentioned previously, Todd enjoyed training his dogs in the parks, but specifically in the open field area of the park. He would take a break from work and take the to the parks to train.

Bonus Clue-you will not be able to see the parade from where you will find the medallion.
 

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Clue 7
Published Date
Saturday, June 28, 2025, 11:00 AM

He was the first, she shall not be the last.

Like a bridge over troubled water, I will ease your mind from the past.

Todd Would have loved this year's hunt!

Very much community togetherness.

Bonus clue: please be mindful that the medallion can be hidden anywhere that is public. You will not have to dig or climb in any way to find it. The medallion has been hidden at Ostrander Park in the past, but it is not hidden there this year. That year it was not hidden in the water.
 

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Clue 8
Published Date
Saturday, June 28, 2025, 5:00 PM

Todd would be very happy.
Eight clues is a great run for this year's medallion hunt and hide.

Those participating are really showing their Hites Pride.

The Brady Bunch are in California.

Elvis Presley was in Tennessee.

Bonus-The medallion is hidden in plain view.
 

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Clue 9
Published Date
Sunday, June 29, 2025, 11:00 AM

Rain, reign go away we have a medallion to find today.

So much rain and water that it had me thinking about an ark.

Things that make you go, "Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm". As I recall, his wife and Todd's mom had the same first name. She was very proud of her son Todd.

Bonus- If Elvis Presley was in Tennessee and the Brady Bunch were in California travel those two directions from Tasty Pizza.
 

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Clue 10
Published Date
Sunday, June 29, 2025, 12:00 PM

Well look at that July begins on Tuesday.

The park named after this fella lead the community to a new day.

Go south and west from here, and this darn clues will all be clear.

Just why is it that hockey boards are not 90°, if they were, the ice would melt.
 

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