We got a change of sponsor this year. Love Your Melon took over sponsorship of the hunt, and rather than having the Winter Carnival button augment the prize by $5000, the Pioneer Press sold their own blinky medallions, the purchase of which augmented the prize for the winner.
Julie Schonhardt picked it out of the snow and her husband Dan was ready to throw it in the trash thinking it was garbage. Lesson for you Dan, nothing is garbage in this hunt until you verify that it is garbage. They're splitting the prize with their team.
Thanks to ignorant hunters crossing the fences and climbing the burial mounds at Indian Mounds, the Pioneer Press made an unprecedented move in announcing that the park was off limits before Clue 10 was released.