Winners announced in annual Conejo Valley Days Medallion Hunt

T.O. Acorn Editor


LISA ADAMS/T.O. Acorn  FOUND THE MEDALLION-- Congratulations to Lisa Muir and her 4-year-old daughter, Angeline, of Simi Valley. They are the confirmed winners of the Conejo Valley Days Medallion Hunt. CVD begins in earnest this weekend with the famous Chili Cook Off on Sunday at Conejo Creek Park South, across from the T.O. Library on Janss Road, just east of the 23 Freeway. The carnival starts next Wednesday.

LISA ADAMS/T.O. Acorn FOUND THE MEDALLION– Congratulations to Lisa Muir and her 4-year-old daughter, Angeline, of Simi Valley. They are the confirmed winners of the Conejo Valley Days Medallion Hunt. CVD begins in earnest this weekend with the famous Chili Cook Off on Sunday at Conejo Creek Park South, across from the T.O. Library on Janss Road, just east of the 23 Freeway. The carnival starts next Wednesday.

The sleuthing team of Lisa and 4-year-old Angeline Muir of Simi Valley is $1,000 richer.


The mother and daughter found the prize in the Conejo Valley Days Great Rabbit Medallion Hunt sponsored by the Acorn Newspapers and 97.1 K-Lite in Jungleland Park in the old town section of Thousand Oaks.


"We just followed the clues," Lisa said. "I got myself a map of Thousand Oaks, and every time we got a new clue, we researched the map, eliminated areas, and then Angeline and I would jump in the car and go out hunting."


Lisa said that overall, the dynamic duo spent about 12 hours tramping around in different parts of the city.


"I decided that it would be a fun thing for me and my daughter to do together," Lisa said. "I’m always looking for things for us to do, and as it turns out, we had a lot of fun, and we visited parts of town and discovered new things.


"I grew up in Thousand Oaks, went to school here, and I discovered that there are a lot of places in town that I had never visited."


During the last few days while she was out hunting in the field, Lisa got nervous, she said, that someone else would find the medallion. She and her daughter were constantly running into other searchers who were working with the same clues.


"Everyone was trying to find out what we knew without letting on that they were searching, too. It was funny," Lisa said.


The clues mentioned a ghost, and Lisa said that she finally realized that it was talking about a business––Phantom Electronics––located close to the park.


There was also a clue alluding to Indians, and Lisa said that there’s a mobile home park nearby with its streets named after Native American tribes.


"Then when the clue about a flag being over the medallion came out, I knew we were close because there’s a pendent with the name "Jungleland" on it in the park," Lisa said.


Then, as they, along with Lisa’s boss from the Vons supermarket near Erbes Road and Avenida de Los Arboles in T.O. searched the park, Angeline was standing on a rock when she looked down and said, "This looks like a medallion." When Lisa lifted the rock, the CVD medallion was underneath.


The two had made sure they had a CVD sanctioned "hunting license" in their possession, so they are entitled to the full $1,000 prize.




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