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Oktoberfest Medallion found in Myrick Park

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5 years ago

September 24, 2019

This is the second time Amber Blomquist has found the Oktoberfest Medallion.

The Oktoberfest Medallion is found! Amber Blomquist and Alex Keller of West Salem made the discovery in Myrick park Sunday morning. Blomquist said it was their first day joining the Medallion hunt this year.

“It was just dumb luck,” Blomquist said. They reviewed the clues the night before and first stopped in Crawley Park before checking out Myrick Park.

“He got a call from work, and we pulled over in Myrick Park,” Blomquist said. “He was on the phone, so I just went up and I looked, and the second place I looked I found it. It was kind of a fluke but really exciting, and the right place at the right time.”

She kicked it up from some dirt under a pine tree and wooden arch near where the zoo used to be.

Blomquist also found the Oktoberfest Medallion in 2008 and admitted to being an avid hunter in various community-related medallion hunts.

The couple has not decided how to spend the $500 cash prize but said they were looking forward to the start of the festivities. Oktoberfest kicks off Thursday!

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Kaitlyn Riley

Kaitlyn Riley’s passion for communications started on her family’s dairy farm in Gays Mills, Wis. Wanting to share agriculture’s story, she studied strategic communications and broadcast journalism at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. In college, she held officer positions with the Association of Women in Agriculture and Badger Dairy Club while volunteering as a news reporter for the college radio station. She also founded the university’s first agricultural radio talk show, AgChat. In her professional career, Kaitlyn has worked in radio, print and television news doing everything from covering local events to interviewing presidential candidates, and putting back on her barn boots to chat with farmers in the field. Today, Kaitlyn can be seen covering local stories that matter to you in the La Crosse area.