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WINNERS

Jesse Friesen of South Surrey found the MISSING hard hat at the bottom of a tree stump near Semiahmoo Trail and won the GRAND PRIZE iPad from Simply Computing, the Apple Experts!!

Jesse Adams, a 15 year old Surrey resident found the MISSING hard hat behind the totem poles at the beach and wins a $200 BC Lions Prize Pack!!

Jessica Turner (with her 10 month old son Logan)found the missing hard hat in the Duprez Ravine and wins the $400 PNE prize pack.

Robert Weir and his son Cameron found this week's MISSING hard hat at Bakerview Park and won a $200 Giovanni Jewellers Gift Certificate.

Jessica O'Sullivan of South Surrey (and her friend Rebecca Fletcher) found this week's MISSING hard hat at Centennial Arena in White Rock and won a $150 Semiahmoo Shopping Centre Gift Card.

Jodi Main of Surrey found this week's MISSING hard hat at Dogwood Park and wins a $200 Ticketmaster Gift Card.

Gordon Slatten of White Rock found this week's MISSING hard hat at the White Rock City Hall beside the (other) White Rock and wins a $350 Samsung Advance cell phone from PCS/Telus.

Kathleen Cooper of White Rock found this week's MISSING hard hat at the South Surrey Indoor Pool and wins a $150 Semiahmoo Shopping Centre Gift Card.

Jayne Cowley of South Surrey found the MISSING hard hat at Elgin Heritage Park near Ward's Marina. She received a $250 Gift Certificate for Home Again, Home Again.

Heather Hepburn of Delta found the MISSING hard hat at Blackie Spit in Crescent Beach. She received a $200 Gift Certificate for Rochells Jewellers.

Austin Marshall of Langley found the MISSING hard hat at the running track at South Surrey Athletic Park. He received a $150 Semiahmoo Shopping Centre Gift Card.

Sarah Carbonneau-Cole and her 4 year old daughter Josie Cole found the missing hat in Southmere Village Park near the duck ponds. They received a $200 PriceSmart Foods Gift Card.

Kirsten Miller of South Surrey found the MISSING hard hat on the Footbridge on Marine Drive and won a $250 Hennessey Salon & Spa Gift Card.

Katie and Amy Bakker and Alexis Sigurdson (middle) found the hard hat near the bottom of 1001 Steps and won a $200 Semiahmoo Shopping Centre Gift Card.

Mark Delleman of Langley, BC found the 1st MISSING yellow hard hat at Softball City near the bottom of the main scoreboard. Mark has won a $200 Ticketmaster Gift Card.

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CLUES EXPLANATION TO THE MISSING LITTLE YELLOW HARD HATS

Thanks to everyone who participated in the MISSING hard hat contest!

Enquiring minds want to know! You asked, so starting from week #1, here are all the clues, followed by the solutions!

WEEK #1
REWARD: $200 Ticketmaster Gift Card

1. Visual clue on display on the tent card inside Semiahmoo stores.
2. ”Only a jewellery store has more diamonds.” (Comparison between diamonds and a baseball diamond)
3. ”When it’s going, going, gone. That’s where it is.” (Second reference to a baseball diamond)
4. ”It’s 360 feet from home, give or take.” (Third reference)

Answer: behind the scoreboard at Softball City

WEEK #2
REWARD: $200 SEMIAHMOO SHOPPING CENTRE GIFT CARD

1. Visual clue on display on the tent card inside Semiahmoo stores.
2. “If we've told you once, we've told you scour this many downward graduations.” (Reference to cliché: ‘If I’ve told you once, I’ve told you a thousand times’ + ‘downward graduations’ = stairs)
3. “After a very long flight to the brine.” (After a very long [flight of stairs] to the brine [sea])
4. “Bottom of the lengthy escalier in Paris.” (If you say the word ‘Escalier’ in Paris, it means ‘stairway’. So, it literally means ‘At the bottom of the lengthy [English translation of the French word ‘escalier’’])
5. “Bottom of 35 Hitchcock film plus 962.” (1935 Hitchcock film = ‘39 Steps’. Hence, 39 steps + 962 = 1001. Translation: 'bottom of 1001')

Answer: near the bottom of 1001 steps in Ocean Park

WEEK #3
REWARD: $250 HENNESSEY SALON & SPA GIFT CARD

1. Visual clue on display on the tent card inside Semiahmoo stores.
2. “Crunge at 3:00 onwards with plaque.” (Reference to ‘The Crunge’ - a Led Zeppelin song. If you listen to the song from 3:00 minutes onwards, you’ll hear the lead singer ad-libbing the following: ‘I’m just trying to find the bridge – has anybody seen the bridge?’ While a perceptive sleuth might have gotten this reference, he or she wouldn’t know which bridge – unless they find the one with the ‘plaque’)
3. “Are you dedicated to this hunt 24/7? How about 3/85?” (This particular bridge was ‘dedicated’ in March 1985 or, 3/85)
4. “It’s quite lengthy, yet just a 304800 micron span.” (304800 microns = 12 inches. 12 inches = a foot. Another word for a ‘span’ is a bridge. Hence the literal translation – ‘It’s quite lengthy, yet just a foot bridge’)
5. “Befuddled bride forgot. That’s the thing.” (‘befuddled’ indicates that the word or words that follow make up an anagram – so rearrange ‘bride forgot’ and you get ‘footbridge’)

Answer: on the footbridge at Marine Drive and 160th Street

WEEK #4
REWARD: $200 PRICESMART FOODS GIFT CARD

1. Visual clue on display on the tent card inside Semiahmoo stores.
2. “Eden was, behind where one reflects amongst stems.” (Eden was [a garden] behind where one reflects [a bench] amongst stems [bush stems])
3. “Nude Dragons did it. So, do it to wire waste and follow the links to G.W.B.” (if you Google ‘Nude Dragons’, you’ll discover that the grunge band ‘Soundgarden’ reformed for a one off show in Seattle. Rather than be billed as ‘Soundgarden’, they created an ‘anagram’ of their name: (Nude Dragons). So, what this clue is saying is: Soundgarden [created an anagram], so do it to ‘wire waste’. (Anagram of ‘wire waste’ = ‘Water Wise’). Now, follow the (chain) links to G.W.B. [G.W.B = the initials on the bench] next to the ‘Bush’ where the hat was hidden)
4. “A place with 20 characters. Find the sign and pace around 100 times!” (‘Southmere Village Park’ is 20 characters long. If you were to find the sign and take 100 paces ‘around’ the path, you’d have been adjacent to the hat)
5. “40.02°N 105.25°W is the name, now look for fowl play.” (If you Googled the coordinates, you’d have discovered that it’s the city of ‘Boulder’. As stated, ‘that is the name’. Now look for fowl [geese] [at] play)

Answer: at the bottom of a bush behind a bench in Southmere Village Park near the duck ponds

WEEK #5
REWARD: $150 SEMIAHMOO SHOPPING CENTRE GIFT CARD

1. Visual clue on display on the tent card inside Semiahmoo stores.
2. “Released in 76 by Stills-Young. Third out of the cellar and fifth of parachutes.” (1976 Stills-Young album = ‘Long May You Run’. ‘Third’ track on Ratt’s ‘Out of the Cellar’ album = ‘Round and Round’. Fifth song on Coldplay’s ‘Parachute’s album’ = ‘Yellow’. So….Long may you run + round and round + yellow)
3. “Initially, you’ll find it within some pointless apparition and in a word, amongst roundup righteousness!” (The initials of South Surrey Athletic Park (SSAP) can be found in ‘Pointle[ss ap]parition’ and the word ‘upright’ can be found amongst ‘round[up right]eousness’)
4. “I am a synonym for perpendicular, noble and vertical. I am Pantone 012. Where am I?” (A common synonym for perpendicular and vertical = ‘upright’. ‘Pantone 012’ = a graphic designer’s term for the colour yellow)
5. “You “sport” a hat don’t you? In that case, you may be on the right track.” (direct reference to ‘sport’ & ‘track’)

Answer: at the bottom of the yellow goal post at the South Surrey Running Track

WEEK #6
REWARD: $200 ROCHELLS JEWELLERS GIFT CERTIFICATE

1. Visual clue on display on the tent card inside Semiahmoo stores.
2. “Look, it's before the courts!” (The sign itself is in front of/before the four tennis courts near the sailing club)
3. “Tips the other way and you're in the vicinity.” (‘Tips’ the other way (backwards) = "spit")
4. “Find the invisible highway and you'll be very warm.” (‘invisible highway’ are two words used in the wording of the sign itself. (refers to birds' migratory route)
5. ”There's no looking back Mr. Lawless. Or is there?” (Mr. Lawless = reference to ‘Blackie" Lawless’ - a rock and roll musician)

Answer: behind the dog swimming rules sign at Blackie Spit in Crescent Beach

WEEK #7
REWARD: $250 HOME AGAIN, HOME AGAIN GIFT CERTIFICATE

1. Visual clue on display on the tent card inside Semiahmoo stores.
2. “To cut short where the accused sits? Find a boulder with color K?” (‘To cut short’ is a verb [dock]. ‘Where the accused sits’ is a noun [also dock]. “K” = black. [as in CMYK])
3. “Ahhh - a dry bed in northwestern Nevada.” (The ‘Black Rock’ Desert is a dry lake bed in northwestern Nevada)
4. “Have you lost your marbles? Try looking in London - or this place.” (Elgin Marbles = famous exhibit in the London Museum)
5. “A Ward to the wise.” (Reference to ‘Ward’s Marina)

Answer: behind a black rock at Elgin Heritage Park near Ward’s Marina

WEEK #8
REWARD $150 SEMIAHMOO SHOPPING CENTRE GIFT CARD

1. Visual clue on display on the tent card inside Semiahmoo stores.
2. “Ssip some water and root around.” (S.S.I.P. = acronym for South Surrey Indoor Pool + ‘root’)
3. “Loop backwards and look inside a trunk.” (‘Loop’ backwards = ‘pool’ + [tree] trunk)
4. ”Where you'll find butterfly, crawl and back outside.” (Butterfly, crawl and back are ‘strokes’ + outside
5. “Where there's a guard inside you'll need to look into this thuja plicata.” ([Life] guard + ‘thuja plicata’ = Western Cedar)

Answer: at the bottom of a tree trunk at South Surrey Indoor Pool

WEEK #9
REWARD: SAMSUNG ADVANCE CELL PHONE VALUED AT $350 FROM PCS/TELUS

1. Visual clue on display on the tent card inside Semiahmoo stores.
2. ”All itchy confused and bushed.” (All itchy = a 'confused' version [or anagram] of ‘city hall’)
3. ”With an alphabet, count on 2, 21, 5, 14, 1, 22, 9, 19, 20, 1, 1, 22, 5. Sounds like a haul!” (If you associate each number with a letter in the alphabet, you get b, u, e, n, a, v, i, s, t, a, a, v, e. Additionally, ‘haul’ sounds like ‘hall’)
4. ”White Rock is behind it and vice versa!” (Logical enough?)
5. ”You can't fight it, but you can find it here.” (Reference to ‘Can't fight city hall’)

Answer: under the ‘other’ white rock at White Rock City Hall

WEEK #10
REWARD: $200 TICKETMASTER GIFT CARD

1. Visual clue on display on the tent card inside Semiahmoo stores.
2. “It’s based in a place with 44 spots.” (Dogwood Park has 44 parking spots)
3. “It can be found among corn us Latin puzzlers create.” (‘Corn us’ (Cornus) is the latin genus for Dogwood)
4. “Initially DP conceals it among 3 off line posts.” (The initials DP stand for ‘Dogwood Park’ and it’s concealed at the base of three posts)
5. “It’s a stick that can be fetched perhaps? Maybe even a place to do it!” (A stick that can be fetched is literally ‘dog wood’. ‘Dogwood’ is also the name of the park)

Answer: at the base of the Dogwood Park sign on 20th Avenue

WEEK #11
REWARD: $150 SEMIAHMOO SHOPPING CENTRE GIFT CARD

1. Visual clue on display on the tent card inside Semiahmoo stores.
2. “Canada's 1967 steps.” (1967 was Canada’s ‘centennial’ + steps)
3. “Wayward ice eels return here.” (Wayward = trigger for anagram of ‘ice eels return’ (leisure centre)
4. “Outside, where members of the Rajidae family get put on.” (In marine biology, members of the Rajidae family = ‘skates’. So, literally: ‘Outside, where skates get put on’)
5. “The flight of a 1984 Duran Duran album.” (1984 Duran Duran album = ‘Arena’. So, literally ‘The [stair] flight of an arena’)

Answer: under the stairs at Centennial Arena

WEEK #12
REWARD: $200 GIOVANNI JEWELLERS GIFT CERTIFICATE

1. Visual clue on display on the tent card inside Semiahmoo stores.
2. “Pound cake maker panorama.” (A ‘pound cake maker’ = baker, ‘panorama’ = view)
3. “Where a trunk used to be near six bases and two sails.” (The park has six bases [on the baseball diamonds], two sails [in the playground] and the hat was located at the base of a tree trunk)
4. “It's based, logically, where you might view Ginger.” (It's at the 'base' of a tree stump, where you might 'view' [drummer] Ginger [Baker])
5. “You can't be stumped now! Park it and have another look!” (You should have already have figured out which park by this clue!)

Answer: in a tree stump at Bakerview Park

WEEK #13
REWARD: $400 PNE PRIZE PACK

1. Visual clue on display on the tent card inside Semiahmoo stores.
2. “Underhand on your way down.” (Rather vague reference to a handrail)
3. “Take flight near high sunset.” (‘Flight’ = stairs, ‘High’ + ‘Sunset’ are streets near the ravine)
4. “Forty nine quadrillion, thirteen trillion, five hundred and ninety one billion, one hundred and twenty two million, four hundred and ninety thousand, five hundred and ninety eight (Or thereabouts)” (Boy, did this stump a few of you! The number = 49,013,591,122,490,598 Which is actually global positioning coordinates (49º01’35.91’’ 122º49’05.98’’…Google Earth it and see!)
5. “Sounds like where an impossibilist might hang out!” (Homophone reference to ‘Raveen’ The Impossibilist)

Answer: under a stair railing in Duprez Ravine

WEEK #14
REWARD: $200 BC LIONS PRIZE PACK

1. Visual clue on display on the tent card inside Semiahmoo stores.
2. “Follow a zebra to a frozen steed.” (Totem Plaza is just west of a ‘zebra’ crossing and carved into the granite there is a small ‘frozen’ RCMP ‘steed’)
3. “West of a point’s 20 lines.” (The hat was hidden just ‘west’ of ‘Susan A. Point’s’ story inscribed in ‘20 lines’ of granite)
4. “A pride might survey here.” (A pride = ‘lions’; ‘survey’ = [to] ‘look out’. ie. ‘Lions look out’ = a place where lions might survey)
5. “Inside tote, M.P. Lazarus effectively hides!” (Connected within this clue, or ‘inside’ you’ll find the letters [tote, M.P. Laza] which reads ‘totem plaza’)

Answer: behind the Totem Poles at Lions Lookout Park

WEEK #15
REWARD: iPad FROM SIMPLY COMPUTING, THE APPLE EXPERTS!

1. Visual clue on display on the tent card inside Semiahmoo stores.
2. ”Using cat as your guide, find Ian, (twice) and rain. Now you’re in the ballpark!” (Using the ‘cat’ principle [established with the visual clue], find ‘ian’ [appears in the word ‘pedestrian’ twice] and ‘rain’ [appears in the word ‘training’]. ‘Ballpark’ is a red herring)
3. “Look for a head and then 75 feet!” (Look for a [trail] head and then [progress another] 75 feet)
4. ”Hit Rogers and Evans with whippoorwills? (Reference to ‘Happy Trails’ - a 1952 song by Roy Rogers and Dale Evans and The Whippoorwills. Thank you Steve Sanderson for the tip on Facebook!)
5. ”Look in south - merely 25 paces in. (Hidden within the words [south mere] + 25 paces [along the trail].)
6. “Mixed up mesh route trail head.” (Anagram of ‘mesh route’ = ‘southmere’ + ‘trail head’)
7. “Above all, look for a pointed candy cane with 23 white stripes. Now take the 5th!” (If you look at the painted median along 128th from Google Earth [above all] you’ll see it looks a bit like a painted candy cane. If you follow, or ‘take’ the 5th strip northwest, it leads you into the trail)

Answer: at the bottom of a stump near Semiahmoo Trail

Clue #15 included a 'red herring' that was meant to baffle only the staunchest of sleuths. Congrats to Jesse Friesen for figuring it out."

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MISSING HARD HAT
RULES AND REGULATIONS

1. To be eligible to participate in the "Missing Hard Hat" contest, you must be a resident of BC.
2. Employees of Bosa Development Corp., Marquis Facilities Corp., Concord Security, Peace Arch News and Hangar 18 Creative Group are not eligible to participate.
3. A "Missing" little yellow hard hat will be hidden each week starting April 5, 2010 and ending on/or before July 25, 2010. It will never be hidden inside a building or vehicle, underground or underwater or higher than five feet above ground.
4. There is one prize per hard hat per week. Each hard is numbered and associated with a particular prize. The prizes are non-transferable and must be accepted as awarded. (no substitutions are permitted.) All hard hats must be turned in by no later than August 30, 2010 to qualify for the associated prize.
5. No purchase is necessary to participate in the contest.
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8. To claim a prize, a contestant must answer a skill testing question and sign a declaration as to their residency, age and that they comply with the requirement in Section 2.
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