Find where

to get a
Valentines
Day meal
thats good
for you

TO SOLVE A

SLUMP

For Wild, this one may be

trickier than in past years
SPORTS, 1B

EAT, 1C

ST. PAUL

> CLASSIFIED, SECTION D

THURSDAY

FEBRUARY 4, 2016

Eagle eyes or no, medallion hunt has stumped

Treasure Hunt goes down as one of the few and the first in 12 years to reach the final clue
By Jaime DeLage

that has gone down to the

12th and final clue.
As of Wednesday evening,
The 2016 Pioneer Press 24 hours after Clue 11 was
Treasure Hunt will be the published, there still was no
first in more than a decade clear consensus among hunt-

jdelage@pioneerpress.com

CLUE 12

Youve made it this far,

by plane, sled or car

ers about the specific public

land where the medallion
might be hidden. If the medallion isnt found by 11:59 p.m.
Thursday, the official rules
say, the Pioneer Press can end

the hunt and donate the prize

to charity.
The last time the hunt went
to the last clue was 2004, when
Luis and Virginia Ibarra
found the medallion about

eight hours after the final clue

was published. The medallion
was loose in the snow at
Phalen Park after apparently
MEDALLION HUNT, 16A >

To the shores of Bald

Eagle Lake.

Park at the boat ramp, pull

on boots and decamp.
Follow the path north
toward the take.

Many are one dead battery away from dropping out. MnSCU
schools search for ways to serve an increasing need: students in poverty

To your left itll get airy,

where theres restored
prairie.

So get on the trail heading
west.

Task force asked

to define ordinance
and study impact

Tramp into the woods if

youre after the goods

And draft folks that know

Bensons Point best.

By Frederick Melo

Once youre well in the

trees, and the snowy trail
Ts,

fmelo@pioneerpress.com

Head 170 paces to your

left.

Then continue low or high,

and heres the reason
why

The trails meet up for the

deft.

From there go 40 paces,

then its off to the races.

A small trail goes down to

the right.
Where a large tree is
uprooted, is a place wellsuited.

For a PiPress sleeve, with

the puck found tonight?
See the previous clues on
Page 2A.

IS IT OVER?

This is the final clue in the

2016 Treasure Hunt. Check
TwinCities.com today to
see whether the medallion
has been found.

FOR INFO

Official rules and previous

locations where the

medallion has been found

St. Paul
to probe
mandated
sick pay

PIONEER PRESS PHOTOS: SCOTT TAKUSHI

Michele Jersak, right, a counselor in the resource and support center at Century College, talks with student
Lanie Carter of Stacy, Minn., about course selection Monday. Jersak says students dealing with financial
issues need to feel welcome by faculty. They need to know youre a human being, Jersak said.

LOW-INCOME,
HIGH PRIORITY
By Josh Verges

improving academic outcomes for a growing lowincome enrollment.

At age 30, with a family of
The assistance includes
five to support but unable
everything from workto continue working constudy jobs and housing
struction after an injury,
referrals to cash for child
Jacob Bernier enrolled at
care and on-campus food
Century College in 2012.
banks. Many schools have
His wife, An Garagiola,
retrained select faculty and
enrolled, too, after having
staff on how to interact
been on bed rest for four
with students in poverty, as
Carter, a mother of two, picks up a bag of food well.
years.
The couple has struggled from the food shelf located in the resource and
When students come
with minimal income, rely- support center.
from a background of poving at times on donated
erty, there is this shift that
food. But unlike so many college feel welcome and set them up they need to make in struggling to
students in poverty who have with meaningful work-study jobs. survive day by day to planning for
dropped out, theyre still working
They are among the many stu- their future. It takes time to make
toward their degrees.
dents at Minnesota State Colleges that change, Garagiola said.
Both credit mentors at the White and Universities schools benefitI think a lot of students dont
Bear Lake college, counselors and ing from an emphasis on addressinstructors whove made them ing basic human needs in hopes of
STUDENTS IN NEED, 14A >
jverges@pioneerpress.com

Diane Brennan, owner of the

Fusion Salon on Snelling Avenue, began offering all of her
hair stylists paid sick leave at
the beginning of the year.
It was the right thing to do,
said Brennan, standing in a City
Hall hearing room full of likeminded activists, employees
and employers. Of course,
theres a cost to it, but by retaining qualified talent, I think that
it pays for itself.
In St. Paul, city officials hope
other private employers see it
that way, too. The city council
on Wednesday waded headlong
into a national debate over mandating paid sick leave.
The council voted to ask the
Human Rights and Equal Economic Opportunity Commission
to convene a task force on the
issue. The goal is to propose an
ordinance this summer that
requires earned sick and safe
time for workers in St. Paul. The
new rules would take effect next
year.
How that ordinance takes into
account small businesses, summer interns, independent contractors and employees who fall
below a certain hours worked
threshold remains to be seen,
but its clear the regulations
would encompass the private
sector.
We want to have an honest
conversation about the reality
that both businesses and
employees are facing, council
member Dai Thao said after the
vote.
The city council resolution,
SICK PAY, 16A >

can be found at TwinCities.

com/Treasurehunt.

ONLINE

To keep up with the hot

parks, readers can go to

the Pioneer Press hunt

discussion board at
TwinCities.com/

Treasurehunt. To answer
trivia questions about the
hunt, go to Facebook.com/
PPtreasurehunt.

TwinCities.com

Campaigns turn nasty upon exiting Iowa

Trump, Cruz trade insults, accusations; Clinton, Sanders bicker
By Kathleen Hennessey
and Steve Peoples
Associated Press

GOFFSTOWN, N.H. Donald

Trump and Ted Cruz cast aside
any veneer of kindness on
Wednesday to trade insults and
accusations in a show of hardball
politics that demonstrated the

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stakes for both men in the New

Hampshire primary six days
away.
The billionaire mogul charged
the Texas senator with fraud
and called for a do-over of the
Iowa caucuses.
Cruz shot back with his fiercest
attack yet on the man who has
dominated opinion polls in New

Hampshire, suggesting the reality star doesnt like the reality of

losing. Hes having a Trumpertantrum, Cruz told reporters.
Hes losing it.
Meanwhile, the two Democratic
presidential hopefuls sparred
Wednesday over whether Hillary
CAMPAIGN, 8A >

ASSOCIATED PRESS: MATT ROURKE

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump

says Ted Cruz stole a win in the Iowa caucuses,
to which Cruz responds, Hes losing it.

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