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Malibu Country Mart hosts festive scavenger hunt
Top winner takes home
$4K diamond necklace
from Vintage Malibu
Suzy Demeter
Freelance Reporter
Vintage Malibu and the Malibu
Country Mart hosted the fourth
annual Valentine’s Day Scavenger
Hunt on Sunday, Feb. 12.
Couples participated in a
course where they applied keen
eyes, intuition and speed in a
race to locate four hidden jewelry
boxes within the Country Mart
shopping square. Teamwork was
essential in uncovering the bountiful
prizes, which included Malibu
Country Mart Visa gift cards
of $250 and $500, a personalized
beauty treatment from the Beauty
Collection, and the grand prize
of an 18 karat white gold diamond
necklace (valued at $4,000)
from the Vintage Malibu’s Kwiat
Ashoka collection.
Approximately 70 people
engaged in the exciting activity.
Within 10 minutes, all prizes
were located. Grand prize winner
Chase Toth said his strategy
was to start on the outside of the
courtyard area and work his way
in to locate one of the gift boxes.
“My blood sugar dropped when
I found it,” he said.
Vintage Malibu provided treats
and gift bags to the participants.
Winners brought their findings
to the counter, where they retrieved
their actual prizes.
Toth went home with the grand
prize, Dennis Murino received
the $500 gift card, Jill Handman
nabbed the $250 gift card, and
Kennedy Poe retrieved the beauty
treatment from Beauty Collection.
Valentine’s Day Scavenger Hunt prize winners (left to right) Chase Toth, Dennis Murino, Jill Handman and
Kennedy Poe smile Sunday, Feb. 12, at Malibu Country Mart. Suzy Demeter/22nd Century Media
Glendale police without leads in Park case
Missing woman’s
car found along PCH
early this month
Lauren Coughlin, Editor
Glendale police remain
stumped as of Friday, Feb.
10, in the case of 20-yearold
Elaine Park, whose
vehicle was found along
Pacific Coast Highway in
Malibu on Feb. 2.
Police reportedly located
her personal property as
well as the keys to the car
in the vehicle.
Park’s family reported
Elaine as a missing person
on Jan. 30, and she has not
been seen since Jan. 28.
Tahnee Lightfoot, who
is in charge of media relations
for Glendale police,
told the Surfside that police
used bloodhounds to search
the area where Park’s car
was located on Feb. 4.
“Unfortunately, we
didn’t come up with any
evidence,” Lightfoot said.
Lightfoot said the police
are trying to talk to as
many friends and people as
they can regarding Park’s
whereabouts, but they do
not have any current leads.
“We obviously are continuing
our investigation as
far as credit cards and bank
accounts and cellphones
and computers and that sort
of thing, which has kind of
led us in a nowhere direction,”
Lightfoot said.
Park is described as thin,
5 foot 6 inches tall, 125
pounds, with long brown
hair with blond tips and
brown eyes. She is known
Elaine Park, whose car
was found in Malibu Feb.
2, remains missing. Photo
Courtesy of Glendale
Police Department
to wear heavy makeup, and
has a tattoo of a cow skull
on her upper left arm.
Anyone with information
on Park’s whereabouts is
asked to contact the Glendale
Police Department at
(818) 548-4911.