The Janesville Kiwanis Blackhawk Golden K Club had the GMC Suburban pulled fron the water of the Traxler Park lagoonon Thursday. The group then had to examine the timer used to determine the winner of the group's annual fund-raiser.
Bob Johnson show the time the GMC Suburban sank in the Traxler Park lagoon on March 20th. The time needed to be adjusted one hour forward for daylight savings time and was used to determine the winner of the Janesville Kiwanis Blackhawk Golden K Club fund-raiser.
JANESVILLE — The shell of a GMC Suburban was pulled from the Traxler Park lagoon Thursday to determine winners of The Janesville Kiwanis Blackhawk Golden K Club’s annual Truck on Ice fund-raiser.
Raffle ticket buyers were challenged to guess when the clock locked inside the vehicle would stop when it sank through the ice.
Adrian Hoffland, Soldiers Grove, was the $3,000 grand prizewinner.
The truck sank at 12:06 p.m. March 20. Hoffland guessed the truck would sink four minutes earlier that day.
The four second-prize winners of $250 were: Sandy Jacobson, Len Griffith, Luke Karrels, all of Janesville, and Jack Mitchell of Phoenix, Ariz.
The 10 third-prize winners of $100 were: Jared Marchant, Franklin; Jason Schaitel, Fort Atkinson; David Cress, Earaina Horsey, Bonita Kingsley, Ed Timmer, John Codman, all of Janesville; Kelly Jo Falk, Beloit; Nikki Ullrich, Madison; and Matt Carlsen, Stronghurst, Ill.
The amount raised by the event his year hasn’t yet been totaled, but the event brought in more than $45,000 in the previous four years, benefiting the First Year Parent letters, the Janesville school breakfast clubs, scouting organizations and the Boys & Girls Club of Janesville.