The big winner in the second grade and below division was Charles Sooter of Spring Hill, a five-year-old who found enough discs to add up to $7.50, which he was paid on the spot by Aley Mendoza of the Hope-Hempstead County Chamber of Commerce. In the second round, for those from third grade to sixth, Eli Smith, a fourth grader from Hope, was the big winner, paid about $9. 

Mendoza said it’s an event she has done many times and it is her favorite event of the year.