The medallion was found at about 1 p.m. Thursday, July 25, in Meadows Park.
Luke Dahl, 16; Jack Kessler, 16, and Jake Bauer, 16, found the medallion just off the walking path in Meadows Park between the city of Rosemount water tower and a white pillar among some tall grasses there.
When Luke found the medallion he said he didn’t say anything and just showed it to his pals who went crazy.
“We ended up walking down by the path and everyone kind of came around us and we took pictures with the medallion,” Luke said.
The boys won the $500 prize offered by Sterling State Bank for finding the medallion. This is the third year in a row that the bank has offered the prize money.
The three Rosemount High School students who will be juniors this fall have been friends since they were little. Jake said he has participated in the Leprechaun Days medallion hunt on and off for about the past few years.
Jake said the three looked in a bunch of parks on the first two days of the hunt and went to Meadows Park on the third day.
On the fourth day, they went to Meadows and Central parks, based on a clue about sirens (the fire department is near Meadows and the police department is near Central) in the morning and decided to take a break for lunch before heading out again.
Among the clues they said helped were the “famous Bronco safety,” which they correctly pegged as Steve Atwater. Atwater Street runs adjacent to Meadows Park.
When they returned to Meadows Park in the afternoon, Jake said it didn’t take more that five minutes for them to find the medallion. They went to the area “between two towers” – the city of Rosemount water tower and a white pillar at the center of the trail loop.
Jake said another clue was “not overlooking a four-leaf clover.” The medallion was among a mowed section of clover patch alongside the path, not in the tall grass.
Many people descended on Meadows Park in the morning when the fourth clue was released and concentrated their efforts on the area between the two towers.
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