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2023 Faribault Heritage Days Medallion Hunt

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The Medallion Hunt, has been a KDHL Radio tradition during Faribault's Heritage Days. Clues begin Wednesday, June 14, 2023.

Listed are the rules of the hunt.

Medallion must be on public property in Faribault. When you locate the Chappuis Jewelers silver medallion decorated by Star Sports and Apparel, bring it to the KDHL studios at 601 Central Avenue.

You must be wearing a Faribault Heritage Days button to receive the prize package valued at approximately $500. If you are not wearing a button you receive $25 cash.

Employees and their immediate family members of Townsquare Media, Chappuis Jewelers and Star Trophy are not eligible to win.

You get a head start on the competition by listening to KDHL 920 AM or checking www.kdhlradio.com for the clues.

Each day the clue will be given first during the 7:05 a.m. news report and will also be posted on kdhlradio.com.

Here's another tip to get a jump on the competition. Download the FREE KDHL app.

The first clue will be delivered Wednesday. June 14, 2023.

The clues will be posted via the app 7:30 each morning. In addition, the clues will be displayed in the front window of KDHL at 8:30 a.m.

The clues will be given on KDHL several times throughout the day.

It should be noted this year's medallion will be a special collector item because it contains the 75th anniversary of KDHL wording on the medallion in honor of the Mighty 920's anniversary of existence.

2023 Faribault Medallion

KDHL Medallion 2023 Heritage Days Side. Photo by Gordy Kosfeld

Happy hunting!

Hunt Information
Dates
Scheduled Dates
Wednesday, June 14, 2023
Find Date
Friday, June 16, 2023
Finders
Name
Molly Eroglu
Name
Emma Eroglu
Name
Charlie Eroglu
Prize
Maximum Prize
$500 prize pack plus medallion
Location
General Location
Westwood Park
Pinpointed Location
Under a bench

44.265285, -93.291272

Clues
Clue 1
Published Date
Wednesday, June 14, 2023, 7:00 AM

The KDHL Medallion Hunt is back in this special year for Faribault the radio station
It's been 75 years since Dean Curtis signed on in the upper midwest of the nation
The Chappuis Jewelers Silver Medallion engraved by Star Sports and Apparel is the treasure
With the 75 year anniversary number on it a collector's item by any measure

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Clue 2
Published Date
Thursday, June 15, 2023, 7:00 AM

When settlers came to the Praries of Faribault in pursuit of the American dream
There was no glimmer in their eye of a radio although many enjoyed cream
Community Co-Op was started April 1, 1925, the medallion is south of there
The area where it is located now, in 1925 would have been bare

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Clue 3
Published Date
Friday, June 16, 2023, 7:00 AM

Continue south, There are multiple ways to get where you want to go
Willow Street, Prairie Avenue, even County Road 48 are ways to flow
The KDHL towers are too far south and you need to go west
A lil book library sits very close where you are about to pass this test.

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Clue 4

In this park is a bench dedicated to the memory of a little girl
She never saw the age of 10 yet umpacted many during her eartly twirl
Her name was Jessica Jandro, the Lil Library is also there in her honor
A swing set, slide, pinic table and teeter totter

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Clue 5

The Medallion is inside a sandwich bag in the neighborhood park
If you go at night it might be too dark
Jessica's bench is above the prize
In Westwood Park is where the 75th KDHL Anniversary

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