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2025 Oakdale Summerfest Medallion Hunt

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The hunt begins Monday, June 23rd at 8am!

Clues will be published below each day at 8am, until the medallion is found. Once the medallion is found, we will update this page, as well as the Oakdale Summerfest Community Organization and City of Oakdale Facebook pages.

Finder of the medallion claims a $500 prize! The Summerfest Medallion Hunt is proudly sponsored by the Oakdale Area Chamber of Commerce (OACC).

Contest Rules:

  1. Medallion is located on public property (but never in Walton Park) and accessible via public property, so no need to go onto private property.

  2. Medallion is located where the finder does not need to swim, dig, or disturb landscaped areas or planters.

  3. The following persons are not eligible to participate in the medallion hunt: members of the Oakdale Area Chamber of Commerce (OACC) and their immediate family members, elected officials, employees, and commissioners of the City of Oakdale and their immediate family members.

2025 Oakdale Summerfest Medallion Hunt
Hunt Information
Dates
Scheduled Dates
Monday, June 23, 2025
Find Date
Friday, June 27, 2025
Finders
Prize
Maximum Prize
$500
Awarded Prize
$500
Location
General Location
The New Oakdale Public Works Building
Pinpointed Location
At the base of the deer crossing sign
Concealer
A Ziploc Bag Covered in Aluminum Foil Shaped Like a Hershey's Kiss

44.995258, -92.974591

Clues
Clue 1
Published Date
Monday, June 23, 2025, 8:00 AM

One score and five years ago, the Oakdale Chamber of Commerce (OACC) brought forth to this city, a great and new city, an event designed to welcome all citizens, all created equal, to explore our city from north to south and east to west. We are now engaged in a great search, testing our citizens who we believe are so dedicated and can long endure this search to the end. And these same citizens, so committed, so electrified and so passionate for said challenge, can, and must, pursue the mission before them set.

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Clue 2
Published Date
Tuesday, June 24, 2025, 8:00 AM

Three cheers for the OACC, so generous are they

For 25 years, regaled us to research, hunt and play.

And the dough they donate never needs to be baked

Yes, there’s water nearby and it isn’t a lake.

It’s easy to grab, wrapped creatively in foil

Head south of the point that makes water boil

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Clue 3
Published Date
Wednesday, June 25, 2025, 8:00 AM

From where I rest, lush greenery I see

Then off to the east, northeast, the “X’s” number three.

This year the park you search will be in vain

More valuable hints, please, this is hard on my brain.

Don’t exceed thirty-five, you’ll drive by too fast

Auf wiedersehen to the old, it will soon be a thing of the past.

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Clue 4
Published Date
Thursday, June 26, 2025, 8:00 AM

4444 miles east of Oakdale, the Alhambra is a UNESCO World Heritage Site

In the year 1235, it would be the future home for royalty to delight.

Reflecting back, it would be safe to say

The women and men who built the Alhambra had little time to play.

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Clue 5
Published Date
Friday, June 27, 2025, 8:00 AM

Really? Twenty-eight city parks and none of them worthy of the medallion this year?

Oh, so K/A and PW stole the show along with a faded, leaping deer?

At the base of the post and two feet to the east lies a wooden stick.

Don’t linger long since the tall grass is favorable to picking up a tick.

You’ve come this far and likely traversed many parks along the way

Now, celebrate your prowess, your sleuthing and the foil: it’s SWAK.

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