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Submitted by Administrator on Tue, 11/13/2018 - 14:53

(Complete Rules at Owatonna.com and at the People’s Press Office January 1, 2019)

One prize of $500 (in the form of Owatonna Chamber Bucks – good at over 400 area businesses), will be awarded to the person that finds and turns in the medallion for verification by Monday noon, 1/28/19. Prize awarded after verification.
Increase the Prize to $750 if you claim the prize with a pre-registered Bold and Cold button!!

  • Read your Owatonna People’s Press, January 22 edition, for the 1st Clue and any updates to the hunt.
  • Clues will appear daily at 10:00 am each morning starting January 22rd at Owatonna.com, On January 22rd a bonus clue will be released at 3:00pm on Owatonna.com.
  • Read the daily clues to search for the medallion hidden on public land, somewhere in, or adjacent to an Owatonna City Park. The medallion will be in or adjacent to a park, on public land in the city limits. Medallion will not be hidden under any skating surface, on a golf course, under any mowed grass area, artificial turf surface or at any construction site. Please observe specific park rules and hours while searching. 
  • “Hints” to all clues will be found at our sponsor’s website daily. These “Hints” will help you decipher the clues – don’t miss checking these out every day!
  • If you find the medallion, PROMPTLY return it to people’s Press Office, 135 Pearl Street, to qualify for your Chamber Bucks prize. 
  • Contact People’s Press with questions: 507-451-2840
  • Good luck to all!
Hunt information
Dates:
First Clue:Tuesday, January 22, 2019
Found on:Friday, January 25, 2019
Finders:
NameHometown
Katrina Brooks
Jeremy Brandvold
Prize:
Maximum Prize:$750 in Chamber Bucks
Awarded Prize:$500 in Chamber Bucks
Location:
General Location:West Hills
Exact Location:Near the Orphanage Museum
Concealer:
Clues
Clue #1
Published on Tuesday, January 22, 2019
For those who would join this, our quest Bold & Cold
And seek the Medallion of which you’ve been told –
A grail, if you will, for this frozen event
That Owatonna Motor Company and People’s Press now present.

If you are the one to uncover this treasure,
The 500 “c-notes” in Chamber bucks shall you measure!
So watch every day for the clues and the hints,
And follow these rules when off you’ve been sent.

This adventure shall take you places high, places low,
But look only on public land when you go.
Many hiding spots exist within Owatonna proper,
So view clues and view hints if you wish to prosper.

Use rakes, hoes and hand tools to move snow and ice –
But no shoveling or digging! To city grounds please be nice!
Keep one last thing in mind for a guess that is right:
Check for hints every day on the Owatonna Motor Company website.

Hint:

This is the medallion for which you should look;
Don't forget to explore every cranny and nook.
Explanation:
The clue explained basic rules for searching, plus the sponsors for the Bold & Cold medallion hunt.
 
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Clue #2
Published on Wednesday, January 23, 2019
The medallion you seek for this Bold & Cold function
Is positioned not far from some quite harried junctions,
Yet nestled it is in a peaceful serenity
That at first you won’t notice the busy vicinity.
It lies in this state, though that never will last.
So seekers take note in a blast from the past.

Hint 2:

It was once near the edge of the town, but now not far from its center.
So when you find it, go right in; be not afraid to enter.
Explanation:
The clue suggests that while the medallion is hidden near some busy intersections (and there are a lot of them near), the place where the medallion was hidden was much quieter, even peaceful. “This state” is meant to suggest State Avenue. The hint tells us that the place was once on the edge of town but now it’s close to the middle of town.
 
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Clue #3
Published on Thursday, January 24, 2019
The land is not flat where the treasure is found,
But rolls low to high in valleys and mounds.
It reminds one of when Greeley spake the direction
A young man should go. He made his selection
From four corners of earth, but chose only one.
In that corner you likewise will set like the sun.

Hint:

For long it’s guided the ship of state, but holds another history.
The place where young ones met their fates, to some it is a mystery.
 
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Clue #4
Published on Friday, January 25, 2019
The place that you seek bears a bit of a Twist,
It’s a dickens to find, if you don’t get the gist.
It’s not far from the din caused by route five times seven,
And lurks in the shadows of eight and eleven.
And not far there’s a place meant for those of gold age,
And the bard would be happy, for the world is a stage.
But if these you have reached, you have journeyed too far
If through the front entrance you have come in your car.

Hint 4:

Fair sculpted gryphon doth point the way and tell you where you now should go.
But lest you miss where you turn gee, then bear these words and take it slow.
Explanation:
Big clue and hint today. The description of the terrain suggests a hilly place. Greeley is Horace Greeley, the 19th century newspaper editor who urged the settlement of the west by saying, “Go West, young man and grow up with the country. The hint — “the ship of state” — makes reference to a place in which governing is done, but which also had a previous purpose concerning “young ones,” that is, children and youth. Put it all together and it refers to West Hills, the main building of which acts now as city hall, but which was part of the orphanage and the state school in previous lives.
 
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Clue #5
The beauty you see in the spring’s verdant ground
Is scarcely seen there where the treasure is found.
It’s not just that winter has sapped out the green
And made it so only brown hues may be seen,

But also there’re scenes that seem hardly so nice
In what they have put when they paved paradise.
Though beauty lies nearby and likewise the past,
They are closed from the outside by brick and by glass.

Likewise separate are chambers where council is sought,
And decisions concrete are cast with the lot.

Hint 5:

John Milton wrote of paradise that humans lost because of sin.
Yet here remains a garden lane that leads to treasures here within.
Explanation:
Usually green, the place where the medallion was hidden is now brown. It’s also surrounded by something put in “when they paved paradise,” which is a reference to the Joni Mitchell song “Big Yellow Taxi” that contains the lyric, “they paved paradise and put up a parking lot.” Nearby are beauty (the Owatonna Arts Center) and the past (the Orphanage Museum) and chambers where council is sought (the city council chambers). The hint refers to John Milton, the poet who penned “Paradise Lost,” which tells the story of Adam and Eve being kicked out of the garden. That also hints about Garden View Lane, the street that leads to the garden in the middle of the parking lot.
 
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Clue #6
If rather than go on the road named for one
Whose house stands now yet in yesteryear’s sun,
And take you instead a path that is fair,
A circle you’ll find that leads to a square.

Squared triptych of trees that remain evergreen
Could cast shadows upon the place to be seen.
If you’ve weathered the course and followed it plain,
Then know that your efforts have not been in vain.

Hint 6:

There’s Esther’s bench that sits nearby to give one’s weary bones a rest.
So please sit down and look around and see if you will pass this test.
Explanation:
There are two ways to get to Garden Lane: One is to take Dunnell Drive, named for former Congressman Mark Dunnell of Owatonna, whose home now stands in the Village of Yesteryear; the other is to take West Hills Circle, off of which is the square parking lot that frames the garden. To the north of that square parking lot are nine pine trees (the “Squared triptych of trees that remain evergreen”). The hint speaks of Esther’s bench — a bench that sits in the garden and reads, “In loving memory of Esther Hoffert, 1906-2002. ‘May this garden spot reflect joy in creating beauty for others.’”
 
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Clue #7
The trumpet shall sound and portend of the end
Of the quest you have made and on which you have been.
But look not up above where the angels take flight,
But stay planted on earth for it’s there you’ll find sight

Of the marvelous treasure that long you have sought.
It’s the medallion desired, it is there, is it not?
So grasp it now quickly, do not be surprised,
For you searched and you found it and now claim your prize.

Hint 7:

And so concludes the noble quest, where treasure’s found near orphaned past.
Perhaps your sight has been the best. You found it there beneath the mast.
Explanation:
The trumpet sounding portending the end was that of Gabriel. In the garden is a weather vane, the top of which is the figure of Gabriel blowing a trumpet. But the clue says not to look up, but to look down. The hint emphasizes that as well, saying that the medallion is near “beneath the mast” — of the weather vane, that is. Sure enough, the medallion was beneath the pole of the weather vane.
 
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